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SB67 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated Apr 20, 2021

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2021
Title
Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission, education requirement to become a law enforcement officer amended to include nonpublic education, Sec. 36-21-46 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, applicants for appointment as law enforcement officers are required to be graduates of State Department of Education accredited or approved high schools or to possess a high school equivalency certificate issued by general educational development.

This bill would include graduation from a nonpublic education program as qualifying education for applying to become a law enforcement officer in the state.

Subjects
Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission

Bill Actions

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1091

S

Third Reading Passed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass Roll Call 1091

April 20, 2021 Senate Passed
Yes 28
Absent 6

SBIR: Shelnutt motion to Adopt Roll Call 1090

April 20, 2021 Senate Passed
Yes 28
Absent 6

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature