It's been an unwritten rule, I guess it is unwritten, that for local legislation to pass, all it takes is the support of all of the local legislators that are in the affected area. That is how they slipped gambling in White Hall. A local bill about something else and all the local legislators supported it, so it passed the State. The problem was no one from the State Legislation read it and they slipped the gambling in it. After that, now if anyone from that local legislation introduces a Bill, it gets read by someone from the entire body. This was recently an issue on a local tax in Selma. All the legislators wanted it but the people did not so it went through anyways.
The problem is that local legislation that is innocuous and supported by all the local members will take too long to go through by the whole body. That system works fine if all members are honest about what the local bills do and say.
