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MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Alabama Legislature is working late into the night to try to wrap up the state budgets, but Gov. Robert Bentley’s administration is not happy with what it is seeing.
   
  A legislative conference committee was having trouble working out an education budget that was acceptable to the House and Senate. The same conference committee approved a $1.8 billion General Fund budget and sent it to the House and Senate for review.
   
  Gov. Robert Bentley’s finance director, David Perry, said the proposed General Fund budget underfunds Medicaid. Perry said the administration also is concerned because the proposed budgets are based on accompanying bills that haven’t passed. One would require public employees to pay more toward their retirement benefits and another would restructure how the state pays attorneys to represent poor defendants in court.
   
 

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