SB416 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Bryan Taylor Clay Scofield Phillip W. Williams Bill Holtzclaw Dick Brewbaker Shadrack McGill Rusty Glover Gerald H. Allen Tom Whatley
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Crimes and Offenses, prisoners, prohibition against use of social networks
Description: This bill would prohibit inmates from establishing or maintaining any social networking website.
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