HB286 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated Mar 31, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2021

Session

10

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Merika Coleman Senator
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Barbara Bigsby Boyd Napoleon Bracy Adline Clarke Barbara Drummond Laura Hall Rolanda Hollis Ralph Howard Thomas Jackson Pebblin W. Warren
Session: Regular Session 2021
Title: Traffic stops, racial profiling by law enforcement officers, prohibited, written policies, forms for statistics, and reports to Attorney General required, provision for complaints, reporting and collection of data on injuries to officers, required
Description: Existing law does not require the keeping of statistics to determine if traffic stops are being made by state and local law enforcement officers solely on the basis of racial or ethnic status.
This bill would define racial profiling and would prohibit a law enforcement officer from engaging in racial profiling.
This bill would require local law enforcement agencies and the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to adopt written policies to prohibit racial profiling.
This bill would require the adoption of the forms to be used for statistics of traffic stops; would provide for the handling of complaints; would require reports to be filed in the Office of the Attorney General; and would provide for the reporting and collection of data on injuries to state and local law enforcement officers.
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. If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles