Under existing law, cruelty to animals and harassment or killing a dog used by a peace officer or a search and rescue dog are specific crimes.
This bill would make it a crime to harass, injure, or cause the death of a service dog under certain conditions and would provide penalties.
This bill would provide for restitution of certain expenses.
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.
Assigned Act No. 2016-132.
Signature Requested
Enrolled
Concurred in Second House Amendment
Holley motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 540
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 453
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 452
Public Safety and Homeland Security Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 170
Holley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 169
Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
Source: Alabama Legislature