If the three-month Legislative Session is a marathon run in business clothes, “sine die” (the twirling legal Latin phrase used for the last Legislative day) is a tie-yoking, necklace-clutching 100-yard dash to midnight, along a course where downhill sprints quickly turn into uphill slogs. Legislators and other participants in Monday’s lawmaking finale didn’t have to [...]
With relatively little debate, the Senate Constitution and Elections committee Wednesday approved legislation that would move the deadline for voter registration from 10 days to 17 days prior to an election, and a second bill that would redact the names of domestic violence victims from public voter rolls. The voter registration bill, sponsored by Rep. [...]
With Senate Republicans still divided over proposed changes to the state’s controversial Accountability Act — and time running out to get any changes approved this session — the House of Representatives Tuesday night passed legislation that would make comparatively minor changes to the law. Arguments over an income limit on tax credits for students in [...]
The Alabama Senate is expected to take up legislation Thursday that will overhaul the controversial Alabama Accountability Act and make changes to the delivery of Medicaid services in the state. The Alabama Accountability Act, sponsored by Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, allows families of students zoned for schools listed as failing to claim a tax credit for [...]
A Senate committee approved changes to the controversial Alabama Accountability Act Wednesday, with the same controversy that’s followed the bill spilling over into arguments on the Senate’s Education Policy committee. If passed, the substitute would change some definitions of what constitutes a failing school, while making it clear that students zoned for failing schools [...]