SB227 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gerald H. Allen Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Alabama Athletic Commission, violations provided for, Class C felony

Description

Under existing law, the Alabama Athletic Commission is responsible for regulating boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts pursuant to the Alabama Unarmed Combat Act.

This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for certain violations of the act and would provide criminal penalties for certain 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 SB227 INTRODUCED contained in the section.

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Subjects

Occupational Licensing Boards