Code of Alabama - Title 31: Military Affairs and Civil Defense - Chapter 13 - Illegal Immigration

• Section 31-13-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.
• Section 31-13-2 Legislative findings
  The State of Alabama finds that illegal immigration is causing economic hardship and lawlessness in this state and that illegal immigration is encouraged when public...
• Section 31-13-3 Definitions
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ALIEN. Any person who is not a citizen or national...
• Section 31-13-4 Memorandum of agreement with U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  (a) The Attorney General shall attempt to negotiate the terms of a memorandum of agreement between the State of Alabama and the United States Department...
• Section 31-13-5 Enforcement of and compliance with federal immigration laws; information relating to immigration status; violations; penalties
  (a) No official or agency of this state or any political subdivision thereof, including, but not limited to, an officer of a court of this...
• Section 31-13-6 Enforcement of and compliance with state immigration laws; information relating to immigration status; violations; penalties
  (a) No official or agency of this state or any political subdivision thereof, including, but not limited to, an officer of a court of this...
• Section 31-13-7 Receipt of state or local public benefits; verification of lawful presence in the United States; violations; annual reports
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) EMERGENCY MEDICAL CONDITION. The same meaning as provided in 42 U.S.C....
• Section 31-13-8 Enrollment or attendance at institutions of postsecondary education
  An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be permitted to enroll in or attend any public postsecondary education institution...
• Section 31-13-9 Verification of employment eligibility by employers seeking economic incentives
  (a) As a condition for the award of any contract, grant, or incentive by the state, any political subdivision thereof, or any state-funded entity to...
• Section 31-13-10 Willful failure to complete or carry alien registration documentation
  (a) In addition to any violation of federal law, a person is guilty of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document if...
• Section 31-13-11 Unauthorized aliens prohibited from seeking employment in state
  (a) It is unlawful for a person who is an unauthorized alien to knowingly apply for work, solicit work in a public or private place,...
• Section 31-13-12 Verification by law enforcement officers of citizenship and immigration status of persons under certain circumstances
  (a) Upon any lawful stop, detention, or arrest made by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement officer of this state in the enforcement of...
• Section 31-13-13 Concealing, harboring, shielding, etc., unauthorized aliens
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Conceal, harbor, or shield from detection or attempt to conceal,...
• Section 31-13-14 Dealing in false identification documents; vital records identity fraud
  (a) A person commits the crime of dealing in false identification documents if he or she knowingly reproduces, manufactures, sells, or offers for sale any...
• Section 31-13-15 Employment of unauthorized aliens prohibited
  (a) No business entity, employer, or public employer shall knowingly employ, hire for employment, or continue to employ an unauthorized alien to perform work within...
• Section 31-13-16 Certain business expense deductions prohibited
  (a) No wage, compensation, whether in money or in kind or in services, or remuneration of any kind for the performance of services paid to...
• Section 31-13-17 Discriminatory employment practices
  (a) It shall be a discriminatory practice for a business entity or employer to fail to hire a job applicant who is a United States...
• Section 31-13-18 Verification of legal status of person charged with a crime for which bail is required; detention
  (a) When a person is charged with a crime for which bail is required, or is confined for any period in a state, county, or...
• Section 31-13-19 Notification of federal and state authorities when unauthorized alien convicted of violating state or federal law
  If an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States is convicted of a violation of state or local law and is within 30...
• Section 31-13-20 Stay of chapter when unauthorized alien is a victim or critical witness, etc., under certain conditions
  If a person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States and is a victim of a criminal act, is the child...
• Section 31-13-21 Employment of state law enforcement officers by Alabama Department of Homeland Security
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 31-9A-9, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security may hire, appoint, and maintain APOST certified state law enforcement officers. Such officers shall receive...
• Section 31-13-22 Enforcement of chapter in coordination with federal immigration laws
  The Alabama Department of Homeland Security shall have the authority to coordinate with state and local law enforcement the practice and methods required to enforce...
• Section 31-13-23 Enforcement report
  (a) The Alabama Department of Homeland Security shall file an annual report to the Legislature on the progress being made regarding the enforcement of this...
• Section 31-13-24 Solicitation, attempt, or conspiracy to violate chapter
  (a) A solicitation to violate any criminal provision of this chapter, an attempt to violate any criminal provision of this chapter, or a conspiracy to...
• Section 31-13-25 E-Verify employer agent service
  (a)(1) The Alabama Department of Homeland Security shall establish and maintain an E-Verify employer agent service for any business entity or employer in this state...
• Section 31-13-26 Enforcement of certain contracts prohibited
  (a) No court of this state shall enforce the terms of, or otherwise regard as valid, any contract between a party and an alien unlawfully...
• Section 31-13-27 Verification of citizenship and immigration status of students enrolling in public schools; annual reports; disclosure of information
  (a)(1) Every public elementary and secondary school in this state, at the time of enrollment in kindergarten or any grade in such school, shall determine...
• Section 31-13-28 Voter registration eligibility and requirements
  (a) Applications for voter registration shall contain voter eligibility requirements and such information as is necessary to prevent duplicative voter registrations and enable the county...
• Section 31-13-29 Limitations on public records transactions conducted by unauthorized aliens
  (a) For the purposes of this section, public records transaction means applying for or renewing a motor vehicle license plate, applying for or renewing a...
• Section 31-13-30 Relation to Real ID Act of 2005
  Nothing in this chapter is in any way meant to implement, authorize, or establish the Real ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13, Division D; 119...
• Section 31-13-31 Defense of law enforcement officers in enforcement of chapter
  (a) The Legislature finds that the United States Department of Justice has unnecessarily and recklessly threatened Alabama law enforcement officers with personal law suits if...
• Section 31-13-32 Report to Alabama Department of Homeland Security
  (a) The Administrative Office of Courts shall submit a quarterly report, organized by county, to the Alabama Department of Homeland Security summarizing the number of...
• Section 31-13-33 Rental agreements with unauthorized aliens prohibited
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for a person to harbor an alien unlawfully present in the United...
• Section 31-13-34 Enforcement of chapter
  (a) Any law enforcement agency of the state or any law enforcement agency of a political subdivision of the state shall have the authority to...
• Section 31-13-35 Records searches by Department of Revenue; investigations
  (a) The Department of Revenue shall conduct annual searches of its records to determine if multiple individuals have filed tax returns under the same Social...

Last modified: May 3, 2021