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VOLUME 61, NUMBER 1
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Volume 61, Number 1
February 2017
Annual Legislative Issue
2017
Regular Session
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, elected to his post in
2016, will preside over his first Regular Session of the
Alabama Legislature in 2017.
PHOTO: Dionne Whetstone, Alabama House of
Representatives
2017 REGULAR SESSION | Annual Legislative Issue

IN PROFILE
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon......................................7

Speaker McCutcheon Takes on the Issues.........................8
County-by-County Allocations | ATRIP-2..........................13
ACCA Legislative Priorities 2017.......................................16
Communication Strategies for the Legislative Session.......23
Talking Points | ATRIP-2 Bond Issue.................................11
2017 Alabama County Platform........................................27

County Expenditures for Compensation & Benefits........28

Alabama Governmental Structure..................................28

Mandated & Unfunded Legislation................................29

County Operations & Budget Authority..........................31

Election Administration...................................................32

Environment, Land Use, & Public Works.......................33

Revenue Protection........................................................35

Economic Development & the Alabama Trust Fund......38

Alabama’s Prisons & County Jails.................................39

Justice and Public Safety...............................................40

Rural Transportation.......................................................43

TOP 10 | Tips for Effective
Communication with Legislators.......................................45
point of view...

President’s Perspective ..................................................4
Communicating with Purpose
who we are...
2016-17 ACCA Board of Directors....................................46
ACCA Staff.........................................................................46
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