SB318 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Greg J. Reed
Republican
Co-Sponsor: Bryan Taylor
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Gambling devices, possession, penalty increased, Sec. 13A-12-27 am'd.
Description: Existing law provides that the crime of possession of a gambling device is a Class A misdemeanor.
This bill would provide that possession of a gambling device would be a Class C felony.
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.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary