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2008 Session Summary

2008 Session Summary

Anti-Business Forces Held at Bay: Business Avoids More Than $1 Billion in Additional Taxes In 2008, retailers and business in general survived what has been referred to as one of the most anti-business regular sessions on record. However, among the…

2007 Session Summary

2007 Session Summary

What WE Did As the Alabama Retail Association predicted even before the 2007 regular session began, few pieces of legislation cleared the closely divided Alabama Senate. In fact, only 12 bills, other than budgetary, local and sunset legislation, received final…

2006 Session Summary

2006 Session Summary

WHAT WE DID In the legislative arena, defense often is as important as offense. And in 2006, the Alabama Retail Association stepped up its offensive game and scored more legislatively for retailers than it has in decades. Create a Back-to-School…