SB133 Summary

• Requires county probate judges to immediately forward involuntary commitment orders to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center when a committed person has shown a history of inappropriate firearm use, threatened to use dangerous weapons, or poses a threat to use them inappropriately.

• Directs the Criminal Justice Information Center to enter forwarded commitment orders into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and the NICS Index Denied Persons File for firearm purchase eligibility determinations.

• Allows individuals released from mental commitment to petition circuit court (rather than probate court) for review of their mental capacity to purchase a firearm, with successful petitions resulting in removal of the prior commitment order from NICS.

• Defines "inappropriate" as unlawful conduct or actions showing reckless disregard for human life, and restricts shared information to exclude confidential medical, treatment, tax, financial, and library records.

• Permits the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center to provide probate judges access to its information systems for involuntary commitment hearings and other official probate court functions.