SB22 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2016

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Murder, aggravated child abuse resulting in death of child, commission or attempt constitutes murder, Sec. 13A-6-2 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a person commits the crime of murder if he or she commits or attempts to commit certain felony offenses, and in the course of and in furtherance of the crime that he or she is committing or attempting to commit, or in immediate flight therefrom, he or she or another participant in the crime causes the death of any person.
This bill would provide that a person commits the crime of murder if he or she commits or attempts to commit aggravated child abuse and he or she causes the death of another person during the commission or attempt.
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: Crimes and Offenses