SB394 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Harri Anne Smith

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Firearms, subject any person who carries or possesses a weapon on public school premises to criminal penalties, Sec. 13A-11-61.4 added

Description

Under existing law, no person, knowingly with intent to do bodily harm, may carry or possess a deadly weapon on the premises of a public school.

This bill would prohibit the carrying and possession of a firearm on the premises of a public school regardless of whether the person has intent to do bodily harm and would provide criminal penalties for any violation.

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

Firearms