Article VII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, provides for impeachments in Alabama.
This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to repeal the existing Article VII; and to readopt Article VII to make nonsubstantive technical amendments, including renumbering sections, capitalization, and gender neutral references, throughout the article and to make all of the following substantive changes: Section 173. The rewritten section would remove the State Superintendent of Education and include the members of the State Board of Education as officers who are subject to impeachment, would require a two-thirds vote of the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, for conviction, and would delete the requirement that members of the Legislature be summoned to the capitol for impeachment proceedings by publication in a newspaper.
Section 174. The rewritten section would delete the outdated reference to chancellors, would include district court judges as officers subject to impeachment, and would substitute the term district attorney for the outdated term solicitor.
Section 175. The rewritten section would provide that all county and municipal officers are subject to impeachment.
Pending third reading on day 29 Favorable from Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 988
Marsh motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 987
Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections
Source: Alabama Legislature