HB175 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Johnny Mack Morrow

Democrat

Co-Sponsor

Mac McCutcheon

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Strangulation or suffocation and aggravated strangulation or suffocation, crimes provided for, penalties

Description

Under existing law, the crime of strangulation or suffocation is not a defined crime.

This bill would provide for the crime of strangulation or suffocation and would provide penalties.

This bill would provide for the crime of aggravated strangulation or suffocation under certain conditions and would provide 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