SB438 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2013

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tammy Irons
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Animals, animal shelters, animal control, animal shelter owner or operator to submit annual report detailing number of animals entering facility and the disposition of the animals
Description: This bill would require an animal shelter owner or operator to submit an annual report to the Department of Public Health detailing the total number of animals that have entered the facility and the disposition of the animals.
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: Animals

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry