HB1 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2013

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Juandalynn Givan Representative
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Children, failure to report a missing child in the first degree, second degree, and in the third degree, failure to report the death of a child, false reporting to law enforcement authorities, crimes of established, defenses, Caylee's Law
Description: This bill would provide for the crime of failure to report a missing child and failure to report the death of a child classified as a Class C felony.
This bill would provide for false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the first degree classified as a Class C felony and false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the second degree classified as a Class A misdemeanor.
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