HB518 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arnold Mooney Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Presidential executive orders, authorize review of by the Attorney General to determine constitutionality, prohibits implementation of certain presidential executive orders

Description

Under existing law, there is no mechanism for review of presidential executive orders by the state.

This bill would authorize the Legislative Council to review a presidential executive order and recommend to the Attorney General and the Governor that the order be examined to determine its constitutionality.

This bill would also prohibit state agencies and political subdivisions and their officials and employees from implementing a presidential executive order that restricts individual rights or that relates to epidemics, the regulation of natural resources, the regulation of the agricultural industry, the regulation of land use, the regulation of the financial sector through the imposition of environmental, social, or governance standards, or the regulation of the right to keep and bear arms and is determined by the Attorney General to be unconstitutional.

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Subjects

Presidential Executive Orders