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AL HB397
Bill
Status
2/22/2022
Primary Sponsor
Arnold Mooney
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AI Summary
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Changes the name of the Alabama Private Investigation Regulatory Act to the Alabama Private Investigation and Process Server Regulatory Act to include regulation of process servers by the Alabama Private Investigation Board.
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Establishes licensing and qualification requirements for process servers including minimum age of 18 years, criminal background checks, and passage of board-approved examinations.
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Allows private investigators holding valid licenses to automatically perform process serving services without separate licensure.
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Adds process server members to the board composition, with board appointments to reflect racial, gender, geographic, urban, rural, and economic diversity of the state.
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Makes unlicensed process serving a Class A misdemeanor and establishes that false returns of service by process servers result in permanent license revocation.
Legislative Description
Private Investigation Regulatory Act, to change the name of the regulatory act to Alabama Private Investigation and Process Server Regulatory Act, licensing and regulation of process servers, Secs. 34-25B-1, 34-25B-2, 34-25B-3, 34-25B-4, 34-25B-7, 34-25B-10, 34-25B-11, 34-25B-12, 34-25B-14, 34-25B-22, 34-25B-24, 34-25B-27 am'd.
Private Investigation Board
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
2/22/2022