SB81 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Paul Sanford
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Initiative, constitutional amendments, proposed by people, authorized, Legislature may offer alternate proposal, const. amend.
Description: Under existing law, the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 may be amended by the Legislature submitting a proposed constitutional amendment for ratification or rejection by the people which becomes effective upon ratification and proclamation. Laws must be enacted by the Legislature and generally become effective upon enactment or at a later date provided by the statute.
This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to provide that the people also may propose the enactment of general laws and constitutional amendments by an initiative measure subject to the same limitations imposed on the Legislature and that the Legislature may offer an alternate proposal.
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Economic Expansion and Trade