HB372 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Louise Alexander

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Crimes and offenses, elder abuse, crime further provided, definition of emotional abuse further provided, Secs. 13A-6-191, 13A-6-192 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, elder abuse and neglect in the first degree is a Class A felony.

This bill would further provide for the crime of elder abuse and neglect in the first degree to include the sexual abuse of an elderly person and to include humiliation in the definition of emotional abuse.

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

Crimes and Offenses