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HB 500

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Actions
  • 3 Bill Calendar
  • 4 Bill Text
  • 5 Bill Votes
  • 6 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Margie Wilcox
Session
Regular Session 2019
Title
Litter, increase penalties, introduce new penalties for litter from vehicle, watercraft, of cigarettes or of urine, and change from Class C to Class B misdemeanor, Secs. 13A-7-29, 23-5-6, 32-5-76, 32-5A-60, 33-6-10 am'd.
Description

Existing law criminalizes littering and provides penalties

This bill would provide additional penalties for criminal littering and include enhanced penalties for littering of cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, restaurant food containers, and other specified waste items

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

Relating to littering; to amend Sections 13A-7-29, 23-5-6, 32-5-76, 32-5A-60, and 33-6-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide additional penalties for criminal littering to include enhanced penalties for littering of cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, restaurant food containers, and other specified waste items; to include within the enhanced penalties increased fines, mandatory community service requirements, and assessments of driver license points when littering is committed from a motor vehicle; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.

Subjects
Littering

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
May 31, 2019 H Delivered to Governor at 5:44 p.m. on May 31, 2019.
May 31, 2019 H Assigned Act No. 2019-530.
May 31, 2019 H Clerk of the House Certification
May 31, 2019 S Signature Requested
May 31, 2019 H Enrolled
May 31, 2019 H Passed Second House
May 31, 2019 S Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1483
May 31, 2019 S Third Reading Passed
May 30, 2019 S Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
May 28, 2019 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy
May 23, 2019 H Engrossed
May 23, 2019 H Eaterbrook intended to vote Yea
May 23, 2019 H Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1027
May 23, 2019 H Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1026
May 23, 2019 H Wilcox Amendment Offered
May 23, 2019 H Third Reading Passed
May 14, 2019 H Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
April 23, 2019 H Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government

Bill Calendar

Type Date Location Description
Hearing May 29, 2019 ****Room Change to Room 320**** at 10:00 Senate ED Hearing
Hearing May 29, 2019 Room 825 at 10:00 Senate ED Hearing
Hearing May 14, 2019 Room 206 at 12:00 House SG Hearing

Bill Text

Download HB 500 PDF

Bill Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2019-05-31
Chamber: Senate
Result: Passed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2019-05-23
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Motion to Adopt
2019-05-23
Chamber: House
Result: Passed

Bill Documents

Type Link
Bill Text HB 500 - Enrolled
Bill Text HB 500 - Engrossed
Bill Text HB 500 - Introduced
Bill Amendments House Wilcox Amendment Offered
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