By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala – A bill in the Alabama Senate is seeking to tighten up the rules when it comes to companies screening potentially illegal workers through the federal E-Verify system. Senate Bill 71 from Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, would require businesses with five or more employees to swear via...
Supporters of legislation to regulate the use of marijuana to treat dozens of medical conditions say it’s time for Alabama to join the growing number of states that already allow it.
A bill to repeal the state’s Common Core education standards cleared a Senate committee Wednesday, less than 24 hours after it was introduced, and could get a vote in the full Senate today.
From staff and wire reports A $5.2 million allocation to Anniston Army Depot is on a list of military construction projects that could be cut in order to divert U.S. Department of Defense dollars to the proposed wall on the U.S.’s southern border. The Pentagon this week sent a 20-page list of military construction projects...
A north Alabama lawmaker wants some money from Alabama’s recently approved gas tax increase used for improvements at the state’s public inland ports and for the possible creation of cargo transfer facilities.
Legislation that would allow for bigger, heavier all-terrain and off-highway vehicles in the state died Tuesday when the Alabama House ended its special session without voting on the bill. Bill sponsor Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, will try again with the same bill in the Legislature’s regular session that resumes Tuesday. Orr said the bill was at...
By Mary Sell and Caroline Beck, Alabama Daily News Alabama’s more than 400 cities and towns currently share about $22 million a year from the statewide gas tax. They’ll get an additional $26 million a year under a proposed 10-cent-a-gallon increase. Alabama’s counties now receive a combined $176.5 million; if House Bill 2 becomes law,...
By Mary Sell and Caroline Beck, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s more than 400 cities and towns currently share about $22 million a year from the statewide gas tax. They’ll get an additional $26 million a year under a proposed 10-cent-a-gallon increase. Alabama’s counties now receive a combined $176.5 million; if House Bill...
By Mary Sell, Alabama Daily News Alabamians could have larger, heavier all-terrain and off-highway vehicles under a bill that cleared the Alabama Senate Friday. “All the bill does is increase the weight allowed and the width of the wheel base, which at the end of the day makes the vehicles safer from flipping over,” said...
Details of Gov. Kay Ivey’s proposed 2020 General Fund and education budgets won’t be released until lawmakers dispense with proposed gas-tax increase.