Bentley considering Special Session on prison construction

MONTGOMERY—Gov. Robert Bentley may convene a Special Session in the spring so the Legislature can consider his $800 million prison construction bill, which failed last spring in the Legislature’s Regular Session.

“We have discussed the possibility of a Special Session maybe within the session or right before the session starts,” Bentley said Thursday. “I don’t want to disrupt the Christmas season or the time right after Christmas.”

Bentley said he wanted to isolate the issue in a Special Session so the Legislature would have to focus on his bill. He said he believed it would have a better chance of passing that way.

The 2017 Regular Session begins in February. The governor said he would try to convene the Special Session in January or embed the Special Session with the Legislature’s Regular Session.

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