The Legislature finds as follows:
(a) While Alabama's incentive programs have succeeded in growing industry in the more populated parts of the state, Alabama's rural and low growth communities have not enjoyed the same rates of success.
(b) Alabama's incentives grew out of a need to attract heavy industry to the state. Now, Alabama must also prepare for the future by attracting and retaining high-tech companies, and preparing and retaining a workforce trained for such jobs.
(c) New tools must be brought to bear to solve Alabama's rural, low growth, and high-tech deficits.
(d) It is a public purpose to expand Alabama's incentives laws to attract and retain companies in rural and low growth areas in Alabama, and high-tech companies and workers throughout the state. The tools used in Act 2019-392 are urgently needed to solve these problems.
(e) The Legislature finds that the enhancements to the Alabama Jobs Act, as found in Act 2019-392, may be made without compromising on the strict requirement that the state shall not offer any such incentives to the extent that the tax incentives sought exceed the anticipated revenues to the state, as required by Section 40-18-373(1)c.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.
Article 16 - Alabama Jobs Act.
Section 40-18-370 - Short Title; Legislative Findings; Definitions.
Section 40-18-370.1 - Legislative Findings as to Enhancement of Alabama Jobs Act.
Section 40-18-371 - Requirements for Receipt of Incentives.
Section 40-18-372 - Qualifying Projects - Activities and Standards.
Section 40-18-373 - Approved Companies.
Section 40-18-374 - Claiming of Incentives; Project Agreement; Amounts and Durations of Incentives.
Section 40-18-375 - Jobs Credit Against Utility Taxes; Realization of Benefits; Regulations.
Section 40-18-376 - Investment Credit; Realization Methods; Rulemaking Authority.
Section 40-18-376.1 - Projects in Targeted or Jumpstart Counties.
Section 40-18-376.2 - Additional Jobs Credit for Employment of Veterans.
Section 40-18-376.3 - Qualifying Projects by Technology Companies.
Section 40-18-376.4 - Qualifying Projects by Underrepresented Companies.
Section 40-18-379 - Joint Legislative Advisory Committee on Economic Incentives.
Section 40-18-380 - Implementation of Article.
Section 40-18-381 - Construction of Article.
Section 40-18-382 - Continuation or Reinstatement of Incentives.
Section 40-18-385 - Implementation and Administration of the Alabama Incentives Modernization Act.
Section 40-18-386 - Reductions of Distribution for Education Trust Fund and General Fund.