SB258 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Legislative department, constitutional provisions, Article IV Constitution of Alabama of 1901, repealed certain provisions of Article 10 moved to Articles XVII and XVIII, new Article IV added, Amendments 1,12, 22, 26A, 39, 40, 49, 53, 57, 58, 88, 92, 93, 97, 112, 142, 159, 201, 214, 227, 247, 257, 315, 327, 339, 341, 354, 375, 383, 388, 389, 390, 397, 400, 401, 411, 427, 428, 443, 448, 449, 451, 452, 453, 454, 472, 474, 475, 491, 492, 513, 556, 558, 621, 715, 766, 772, 798, 871; Secs. 122, 280, 281, 282 repealed
Description: Article IV of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 contains provisions relating to the Legislature. Other provisions relating to the Legislature are contained in Article V, Executive Department, and Article XVII, Miscellaneous Provisions, and various amendments adopted since 1901.
The bill would propose a constitutional amendment to revise and recast the existing provisions of the Constitution relating to the Legislature into a new Article IV by repealing the existing Article IV and previously adopted amendments relating to the Legislature and moving provisions related to the Legislature from Articles V and XVII to the new Article IV and moving some current provisions of Article IV that are unrelated to the Legislature to Article XVII.
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections