HB144 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arthur Payne

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Motor vehicles, commercial driver licenses, passenger vehicles and school buses (P and S endorsement), sex offenders prohibited from driving or obtaining licenses, penalties, Sec. 36-6-49.25 added

Description

Under existing law, a person is required to have a commercial driver license issued by the Department of Public Safety with a P endorsement in order to drive a commercial vehicle carrying passengers or with an S endorsement in order to drive a school bus.

This bill would prohibit a person required to register as a sex offender from being issued a commercial driver license with a P or an S endorsement. The bill would also prohibit a person convicted of a crime requiring registration as a sex offender from driving a commercial motor vehicle required to be operated by a commercial driver with a P or an S endorsement, would provide for the revocation of licenses, and would provide penalties for violations.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Motor Vehicles