HB381 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Merika Coleman Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Firearms, domestice violence, to provide for an extreme risk protection order, prohibit certain violent defendants from possessing firearms, ammunition, or a pistol permit, to provide for the enforcement and registration of an extreme risk protection order, Secs. 30-10-1 to 30-10-15, inclusive, added; Sec. 13A-11-72 am'd.

Description

This bill would provide for the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.

This bill would provide for an extreme risk protection order which would prohibit potentially violent defendants from possessing firearms, ammunition, or a pistol permit.

This bill would provide a process for the implementation of an extreme risk protection order.

This bill would provide for the enforcement and registration of an extreme risk protection order.

This bill would require that information regarding extreme risk protection orders be tracked and distributed.

This bill would also provide for criminal penalties for violations of extreme risk protection orders.

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.

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Subjects

Domestic Violence