HB100 Alabama 2017 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Phil WilliamsRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2017
- Title
- Americans First Act, clarifying status of institutions of higher education as agencies of state under Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act and required to comply with all immigration laws or be subject to forfeiture of certain funds, Sec. 31-13-5.1 added
- Description
Under existing law, public officials, agencies, and political subdivisions of the state are prohibited from adopting any policy or practice that limits or restricts the enforcement of certain federal immigration laws.
This bill would create the Americans First Act.
This bill would clarify that two-year and four-year public institutions of higher education in the state are agencies of the state and subject to the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.
This bill would also express the intent of the Legislature that public institutions of higher education with constitutionally created boards of trustees comply with the prohibitions of the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.
- Subjects
- Immigration Law
Bill Actions
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Members intended to cosponsor
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 9
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 8
Lee Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government
Bill Text
Votes
Motion to Adopt
Cosponsors Added
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature