Montgomery, AL – The Alabama Legislature returns after taking a 10-day spring break and will begin the second half of the 2012 session by starting to work on the cash-strapped General Fund budget to fund most non-education state agencies.
The House Ways and Means-General Fund committee is scheduled to begin work on the General Fund budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year Wednesday. Gov. Robert Bentley has ordered more than 10 percent cuts in the General Fund budget for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Steeper cuts are expected in the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins in October.
Work on the education budget will begin in the Senate. Senate Finance and Taxation-Education chairman Republican Sen. Trip Pittman of Daphne said his committee would begin considering the education budget next week.
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