Thursday, February 18, 2010

HB253 & HB483 Pass Judiciary Committee

I've just learned from a member of the House Judiciary Committee that both HB253 & HB483 passed the house judiciary committee yesterday with relative ease.

HB253 is the bill that mandates that any public agency testing urine or blood samples of probationers and parolees for drugs hold those samples for a longer period of time to allow for independent testing when a positive result occurs.

HB483 is the records expungement bill that will allow people who have been arrested/charged with a crime but never convicted to have all court records, fingerprints, photos etc removed from the criminal offender database.

Many, many thanks to all of you who took action on these bills and helped them pass. That's three bills this week that have passed because you, readers, took action. Together we can do great things.

2 comments:

Don said...

Also see "Bill would require voters to show identification" at polls @ http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100218/NEWS02/2180312/1009/Bill-would-require-voters-to-show-identification-at-polls.

If Representative Allen's Photo ID bill, HB227, isn't passed by our legislature to help prevent some of the voter fraud that takes place in Alabama we can't hope for honest elections, and without honest elections we can't hope for honest government. If legislators vote against his bill, those legislatures should be removed from the legislature later this year by their constituents. Voter fraud disenfranchises qualified voters including democrats and blacks. If you don't believe that, just ask some of the black voters over in and around Hale County.

Don said...

Also see “Bill would require voters to show identification at polls” @ http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100218/NEWS02/2180312/1009/Bill-would-require-voters-to-show-identification-at-polls.

If Representative Allen's Photo ID bill, HB227, isn't passed by our legislature to help prevent some of the voter fraud that takes place in Alabama we can't hope for honest elections, and without honest elections we can't hope for honest government. If legislators vote against his bill, those legislatures should be removed from the legislature later this year by their constituents. Voter fraud disenfranchises qualified voters including democrats and blacks. If you don't believe that, just ask some of the black voters over in and around Hale County.