This bill would establish the Marshall James Walton Highway Safety Act and would create the crime of homicide by vehicle or vessel.
This bill would provide that a person is guilty of homicide by vehicle or vessel if the person causes the death of another person while knowingly engaged in the violation of any state law or municipal ordinance applying to the operation or use of a vehicle, a vessel, or to the regulation of traffic or boating, if the violation is the proximate cause of the death.
This bill 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.
Assigned Act No. 2017-336.
Signature Requested
Enrolled
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 877
Ledbetter motion to Previous Question adopted Roll Call 876
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 Judiciary
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 314
Pittman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 313
Pittman Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Pittman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 116
Pittman motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Pittman Amendment Offered
Pittman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 115
Judiciary Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature