Existing law provides for the commission of the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure.
This bill would further provide for the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure by prohibiting the operation of an unmanned aircraft system, or drone, to conduct surveillance of, gather evidence or collect information about, or photographically or electronically record a critical infrastructure except under certain conditions.
This bill would further define the term critical infrastructure to include the term pipeline.
This bill would provide enhanced criminal penalties when a person damages a critical infrastructure while committing the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure.
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.
Transportation and Energy first Substitute Offered
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 409
Ward motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 408
Ward first Substitute Offered
Ward motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Transportation and Energy zeroeth Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Ward motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation and Energy
Source: Alabama Legislature