HB127 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2024

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Phillip Pettus Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: Crimes and offenses; unlawful to tamper with electronic monitoring device; crime created; penalties created
Description: Under existing law, certain inmates released from the physical custody of the Department of Corrections under mandatory supervision and certain inmates released on parole are subject to electronic monitoring.
Under existing law, certain inmates released on probation may be subject to electronic monitoring.
This bill would make it unlawful for an individual subject to electronic monitoring to knowingly alter, disable, deactivate, tamper with, remove, damage, or destroy any device used to facilitate electronic monitoring.
Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, 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 HB127 INTRODUCED 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.
Subjects: Crimes & Offenses