HB480 Alabama 2014 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Allen Farley

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Randy WoodMack N. ButlerMargie WilcoxEd HenryJohn MerrillDarrio MeltonElaine BeechDuwayne BridgesJohn W. RogersBarry MoorePaul BeckmanAlan BakerPebblin W. WarrenLesley VanceDan WilliamsAlan HarperRichard BaughnRod ScottMike BallMary Sue McClurkinLynn GreerApril WeaverDavid StandridgeDexter GrimsleyNapoleon BracyK.L. BrownMike HolmesMike MillicanWilliam RobertsMike HillSteve McMillanRichard J. LairdVictor GastonOliver RobinsonJim PattersonJamie IsonMerika ColemanDavid SessionsBecky NordgrenKurt WallaceWayne JohnsonHoward SanderfordKen JohnsonAllen TreadawayTerri CollinsMicky HammonMac ButtramDimitri PolizosDavid ColstonDickie DrakeChris EnglandJoe Faust

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

Controlled substances, Schedule I, additional synthetic controlled substances and analogue substances included in, trafficking in controlled substance analogues, requisite weight increased, Secs. 13A-12-231, 20-2-23 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a person is guilty of trafficking in controlled substance analogues if he or she knowingly sells, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state 28 or more grams of the controlled substance.

This bill would increase the requisite weight for trafficking in controlled substance analogues to 56 grams.

Under existing law, certain named chemical compounds of synthetic cannabinoid and other controlled substance analogues are included in Schedule I of the controlled substances list.

Possession, distribution, and trafficking of these compounds is unlawful, and violations are subject to the existing criminal penalties for distribution and possession.

This bill would include additional synthetic controlled substances and analogues to Schedule I.

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.

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Subjects

Controlled Substances