SB259 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2016

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Linda Coleman-Madison Senator
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Motor vehicles, courts required to forward certain traffic offenses to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, penalties for specified traffic offenses at railroad highway crossing grades revised, time frame for reporting nonresident commercial traffic violations, reduced, Secs. 32-5A-195, 32-5A-304, 32-6-49.11, 32-6-49.14 am'd.
Description: This bill would reduce the number of days within which a court must forward to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency a record of conviction of certain traffic offenses.
This bill would revise the penalties for persons operating commercial vehicles who are convicted of specified offenses relating to railroad-highway grade crossings.
This bill would reduce the number of days within which the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency must notify the driver's license issuing authority in the licensing state of a nonresident who is convicted of certain commercial vehicle traffic offenses and would make other technical non-substantive changes.
This bill would also require that certain DUI arrest information be retained on a person's driving record if he or she holds a commercial learners license, a commercial driver license, or was operating a commercial vehicle.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles