HB13 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, it is a crime for a person to sell, give, or lend a pistol to a minor or deliver a pistol to any person who he or she has reasonable cause to believe is a minor, a drug addict, or an habitual drunkard, who has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence, a misdemeanor offense of domestic violence, or certain violent offenses, or anyone who is subject to a valid protection order for domestic abuse, or anyone of unsound mind

This bill would make it a crime for a person to knowingly purchase or attempt to purchase a firearm with the intent to deliver that firearm to another person who is prohibited by federal or state law from possessing a firearm, and would provide criminal penalties

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

To amend Section 13A-11-58.1, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to firearms; to make it a crime for a person to knowingly purchase or attempt to purchase a firearm with the intent to deliver that firearm to another person who is prohibited by federal or state law from possessing a firearm; to provide penalties; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.