HB395 Summary

• Amends Section 13A-6-3 of the Code of Alabama 1975 to add a new form of manslaughter when a person sells, furnishes, gives away, delivers, or distributes a controlled substance in violation of law and the recipient dies as a proximate result of using that substance.

• Establishes this conduct as a Class B felony.

• Excludes licensed physicians, pharmacists, and dentists engaged in their respective practices from the provisions of this crime.

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

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