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AL HB563

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/18/2021

Primary Sponsor

Jeff Sorrells

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Origin

House of Representatives

Regular Session 2021

AI Summary

  • Proposes a constitutional amendment to delete Geneva County from Constitutional Amendment No. 429 and Constitutional Amendment No. 759, which grant economic development powers to specified Alabama counties and municipalities.

  • Removes Geneva County from the list of counties eligible for local economic and industrial development authority, including land acquisition, improvement, and conveyance powers for industrial sites and related infrastructure.

  • Includes a savings clause protecting all actions taken by Geneva County under Amendment No. 429 or Amendment No. 759 prior to this amendment's ratification.

  • Provides that Constitutional Amendment No. 772 (a statewide economic development amendment) will continue to apply to Geneva County after deletion from the named-county amendments.

  • Requires a voter election on the proposed amendment in accordance with Alabama election law, with ballot language describing the deletion of Geneva County from the economic development amendments.

Legislative Description

Geneva Co., economic development, provisions for in certain named counties, Geneva Co., deleted from amendments, Amendment 429 and 759, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, am'd, const. amend.

Geneva County

Last Action

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation

3/18/2021

Committee Referrals

Local Legislation3/18/2021

Full Bill Text

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