The Alabama Senate is considering spending as much as $1 billion on highways, bridges and railroads over the next decade.
The Senate rejected the measure in early March by a 19-11 vote, just two votes shy of passage. However, Sen. Lowell Barron (D-Fyffe), who chairs the chamber’s agenda-setting Rules Committee and is sponsoring the proposal, said he would bring it to another vote in the next day or so. If the measure does pass the Senate it will await voter approval.