SB67 Alabama 2020 Session

Updated Feb 12, 2020

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jimmy Holley
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2020
Title: Motor vehicles, animals, crime to leave an animal in an unattended motor vehicle, immunity to a public safety official who rescues an animal under certain circumstances, Sec. 13A-11-241 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, there is no prohibition against leaving a domestic animal in a motor vehicle unattended in a manner that creates an unreasonable risk of injury or harm to the animal.
Also under existing law, there is no specific provision that provides criminal immunity to a person who rescues a domestic animal from an unattended motor vehicle.
This bill would prohibit any person from leaving a domestic animal in a motor vehicle unattended in a manner that creates an unreasonable risk of injury or harm to the animal.
This bill would also provide criminal immunity to a person who rescues a domestic animal from an unattended motor vehicle.
This bill would provide civil and criminal immunity to a public safety official who rescues an animal from an unattended motor vehicle.
This bill would also make it a crime to leave a domestic animal in an unattended motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901 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 general law would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621.
If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles