HB50 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Juandalynn GivanRepresentative
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2015
Title: Sexually transmitted diseases, increased criminal penalties for transmittal of or exposure to, Sec. 22-11A-21 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, it is a Class C misdemeanor to knowingly transmit, or assume the risk of transmitting, or do any act which will probably or likely transmit a sexually transmitted disease to another person.
This bill would increase the criminal penalty for such an offense to a Class C felony.
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: Health

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary