HB71 Alabama 2021 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Jim Hill RepresentativeRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2021
- Title
- Accountability courts, establish the Accountablility Court Commission with the judicial branch, to provide duties of the commission, to provide appointment and terms of its members, to provide for the reporting of information relating to diversion programs, Secs. 12-23B-1 to 12-23B-7, inclusive, added
- Description
Under existing law, a district attorney in a judicial circuit may establish a pretrial diversion program and the presiding judge of a judicial circuit, with the approval of the district attorney, may establish a drug court.
This bill would establish the Accountability Court Commission and provide for the duties of the commission, including the development, coordination, and dissemination of evidence based best practices regarding the participation and requirements of diversion programs.
- Subjects
- Accountability Courts
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Pending third reading on day 6 Favorable from Ways and Means General Fund with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Rereferred from Calendar to W&MGF
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature