Progress on tweaks to Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigration law has hit a wall a day after the Alabama Senate failed to repeal the law. Sen. Beason’s rewrite bill is no longer expected to make it to the Senate floor on Thursday.
The charter school defeat was a victory for the Alabama Education Association, which made it the focus of its lobbying efforts this year.
This week on WBHM, we talk about the life and death and life and death of the Alabama Distressed Counties Relief Act. Will the Alabama Legislature put the tax at risk again?
Rep. Demetrius Newton and Rep. Patricia Todd have fought side by side, but a redistricting plan to be considered by the Legislature next week would put them in the same district.
The Alabama House passed a bill that would allow bigger beer bottles in Alabama Wednesday after the same bill failed a procedural hurdle in the same body the day before. The bill has already passed the Senate, and now just needs the governor’s signature to become law.
A bill that would allow Jefferson County to reinstate its lost occupational tax might have been poisoned again Tuesday. The House County and Municipal Government committee passed the bill to the full House, but not before adding an amendment the bill’s supporters believe is illegal.
The Birmingham Business Alliance has endorsed a bill in the Alabama Legislature that would give the county commission the authority to raise up to $60 million per year with a reinstated occupational tax.
Last week, the county’s hopes for righting its finances were dead, but a show of leadership by Sen. Jabbo Waggoner has revived a bill thought hopeless a week ago.
Alabama’s state parks have seen their state revenue raided in recent years, but a bill passed by the Alabama House and now before the state Senate would reduce their state allocation to chicken bones and corncobs.
Former Birmingham city councilor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson last made the news in December when the New Zealand press revealed that Johnson donated sperm to Kiwi lesbian couples hoping to conceive. Now he’s left his wife and headed back to New Zealand to care for his babies.
