SB196 Alabama 2018 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Crimes and offenses, criminal code chapters 1-4 and technical revisions, corporate entities, criminal liability, criminal facilitation offense created, entrapment defined, Secs. 13A-1-5.1, 13A-1-12, 13A-2-27, 13A-2-28, 13A-2-29, 13A-2-30, 13A-4-6 added; Secs. 13A-1-2, 13A-1-4, 13A-1-8, 13A-2-1, 13A-2-2, 13A-2-3, 13A-2-5, 13A-2-6, 13A-2-20 to 13A-2-24, inclusive, 13A-2-26, 13A-3-1, 13A-3-2, 13A-3-21, 13A-3-22, 13A-3-24, 13A-3-25, 13A-3-27, 13A-3-28, 13A-3-30, 13A-3-31, 13A-4-1, 13A-4-2, 13A-4-3 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Existing law defines certain acts as crimes and establishes penalties</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would make technical revisions and updates to Chapters 1 to 4 of the Criminal Code</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would define the term law enforcement officer, specify that the terms marihuana and marijuana are interchangeable, and revise the definition of vehicle</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would establish the conditions under which a corporation or other entity may be held criminally responsible for any offense</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further describe the circumstances in which a law enforcement officer, including a guard at a detention facility, is justified in using deadly physical force</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would define entrapment and specify that entrapment is a defense to prosecution</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for the crime of criminal facilitation</p><p class="bill_description"> Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose</p><p class="bill_description"> The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in Amendment 621</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to crimes and penalties; to amend Sections 13A-1-2 and 13A-1-4 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to add Section 13A-1-5.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Section 13A-1-8 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to add Section 13A-1-12 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 13A-2-1, 13A-2-2, 13A-2-3, 13A-2-5, 13A-2-6, 13A-2-20, 13A-2-21, 13A-2-22, 13A-2-23, 13A-2-24, and 13A-2-26 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 13A-2-27, 13A-2-28, 13A-2-29, 13A-2-30 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 13A-3-1, 13A-3-2, 13A-3-21, 13A-3-22, 13A-3-24, 13A-3-25, 13A-3-27, and 13A-3-28 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 13A-3-30, 13A-3-31, 13A-4-1, 13A-4-2, and 13A-4-3 of the Code of Alabama 1975; and to add Section 13A-4-6 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to make technical revisions and updates; to revise and add definitions; to provide for culpability; to establish conditions for criminal culpability of a corporation or other entity; to provide further for the use of deadly physical force by a law enforcement officer; to provide for entrapment; and to provide for criminal facilitation; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. </p>

Subjects

Crimes and Offenses