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HB354
UPQUXGD-2
By Representative Shedd
RFD: Urban and Rural Development
First Read: 21-Mar-24
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First Read: 21-Mar-24
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to community development districts; to amend
Section 35-8B-5, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for
distribution of tax proceeds from alcoholic beverage sales in
certain community development districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 35-8B-5, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง35-8B-5
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
beginning on October 1, 2021, any proceeds of the sales tax on
alcoholic beverages collected by a county in a community
development district as provided in Section 35-8B-1(a)(2),
(i)(2), and (q)(2), shall be deposited into a special fund in
the county treasury to be used for grants to support
education, civic, community, and tourism activities within the
county in which the taxes were collected.
(b) Grants awarded pursuant to subsection (a) shall be
distributed based on the recommendation of each legislator
representing a portion of the county in which the funds were
collected, based on the proportion of the population he or she
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collected, based on the proportion of the population he or she
represents in the county."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on June 1,
2024.
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2024.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Urban and Rural
Development
................21-Mar-24
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
1 amendment
................04-Apr-24
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 97
Nays 0
Abstains 5
................11-Apr-24
John Treadwell
Clerk
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