Senate committee votes to give insurance to Alabama legislators
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Sen. E.B. McClain has a new Push-to-state paid health insurance for the legislature, and he has the support of the Senate a key role in the committee.
Wednesday, the Senate Finance and Tax Law of reference for the committee accepted McClain’s 8-5 of the law of the State would have the full cost for health insurance, legislators and the lieutenant governor.
Currently, legislators and the lieutenant governor to be able to participate in the state government health insurance, but they need the full cost.
McClain’s year, the law as legislators and the lieutenant governor to be paid by their families.
“They are treated the same as employees of state”, he said.
Legislative fiscal experts estimated that the cost to the State of $ 1.3 million per year.
Senator Trip Pittman, R-Daphne, and Senator Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, asked the date of a change in the design of the year for the state budget and a year after the legislature ’s is increased by 61 percent.
The last day of the 2007 legislative session, McClain, the Senate, a binding resolution, legislators in the State such as the programme of health insurance for employees of state. The State Employees Insurance Bureau of the application is refused, because the resolution has not been passed by both houses of the legislature.
During his last year of pushing, McClain said other countries south of the state-funded health insurance for legislators, Alabama and this should be done.
Balloting for health insurance, the bill in committee, in addition to McClain, a Sens Roger Bedford, D-Russell Villeneuve Kim Bene Field, D-Woodland; Parker Griffith, D-Huntsville, Pat Lindsey, D-Butler; Wendell Mitchell, D - Luverne; Hank Sanders, D-Selma and Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro.
Voting against them, in addition to Orr and Pittman, Steve french Sens, R-Birmingham; Rusty Glover, R-Semmes and Hinton Mitchem, D-Union Grove.
French first voted for the bill, but her voice has changed.
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