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SB281 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 15, 2022
SB281 Alabama 2022 Session
Senate Bill
In Second Chamber
Current Status
Regular Session 2022
Session
2
Sponsors

Summary

Co-Sponsor
J.T. Waggoner
Session
Regular Session 2022
Title
Navigation, operation of vessels, wake boarding and wake surfing restrictions and requirements, provided, criminal penalty for violation, provided
Description

This bill would prohibit wake surfing under certain conditions, including between sunset and sunrise; without a life jacket; on public bodies of water that are deemed too small based on width or size; and within a certain distance of any shoreline, dock, pier, boathouse, or other structure in the water.

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.

Subjects
Boats and Boating

Bill Actions

H

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1011

H

Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1010

H

Lee Amendment Offered

H

Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1009

H

Jones (M) Amendment Offered

H

Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1008

S

Gudger motion to Non Concur and Appoint Conference Committee adopted Roll Call 1116 P&PO appoints Gudger, Scofield and Smitherman

H

Faulkner Amendment Offered

S

Concurrence Requested

H

Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1007

H

Public Safety and Homeland Security Amendment Offered

H

Third Reading Passed

H

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 494

S

Third Reading Passed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass Roll Call 494

March 9, 2022 Senate Passed
Yes 27
Absent 8

SBIR: Gudger motion to Adopt Roll Call 493

March 9, 2022 Senate Passed
Yes 26
Absent 9

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass Roll Call 1011

April 7, 2022 House Failed
Yes 37
No 33
Abstained 27
Absent 5

Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1010

April 7, 2022 House Failed
Yes 44
No 5
Abstained 41
Absent 12

Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1009

April 7, 2022 House Failed
Yes 45
No 13
Abstained 37
Absent 7

Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1008

April 7, 2022 House Passed
Yes 82
Abstained 19
Absent 1

Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1007

April 7, 2022 House Passed
Yes 87
No 2
Abstained 12
Absent 1

Gudger motion to Non Concur and Appoint Conference Committee Roll Call 1116 P&PO appoints Gudger, Scofield and Smitherman

April 7, 2022 Senate Passed
Yes 26
Absent 9

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature