SB44 Alabama 2015 1st Special Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

First Special Session 2015

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Bill Hightower
Republican
Session: First Special Session 2015
Title: Crimes and offfenses, offering or accepting money or anything of value for an aborted fetus prohibited, criminal penalties
Description: This bill would prohibit a person, entity, or association from offering or accepting money or anything of value for an aborted fetus or any portion of an aborted fetus and provide criminal penalties for any violation.
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

Pending third reading on day 6 Favorable from Finance and Taxation General Fund

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund