Sunday sales legislation has been brought up this week:
The push to allow Sunday sales of alcohol in communities which give their OK in a referendum will be back for the 2008 legislative session, two key industry groups say. The Georgia Association of Convenience Stores and the Georgia Food Industry Association announced Monday that they will [...]
I mentioned on Friday, January 18th, that State Rep. Mark Hatfield put the Speaker on notice that he would move that the House reconsider the statewide water plan. He made the motion, and it failed:
Tomorrow the the Georgia House of Representatives will take up HB 908, which supposedly will clear up constitutional issues with Georgia’s sex offender law. If you’ll remember, the sex offender law was thrown out by the Georgia Supreme Court because the law amounted to a regulatory taking without compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment [...]
The State House passed HB 301, which increases penalties on dogfighting, in the wake of the Michael Vick scandal:
Legislation that would stiffen penalties for participating in, being a spectator at or facilitating a dogfight in Georgia is another step closer to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s desk.
State representatives on Monday passed an amended HB 301 that for [...]
State Rep. Ron Forester (R-Ringgold) went to the floor of the House again today encouraging members to sign on to his impeachment resolution aimed at Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.
If possible I’ll try to get some video later.
I am waiting to see if Forester actually drops the resolution in the hopper this time. After almost [...]
The Senate Rules Committee will take up the House’s veto overrides in about five minutes:
The Senate Rules Committee will take up the veto overrides at 12:30 p.m. today. Johnson wouldn’t drop any hints at what bills will move. But we’re hearing that it’s close to certain that a bill to formally install the Senate Budget [...]
The General Assembly will be back in session today at 1pm. They will be in session everyday this week.. Committee meetings for this week can be viewed here.
We’ll have some news posted later in the day. For those who may be interested, the House Communications Office has video of the budget hearings last week. They [...]
The Georgia General Assembly is not in session this week, but a few committees are meeting.
Here is a list of committee meetings for this week for the House and Senate.