HB125 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Andrew Sorrell Auditor

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Colleges and universities, local boards of education, schools prohibited from using public funds to advocate for or against ballot measures

Description

This bill would prohibit a public official or public employee from expending public funds to advocate in favor of or against statewide and local ballot measures.

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, 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

Education