HB532 Alabama 2019 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2019

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Randy Wood Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2019
Title: Motor vehicles, speed limits, enforcement by municipal police officers on interstate and in police jurisdiction, authorized, Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a law enforcement officer of an incorporated municipality or town with less than 19,000 inhabitants is prohibited from enforcing the speed limit set by general law on any interstate highway.
Existing law provides that a law enforcement officer of a municipality can enforce the speed limit set by general law inside the corporate limits of the municipality but cannot enforce the speed limit within the police jurisdiction of the municipality.
This bill would delete both of these provisions.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles

Pending third reading on day 18 Favorable from Public Safety and Homeland Security with 1 amendment

Public Safety and Homeland Security first Amendment Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security