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Committee advances amendment to Alabama Property Protection Act to cover leases
Summary
A committee voted to give a favorable report to an amendment to the Alabama Property Protection Act that adds leases to existing restrictions on property transactions involving people "from a communist country." Sponsors said the change is permissive and does not impose new penalties in the bill text.
A committee advanced an amendment to the Alabama Property Protection Act that would extend existing restrictions on property purchases to include leases by people "from a communist country," the bill sponsor told the panel.
The sponsor told members the original law — passed a few years earlier — barred purchases of property within a 10-mile radius of military installations, critical infrastructure or agricultural land by people "from a communist country," and that the amendment simply “added leases.”
The bill sponsor said, “a couple years back, I passed the Alabama Property Protection Act, which, you know, basically said if you're from a…
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