Senate Passes Bill To Divide Up Possible New Gas Tax
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, March 3, the Alabama Senate passed Senate Bill 180, sponsored by State Senator Gerald Dial (R-Lineville). SB180 divides up how the money would...
View ArticleBentley Vetoes General Fund Budget, Legislature Overrides Governor
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, March 5, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) surprised no one when he vetoed the 2017 fiscal year State General Fund (SGF) budget. The Governor...
View ArticleHas Bentley’s Political Intrigue with PCI Doomed Special Session?
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Concerns that Gov. Robert Bentley is planning to negotiate a State-Tribal Compact with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI), reached a boiling...
View ArticleConstitutional Amendment to Strip Power from the Chief Justice Stalls in...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, February 22, 2017 the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to give a favorable report to a proposed constitutional amendment that would have taken...
View ArticleSenate impeachment rules subcommittee looks to Illinois for guidance
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — In 2009, Illinois became the last state to impeach and remove their governor. Now, the Alabama Senate is looking to that state for guidance on...
View ArticleBill to take State out of Marriage License Business passes Senate
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, March 6, 2017, the Alabama Senate passed SB20, sponsored by Senator Greg Albritton (R-Bay Minette) that would end marriage licensing in Alabama....
View ArticlePre-filed bill would abolish elected School Board
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter State Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, declared war on the state school board of Education with his introduction of Senate Bill 25, which would wipe out the...
View ArticleThe bill that would have killed Alabama ethics laws is dead
The worst bill this legislative session (so far) is dead. Sen. Greg Albritton’s rewrite of state ethics laws — which all but eliminated ethics laws — will apparently never leave the Senate Judiciary...
View ArticleThe most under-reported stories of 2019
With an abundance of news source and a never-ending stream of daily political news, there are inevitably a handful of stories — important, meaningful stories — that slip through the cracks and go...
View ArticleBill would grant Poarch Creeks sole rights over all gaming, defying...
Despite Gov. Kay Ivey’s call for the Legislature to give her gaming study group time to bring her fact-based recommendations, Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range, last week introduced a bill that would...
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