SB281 Alabama 2022 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Garlan Gudger SenatorRepublican - 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
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1011
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1010
Lee Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1009
Jones (M) Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1008
Gudger motion to Non Concur and Appoint Conference Committee adopted Roll Call 1116 P&PO appoints Gudger, Scofield and Smitherman
Faulkner Amendment Offered
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1007
Public Safety and Homeland Security Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 494
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Bill Text
Votes
SBIR: Gudger motion to Adopt Roll Call 493
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass Roll Call 1011
Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1010
Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1009
Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1008
Motion to Adopt Roll Call 1007
Gudger motion to Non Concur and Appoint Conference Committee Roll Call 1116 P&PO appoints Gudger, Scofield and Smitherman
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature