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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Alabama Education Association quickly filed a lawsuit late Monday night in an attempt to block what some have called the Education Accountability Act "bait and switch." Court documents show the AEA is attempting to block HB 84, also known as the Accountability Act, on the basis that Senators Del Marsh [R-Anniston] and Gerald Dial [R-Lineville], Representatives Chad Fincher [R-Mobile], Jay Love [R-Montgomery] and Rep. Mike Hubbard [R-Auburn], and Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey violated the Open Meetings Act.
The suit states, "No other reasonable explanation exists for these four senators [Marsh, Fincher, Dial and Love] to leave a committee meeting discussing a 9-page bill and return less than two hours later and approve a new bill that ran 27 pages, with a different title and different provisions, which each appeared familiar with, and which each voted to approve with limited discussion." It also states that Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard and Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey did not suspend Rule 21 which requires legislators to be notified that new language has been added to an appropriation bill in conference committee.
The AEA is asking for a temporary restraining order to stop the bill from being transmitted to Governor Bentley today to be signed "to preserve the status quo and prevent irreparable injury" and to ultimately withdraw or invalidate HB 84.
HB 84 was originally passed on Thursday night, February 28. At that time, Senator Craig Ford [D-Gadsden] called the move "a bait and switch" and said, "There is no way that happened in the thirty minutes..." speaking of the changes to the bill almost immediately after it came out of a conference committee. "This bill has been sitting in someone's desk draw for months," Ford claimed. "It was their strategy all along..."
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