SB6 Alabama 2012 1st Special Session

This bill would establish the Abortion-Inducing Drug Safety Act

This bill would provide legislative findings and purposes

This bill would make it unlawful to administer any abortion-inducing drug to a woman without her receiving an exam by a physician

This bill would provide a physician with guidelines to follow in administering an abortion-inducing drug

This bill provides for criminal and civil penalties

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 establish the Abortion-Inducing Drug Safety Act; to provide findings and define terms; to provide guidelines for abortion-inducing drugs; to provide criminal penalties and civil remedies for violations; 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.