For anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet, the legislature is meeting Thursday and Friday this week. The unusual schedule is a product of their desire to avoid pocket vetoes. In a nutshell, any bill passed in the final five calendar days of the session will not become law if the Governor does not sign it. Which is the opposite of the situation for the entire session before this point; any bill passed before the final five calendar days does become law if the governor doesn’t sign it.
So the legislature arranged their schedule so that only two meeting days are subject to having bills pocket vetoed.
We simply await the final two meeting days to learn our fate for this year.
The good news for now is that the first annual Rocket City Brewfest was a smashing success. I was not able to attend, but Alabama blogger Reactionary volunteered and has written two good posts summarizing the event:
http://www.flashpointblog.com/2009/05/09/rocket-city-brewfest-friday-results/
http://www.flashpointblog.com/2009/05/11/rocket-city-brewfest-wrap-up/
Hopefully we can combine the lessons they learned at the RCBF with the lessons we’ve learned the past two years at the MCBF to make this year’s Magic City Brewfest unbelievably awesome. Better buy your tickets now at MagicCityBrewfest.com.
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Tickets, schmickets. I’m workin’ the Brewfest!!! Thanks for the updates!
Best of luck! Perhaps when I go to New Orleans Saturday and buy some good beer while I am there I can return home to Alabama knowing it will be the LAST time I have to do that.
Is the bill SB 492 (Homebrew bill) dead? I cannot find any recent information on this bill.
Sorry I didn’t see this before. SB492 is a bill I strongly support. It passed Senate committee in March but was never put on the calendar. So they never got to it.
I’m headed to Atlanta on Monday for a business trip. Any suggestions for stores there that have a good beer selection?
Greens on Ponce de leon( st or ave) trust me its the jam.Look it up.
Green’s is where you wanna be if you find yourself in ATL.
http://www.greensbeverages.com/beer-ga1.shtml
Just throwing in another nod at Green’s. That place rules.
The best store in the Atlanta area I have ever been to is Georgia World of Beverages, 8455 Senoia Rd, Fairburn, Georgia, 30213 phone: (770) 306-3470
Fairburn is about 20 miles SW of Atlanta
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You can see the beauty that was in the Wine ABV Bill’s strategy….
It passed aquickly on a day / time where the Governor can simply ignore it and it still becomes law. Politically easy for the Gov. if he is for the Wine Bill.
FTH is not getting results and advice that the Wine folks got. The Wine folks were smarter in their strategy.
You give the wine folks too much credit. They didn’t get their bill transmitted to the Governor last week. So they are vulnerable to a pocket veto. They need the Gov’s signature or the bill does not become law.
Really? According to Alison, it passed the House 7 days ago and thus will either be vetoed or signed by the Governor, or allowed to become law without any action. Here is what the House daily report from 5-7-09 said about SB 263:
Third Reading Passed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call
Signature Requested
How can that be giving them too much credit? That bill made it. No hicups, no brewfests, no fundraisers, no grassroots effort or organization, no website, no filibusters, and it passed on the perfect day. Something was done RIGHT and if you cannot learn from it you are missing an opportunity. Do you want to keep the current plan or adapt?
After the session, I am going to talk to Sen. French.
Wishing us the best of luck for the next 2 days!!! ::fingerscrossed::
No word yet then I’m guessing.
Did I hear that right? did it pass?
Did I not just hear our bill HB373 come up & then get tabled? I was half listening at work so I am not sure. I saw HB373 come up on the bottom of the Senate Audio page along with saying they tabled it. Don’t know for sure what it means or if I even saw it & twitter is down ARG!!
I’m pretty sure I heard the chair say HB373 has passed the Senate. It was brought up and passed so fast, I’m wondering if certain opponents stepped out to use the restroom.
Twitter collapsed seconds after HB373 was called up. That can’t be a coincidence, could it?
Well I have often thought the world would come to an end before this bill ever got passed so perhaps twitter is dead lol!!
Oh please please someone come on & tell us for sure what’s up!!
Twitter’s back, at last. FTH twitter account proclaimed “FREE THE HOPS PASSED! WE DID IT!” I’d call that a win.
Did it pass?!?!?!? Any confirmation?!?!