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  6. SB 280

SB 280

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Actions
  • 3 Bill Text
  • 4 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Bobby D. Singleton
Session
Regular Session 2019
Title
Motor vehicles, seat belt use required for each occupant while vehicle is in motion, Secs. 32-5B-4 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, the front seat occupant of a passenger car manufactured in compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Standard No. 208 is required to have a safety belt fastened while the vehicle is in motion. Children under the age of 15 in a motor vehicle are required to wear a seat belt or be protected by another child passenger restraint system

This bill would require each occupant of a passenger motor vehicle to have a safety belt fastened while the vehicle is in motion

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 Section 32-5B-4 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to further require each occupant of passenger cars manufactured with safety belts to have a safety belt fastened when the vehicle is in motion; 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
Motor Vehicles

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
April 16, 2019 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation and Energy

Bill Text

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Bill Documents

Type Link
Bill Text SB 280 - Introduced

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