HB198 Alabama 2018 Session

This bill would create the Alabama Assistance and Service Animal Integrity in Housing Act

This bill would provide definitions for assistance animal, disability, and service animal and would create requirements for documentation of the need for an assistance animal or service animal in housing

This bill would provide for the offenses of misrepresentation of entitlement to an assistance animal or service animal and the misrepresentation of an animal as an assistance animal or service animal 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

Relating to service animals; to create the Alabama Assistance and Service Animal Integrity In Housing Act; to provide certain definitions and to create requirements for documentation of the need for a service animal in housing; to provide for the offenses of misrepresentation of entitlement to an assistance animal or service animal and the misrepresentation of an animal as an assistance animal or service animal; to provide penalties; 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.; 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.