By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery, AL – Monday is the last day of the 2006 legislative session. Lawmakers will be back in Montgomery trying to take care of some last minute business. One of the bills that could make it through would boost Alabama's status in the presidential preference primaries. It would change the date from June Third to February Fifth for the 2008 election season. That would move Alabama from having one of the nation's last presidential preference primaries to one of the first. It would cost an estimated three-point-three million dollars to hold the extra election. But Governor Bob Riley and House budget committee Chairman John Knight say presidential candidates would be more likely to spend millions of dollars more on advertising and other campaign activities.