HB47 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2012

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jack Williams
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline, posting in lounges and on Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, Public Service Commission, and Industrial Relations Department Internet website, required, penalties
Description: Under existing law, there is no requirement for any lounge to post the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline.
This bill would require the posting of the hotline.
A violation of this bill would be subject to a fine not to exceed $50 for each violation.
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