This week: Alabama House to tackle invoices for illegal immigration, crime and veterans

Montgomery, Ala.-Das Haus Alabama This week, is ready to deal with a number of legislative templates that are aimed at illegal immigration, improves public security and the department for state veteran matters, Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter Prefered in Alabama Daily News last week.

Ledbetter spoke directly in front of the home chamber in the Alabama State House in Montgomery and said about the invoices for immigration, he expected that several in the house committees would progress this week and that some could already be recorded on the House Floor on Thursday.

“We are now trying to ensure that those who are here who have committed crimes are those that we want to grasp,” Ledbetter told ADN. “We will follow the federal government with the invoices we have. I think it's very close to this brand.”

The Senate of Alabama Farewell three invoices At the beginning of this month against illegal immigration, in which the law enforcement authorities collect DNA samples from immigrants without papers, intensify criminal punishments for the smuggling of undocumented immigrants and reject the licenses of the non-state driver who were exhibited to people who have their legal Do not prove status in the time of the issue.

While these three bills could possibly be recorded on the house floor on Thursday Advanced in the committee Last week and five New ones were submitted Last week too.

Ledbetter said that he was also expecting the Governor Kay Ivey's house Safe Alabama Bill packageA package of Eight bills Developed to improve public security and reduce crime.

Two of the eight bills – house bills 188 And 199which would create a scholarship program for families of the law enforcement officers and expand the electronic monitoring for delinquent young people – sailed through the house Last week with strong support. The majority of the package received non -partisan support, apart from an invoice that would improve legal protection for the police.

This calculation, House bill 202Sponsored by Rep. Rex Reynolds, R-Hazel Green, saw Opposition of house democratsThe legend that the legislation could affect the ability to account for members of law enforcement authorities for criminal behavior. Ivey, Ledbetter and Republican leadership have Stand behind the bill.

The legislation still has to be issued from the committee, but SAW SAW Significant reforms proposed replaced in his language in the form of a law that was shared last Wednesday during a public hearing.

While Ledbetter supported the legislation, he said that the legislators have worked hard to ensure that he would not cause unintentional negative consequences if he was finally passed into the law.

“There were many discussions and a lot of language that was taken in and out of the bill. The intention to help is not to hurt, and so we try to get to this point, ”he said. “So it should be that the process should work in this way and we look forward to bringing it to the floor and moving it. It gets closer, I'll say that. “

Ledbetter expected that too Senate Bill 67Which would reform the Ministry of Veteran Department of Alabama in order to make his commissioner a member of the governor's cabinet would be taken from the house. As originally written, the draft law would have also changed the advisory board to an advisory role, but this language was replaced by a bill.

The bill run out of the Senate Last week and comes to a month after a public dispute Between Ivey's office and the then Adva Commissioner Kent Davis.

“We wanted to see what the Senate did with it. That is why we did not move the house version to get an idea of ​​what they would do and what they would accept,” said Ledbetter.

“I think there is a good chance. As soon as we get this invoice down here, we can pass it because you have worked a lot with it. I think some part of the work you have done and I recommend you for the work you did at the invoice. “