HB49 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rolanda Hollis Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Nicotine, motor vehicles, smoking of tobacco products prohibited in vehicle with child aged 14 and under present

Description

Under existing law, there is no prohibition against smoking tobacco products or vaping in a motor vehicle when a child is also present in the vehicle.

This bill would prohibit smoking tobacco products or vaping in a motor vehicle when a child aged 14 years or under is also present in the vehicle.

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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Subjects

Tobacco