Aniah Blanchard’s killing might help change a law in Alabama. Here are the details.

An Alabama senator, joined by law enforcement officials, will be introducing a constitutional amendment Wednesday that regained interest in 2019 following the death of Auburn college student Aniah Blanchard.

Sen. Cam Ward, Public Safety Director for the city of Mobile, Alabama, James Barber and numerous other public safety individuals will be in Montgomery on Wednesday to reintroduce a bill that will deny bail for criminal defenders, according to a press release. If the bill (SB 60) passes, it will be named “Aniah’s Law.”

SB 60 would call for no bail to be offered under two conditions.

The first condition is if a suspect is charged with a Class A felony offense “when the proof of guilt is evident, or the presumption of guilt is great,” according to the release. Class A felonies include murder and kidnapping in the first or second degree.

The second condition is if there are no release conditions that would protect the accused from harm or protect the public from potential harm by the suspect.

Under the current Constitution of Alabama, only capital cases that are eligible for the death penalty can have bail denied. It was under this statute that Ibraheem Yazeed, who is alleged to have killed Blanchard, was released from custody.

The bill was sponsored and introduced last year by Rep. Chip Brown and passed by the state House of Representatives, though it later failed in the Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee. If the bill is passed by the Alabama legislature, voters in the state will see the constitutional amendment on the 2020 election ballot, according to the press release.