While Alabama’s Constitution already protects a citizen’s right to bear arms, this amendment would ensure that an Alabama court uses the highest level of scrutiny in considering the constitutionality of laws that infringe on a citizen’s right to bear arms ...
Amendment 4 would require a 2/3 majority vote of the Alabama Legislature in order to pass any general law that would impose an unfunded mandate of over $50,000 on local boards of education. Currently, only municipalities and counties are constitutionally ...
Amendment 5 would add language to the Sportsperson’s Bill of Rights of the Alabama Constitution to further clarify that citizens have the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife, subject to reasonable regulations. At present, there is no case law from ...
Cultural Indicators 2014 for Alabama and the United States tracks various Alabama-specific and national measures of societal well-being dating back to 1960, as statistics are available. Chapters are devoted to vital statistics; crime; education; family; h ...
The RESTORE Act allows local governments to make the majority of meaningful decisions as to how the money is spent. In doing so, the RESTORE Act will likely bring upwards of $1 billion under Alabama’s control or direction. With that amount of capital, loc ...
The purpose of Alabama's Environment 2014: Six Critical Indicators is to provide policy makers, the media and interested citizens with a checkup on environmental trends.Proponents of specific environmental policies often call upon data sets ...
API supports quality education in Alabama, especially for children trapped in failing schools. That support continues with the filing of an Amicus Curiae brief in the Alabama Supreme Court, asking that the Court overturn a lower court decision declaring ...
The Supreme Court struck down a portion of the ACA which mandated for-profit companies must provide contraceptive services to employees over their religious objections. Click Here to Download Report
Both the employment and compensation problems are significant contributing factors to Alabama’s unfunded pension and retiree health care liability. According to official state estimates, Alabama’s pension system in FY 2012 was underfunded by almost $9.5 ...
In an era with stagnant growth and perpetual 6% or higher unemployment, the trajectory of our State’s pension funds is heading downward. Click Here to Download Report
