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HB352
ARRYN7S-1
By Representatives Crawford, Wood (R), Whitt, Whorton,
Easterbrook, Rehm, Standridge, Reynolds, Wood (D), Hammett,
Rigsby, Givens, Harrison, Yarbrough, Underwood, Clouse,
Marques, Pettus, Oliver, Shaver, Lee, Colvin, Stringer, Moore
(P), Sorrells, Kirkland, Brinyark, Fidler, Holk-Jones, Travis,
Bolton, Woods
RFD: Agriculture and Forestry
First Read: 27-Feb-25
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First Read: 27-Feb-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, commissions consisting of
associations of producers of a specific agriculture
commodity may be certified by the Alabama Department of
Agriculture and Industries to conduct a referendum on
levying an assessment to promote the respective
commodity that members of the association produce.
This bill would increase the levy that may be
assessed on the sale of a cotton bale.
This bill would also make nonsubstantive,
technical revisions to update the existing code
language to current style.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to agriculture; to amend Section 2-8-199, Code
of Alabama 1975, to increase the levy that may be assessed on
the sale of cotton bales; and to make nonsubstantive,
technical revisions to update the existing code language to
current style.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 2-8-199, Code of Alabama 1975, is
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Section 1. Section 2-8-199, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง2-8-199
(a) If in the referendum a majority or more of the
cotton producers who are eligible to participate and who
actually vote therein, shall vote in the affirmative and in
favor of the levying and collection of collecting the
assessment proposed in the referendum, then the assessment
shall be levied on a per bale basis and collected in the
manner hereinafter provided.
(b) All cotton producers who produced cotton in the
crop year immediately preceding the referendum shall be
eligible to may participate in the referendum. Following the
referendum and within 30 days thereafter, the certified
commission shall canvass, tabulate, and publicly declare and
announce the results thereof.
(c) The assessment levied upon the sale of cotton shall
may not exceed one dollar and thirty cents ($1) ($1.30) per
bale. The commission shall determine the assessment amount on
an annual basis."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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