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SB15
AP4PQ7S-1
By Senator Barfoot
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 04-Feb-25
PFD: 13-Nov-24
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6 AP4PQ7S-1 11/13/2024 CNB (L)bm 2024-2939
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PFD: 13-Nov-24
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, sex offenders have
restrictions regarding where they may be employed or
volunteer.
This bill would prohibit sex offenders from
being employed or volunteering as a first responder.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to sex offenders; to amend Sections 15-20A-13
and 15-20A-31, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit sex offenders
from being employed or volunteering as a first responder.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Sections 15-20A-13 and 15-20A-31, Code of
Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows:
"§15-20A-13
(a) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain
employment or a volunteer position at any school, childcare
facility, mobile vending business that provides services
primarily to children, or any other business or organization
that provides services primarily to children, or any amusement
or water park.
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or water park.
(b) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain
employment or a volunteer position within 2,000 feet of the
property on which a school or childcare facility is located
unless otherwise exempted pursuant to Sections 15-20A-24 and
15-20A-25.
(c) No adult sex offender, after having been convicted
of a sex offense involving a child, shall accept or maintain
employment or a volunteer position within 500 feet of a
playground, park, athletic field or facility, or any other
business or facility having a principal purpose of caring for,
educating, or entertaining minors.
(d) Changes to property within 2,000 feet of an adult
sex offender's place of employment which occur after an adult
sex offender accepts employment shall not form the basis for
finding that an adult sex offender is in violation of this
section.
(e) It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of
any childcare facility or any other organization that provides
services primarily to children to knowingly provide employment
or a volunteer position to an adult sex offender.
(f) For the purposes of this section, the 2,000-foot
measurement shall be taken in a straight line from nearest
property line to nearest property line.
(g)(1) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain
employment or a volunteer position as a first responder.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a "first
responder" means a paramedic, firefighter, rescue squad
member, emergency medical technician, or other individual who,
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member, emergency medical technician, or other individual who,
in the course of his or her professional duties, responds to
fire, medical, hazardous material, or other similar
emergencies, whether compensated or not.
(g)(h) Any person who knowingly violates this section
shall be guilty of a Class C felony."
"§15-20A-31
(a) During the time a juvenile sex offender is subject
to the registration requirements of this chapter, the juvenile
sex offender shall not accept or maintain employment or a
volunteer position at any school, childcare facility, or any
other business or organization that provides services
primarily to children.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of
any childcare facility or any other organization that provides
services primarily to children to knowingly provide employment
or a volunteer position to a juvenile sex offender.
(c)(1) No juvenile sex offender shall accept or
maintain employment or a volunteer position as a first
responder.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a "first
responder" means a paramedic, firefighter, rescue squad
member, emergency medical technician, or other individual who,
in the course of his or her professional duties, responds to
fire, medical, hazardous material, or other similar
emergencies, whether compensated or not.
(c)(d) Any person who knowingly violates this section
shall be guilty of a Class C felony."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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