HJR 302 Summary

• Urges Congress to annually indemnify each Alabama county from Gulf of Mexico offshore royalty revenues for lost sixteenth section lands designated for schools when Alabama was admitted to the Union in 1819.

• Proposes calculating indemnification by dividing approximately 930,027 acres of entitled sixteenth section lands equally among 67 counties (approximately 13,881 acres per county) and subtracting existing acres to determine lost acres in each county.

• Recommends valuing each lost acre at approximately $1,009 based on one-sixteenth of the $14.5 billion in 2008 federal offshore royalty revenues, with specific indemnification amounts listed for each of Alabama's 67 counties.

• Requires safeguards ensuring indemnification funds increase rather than replace existing state or local education funding and designates the Attorney General to oversee collection and distribution of funds.

• Directs distribution of the resolution to Alabama's Congressional Delegation, the U.S. Senate President, and the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to communicate Alabama's interest in obtaining compensation.