Danny at Doc’s Political Parlor says there’s a possibility that the Alabama Senate will remove at least some of the amendments its committee added to Rep. Jeff McLaughlin’s PAC-to-PAC transfer ban before voting to pass it.
[Danny's source in the legislature says] Yes, there is some sense that the House may not pass the version that came out of Senate Committee, and that if the bill does not pass this year, the Senate will take the blame. You have [House Speaker] Seth Hammett over there saying that “the House passes this bill every year.” Look to see some of the amendments that were added in committee taken off on the Senate floor [to get a bill that the House may pass].
This would be a big step in the right direction for ethics reform, and I don’t really care if the senators are doing it only because they fear they’ll be blamed if the bill fails.