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The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia.It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.. Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directly elected by constituents of their district.
The Parliament of Georgia is the country's supreme representative body which effects legislative authority, determines the main directions of the country's home and foreign policy, controls the activity of the Government within limits defined by the Constitution and exercises other rights. [10] The Parliament of Georgia is a unicameral legislature.
The Parliament of Canada's upper and lower houses are housed in Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex. In 2019, the House of Commons was temporarily relocated to the complex's West Block and the Senate to the Senate of Canada Building , to accommodate the rehabilitation of Centre Block , which began in the same year.
Georgia has a centralized judiciary system, led by the Constitutional Court of Georgia, a body made of nine judges appointed for a term of 10 years with appointments scattered between the President, Parliament, and the Supreme Court. Its responsibility is to check the constitutionality of existing legislature, treaties, and executive decisions.
The three Senate office buildings are along Constitution Avenue north of the Capitol: Russell Senate Office Building (RSOB), (built 1903-1908, opened in 1909), [ 1 ] named after Senator Richard Russell Jr. (1897-1971), of Georgia in 1972.
Generally, the same system of checks and balances that exists at the federal level also exists between the state legislature, the state executive officer (governor) and the state judiciary. In 27 states, the legislature is called the legislature or the state legislature, while in 19 states the legislature is called the general assembly.
The building was subsequently restored, refurbished, and used as the seat of the Parliament of Georgia from 1997 to 2012, when the legislature moved to the newly constructed edifice in Kutaisi, Georgia's second most important city. In 2014 holding of parliament committee meetings was allowed in the parliament premises of Tbilisi, while the ...
The constitutional amendment passed in 2017 entered into force in December 2018, containing no reference to Kutaisi as the seat of the Parliament, meaning that the Parliament fully returned to the capital in January 2019. [8] [9] The building in Kutaisi is set to pass into possession of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. [10]