HB489 Alabama 2022 Session

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Primary Sponsor

Ginny Shaver Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Watercraft, operation of, boating under the influence, penalties for violation further provided, Sec. 32-5A-191.3 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, if a person is convicted of boating under the influence, the person's boating license is suspended, and if a person is convicted of operating a motor vehicle under the influence, the person's driver's license is suspended.

This bill would further provide for the period of suspension of boating operating privileges resulting from a conviction from boating under the influence.

This bill would provide that if a person is convicted of boating under the influence, the person's boating license and driver's license will be suspended, and that if a person is convicted of operating a motor vehicle under the influence, the person's driver's license and boating license or boater safety certification will be suspended.

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

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, 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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