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SB65 Alabama 2012 Session

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In Committee

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Gerald H. Allen
  • J.T. Waggoner
  • Rusty Glover
  • Arthur Orr
  • Greg J. Reed
  • Dick Brewbaker
Session
Regular Session 2012
Title
Children, failure to report a missing child in the first degree, second degree, and in the third degree, failure to report the death of a child, false reporting to law enforcement authorities, crimes of established, Caylee's Law, Sec. 13A-10-9 am'd.
Description

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

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, second, and third 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.

Subjects
Crimes and Offenses

Bill Actions

Action DateChamberAction
May 9, 2012Indefinitely Postponed
April 12, 2012Taylor motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
April 12, 2012Judiciary first Substitute Offered
April 12, 2012Third Reading Carried Over
March 22, 2012Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
February 7, 2012Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary

Bill Text

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Bill Documents

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Bill Text SB65 Alabama 2012 Session - Introduced
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