SB119 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Robert L. Stewart Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Child labor, increasing civil and criminal penalties for employers who violate child labor laws

Description

Under existing law, an employer who violates child labor laws is subject to civil and criminal penalties.

This bill would increase civil and criminal penalties for an employer who violates child labor laws.

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.

SB119 INTRODUCED.

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Subjects

Labor & Employment