This bill would provide for a distinctive motor vehicle license plate for paid professional firefighters. The bill would provide penalties for falsely obtaining a professional firefighter tag.
This bill would also provide that a member of the Legion of Valor would receive a distinctive permanent license plate for a private passenger motor vehicle registered in the name of the resident without the payment of any fee or tax.
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.
Pending third reading on day 12 Favorable from Governmental Affairs
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 150
Third Reading Passed
Reported from Public Safety and Homeland Security as Favorable
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Source: Alabama Legislature