HB700 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arnold Mooney Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Unified appropriations for state General Fund and Education Trust Fund; state revenue sources unearmarked, effective Jan. 1, 2017, constitutional amendment

Description

Under current law there exist a number of statutory and constitutional earmarks for the spending of state revenues.

This proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to become effective January 1, 2017, would eliminate all requirements that limit the appropriation or spending of state revenues in a particular manner contained in the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 and prohibit any general or local law that directs state revenue to be appropriated or spent in a particular manner. The proposed amendment would further allow for a unified appropriations bill.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments