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Legislative Roundup - Alabama & Virginia

By Steve Hall

Today's Birmingham News notes the return of the state's legislature in, "Alabama Legislature fast-tracks road, no-bid contract bills," by David White.Plans that would ban no-bid state contracts, with exceptions for emergencies, and let voters approve a $1 billion road and bridge-building program sailed on a fast track Tuesday, the first day of this year's regular session of the Alabama Legislature. Lawmakers filed 466 bills on topics ranging from gambling to campaign finance to charter schools to the death penalty. Absent were Gov. Bob Riley's proposed education and state agency operating budgets for the 2011 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. Riley and acting state Finance Director Bill Newton planned to brief reporters today on those plans...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).