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Published: Wed, May 07, 2008 - 3:36 pm
Hundreds of bills have died in the 2008 session of the AlabamaLegislature because they did not pass in the house where they were
introduced. Some of them would have:
- repealed the state's ban on sex toys.
- required vocal groups performing in the state to have at least
one original member or legal title to the name.
- applied the state's marijuana laws to the mind-altering plant
Salvia divinorum.
- allowed Alabama voters to decide if they want a constitutional
convention to rewrite Alabama's 1901 Constitution.
- required additional physical education classes for high school
and elementary school students.
- required schools to submit lunch menus to a state nutritionist
for approval.
- required all workers in Alabama to carry state-issued
identification cards.
- allowed cities to place cameras at traffic lights and issue
tickets to motorists running red lights.
- protected teachers from being fired for giving personal
opinion while teaching controversial subjects like evolution.
- allowed Alabama voters to decide if they want to legalize
electronic bingo games at greyhound dog tracks in Mobile and
Birmingham.
- changed how electronic bingo games are regulated at the dog
tracks in Macon and Greene counties and protected the machines
against adverse court rulings on gambling elsewhere in the state.
- reduced the number of signatures required for an independent
or third-party candidate to get on the ballot in Alabama.
- allowed laws to be passed through a process known as
initiative and referendum.
- required elected officials to post on the Internet if they
have any other jobs or contracts with government agencies.
- prohibited judges from imposing a death sentence in capital
murder cases where a jury recommended life in prison without
parole.
- changed Alabama's primary election day from Tuesday to
Saturday.
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Sounds like a lot of these are are personal. Are maybe they were in lala land, but not in the best interest of the people of the state. But thank God we in America can be as dumb as we want, Say what we want, and keep voting them into office.