The Legislature managed to pass most — but not all — of the major bills in the hopper in the 2013 session. Below, a wrap-up of the status of bills as the Alabama Legislature consigned the 2013 Regular Session to history on Monday. Budgets: Gov. Robert Bentley quietly signed the Education Trust Fund and General [...]
Gov. Robert Bentley quietly signed the state’s two budgets into law Monday, budgets that include a two percent pay raise for teachers but no equivalent increase for state employees. Besides the raise, the $5.765 billion Education Trust Fund budget includes a relatively small $3.9 million increase for the two-year college system, an extra $1.5 million [...]
House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said Monday morning he would recommend members of the House Republican caucus override a proposal from Gov. Robert Bentley to delay implementation of tax credits in the Accountability Act. Bentley said the money allocated for the measure should be diverted toward payment of Rainy Day Account in the Alabama Trust [...]
House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said Monday morning he will recommend that House Republican caucus members vote to override Gov. Robert Bentley’s proposed two-year delay of implementation of tax credits and scholarships associated with the Alabama Accountability Act. The Speaker said he wanted to see changes to the law approved by the Legislature to go [...]
On the heels of a dust-up between Gov. Robert Bentley and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, over proposed changes to the state’s controversial Accountability Act, Senate Democrats Friday reiterated their position on the law: Get rid of it. “You can’t fix a bad bill, and the only thing we can do to help [...]