HB4 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Juandalynn Givan Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Children, failure to report a missing child in the first degree and in the second degree, failure to report the death of a child, false reporting to law enforcement authorities, crimes of established, Caylee's Law, Sec. 13A-10-9 am'd. (2012-20240)

Description

This bill would provide for the crime of failure to report a missing child in the first degree classified as a Class B felony and failure to report a missing child in the second degree as a Class C felony.

This bill would provide for the crime of failure to report the death of a child as a Class C felony.

This bill would provide for the crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the first degree classified as a Class C felony and designate the existing crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities as false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the second degree.

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