SB331 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rodger Smitherman Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Terrorist threats, crime further defined, specify that schools and churches are protected, Sec. 13A-10-15 am'd.

Description

Existing law provides for the crime of making a terrorist threat.

This bill would further define the crime and specify that a person commits this crime when he or she threatens to commit a crime of violence against any church, synagogue, mosque, or other religious real property, or a public or private school.

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.

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Subjects

Terrorist Threats