HB527 Alabama 2013 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Wayne JohnsonRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2013
- Title
- Driving under the influence, additional penalties for violations of by persons with at least 0.15 percent blood alcohol level, to include abstention from consuming alcoholic beverages and a requirement to wear a continuing alcohol monitoring device, Sec. 32-5A-191 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, a person convicted of driving a motor vehicle with at least 0.15 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood is required to be sentenced to at least double the minimum punishment and to have his or her driver's license suspended for a period of not less than one year.
This bill would provide that a person convicted of driving a motor vehicle with at least 0.15 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood may be ordered to abstain from consuming alcoholic beverages and to wear a continuous alcohol monitoring device for a period of up to one year.
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
- Motor Vehicles
Bill Actions
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature