HB440 Alabama 2011 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
John RobinsonDemocrat- Co-Sponsors
- Mark TuggleWayne JohnsonJim PattersonRichard BaughnWes LongTerri CollinsKerry RichHoward SanderfordRandy WoodMike BallAllen Farley
- Session
- Regular Session 2011
- Title
- Motor vehicles and commercial motor vehicles, traffic violations, notification by court to Public Safety Department of convictions of state or local traffic offenses, time period decreased, notification by Public Safety Department to other jurisdictions of convictions of drivers, time period decreased, Secs. 32-5A-195, 32-6-49.14 am'd.; Act 2010-599, 2010 Reg. Sess. am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, a court that has jurisdiction over state traffic offenses or municipal ordinances adopted by a local authority that regulate the operation of motor vehicles on highways, must forward a record of a conviction under those laws to the Department of Public Safety within 10 days.
Under existing law, the Department of Public Safety must notify the driver licensing authority in the licensing state of any conviction, within 10 days after receiving a report of the conviction, of a nonresident holder of a commercial driver license for any violation of state law or local ordinance relating to motor vehicle traffic control committed in a commercial motor vehicle.
This bill would shorten those periods to five days.
- Subjects
- Motor Vehicles
Bill Actions
Pending third reading on day 28 Favorable from Governmental Affairs
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 806
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
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Source: Alabama Legislature