HB266 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Mary Moore Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Assault weapons, to prohibit possession and transfer in certain circumstances, provide for registration

Description

This bill would prohibit the possession, sale, or transfer of an assault weapon under certain circumstances.

This bill would provide procedures to register an assault weapon.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for violations.

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 contained in the section.

HB266 INTRODUCED.

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Subjects

Firearms