SB10 Alabama 2019 Session

This bill would provide for the rights and responsibilities of an individual with a disability who uses a service animal and would prohibit discrimination against the person for using a service animal in a public accommodation or a housing accommodation

This bill would provide criminal penalties for a person who misrepresents himself or herself as using a service animal or as a trainer of a service animal or for denying or interfering with the right of an individual with a disability to use a service animal or the trainer of a service animal to have a service animal in a public accommodation under certain conditions

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

To amend Sections 21-7-1 to 21-7-9, inclusive, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the use of service animals; to provide for the rights and responsibilities of an individual with a disability who uses a service animal in a public accommodation or a housing accommodation; to provide criminal penalties for a person who misrepresents the use of a service animal or as a trainer and for denying or interfering with the right of an individual with a disability to use a service animal or the trainer of a service animal to have a service animal in a public accommodation under certain conditions; and in connection therewith to 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.