SB431 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Del Marsh

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Ben H. BrooksGreg J. ReedDick BrewbakerPhillip W. WilliamsClay Scofield

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Rape in the second degree, crime further defined, includes sexual activity by person age 17 or older with person less than 17 but more than 12, Sec. 13A-6-62 am'd.

Description

This bill would further define the crime of rape in the second degree to include any sexual activity by a person 17 years of age or over with a person less than 17 or more than 12. Sexual activity would be defined as any single act of sexual intercourse of any type, oral sex, or touching or exposing the genitals of either the actor or the victim.

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