HB280 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated May 24, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2021

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: David FaulknerRepresentative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2021
Title: Motor vehicles, reduced speed school zones, to include schools in a municipality, Secs. 32-5A-181, 32-5A-182, 32-5A-183 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a reduced speed school zone is established for every school in the county outside the corporate limits of a municipality.
Also under existing law, a person who is convicted of a school zone speed violation is assessed a fine double the amount prescribed by law for outside of the school zone.
This bill would expand the reduced speed school zone to include every public and private school in the state.
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: Motor Vehicles