HB16 Alabama 2021 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
Rex ReynoldsRepresentativeRepublican- Co-Sponsors
- Proncey RobertsonShane StringerAndy Whitt
- Session
- Regular Session 2021
- Title
- Law enforcement officers, requiring officers to have not less than 16 hours of crisis intervention training
- Description
Under existing law, a law enforcement officer must successfully complete the law enforcement training course at an academy approved by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission before he or she can be a certified officer.
This bill would require the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission to provide mandatory mental health awareness training, which emphasizes crisis intervention concepts, for trainees in commission-approved academies.
This bill would also require a certified law enforcement officer to complete a continuing education course relating to mental health awareness.
- Subjects
- Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature