SB258 Alabama 2014 Session

Article IV of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 contains provisions relating to the Legislature. Other provisions relating to the Legislature are contained in Article V, Executive Department, and Article XVII, Miscellaneous Provisions, and various amendments adopted since 1901

The bill would propose a constitutional amendment to revise and recast the existing provisions of the Constitution relating to the Legislature into a new Article IV by repealing the existing Article IV and previously adopted amendments relating to the Legislature and moving provisions related to the Legislature from Articles V and XVII to the new Article IV and moving some current provisions of Article IV that are unrelated to the Legislature to Article XVII

To repeal existing Article IV of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, relating to the Legislature, and the amendments thereto, to move the provisions of various amendments to Article XVII, and to add a new Article IV relating to the Legislature containing the provisions of existing Article IV revised and recast and provisions in Articles V and XVII relating to the Legislature.