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Georgia’s Senate voted 33-21 on Monday to pass a bill that would give legislators a veto over significant regulations imposed by the executive branch, a move that has hampered safety efforts and ...
State. Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, speaks on a bill he sponsored to rewrite Georgia's litigation rules to limit lawsuits at the Senate at the Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.
Rep. Jim Clyburn and other Democrats reintroduced legislation to make it easier to cast ballots in the wake of states adopting restrictive laws Democrats propose voting rights bill to counter ...
When the proposed legislation came before his committee, Cowsert supported the Senate version of the bill. The Senate passed the substitute version of HB 605 by a vote of 51-0, and it was sent back to the House. [6] The bill's sponsor, Jason Spencer, asked the House to insist on the language of the original bill. This insistence came on the ...
Lawmakers in Georgia on Monday night passed a controversial elections bill that would give the state’s bureau of investigations jurisdiction over elections
The Georgia State Senate is the upper house of the Georgia General Assembly, with the lower house being the Georgia House of Representatives. Both bodies are constitutionally required to convene annually at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. [1] The General Assembly begins each yearly session on the second Monday in January. [1]
On October 26, 2023, a special session was called by Governor Brian Kemp for November 28, 2023, [11] to redraw congressional and legislative maps which were approved in the previous General Assembly, following a ruling earlier in the day federal district judge Steve C. Jones that some districts in the U.S. House, Georgia Senate and Georgia ...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, potentially disrupting Fulton County District Attorney ...