HB20 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Chris EnglandRepresentative
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: Firearms, penalty for failure to inform when in possession and questioned
Description: Under existing law, a person has a duty to inform a law enforcement officer that he or she is in possession of a concealed pistol or firearm upon request.
This bill would provide that the failure of an individual to inform a law enforcement officer that he or she is in possession of a concealed pistol or firearm upon request is a Class A misdemeanor.
Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, 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 section. 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 HB20 INTRODUCED contained in the section.
Subjects: Crimes & Offenses; Firearms

Pending House Public Safety and Homeland Security

Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Prefiled