HB295 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rod Scott

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Local constitutional amendments, adoption procedure by Legislature revised, Legislature to adopt a resolution of local application in order for amendment to be treated as local, local amendment,, Amendments 425 and 555, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, repealed, const. amend.

Description

Under Amendment 425 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 555 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Legislature may propose a local constitutional amendment that affects only one county or a municipality in one or more counties. If the local constitutional amendment receives at least three-fifths of the vote in each house, does not receive a negative vote, and is approved by a majority of the Local Constitutional Amendment Commission, it is voted on only in that county or counties. If the measure receives a negative vote in either house or is not approved by a majority vote of the commission, it is voted on statewide.

The amendment would repeal those amendments and add a new section to Article XVIII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, Mode of Amending the Constitution, providing that a local constitutional amendment that is passed by a three-fifths vote of each house and determined by vote of a majority of each house to affect or apply to only one county or a political subdivision in one or more counties shall be voted on only in that county or political subdivision and county or counties. The amendment would abolish the Local Constitutional Amendment Commission but would require a statewide referendum if, after passage by a three-fifths vote, at least one member of the Legislature determines by vote that the amendment, other than an amendment that applies to a political subdivision in more than one county, affects or applies to more than one county.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments