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AL SB160
Bill
AI Summary
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Increases the prohibited protest distance from 500 feet of the entrance to 1,000 feet of the property line of a funeral facility.
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Applies to protests occurring within 60 minutes before, during, or immediately following a funeral or memorial service that involve singing, chanting, whistling, yelling, or honking a motor vehicle horn.
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Maintains existing penalties: Class A misdemeanor for first conviction and Class C felony for each subsequent conviction.
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Applies to funeral homes, churches, and cemeteries where funeral or memorial services take place.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and Governor approval.
Legislative Description
Funerals, disrupting, crime further provided for, distance of protest from property line of funeral facility further provided for, Sec. 13A-11-17 am'd.
Disrupting a Funeral or Memorial Service
Last Action
Pending third reading on day 12 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 amendment
6/1/2011