HB85 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2013

Session

3

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Kurt Wallace
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Mike Jones Paul Beckman
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Criminal sex offenders, only one adult or juvenile sex offender may reside in a residence, only one adult may reside in an apartment complex under certain conditions, criminal penalties, exceptions
Description: Existing law restricts a sex offender from living and from being employed within 2,000 feet of property on which a child care facility or school is located.
Existing law also restricts a sex offender from residing within 2,000 feet of a former victim.
This bill would prohibit more than one unrelated sex offender from residing at the same residence. This bill would also provide that no sex offender may reside in any residence unless there is a distance of at least 500 feet from the residence of any other sex offender.
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