Under existing law, a person whose license has been revoked or suspended for certain offenses and who subsequently operates a motor vehicle is subject to removal from the vehicle, and the vehicle may be impounded by law enforcement.
This bill would provide for the removal of a person operating a motor vehicle and for the impoundment of the vehicle if the person has failed to procure a driver's license as required by existing law.
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.
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 253
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 252
Wadsworth Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 251
Chestnut 2nd Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Stadthagen motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
Chestnut motion to Withdraw his amendment #1 adopted Voice Vote
Stadthagen motion to Table lost Roll Call 231
Chestnut Amendment #1 Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 230
Harbison Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Source: Alabama Legislature