Alabama Legislature Special Session

Alabama lawmakers convene Monday to draw a new congressional map. The directive comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map — with a single Black district — likely violated the Voting Rights Act.

Republicans have not released their ideas for redrawing Alabama’s congressional districts to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, leading Democrats on Thursday to accuse the GOP legislative majority of shutting them, and the public, out of the process ahead of next week’s special session.

Alabama lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a spending plan to use $1 billion in federal coronavirus funds largely on a mix of water and sewer infrastructure, broadband expansion and reimbursements to healthcare providers hit financially by the pandemic.

The Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee approved the bill after making a change to allow local governments to use the funds on storm water projects in addition to drinking water and sewer projects. The bill now moves to the full Alabama Senate where it will be debated Thursday.

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 102-3 to advance a spending plan to use the state’s final $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funds to the Alabama Senate. The plan is mostly a mix of funding for water and sewer infrastructure, broadband expansion and health care reimbursements.

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