Volume
1 Issue 2 - April 2001
Don Siegelman
"The session cost taxpayers an estimated $10,000."
Alabama Governor Don Seigelman's Special Legislative Session crashed and burned on March 5, 2001 when it ended with none of the Governor's bills passed. The session was called in February to address a proration funding crisis for K-12 schools and colleges and universities arising earlier that month. After the Governor's proration announcement, a Montgomery, Alabama Circuit Judge ordered that most of the funding for K-12 be shielded from the proration cuts. The order, which was upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court on March 14, would make it necessary to cut more of the state's higher education budget. Some experts predict that higher education could face cuts of up to 18 percent. Siegelman introduced a package of bills, which he said addressed the proration crisis. None of his bills passed. The session cost taxpayers an estimated $10,000. The state still languishes in a proration crisis.
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