Alabama Senate Approves Budget
The Alabama Senate worked into the night to pass the budget to operate the state's non-education agencies. The Senate voted 22-9 Tuesday night to approve the General Fund budget and send it to the...
View ArticleAlabama Legislature on Spring Break
The Alabama Legislature has wrapped up the first half of its 2013 session and gone on spring break.Wednesday marked the 15th meeting day of the session. Lawmakers left the capital city Wednesday...
View ArticleBudget a Priority for Legislature in 2nd Half
The Alabama Legislature begins the second half of its 2013 session on Tuesday.Gov. Robert Bentley says his priority for the second half is passing balanced budgets. The former House representative says...
View ArticleBudgets Priority for Alabama Lawmakers
The Alabama Legislature enters the final three days of the 2013 legislative session with the main priority being passage of the education and General Fund budgets.Passage of the two budgets are the...
View ArticleAlabama Legislature Approves General Fund Budget
The Alabama Legislature has approved a compromise General Fund budget that increases funding for courts and prisons.
View ArticleAlabama Governor: Budgets Basically Look Fine
Gov. Robert Bentley says his first impression of the state education and state general fund budgets is that they are basically fine. Bentley said Wednesday it appears legislators put some pork...
View ArticleAlabama Governor Signs Both State Budgets
Gov. Robert Bentley has signed the state General Fund budget and state education budget into law.
View ArticleBentley's Budgets Would Increase Education Funding
Gov. Robert Bentley is proposing state budgets that would require most state agencies to get by next year with about the same amount they are receiving this year.Bentley's proposals include increases...
View ArticleAlabama State Employees Might Get $400 Bonus
State employees may end up with a one-time pay bonus of $400 in the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.Senate budget committee Chairman Arthur Orr of Decatur announced he will propose the bonus when the...
View ArticleGeneral Fund Becomes Law With Few Changes
Alabama's $1.8 billion General Fund budget for the next fiscal year has become law with only small changes from the governor.Gov. Robert Bentley sent a line item veto the House of Representatives...
View ArticleSenators to Pass Austere Budget, Huntsville School Desegregation Committee...
Alabama legislators are desperate to end a legislative session marked by frustration and disagreements over how to handle a gaping hole in the state's General Fund budget.The Alabama Senate will vote...
View ArticleBentley Vetoes General Fund Budget, Moon Rock in Mobile
Gov. Robert Bentley has vetoed an austere General Fund budget that included massive cuts for state agencies across the board.Bentley says the budget approved by lawmakers last night is unworkable and...
View ArticleSpecial Session Looming, Alabama Writers Hall of Fame
Alabama’s legislators will be headed to a special session later this summer to devise a working General Fund budget.The Senate passed a budget late last week that included $200 million in cuts to...
View ArticleLawmakers Back in Montgomery, AARP Back to Work Program
Members of the Alabama House of Representatives are returning to Montgomery today for what the speaker's office is calling a "legislative workday," despite the legislative session having ended and...
View ArticleLegislators May Adjourn Special Session, Alabama Drought Conditions
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is calling legislators into a special session Monday to hammer out a General Fund Budget, but legislators may have other plans.An e-mail sent from House Speaker Mike...
View ArticleLegislature Adjourns Special Session, Monroeville Celebrates New Novel
The Alabama State Senate and House of Representatives began their special legislative session yesterday, then quickly adjourned for three weeks.Governor Robert Bentley had surprised lawmakers who were...
View ArticleLawmakers Try to Keep Settlement Local, Baldwin Task Force Talks School Funding
State lawmakers from Mobile and Baldwin Counties are drafting legislation to try and keep a large portion of the BP oil settlement money near Alabama’s Gulf Coast.The proposed bill would request $500...
View ArticleHouse Passes Medicaid Cut, Baldwin County School Task Force
Last night, the Alabama House of Representatives approved a dramatic cut to Medicaid as lawmakers try to balance the General Fund budget.Legislators in the House approved the $156 million dollar...
View ArticleHubbard Tries to Delay Ethics Trial, American Cancer Society Report
The Alabama Senate narrowly passed a budget that slashes millions of dollars from Medicaid, mental health, law enforcement and nearly all other state agencies.Senators voted 19-15 for the cut-filled...
View ArticleMarsh to Drop Gambling Bill, Trump Draws Crowd in Mobile
Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh will not propose his bill to allow a statewide vote on a lottery and casinos during the second special session.Another Republican senator, Paul Sanford of...
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