The Georgia State Capitol hallways and hoppers continued to overflow on Thursday. Law Enforcement Day at the Capitol converged with an onslaught of hundreds of charter school students to fill the People’s House with Georgians...more
2/23/2024
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Beginning the downhill slide into the second half of the 2022 Legislative Session on Monday, the Georgia State Senate spent its morning discussing the Second Amendment while the House discussed divesting any Russian assets...more
3/1/2022
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The General Assembly got back to work on Tuesday with a slate full of committee meetings to advance bills and resolutions through the legislative gauntlet. But before legislators receded into the meeting rooms in the State...more
2/2/2022
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Legislators and lobbyists alike faced a new reality under the Gold Dome in 2021 as the legislative session began amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. After the second half of last year’s bifurcated session provided a framework...more
7/1/2021
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Just after midnight, the 2021 Legislative Session concluded with many legislative measures sneaking in under the wire—and many others lying dead on the House and Senate floors. The House and Senate compromise on the FY22...more
4/2/2021
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What a day under the Gold Dome! The budget, hate crimes legislation, tobacco tax increase efforts, CON amendments, etc. All of these issues are enormous decisions to be made by lawmakers. The day kicked off early as...more
The Senate dominated the news today as they unveiled both their take on the state’s FY 2021 budget (which was laden with cuts to align with decimated state revenues resulting from the COVID-19 shutdown) and the first public...more
Today, the General Assembly reconvened for its 31st Legislative Day (the second legislative day of the COVID era), and the environment remains both strange and amusing. While the people watching is supreme (and included one...more
After four action-packed days under the Gold Dome this week, today’s convening of the Georgia General Assembly proved more subdued. Although the House took up and passed three health measures, most legislators wrapped up...more