Under existing law, a driver of a motor vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in damage to a motor vehicle or injury to or death of any person is required to report the accident, give information, and render reasonable assistance at the scene of the accident. A person who violates any of the provisions imposing these duties when the violation results in death or personal injury is guilty of a Class C felony.
This bill would provide that a driver of a motor vehicle who violates any of the provisions imposing these duties when the violation results in death shall be guilty of a Class B felony.
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.
Bedford motion to Recommit adopted Roll Call 244
Read for the second time and rereferred to committee Judiciary
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature