OFFICE OF HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE HUBBARD MONTGOMERY – The Alabama House of Representatives today voted to adopt Governor Robert Bentley’s executive amendment to recently passed legislation that repeals the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or DROP. The Governor’s Office added an amendment would change the date at which eligible participants can enroll in the program in [...]
Representative Mike Ball will present a new ethics bill to the House today. Watch him discuss why we need public officials to disclose government employment and contracts.
OFFICE OF HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE HUBBARD MONTGOMERY – The Alabama House of Representatives reconvenes for the seventh legislative day of the 2011 Regular Session on Thursday poised to pass a bill that will require all elected officials and their spouses to publicly disclose contracts with state entities. House Bill 58, known as the Public Official [...]
OFFICE OF HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE HUBBARD MONTGOMERY – A bill that would require the state to provide professional liability insurance to teachers and other education personnel got one step closer to becoming law today, as the House Education Ways and Means Committee today voted it out with a favorable report. The Teacher and Education Employee [...]
The Birmingham News MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Alabamians would have to show photo identification at the polls before voting, with some exceptions, under a bill approved Tuesday by the state House of Representatives.