HB175 Alabama 2020 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Crimes and offenses, law enforcement officers, crime of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer, created

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a person who knowingly providing a false statement relating to a matter under investigation by the Attorney General, or a prosecutor or officer of the Office of Attorney General, is guilty of a Class C felony</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would create the crime of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer to prohibit the making of a false statement to a law enforcement officer during the course of a criminal investigation of a Class A or B felony</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</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 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</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to crimes; to create the crime of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer; to provide criminal penalties; 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, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. </p>

Subjects

Crimes and Offenses