BIRMINGHAM -- Gov. Robert Bentley is planning an ambitious second year, starting with asking the Legislature to pass a constitutional amendment combining Alabama's two state budgets into one and allowing some money now allocated for education to be spent on state agencies.

Bentley said Tuesday he's also developing plans for a bond issue of roughly $2 billion for highway projects at the county and state level, but he's not sure when he will propose it.

"I like to stir things up, and I can tell you we are going to do that," Bentley told the Birmingham Kiwanis Club in a speech that recounted his first year in office and looked ahead to his second, which begins next week.

Bentley said that in the legislative session starting Feb. 7, he plans to propose a constitutional amendment that would end the tradition of Alabama having a budget for education and a separate General Fund budget for non-education programs, such as Medicaid, prisons and state troopers.

He said Alabama should have a unified budget like 47 other states have and some, but not all, of the tax revenue set aside for education by state law must be made available for other uses.