Alabama Senate passes bill to end retirement benefits for convicted public officials
The Alabama Senate today passed a bill that would end the payment of taxpayer-funded pension plans for public officials who are convicted of public corruption.
A bill to require an invasive ultrasound before getting an abortion drew such heat for the Commonwealth of Virginia that lawmakers there dropped the requirement, but that hasn’t deterred Alabama lawmakers who passed a similar bill out of committee and could debate it on the Senate floor next week, the Birmingham News reports. ”It’s an invasive procedure,” Sen. Linda Coleman, D-Birmingham, said. “To me, it is another form of rape, without a woman’s consent.”
UPDATED: Big beer bottle bill just passes in the Alabama Senate
Alabama may see 25.4 ounce beer bottles sooner than expected. A bill that would allow the bigger bottles made it on to the Alabama’s Senate special order calendar for today.
10 things you should know about the proposed Birmingham smoking ban
There seems to be a lot of confusion over what the proposed smoking ban, currently under consideration by the Birmingham City Council’s Public Safety Committee, would accomplish. Here are the ten most important things you should know about the proposed ordinance.
Alabama bill would allow students to leave school for creationism classes, course credit
The chairman of the House Rules Committee, Blaine Galliher, has introduced a bill that would allow students to leave school for up to an hour a day to study creationism for class credit. The bill takes pains to make sure no public dollars are spent on what the bill itself describes as “religious instruction.”
Bill that would bring bigger beer bottles to Alabama brewing in state Senate, House
Legislation that would increase the maximum legal size for a beer container in Alabama from 16 ounces to 25.4 ounces has been filed in both houses of the Alabama legislature.
Beason freezes home rule bill, could bankrupt JeffCo single-handed
Sen. Scott Beason wants to give his colleagues a “cooling off period.” And if they don’t cool on Jefferson County’s home rule bill, that cooling off period might last forever.
Shelby equivocates as GOP blocks financial reform bill
The Republican senator from Alabama has appeared on national television to make the case for … What, exactly? It’s difficult to tell. Either Shelby is earnestly negotiating in good faith or he’s speaking the boilerplate of velvet-glove obstructionism.
Shelby tells Meet the Press financial bill will pass, eventually
With Senate majority leader Harry Reid calling for a vote Monday on new financial regulation, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) appeared on Meet the Press with his banking committee counterpart, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), to discuss Wall Street reform.
