HB228 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated May 16, 2022

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2022

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Russell Bedsole Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Assault in the second degree, physical injury to employee of Dept. of Human Resouces or social worker, included in offense, Sec. 13A-6-21 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a violation of assault in the second degree is a Class C felony.
This bill would include additional activity that would constitute the crime of assault in the second degree.
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.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary