HB159 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Barry Mask

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Economic Development, incentive program authorized for projects that provide economic development and job creation, const. amend.

Summary

HB159 would amend the Alabama Constitution to authorize a state incentive program to create and retain jobs and promote economic development.

What This Bill Does

If approved, the amendment would let the state use incentives to recruit, retain, or expand quality economic development projects in Alabama. It includes findings that these incentives can help preserve existing jobs, create new ones, and increase tax revenues for the state and local governments. It also makes the incentive program immune from legal challenge and requires a voter-approved constitutional amendment with a ballot description to enact it.

Who It Affects

• Businesses and developers—eligible for state incentives to recruit, retain, or expand quality projects in Alabama.
• Alabama workers and residents—could benefit from new or kept jobs, with potential impacts on state and local tax revenues.

Key Provisions

• Authorizes a state incentive program to create and retain jobs and promote economic and industrial development in Alabama.
• Contains findings that incentives will help retain existing jobs, create new jobs, attract investment, and boost tax revenues for the state and its political subdivisions.
• Declares the incentive provisions immune from challenge under the Constitution or other state laws.
• Requires voter approval through a constitutional amendment election and provides ballot language describing the amendment.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments