SB293 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Roger Bedford, Jr.
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Gas and oil tax, proceeds of four cent excise tax distrib. to counties, use for vegetation management, Sec. 40-17-362 am'd.; Sec.40-17-224 repealed
Description: Under existing law, the proceeds of the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil are used by the Department of Transportation for the construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges on the state highway system; by counties for the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of paved county roads and bridges or bridge replacement on the county road system; and by municipalities for the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of roads, bridges, and streets within the municipality.
This bill would allow the proceeds of the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil distributed to counties to be used for vegetation management on the rights-of-way of county roads.
This bill would also clarify the uses for the four-cent excise tax and repeal an obsolete section of the Code of Alabama 1975.
Subjects: Taxation

Indefinitely Postponed

Pending third reading on day 18 Favorable from Finance and Taxation General Fund with 1 amendment

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund