HB332 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tracy Estes Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Terrorism, to create a statewide terrorism registry, to provide a system for registration by people convicted of certain terrorism offenses, provide for registration fees, provide for the duties of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, Secs. 13A-10-160.01 to 13A-10-160.15, inclusive, am'd.

Description

Under current law, there is no statewide registry for individuals convicted of terrorism.

This bill would create a statewide registry for individuals convicted of certain federal terrorism offenses and would provide what information would need to be maintained in the registry, the time of registration, and would require local law enforcement agencies and the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to register individuals convicted of certain terrorism offenses.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for failure to register, would provide for the registration of homeless offenders, provide for a searchable public website of offenders, would establish fees associated with registration, would provide notification to law enforcement prior to certain travel outside the state and the country.

The bill would require the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to adopt rules to implement and administer the registry.

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.

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Subjects

Terrorism