HB42 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Donna Givens Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Sound of Freedom Act; human trafficking; minimum sentence of life imprisonment where victim is a minor

Description

Under existing law, human trafficking in the first degree is a Class A felony.

This bill would provide that if the victim of human trafficking is a minor, the defendant shall be sentenced to a minimum of life imprisonment.

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 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.

HB42 INTRODUCED.

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Subjects

Crimes & Offenses