HB626 would amend Alabama's Constitution to transfer Cullman County's sixteenth section and school lands from state management to the Cullman County Board of Education, giving local control over the lands and their resources and setting how proceeds are distributed.
If passed, the amendment would vest all sixteenth section and school lands in Cullman County in the Cullman County Board of Education, allowing the board to manage, sell, lease, and control the lands and any timber, minerals, or other resources. Proceeds from land sales would be split with 90% going to a county trust and 10% to the Board of Education General Fund. Interest earned on those funds would be distributed annually to the Cullman County school system and the Cullman City school system based on student enrollment, recalculated every five years. Proceeds from selling timber, minerals, or other resources or from leasing the land would go directly to the Cullman County Board of Education General Fund, and pre-ratification revenues would remain held in trust with distributions going to the BOE custodian; an election would be held to ratify the amendment.
Pending third reading on day 30 Favorable from Local Legislation No. 1
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation No. 1
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1002
Oden motion to reconsider adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass lost Roll Call 1001
Lost in house of origin
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
HB626 Referred from Agriculture & Forestry to Local Legislation
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Source: Alabama Legislature