SB260 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Rodger SmithermanSenator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Tax increment districts, redevelopment projects authorizes to continue through a subsequent tax increment district, Secs. 11-99-2, 11-99-4, 11-99-5, 11-99-6, 11-99-8, 11-99-10 am'd.

Summary

SB260 updates Alabama's tax increment district laws to expand and clarify how districts are created, financed, and extended, enabling continued redevelopment through subsequent districts with new definitions and rules for project costs, bases, and funding.

What This Bill Does

It adds and updates key definitions (blighted/economically distressed areas, deferred tax recipients, enhanced use lease areas, Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zones, project costs, and project plans). It overhauls the process to create a tax increment district, including public hearings, notices to deferred tax recipients, boundary and duration rules, and required project plans with detailed costs and relocation considerations. It also revises how the tax increment base is determined and how increments are funded, distributed, and secured, including the ability to issue tax increment obligations and the option to continue redevelopment through successor districts, while limiting use of increased valuations for state school aid formulas until projects are complete.

Who It Affects

• Local governing bodies (city or county governments) that create or manage tax increment districts, as they must follow new definitions, boundary rules, planning requirements, funding mechanisms, and potential debt instruments.
• Deferred tax recipients (taxing authorities such as school districts, counties, and municipalities that receive taxes within a district), who must be notified, may appoint representatives, and may participate in negotiated arrangements over tax increments and district contributions.

Key Provisions

• New and revised definitions for terms used in tax increment districts, including blighted/economically distressed areas, deferred tax recipients, enhanced use lease areas, Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zones, project costs, and project plans.
• Procedural changes for creating a TID: public hearings, required notices to deferred tax recipients, written submissions describing boundaries and impacts, and meetings with representatives from deferred tax recipients.
• Boundary, duration, and district plan requirements: boundaries identified with certainty, district creation date, duration limits (up to 30 years for some districts and up to 35 years for enhanced use lease areas or Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zones), and findings to justify redevelopment.
• Project plan contents: a list of proposed projects, estimated costs, financing methods, relocation plans, maps, and related zoning or master plan updates.
• Tax increment base and redetermination: base is the aggregate taxable value at district creation; amendments adding costs may affect base rules in certain cases, with specific provisions about when redetermination occurs or is avoided.
• Funding and security for project costs: methods to pay costs (tax increment fund, general funds, sale of obligations, or other lawful means) and the ability to issue tax increment obligations with security provisions such as liens or full faith and credit pledges; pay-as-you-go options allowed.
• Use and distribution of increments: increments deposited into a district fund and used to pay project costs or reimburse the public entity; after obligations are paid, remaining funds may be distributed to the state, counties, municipalities, school districts, and public entities as appropriate.
• Advisory boards: potential creation of an advisory board for the district with representatives from the public entity and deferred tax recipients, serving to advise on district matters.
• Limitations and protections: clarifications on the scope of authority, protections for private property rights, and provisions related to state law and constitutional constraints; severability and immediate effectiveness.

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Subjects

Taxation