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Gambling bill tops list of tough issues when Alabama Legislature returns to work


Gambling bill tops list of tough issues when Alabama Legislature returns to work
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, talks about his proposed constitutional amendment to allow a lottery and casinos in Alabama.
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Alabama lawmakers finished what they considered urgent business the first two weeks of the legislative session, passing three bills related to the COVID-19 pandemic with overwhelming bipartisan support, but face more controversial topics in the weeks ahead.
They will first take a week off to evaluate how well efforts to meet safely during the COVID-19 pandemic are working.
If they don’t find problems and return as expected on Feb. 23, they will dive into a plan for a lottery and casinos, a major gambling expansion that would raise a half-billion dollars or more a year for state programs. ....

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Preview of the 2021 Alabama Legislature: COVID-19 having big impact


The COVID-19 outbreak hit the 2020 session of the Alabama Legislature like a meteorite. It forced the suspension of business for six weeks and all but wiped out an ambitious agenda. 
Both the fallout and the outbreak remain as legislators prepare for the start of the 2021 session on Tuesday. Officials are restricting public access to the State House. Alabama House members will sit in the House chamber, the gallery and adjoining rooms and vote electronically. And after two weeks, the Legislature will take a week off to make sure the protocols are working.
“The changes that we have had to make to meetings, committee rooms, the public access because of all of those, it will not be business as normal,” said House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia.  ....

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