Under existing law, the Alabama Private Investigation Board licenses private investigators.
This bill would further establish education and work experience requirements for applicants in order to qualify for a private investigator license.
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.
Boards, Agencies and Commissions first Substitute Offered
Pending third reading on day 13 Favorable from Boards, Agencies and Commissions with 1 substitute
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 82
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
Source: Alabama Legislature