Session Almost Over and Many Opportunities Still Exist
The 2008 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature is almost over and there are still many opportunities for legislation to pass. This is an old story for many. As is often the case, fighting has shut down a large part of the session. In this case it was over two local bills in the Alabama Senate for most of the session and in the House the Education Budget took longer than expected.
With all of the slowdowns and bumps on the road through this session there was a dark outlook for a lot of legislative measures. Suddenly things began to open up last week with the Senate working its way through a couple of special order calendars and the House breaking through the budget process. As we get closer to the last day of the session on May 19th I will blog more on some of the legislative initiatives we have a chance to pass on the last day.
