HB202 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2017

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jim Patterson
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Animals, dogs, humane treatment of, humane tethering device, limited immunity
Description: Under existing law, there are no requirements relating to the humane tethering of dogs.
This bill would establish definitions and guidelines for the humane tethering of a dog as a means of containment. This bill would establish penalties for violations.
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: Animals

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security