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Alabama Legislature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Alabama Legislature met at the Alabama State Capitol between 1851 to 1985. The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a bicameral body composed of the Alabama House of Representatives, with 105 members, and the Alabama Senate, with 35 senators. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alabama_Legislature   (415 words)

Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alabama Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) It is bordered by Alabama (E), the Gulf of Mexico (S), Arkansas and Louisiana, with most of the border formed by the Mississippi R. (W), and Tennessee (N). He was elected to the Alabama legislature in 1903 and served in the U.S. Senate from 1931 until his death. Alabama Legislature takes up health insurance reform package. www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Alabama+Legislature   (646 words)

Capitol Journal: Alabama Legislature The Alabama Legislature is off this week in preparation for the final night of the 2005 Regular Session. In the Alabama House, there is discussion on a bill to require all school systems to have a minimum of 10 mils of property tax. There are some in the legislature who say they will focus on the accountability bills the Governor wanted passed and that is why a Special Session was not needed. www.aptv.org /CJ/video.asp   (1605 words)

Alabama Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Alabama shall have an official coat of arms which shall be as follows: a shield upon which is carried the flags of four of the five nations which have at various times held sovereignty over a part or the whole of what is now the State of Alabama: Spain, France, Great Britain and the Confederacy. The flag of the State of Alabama shall be a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white. The annual renaissance faire in Florence, Alabama, is hereby named and designated as the official renaissance faire in the State of Alabama, and said city is now and shall remain as the permanent location of this event. www.stateanimals.com /alleg.html   (982 words)

Alabama Legislature Fails to Fix Education Budget | Suppressed News The Alabama Legislature ended the special session on education funding early Tuesday morning without passing any measures to fix the education budget mess. The Alabama Education Association and the teacher's union, led by Paul Hubbert, were busy lobbying the legislators during the special session. Since the measures passed by the Alabama Senate were not pleasing to the teacher's union, Hubbert convinced Alabama House of Representative members to kill the legislation. suppressednews.com /newsitems/local/AlFlAEypEEkxIAvOT.html   (201 words)

Home :: Alabama YMCA Youth Legislature Youth Legislature participation, and their regimen of regular meetings lends itself to the study and discussion of public affairs. The Youth Legislature Board of Directors maintains a strict philosophy that no aspect of the regular legislative pattern is to be changed or abridged. Youth Legislature officials are elected and preside according to rules adopted, as closely as possible, to reflect the actual rules in force in the Alabama Legislature. www.alyig.org /home.htm   (269 words)

Alabama State Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The legislative body of the Mississippi Territory was composed of the governor and three judges, all appointed by the president of the United States as stated in the Ordinance of 1787. This legislature was composed of a house of representatives and a legislative council. The Assembly was charged with writing the laws of Alabama within the framework of the Alabama and U.S. Constitutions. www.archives.state.al.us /legislat/legislat.html   (152 words)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Religion (Alabama's Slice of Pi)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Kim Johanson, a mathematician from University of Alabama, said that pi is a universal constant, and cannot arbitrarily be changed by lawmakers. He is a former governor of Alabama, convicted in 1993 for diverting $200,000 from his inaugural fund to his personal use. Though the claim about the Alabama state legislature is pure nonsense, it is similar to an event that happened more than a century ago. www.snopes.com /religion/pi.htm   (1107 words)

Official Website Of The Alabama Legislature The Alabama Legislature has adjourned its 2006 Regular Session sine die. A unique section of the site is our Student and Teacher Page, which provides a large number of educational links for students, teachers, parents and any others interested. Please Note: Messages of a political nature, including those relative to specific legislation or interpretation of the Constitution or Code of Alabama, should be directed to individual Members, via telephone, postal correspondence or e-mail, if such Member has an e-mail address posted on their home page. www.legislature.state.al.us   (394 words)

Lottery Post Forums: Lottery Dead Issue in Alabama Legislature Christian Coalition of Alabama President John Giles stated: "Even if the people voted in a $5 billion tax increase last year, the gambling folks will always return annually to expand their market in Alabama. For the people of Alabama to vote on a constitutional amendment it must pass both houses of the Alabama Legislature by a 3/5 margin (60 percent). In the 1999 Regular Session, a constitutional amendment to repeal the lottery prohibition passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 70-31 (69 percent supporting, 31 percent opposed) and the Senate by a vote of 24-11 (68 percent supporting, 32 percent opposed). www.lotterypost.com /thread/79850.htm   (678 words)

Capitol Journal: Alabama Legislature The final day of the legislature will be reviewed. The Alabama Legislature takes off one week in preparation for the final day of the 2006 Regular Session. A review of the week's events at the state capitol including action from the house and senate floor and interviews with legislators and other special guests. aptv.org /CJ/previous.asp   (316 words)

Alabama YMCA Collegiate Legislature The Alabama YMCA Collegiate Legislature offers an opportunity for students at any of Alabama's four-year institutions of higher learning to participate in a model legislative session, with rules and procedures closely patterned after those of the Alabama Legislature. Conducted with the guidance of the YMCA Youth in Government staff, the Alabama YMCA Collegiate Legislature is sponsored by the Alabama Student Association. The first sessions of Collegiate Legislature featured only a unicameral body, but the popularity of the concept has resulted in the current establishment of a full, bicameral model legislature. www.cleg.org   (176 words)

Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors - CBS News In Alabama's legislature, the reviews of Allen's bill are still out on whether to lower this curtain for good. Editor's Note: When the time for the vote in the legislature came there were not enough state legislators present for the vote, so the measure died automatically. A piece of legislation being considered in Alabama would ban books from public libraries that contain homosexual themes, or are written by gay authors, Mark Strassmann reports. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/26/eveningnews/main691106.shtml   (586 words)

ALABAMA LEGISLATURE by Seth Hammett Now, with the Legislature at the midpoint of the current four-year term, lawmakers must build on their past successes and work together to meet new challenges. Last year, the Legislature passed commission-backed measures to restructure the Alabama State Docks, improve state parks, coordinate state technology efforts, improve rural airport development, repair substandard country roads and bridges, and liberalize investments from the trust funds that hold royalties from offshore gas production. The Legislature is required every 10 years to redraw House and Senate districts to reflect changes in population. www.voternewsnetwork.com /VNN/March/jan6.html   (839 words)

Schweninger/The Southern Debate over Slavery. 1824-1828   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The Legislature of the State have thought proper, contrary to the great principles of free trade, arbitrarily to fix the rates of landing and Storage upon the wharves in Charleston. Petition of Gaspar Sinclair to the Senate and House of Representatives of Mississippi, 30 December 1825, Records of the Legislature, Petitions and Memorials, 1825, RG 47, MDAH. The son of Dr. John Chastang, a prominent Mobile surgeon, Basil Chastang became one of the wealthiest free fls in Alabama. www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/schweninger/s4.html   (5868 words)

Local bills in Alabama Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) MONTGOMERY — Local bills on river protection and related legislation are making their way through the state Legislature. The bill passed the House and is pending action in the Senate. HB 683 — A Lawrence County bill sponsored by Letson would allow a mayor who also serves as head of a utility system to participate in the Retirement System of Alabama. www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/060315/bills.shtml   (313 words)

Alabama Pi! The bill to change the value of pi to exactly three was introduced without fanfare by Leonard Lee Lawson (R, Crossville), and rapidly gained support after a letter-writing campaign by members of the Solomon Society, a traditional values group. Robert S. Dietz, a professor at Arizona State University who has followed the controversy, wrote that this is not the first time a state legislature has attempted to redefine the value of pi. Since weeks geistert the message by the electronic media, the State of Alabama wants the value of the number of pi legally on 3 to determine, instead of the " accurate " value of 3,1415926535... www.nmsr.org /alabama.htm   (1735 words)

USATODAY.com - Alabama Legislature OKs pardon for Rosa Parks, others   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) (AP) — The Alabama Legislature gave final approval to a bill that sets up a process to pardon civil rights icon Rosa Parks and hundreds of others arrested for violating segregation-era laws. The sponsor of the bill, Democratic Rep. Thad McClammy, said the legislation could lead to pardons for Parks, the Rev. Dr. The House voted 91-0 to approve Senate changes and pass the bill late Monday, about two hours before the 2006 regular session of the Legislature was scheduled to end. www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-04-18-parks-pardon_x.htm   (375 words)

GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: United States - Alabama Alabama's Six Constitutions (Alabama Legislature) current and previous, from 1817 to the present 1901 version Alabama Supreme Court Opinions (Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff and Brandt) April 1998- Alabama Legislature includes the Senate and House of Representatives www.loc.gov /law/guide/us-al.html   (248 words)

Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math Date: 04/15/98 at 17:17:44 From: Roger M. Dell Subject: Alabama legislature and pi Did the Alabama legislature really vote that pi should have its biblical value of 3? Date: 04/15/98 at 19:06:54 From: Doctor Wilkinson Subject: Re: Alabama legislature and pi No, this appears to be quite untrue, a myth. This is a matter about which a great deal of misinformation has been bandied about: http://www.nmsr.org/alabama.htm Various legislatures get the credit in different versions of the story, but the one that came closest was Indiana's. mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/53909.html   (157 words)

State Legislatures: State and Local Government on the Net States vary in their approach to putting their legislatures online. Some have one page for the legislature as a whole, some have separate pages for the state senate and the state house of representatives or assembly, and some are unicameral. Generally, legislative pages give visitors legislative calendars, brief biographies of legislators and data on their districts, information on bills being considered, summaries of committee discussion, and searchable access to databases of bills and existing laws. www.statelocalgov.net /50states-legislature.htm   (181 words)

freedomforum.org: Ten Commandments amendment dies in Alabama Legislature — A constitutional amendment to allow posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms died in the closing seconds of the 2002 regular session of the Alabama Legislature. The amendment was the next scheduled bill on the agenda in the House when the Senate adjourned yesterday afternoon, effectively ending the session. Young was a longtime supporter of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's efforts to display the Ten Commandments in his courtroom when he was an Etowah County circuit judge. www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=16092   (768 words)

Christmas Spirit Reigns in Alabama Legislature | Suppressed News The fourth and final special session of the legislature ended Friday with a special Christmas gift for public education in Alabama. After three weeks of negotiations during the special session, the legislature overwhelmingly approved measures that would prevent cuts in public education in our state for a second year in a row. Don Siegelman railed against the legislature for not passing his tax plan claiming it was the only way to come up with the necessary funding for education. Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate overwhelmingly rejected his punitive plan to overtax companies in Alabama who are the lifeblood of our state’s economy.  The Siegelman tax proposal was so off base that the Democrat leadership in both the House and Senate led the efforts scrap his plan. Having done that, Republicans and Democrats in both houses worked together like I have never seen before to come up with a solution to the funding shortage in the education budget.  suppressednews.com /newsitems/local/EppAupEuEVfACTocIf.html   (271 words)

ALABAMA: Legislature Moving to Protect AIDS Medication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) On Wednesday in Montgomery, the Alabama Legislature moved closer to ensuring that no AIDS patients lose access to their medications because of a lack of state funding. The Senate Finance and Taxation-General Fund Committee unanimously approved a House-passed bill that would boost the state Department of Public Health's budget by $1 million for the current fiscal year. Most of the money for Alabama's AIDS Drug Assistance Program comes from the federal government. www.aegis.com /news/ads/2005/AD050617.html   (522 words)

Summary of action in Alabama Legislature - Prison Talk Alabama News and Events Current news items and information on events related to the Alabama prison system. A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday, the 28th meeting day of the regular session: -Approved the governor's appointments of William Ronald Smith to the Jacksonville State University board, Emma Jean Holmes Melton to the Alabama AandM University board, and John H. Cooper to the State Ethics Commission. www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=59725   (1034 words)

NFIB/Alabama Legislature Links – April 29, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The Alabama legislature changed the meeting schedule this week and met Tuesday and Wednesday, and ended a five-week filibuster in the Senate. Several amendments were added and the bill must return to the Senate for a final time. The Alabama Public Service Commission continued to lobby against this bill with Commissioner George Wallace, Jr. www.nfib.com /object/IO_21878.html   (675 words)

Amend Title 3, Animals - Code of Alabama Petition We the people of Alabama hereby petition the Alabama Legislature to amend Title 3, Animals, Code of Alabama with this language; The state of Alabama recognizes that dogs are valuable personal property. No city, county, or state authority shall restrict, or prohibit the ownership of dogs by breed, or by physical description. The Amend Title 3, Animals - Code of Alabama Petition to Alabama Legislature was created by Concerned Dog Owners of Alabama and written by Cherie R. Graves (paragon@surf1.ws). www.petitiononline.com /albsl/petition.html   (161 words)

Bingo Plan Dies in Alabama Legislature MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- As reported by the Associated Press: ``A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize electronic bingo games with unlimited cash prizes died on the final day of the 2004 regular session of the Alabama Legislature. ``...The bill's sponsor, Sen. Gerald Dial, D-Lineville, said the Legislature could have avoided some of the taxes that were passed to balance the General Fund budget if the bingo amendment had passed..." Casino City is an independent directory and information service not affiliated with any casino. casinocitytimes.com /news/article.cfm?contentID=142936   (239 words)

WTVY | Alabama Legislature The Alabama Legislature convenes today for it's final workday of the Regular Session. Lawmakers are trying to agree on a state General Fund Budget. Baxley Calls for Raising Minimum Wage in Alabama www.wtvynews4.com /home/headlines/777047.html   (134 words)

Summary of action in Alabama Legislature (Related to Prison/Judicial System) 06-11-03 - Prison Talk Summary of action in Alabama Legislature (Related to Prison/Judicial System) 06-11-03 Summary of action in Alabama Legislature (Related to Prison/Judicial System) ~ June 11, 2003 (AP) -- A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday, the 25th meeting day of the regular session: www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=16816   (1112 words)

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