HB276 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Merika Coleman Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Municipalities, audits, calculation of revenue from traffic violations required, threshold established, surplus to be remitted for education

Description

Existing law places no limits on the amount of revenue a municipality may derive from municipal traffic ordinance violations or non-moving traffic violations.

This bill would require each municipality to ensure any audit of the finances of the municipality includes an accounting of the percentage of annual operating revenue derived from costs, fees, and fines of municipal court relating to municipal traffic ordinance violations or non-moving traffic ordinance violations, and would remit any amount above 30 percent of its operating revenue to the Department of Finance for remittance to the boards of education in the county where the municipality is located.

This bill would also require the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts to include the same accounting in any municipal audit performed by the department.

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Subjects

Municipalities