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SB 65

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

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Shay Shelnutt
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

To 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.

Subjects
Constitutional Amendments

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
March 5, 2019 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

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Bill Documents

Type Link
Bill Text SB 65 - Introduced
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