SB34 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2024

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Rodger Smitherman Senator
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: Crimes and offenses; additional activity added to making a terrorist threat in the first degree
Description: Under existing law, a person commits the crime of making a terrorist threat in the first degree if he or she credibly threatens to commit a crime of violence against a person or to damage any property by the use of a bomb, explosive, weapon of mass destruction, firearm, deadly weapon, or other mechanism in certain circumstances.
This bill would add to the crime a threat made against a judge or his or her staff.
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 SB34 INTRODUCED because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the section.
Subjects: Crimes & Offenses