AL SB65 | 2023 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 7 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-05-31 - Indefinitely Postpone
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on March 7 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-05-31 - Indefinitely Postpone
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Relating to municipal occupational license taxes; to add Section 11-51-91.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce any municipal occupational license tax greater than one percent based on an annual reduction in the tax until the tax would be one percent; to provide that any occupational license tax levied by any municipality would not apply to any person performing an occupation in the police jurisdiction of the municipality or on any property annexed into the municipality after January 1, 2023; to provide for a referendum under certain conditions in certain counties in which two or more municipalities levied an occupational tax greater than one percent on January 1, 2023; to prohibit a municipality from levying a new occupational license tax or increasing the rate of any existing municipal occupational license tax; to provide for certain exceptions from any occupational taxes for certain temporary workers and for severance pay; to specify the power of a municipality pursuant to Section 11-51-90 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to license an exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession only within the corporate limits and jurisdiction of the municipality, to further provide for refunds and collections of the license fees and taxes, and to provide that these provisions are retroactive and declaratory of existing law.
Title
Relating to municipal occupational license taxes; to add Section 11-51-91.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce any municipal occupational license tax greater than one percent based on an annual reduction in the tax until the tax would be one percent; to provide that any occupational license tax levied by any municipality would not apply to any person performing an occupation in the police jurisdiction of the municipality or on any property annexed into the municipality after January 1, 2023; to provide for a referendum under certain conditions in certain counties in which two or more municipalities levied an occupational tax greater than one percent on January 1, 2023; to prohibit a municipality from levying a new occupational license tax or increasing the rate of any existing municipal occupational license tax; to provide for certain exceptions from any occupational taxes for certain temporary workers and for severance pay; to specify the power of a municipality pursuant to Section 11-51-90 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to license an exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession only within the corporate limits and jurisdiction of the municipality, to further provide for refunds and collections of the license fees and taxes, and to provide that these provisions are retroactive and declaratory of existing law.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | Senate | Indefinitely Postpone |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate | Read Second Time in House of Origin |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate | Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate | Reported Favorably from Senate County and Municipal Government |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate | Amendment/Substitute by Senate County and Municipal Government CPN6WJ-1 |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate | Amendment/Substitute by Senate County and Municipal Government CPAKQQ-1 |
| 2023-03-07 | Senate | Introduced and Referred to Senate County and Municipal Government |
| 2023-03-07 | Senate | Read First Time in House of Origin |
