After a hearing lasting more than an hour, and accusations of racism from state Rep. Joe Heckstall (D – East Point), the House State Planning & Community Affairs Committee approved House Resolution 21; the bill allowing for the re-creation of a previously existing county.
Before the vote, a motion to table the legislation was narrowly voted [...]
Most of Fulton County is municipalized, meaning that most residents of Georgia’s largest county live in a city. The only unincorporated area left in Fulton is about 66 square miles in the southern portion of the county.
Fulton County government provides city-like services to this small unincorporated area –such as police and fire protection, code [...]
The following is a press release from Sen. Judson Hill (R-Marietta) on legislation he is sponsoring concerning the topic health care reform at the national level.
Legislation aimed to protect Georgia’s citizens from being forced into government-run health care passed out of a key committee and is on its way to the Senate floor. [...]
News broke today that Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) would like for some state constitutional officers to be appointed:
Gov. Sonny Perdue is proposing that four state constitutional officers now elected by the public should instead be appointed by the governor.
The four are state school superintendent, agriculture commissioner, labor commissioner and insurance commissioner.
The change would require two-thirds [...]
HR 1, the constitutional amendment capping property assessments, will come back before the House in the form of SR 1:
House Resolution 1, which calls for a statewide referendum to add annual limits in property value reassessments to the Georgia Constitution, went down twice already this session in the House of Representatives.
It takes a two-thirds majority [...]
NOTE: This list is current as of Monday, March 9th.
Jeff and I put together a list of proposed constitutional amendments in both the House and Senate. We’ve tried to track the status of each resolution. We’ll be adding to this list throughout the session. There are 39 51 in total.
You can read the Georgia [...]