HB 113 — Relating to Limestone County; to establish a service of process fee for the service or attempted service of documents by the Limestone County Sheriff's Office in the civil division of the circuit and district courts; to establish a fingerprint fee for fingerprinting certain persons and a local background check fee; to ratify and confirm fingerprint fees and local background check fees collected prior to the effective date of this act; and to provide for a booking fee to be imposed on each person booked into the Limestone County Jail and subsequently convicted of a crime, the collection of the fees, and for the distribution of the revenues derived from the fees.

HB113 INTRODUCEDENROLLED XDRJ7Z-1XDRJ7Z-3 By Representatives Crawford, Whitt, Rigsby, Moore (P), Harrison (N & P) RFD:

21-Mar-23 Page2023 0Regular XDRJ7Z-1Session 02/02/2023Page FC0 (L)maHB113 2023-226Enrolled 2Enrolled, 4An AAct, BILL3 TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 8 Relating to Limestone County;

Section 2.(a) In addition to all other charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court in the civil division of the district and circuit courts of Limestone County, a service of process fee of up to fifty dollars ($50) shall be assessed and collected for service or attempted service of process by the Page 1 HB113 INTRODUCED Limestone County Sheriff's Office on each delivery requiring personal service of process.

(b) In addition to all other charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, a service of process fee of up to seventy-five dollars ($75) shall be assessed and collected for service or attempted service of process by the Limestone County Sheriff's Office Page 1 HB113 Enrolled for matters pending or to be commenced in a court outside of this state.

The search shall not include national or state databases of Page 2 HB113 INTRODUCED criminal records.

(c) The amount of the fingerprint fee and the fee for a local background check provided for in subsection (a) and (b) Page 2 HB113 Enrolled shall be set by the sheriff with approval of the county commission.

(3) The revenues derived from the booking fee shall be deposited in the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Fund to be used by the Sheriff of Limestone County Page 3 HB113 INTRODUCED for salaries, training, operational expenses, or other law enforcement uses as determined by the sheriff to best meet the needs of his or her agency.

(4) In any case where the booking fee is not paid, the Page 3 HB113 Enrolled district attorney of the county may assist in the collection of the fees in the same manner as court—ordered monies.

95 (5) The sheriff may withhold funds equal to the amount of the booking fee from any funds held while an individual is incarcerated in the Limestone County Jail and those funds may be applied toward any assessment of a booking fee pursuant to this section.

Any funds withheld shall be repaid to the defendant if no conviction results after dismissal of all 95 charges or acquittal.

Page 4 HB113 INTRODUCED Section 6.

Any actions of the sheriff or the sheriff's office prior to the effective date of this act in the charging and collecting of any fingerprint fees for fingerprinting Page 4 HB113 Enrolled persons by the sheriff's office and for local background checks by the sheriff's office, the payment of the fees to the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund in Limestone County, and the expenditure of any of the funds for law enforcement purposes prior to the effective date of this act are ratified, validated, and confirmed.

Page 5 HB113 Enrolled ________________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives ________________________________________________ President and Presiding Officer of the Senate House of Representatives I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and was passed by the House 06-Apr-23, as amended.

John Treadwell Clerk Senate 03-May-23 Passed Page 6