SB279 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Trip Pittman
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Controlled substances, additional penalties for convictions of, addition drug-related crimes included, driver's license suspension required for additional convictions for drug-related convictions, Secs. 13A-12-281, 13A-12-291 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, in addition to any disposition and fine, a person convicted of certain drug-related offenses is required to pay a penalty fixed at $1,000 for a first offense and $2,000 for a second or subsequent offense.
Also under existing law, a person convicted of or found delinquent regarding certain drug-related offenses is required to have his or her driver's license suspended.
This bill would include additional drug-related offenses to these provisions.
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.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses