Tag: STATE BUDGETS

State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) joined Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5 this week to discuss the budgetary challenges facing the state of Alabama and financial strategies for navigating expected difficulties.

Gov. Kay Ivey has officially signed the state’s nearly $14 billion General Fund and Education Trust Fund budgets without sending either back to lawmakers with executive amendments after both cleared the Alabama Legislature last week.

With ten legislative days left in the session, negotiations over the state’s General and Education budgets are heating up.

Alabama continues to be in a unique position to provide substantial permanent tax relief to hard-working citizens. To make that a reality, lawmakers must take larger steps to slow the growth of government spending.

“Alabama budgets are in a great shape. We are in a better position to weather a storm than we were ten years ago," said Kirk Fulford with the Fiscal Office of the Legislative Services Agency.

The reality that so many pro Medicaid expansion advocates seem to ignore is that Alabama already expanded Medicaid coverage for new mothers and their children, before the Roe decision.

The first day of the 2022 Alabama Regular Legislative Session began on Tuesday, Jan. 11, with legislators being informed that revenues...