HB420 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arnold Mooney Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Private investigation, licensure of private investigator apprentices established, licensure of private investigation agencies required, Secs. 34-25B-12.1, 34-25B-40 to 34-25B-45, inclusive, added; Secs. 34-25B-2, 34-25B-3, 34-25B-4, 34-25B-7, 34-25B-8, 34-25B-10 to 34-25B-14, 34-25B-17, 34-25B-18, 34-25B-21, 34-25B-22, 34-25B-26 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the Alabama Private Investigation Board licenses private investigators.

This bill would provide further for the qualifications for licensure as a private investigator.

This bill would clarify those fees collected by the board that must be deposited into the Board of Private Investigation Fund.

This bill would authorize the board to grant inactive status to licensees and to provide, by rule, for a procedure and fee to reinstate an inactive license.

This bill would provide for administrative penalties against any person practicing without a license.

This bill would clarify that the number of hours of continuing education required to maintain licensure is 16 hours during the two-year license period.

This bill would create a private investigator apprentice license that would allow apprentices to gain work experience through an internship.

This bill would authorize the board to issue a private investigator license to a licensed private investigator apprentice who successfully completes an internship in a specified time and passes an examination.

This bill would require private investigation agencies that do business within the state to be licensed by the board and meet certain requirements.

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

Private Investigators