HB355 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Proncey Robertson

Republican

Co-Sponsor

Tracy Estes

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Crimes and offenses, law enforcement officers, crime of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer, created

Description

Under existing law, a person who knowingly provides a false statement relating to a matter under investigation by the Attorney General, or a prosecutor or officer of the Office of Attorney General, is guilty of a Class C felony.

This bill would create the crime of making a false statement to a law enforcement officer by prohibiting a person from knowingly making a materially false statement to a law enforcement officer during the course of a criminal investigation of a Class A or B felony, with exceptions.

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

Crimes and Offenses