SB472 Summary

• Amends Section 13A-6-4 of the Code of Alabama 1975 to add a new provision making it criminally negligent homicide to cause another person's death while operating a motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft while fatigued.

• Defines "fatigued" as having been without sleep for a period of 24 consecutive hours.

• Establishes criminally negligent homicide committed while fatigued as a Class C felony (enhanced from the existing Class A misdemeanor penalty for other negligent homicide cases).

• Excludes the bill from Amendment 621 constitutional requirements regarding local expenditures because it defines a new crime or amends the definition of an existing crime.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.