SB65 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Shay Shelnutt Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Elected officials, oath of office taken on religious holy book or U.S. or state constitution, const. amend.

Description

Section 279 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 279 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, requires all members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, before they enter upon the execution of the duties of their respective offices, to take a specified oath of office. Section 36-4-6, Code of Alabama 1975, requires governing officials of cities and towns to take the oath of office as prescribed by the Constitution of Alabama.

This bill would amend Section 279 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 279 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, to provide that state public officials when taking the oath of office may choose to do so by raising the right hand and placing the left hand upon a religious holy book or upon a copy of the Constitution of the State of Alabama or a copy of the Constitution of the United States.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments