SJR43 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Feb 27, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Mark Slade Blackwell
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Municipal Business License Interim Task Force, created
Summary: Resolution creating the Municipal Business License Interim Task Force to study and recommend streamlined municipal business licenses and online filing.
What This Bill Does
Creates a temporary task force to study how municipal business licenses can be streamlined and prepared for online filing. It looks at topics like delivery license reform, third-party tax collection agents, and making license types and calculations more uniform across municipalities. The task force must report to the Legislature by the first day of the 2015 Regular Session and then be dissolved.

Who It Affects
Businesses that need municipal licenses, especially those operating in multiple municipalities, who would benefit from a simpler, standardized process and online filing.
Municipal governments and revenue officers who administer and collect business license fees, as changes may standardize rules and potentially change procedures.

Key Provisions
Creates the Municipal Business License Interim Task Force to study streamlining and online filing for municipal licenses.
Membership includes specified voting appointees from the Alabama League of Municipalities, Municipal Revenue Officers Association, Alabama Retail Association, Business Council of Alabama, and NFIB Alabama; the Department of Revenue provides an advisory nonvoting member.
Appointments due within 45 days; members serve at the pleasure of their appointing authorities; expenses are reimbursed per state law; administrative support provided.
Task force must follow the Open Meetings Act; organizational meeting within 90 days; chair and vice chair elected by the group; seven-member quorum; seven affirmative votes required to approve actions.
Membership must reflect statewide diversity in race, gender, geography, urban/rural status, and economy.
Task force will study topics including delivery license reform, role of third-party collection entities, and greater uniformity of license types, classifications, and calculations; other issues as determined.
Recommendations due to the Legislature no later than the first legislative day of the 2015 Regular Session; after delivering recommendations, the task force is dissolved.

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Subjects: Resolutions, Legislative