HB183 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Craig Ford

Independent

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Cost of living salary increase for certain state employees and public education employees.

Description

This bill would provide a four percent cost-of-living salary increase for certain state and public education employees in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2012.

This bill would provide that the four percent cost-of-living salary increase would be contingent upon the passage and enactment of House Bill ___ which would require taxpayers who are part of a unitary business to use a combined report to determine their Alabama taxable income, limit the Alabama deductions by corporations to seven percent of qualifying income, and 50 percent of the adjusted basis of qualified property.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.

Subjects

State Employees