HB419 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

K.L. Brown

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Alcoholic beverages, drug paraphernalia and non-conforming pharmaceuticals, prohibited, Sec. 28-3A-25 am'd.

Description

Existing law provides various prohibitions on the authority of a person licensed by the Alcoholic Beverages Control Board to engage in the sale, manufacture, transport, marketing, or production of certain goods.

This bill would specify that a retail licensee of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Board may not sell, distribute, market, deliver, or display drug paraphernalia or non-conforming pharmaceuticals, and would provide criminal penalties for a violation.

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.

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Subjects

Alcoholic Beverages