The Alabama legislature convenes January 9, 2018. The only election law bills of interest that have been filed so far are identical bills in each house that would eliminate special elections for U.S. Senate, except for special elections held simultaneously with regularly-scheduled elections. If these bills had been law during 2017, the vacant U.S. Senate seat recently filled by Doug Jones would not have been up until November 2018.
The bills are SB 18, by Senator Gerald O. Dial (R-Lineville) and HB 17, by Representative Steve Clouse (R-Ozark).
Abolish the minority rule USA Senate.
PR and AppV
Well, Michigan beat them to it on the House side — or at least lame-duck Governor Snyder did, by calling the special election to fill US Rep. Conyers’s 13th District seat for this coming November.
Obviously the AL Elephants in control of the regime thought an Elephant would be elected in the AL special election for USA Senator.