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HB454
YMKRC6N-2
By Representative Hurst
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 19-Mar-25
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First Read: 19-Mar-25
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to crimes and offenses; to add Section
13A-10-12.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to establish the
crime of tampering with a legislative record; and to provide
criminal penalties for a violation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 13A-10-12.1 is added to the Code of
Alabama 1975, to read as follows:
ยง13A-10-12.1
(a) A person commits the crime of tampering with a
legislative record if all of the following occur:
(1) The person is requested to publish by a member of
the Legislature, in accordance with the requirements of
Section 106 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, a legal
notice stating the substance of a proposed local law prior to
the introduction of the bill.
(2) Without the permission of the sponsoring
legislator, the person makes an alteration to the notice with
the intent to change the description of the proposed local
law's scope, purpose, or effect.
(3) The notice is advertised with the unauthorized
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(3) The notice is advertised with the unauthorized
alteration.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class A
misdemeanor.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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1, 2025.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Judiciary
................19-Mar-25
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
0 amendments
................09-Apr-25
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 94
Nays 1
Abstains 6
................22-Apr-25
John Treadwell
Clerk
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