SB253 Alabama 2014 Session

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 The rewritten section would delete the outdated reference to chancellors, would include district court judges as officers subject to impeachment, and would substitute the term district attorney for the outdated term solicitor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

To repeal existing Article VII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, relating to impeachments, and to add a new Article VII, relating to impeachments.