SB326 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 6, 2022

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2022

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tim Melson Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Controlled substances, to prohibit psychoactive cannabinoids from being sold, marketed, or possessed by any individual under 21 years old, to provide for penalties
Description: Under current law, hemp contains psychoactive and non-psychoactive cannabinoids.
This bill would prohibit the sale, distribution, marketing, or possession of psychoactive cannabinoids found in hemp to any individuals under 21 years of age.
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: Cannabinoids