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Committee adds human-trafficking and child-labor clawback language to Alabama Jobs Act agreements
Summary
Representative Rafferty presented Senate Bill 22, which would require project agreements under the Alabama Jobs Act to include recapture clauses allowing incentives to be clawed back if recipient companies violate human-trafficking or child-labor laws. Committee members indicated broad agreement and the measure was reported favorably.
The committee approved language to require that agreements under the Alabama Jobs Act include recapture provisions if incentivized companies are found to have violated human-trafficking or child-labor laws.
Representative Rafferty presented the bill on behalf of Senator Coleman and described the change as a simple addition to the Alabama Jobs Act to make violations of certain criminal labor statutes grounds for incentive recapture. "This would add to that that if the company is involved in human trafficking or violation of the child labor law, that would also be grounds for clawback," Rafferty said.
The sponsor told members the bill has been agreed upon with the Department of Commerce; no extended debate or public testimony was recorded. A motion to report the bill favorably was moved by Representative Calvin and seconded by Representative Drummond, and the committee recorded the bill as reported favorably.
The committee did not record a roll-call tally in the transcript; the measure was advanced on a voice vote.
