Summary of action in Alabama Legislature

A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Tuesday,
the third meeting day of the regular session:

HOUSE
    -Passed bills to continue the existence of 23 state professional
regulatory boards. Go to Senate.
    -Passed a bill that encourages state officials to purchase
vehicles that are energy efficient. Goes to Senate.
    -Debated but did not vote on a bill to set up an authority to
manage the operation of toll roads and bridges in Alabama.
    -Joined the Senate in a joint session to hear Chief Justice Sue
Bell Cobb speak about the state’s court system.
SENATE
    -Shut down in stalling tactics by Sen. Phil Poole, D-Tuscaloosa,
who accused legislators from outside Tuscaloosa County of getting
involved in a sewer line dispute in his home county.
AGENDA
    -Senate Finance and Taxation-Education Committee meets at 9:30
a.m. Wednesday in room 727 of the Statehouse.
    -Senate Health Committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in room
727 to consider an alert program for missing senior citizens.
    -Senate Tourism and Marketing Committee meets at 11 a.m.
Wednesday in room 609 to consider Greene County bingo legislation.
    -Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Accountability Committee meets
at 1 p.m. Wednesday in room 727 to consider energy grants.
    -House Constitution and Elections Committee meets at 9 a.m.
Wednesday in room 603 to hold a public hearing on a bill to require
voters to show government issued photo identification at polling
places.
    -House Education Appropriations Committee meets at 9 a.m.
Wednesday in room 617.
    -House Government Operations Committee meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday
in room 622.
    -House Judiciary Committee meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday in room 123
to consider a bill to give subpoena power to the Alabama Ethics
Commission.
    -House Public Safety Committee meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday in room
602.
    -House Health Committee meets at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Joint
Briefing Room.
    -House Government Appropriations Committee meets at 1:30 p.m. in
room 617 to consider budget request from Department of Corrections
and from court system.
    -House Banking and Insurance Committee meets at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday in room 621.
    -House Committee on Boards and Commissions meets at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday in room 601.
    -House and Senate meet at 10 a.m. Thursday.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
    -“It looks like they are back in their old habits for the third
year in a row.“ - House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia,
discussing stalling tactics in the Senate.