HB157 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated May 6, 2021

House Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2021

Session

6

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tommy Hanes
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Mike Holmes Arnold Mooney Phillip Pettus Andrew Sorrell Ritchie Whorton
Session: Regular Session 2021
Title: Firearms, Second Amendment Preservation Act, right to keep and bear arms, provided
Description: This bill would create the Second Amendment Preservation Act to protect the right to keep and bear arms.
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.
Subjects: Firearms

Indefinitely Postponed

Public Safety and Homeland Security first Amendment Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security