SB311 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Roger Bedford, Jr.

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Elections, transfer of funds for use in federal election to campaign of candidate for local or state office, prohibited, penalties

Description

Under existing law, a person who has accepted, solicited, or caused to be solicited funds for use in a federal election may transfer or cause the funds to be transferred to the campaign of a candidate for a local or state office.

This bill would prohibit a person who has accepted, solicited, or caused to be solicited funds for use in a federal election from transferring or causing the funds to be transferred to the campaign of a candidate for a local or state office.

This bill would provide criminal penalties.

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

Crimes and Offenses