HB193 Alabama 2016 Session

Existing law provides for the crimes of cruelty to animals and aggravated cruelty to animals

This bill would increase the penalties for those crimes under certain conditions and would require a person convicted under certain conditions to undergo a psychological evaluation and attend counseling

This bill would also create the crime of animal abandonment and would provide 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 amend Sections 13A-11-14 and 13A-11-14.1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the crimes of cruelty and aggravated cruelty to animals; to increase the penalties under certain conditions; to require a person convicted under certain conditions to undergo a psychological evaluation and attend counseling; to add Section 13A-11-14.2 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to create the crime of animal abandonment and to provide penalties; and in connection therewith to 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.