The House passed the 2011 budget by a vote of 120 to 52.
According to Rep. Steve Davis (R-McDonough), via Twitter, Rep. David Lucas (D-Macon) proposed an amendment to fund the halls of fame in Macon. It failed, 62 to 107. Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) proposed an amendment to abolish the Department of Human Services. [...]
The House Appropriations Committee passed the FY 2011 budget by a vote of 61-8.
Money for the College Football Hall of Fame stayed in, but other halls of fame and pet projects are gone.
The budget will hit the floor of the House tomorrow.
After months of declining revenues, tax collections were up in March:
Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that net revenue collections for the month of March 2010 (FY 2010) totaled $998,239,000 compared to $987,986,000 for March 2009 (FY09), an increase of $10,523,000 or 1.0 percent. This is the first monthly increase in revenues since November 2008.
“While we [...]
Revenue figures for February were released today:
Gov. Sonny Perdue moments ago released details on tax collections in Georgia from February and the news is not likely to give anyone comfort.
The numbers show that the state took in nearly 10 percent less in February than it did in the same month in 2009. Lawmakers had [...]
Democrats have proposed their fix for the state’s budget crisis, which consists of a load of tax hikes:
Georgia state House and Senate Democrats gathered together today as part of the Working Famlies Legislative Caucus to present their ideas on how to balance the Georgia State budget. They say the state has to get more aggressive [...]
As mentioned on Wednesday night, the legislature is taking a two week break (actually, 2 1/2 weeks) to deal with the FY 2011 budget. They’ll reconvene on March 9th.
Word is Gov. Sonny Perdue is going to revise his budget estimates for the next fiscal year by around $1 billion. When budget estimates were originally [...]
Jim Galloway hears that there will be a two week recess for members of the General Assembly while appropriators try to work on the FY 2011 budget:
We’ve picked up reliable word that the Legislature is about to go into cold storage while lawmakers try to work with Gov. Sonny Perdue to resolve the 2011 budget.
After [...]
Looks like there will be a vote on the floor this week:
Senate budget writers largely agreed with an amended 2010 state budget that passed the House last week, but made several changes that will require negotiations nonetheless.
The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a $17.4 billion budget for the current fiscal year that ends June 30.
Among [...]