HB28 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chris England Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Crimes and offenses; murder further provided for; exceptions provided, penalties revised

Description

Under existing law, a person commits the crime of murder if he or she attempts to commit certain felony offenses and in the course of, in furtherance of, or in the immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or another participant, causes the death of another person.

This bill would provide an exception to the crime of murder, specifically, that a person does not commit the crime of murder if the person killed was a willing participant in the underlying felony.

This bill would further provide for penalties for the crime of murder.

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 HB28 INTRODUCED 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.

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Subjects

Crimes & Offenses