Under existing law, a bail bondsman must be approved as either a professional surety company or professional bail company and be approved by the presiding circuit judge of each county in which the bail bondsman desires to operate.
This bill would create the Alabama Bail Bond Regulatory Act to require professional bondsmen and recovery agents to register with the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board, created under the act.
This bill would provide for the membership and duties of the board, would provide procedures for licensure applications, would specify qualifications for licensure, and would provide criminal penalties for making false statements to the board.
This bill would also provide for the suspension and revocation of licenses and would require licensees to complete continuing professional education.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, 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.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. 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 the amendment.
Assigned Act No. 2019-409.
Delivered to Governor at 1:33 p.m. on May 29, 2019.
Clerk of the House Certification
Signature Requested
Concurred in Second House Amendment
Enrolled
Hill motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 1092
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1104
Singleton motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1103
Singleton Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 754
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 753
Boards, Agencies and Commissions 2nd Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 752
Boards, Agencies and Commissions 1st Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Source: Alabama Legislature