SB196 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jack W. Williams Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Animal enterprises, working animals, certain rights guaranteed, regulation by Commissioner and Dept. of Agriculture and Industries, reporting requirements of alleged animal cruelty, impoundment procedures, criminal penalties for frivolous complaints, Working Animal Protection and Animal Enterprise Freedom Act

Description

This bill would provide the Commissioner and the Department of Agriculture and Industries with exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation of working animals and animal enterprises, would provide a reporting and investigation process for alleged violations of animal cruelty by an animal enterprise, and would provide impoundment procedures for animals found to be in danger of permanent physical injury or imminent death.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for submitting a frivolous complaint alleging an animal enterprise has engaged in animal cruelty.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, 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

Animals