SB57 Alabama 2018 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

Senate Bill

In Second Chamber

Current Status

Regular Session 2018

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Clyde Chambliss Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2018
Title: Voyeurism, crime created, criminalize the taking of a video or photo depicting intimate areas of a person without that person's consent, privacy, penalties
Description: Under existing law, it is a crime to distribute a private image with the intent to harass, threaten, coerce, or intimidate the person depicted.
This bill would establish the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree and would provide 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.
Subjects: Voyeurism