Montgomery, AL – After waiting until the 2010 session of the Legislature is almost two-thirds completed, the Alabama House is ready to begin work on General Fund and education budgets.
House Speaker Seth Hammett said Tuesday the House education budget committee would begin work following next week's spring break on the education budget.
Hammett of Andalusia said lawmakers had been waiting to see if additional federal education stimulus money would be available to the state. He said the committee is now ready to begin work, assuming extra federal stimulus funds will not be available.
The chairman of the House General Fund budget committee, Democratic Rep. John Knight of Montgomery, said work would also begin on the General Fund budget at the end of next week's spring break.
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