HB382 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Craig Ford

Independent

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Alcoholic beverages, powdered alcohol prohibited to possess, purchase, sell, or use, penalties

Description

Under existing law, there is no specific crime which makes it illegal for a person or business establishment to possess, purchase, sell, offer to sell, or use powdered alcohol.

This bill would make it illegal for a person or business establishment to possess, purchase, sell, offer to sell, or use powdered alcohol.

This bill would provide certain exceptions and criminal penalties.

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

Alcoholic Beverages