HB4 Alabama 2012 1st Special Session

This bill would provide for the crime of failure to report a missing child in the first degree classified as a Class B felony and failure to report a missing child in the second degree as a Class C felony

This bill would provide for the crime of failure to report the death of a child as a Class C felony

This bill would provide for the crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the first degree classified as a Class C felony and designate the existing crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities as false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the second degree

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, 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

To provide for the crimes of failure to report a missing child in the first and second degrees; to provide for the crime of failure to report the death of a child; to provide for the crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the first degree; to amend Section 13A-10-9, Code of Alabama 1975, to designate the crime of false reporting to law enforcement authorities in the second degree; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.