Under existing law, it is a crime to promote gambling, conspire to promote gambling, or possess a gambling device.
This bill would provide enhanced penalties for these crimes if the defendant profits from gambling activity in an amount exceeding $10,000.
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.
Further Consideration
Marsh motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Dial Amendment Offered
Rules Committee Petition to Cease Debate Lost Roll Call 651
Taylor motion to Table adopted Roll Call 650
Dial Amendment Offered
Taylor motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections
Source: Alabama Legislature