HB374 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2024

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Ritchie Whorton Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: Additional fee, professional firefighter distinctive motor vehicle license plate
Description: This bill would increase the fees for volunteer and professional firefighter distinctive motor vehicle license plates and would provide for the distribution of the fees collected.
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 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.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles & Traffic