SB305 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 14, 2022

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2022

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Chris Elliott Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Utilities, portable electric generators, certain requirement for use, provided, criminal penalties for violation
Description: This bill would require any portable electrical generator to be connected in such a manner as to prevent back-feeding electricity onto the electrical distribution system and would provide criminal penalties for a violation.
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: Utilities