HB229 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Corey Harbison
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Criminal procedure, murder of firefighter or first responder in the line of duty makes a capital offense, Sec. 13A-5-40 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, there are certain enumerated capital offenses.
This bill would provide that the murder of a firefighter or other first responder in the line of duty would be an enumerated capital offense.
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

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary