Alabama's legislative session started yesterday

Dan at Between the Links has a good post on legislation he'd like to see pass this year in Alabama.

• Legislation to call a constitutional convention
  
• Legislation to make Alabama the 25th state to have I&R
• A resolution to oppose the federal REAL ID Act
• Legislation to further increase the tax threshold
• Overall tax reform to bring a more equitable system of taxation to Alabama
• Legislation to overturn the Prohibition-era beer laws in Alabama so that consumers can have a choice in what they can purchase with the money they earned.
• A ban on PAC-to-PAC transfers
• Legislation requiring financial disclosure from organizations who advocate for political objectives
• Legislation to require lobbyists to report all money they spend on legislators.
• Legislation to place a moratorium on the death penalty while it's fairness is studied.

Any thoughts on these? I agree with all of them except the second and the last, the second because I don't know what "I&R" is and the last because the fairness of the death penalty has already been studied and it really depends on personal opinion anyway. There are lots and lots of other bills I'd like to see passed but these seem like a good place to start. Kathy weighs in over at Birmingham Blues.