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AL HB304
Bill
Status
2/19/2013
Primary Sponsor
Jim Barton
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AI Summary
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Appropriates $7,000,000 from the BP Oil Spill Fund (Fund No. 1417) within the Department of Finance to five entities for tourism and seafood promotion and marketing.
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Distributes annual payments over four fiscal years from September 30, 2013 through September 30, 2016: Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce ($125,000), Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau ($750,000), Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau ($125,000), South Mobile County Tourism Authority ($662,500), and Dauphin Island Sea Lab ($87,500).
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Dauphin Island Sea Lab funds are designated specifically for continuing assessment of fisheries stock in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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The act becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor or otherwise becoming law.
Legislative Description
BP Oil Spill Fund in Finance Department, beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and ending with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, appropriations to Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce, Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, and South Mobile County Tourism Authority, and Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Appropriations
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund
2/19/2013