HB11 Alabama 2016 1st Special Session Session

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Bill Summary

Sponsors

Allen Treadaway

Session

First Special Session 2016

Title

Alabama Lottery and Alabama Lottery Corporation estab., gaming regulated at racetracks where pari-mutuel wagering currently legal, and one other loctation, state gross receipts tax and local gross receipts tax levied, tax on vendors of gaming equipment levied, disposition of proceeds provided, Alabama Gaming Commission created to regulate and administer gaming, Governor authorized to negotiate a compact with Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Lottery Trust Fund estab., proceeds allocated to college scholarships, Legislature required to pass enabling legislation, constitutional amendment

Description

Under existing law, a member of the Legislature who holds a leadership position and who is indicted for a crime continues to hold his or her leadership position in the Legislature

This bill would automatically suspend a member of the Legislature who holds a leadership position from serving in that leadership position if the member is indicted for a crime that is a felony

This bill would clarify that the member would continue to serve in the Legislature during the suspension

Relating to the Legislature; to automatically suspend a member of the Legislature who holds a leadership position from serving in that leadership position in the event the member is indicted for a crime that is a felony; and to clarify that the member would continue to serve in the Legislature during the suspension.

Subjects

Constitutional Amendments

Bill Actions

Action Date	Chamber	Action
August 15, 2016	H	Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ethics and Campaign Finance

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