This bill would create a Law Enforcement Officer Employment Database for implementation and maintenance by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.
This bill would require law enforcement agencies to report certain complaints, disciplinary actions, and background information of law enforcement officers to the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.
This bill would provide civil penalties for law enforcement agencies that fail to report certain activities of law enforcement officers.
This bill would provide that information in the database is confidential and would provide criminal penalties for unauthorized access to the database.
This bill would also require former employers of law enforcement officers to give full disclosure of an officer's employment history in the event that another law enforcement agency in this state requests the information and would provide immunity for disclosures made in good faith.
This bill would require that prior to employment, law enforcement agencies must complete and submit a full background check on law enforcement officers to the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.
This bill would require the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission to collect and maintain data related to the pre-employment check.
This bill would outline the requirements for a pre-employment check and who is authorized to obtain the information.
This bill would provide criminal penalties for the release or disclosure of any information received from the pre-employment check to any individual not authorized to receive it.
This bill would also create civil immunity for any responsible agency that discloses information for the purposes for which it is authorized.
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.
Forwarded to Governor on April 15, 2021 at 1:25 p.m. on April 15, 2021.
Assigned Act No. 2021-268.
Clerk of the House Certification
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Concurred in Second House Amendment
McCampbell motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 848
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 944
Smitherman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 943
Smitherman Amendment Offered
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
Engrossed
Motion to Again Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 505
McCampbell motion to reconsider bill adopted Roll Call 504
Third Reading Passed
Engrossed
Cosponsors Added
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 502
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 501
McCampbell Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 500
Public Safety and Homeland Security first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
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 Public Safety and Homeland Security
Source: Alabama Legislature