On Day 24, Lawmakers covers Gov. Sonny Perdue’s decision to drop the bed tax, instead opting to eliminate the sales tax exemption on hospital purchases of equipment and cutting Medicare disbursements. They also cover passage of SB 346, property tax reform sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers.
On Day 23, Lawmakers covers passage water conservation bills, the transportation sales tax (T-SPLOST),, criminalizing the solicitation of abortion based on race or gender and much more.
On Day 22, Lawmakers covers debate over limiting the terms of GDOT board members and much more.
On Day 21 of the session, Lawmakers covers the release of February revenue numbers, legislators propose fee hike and a tax is extended to keep the Falcons in Atlanta.
Tuesday was election day in House District 19. Voters in the Paulding County-based district went to the polls to elect a new state representative to fill the unexpired term of former House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
Richardson resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair with a lobbyist while pushing legislation beneficial to the [...]
On Day 20, Lawmakers covers passage of the revised FY 2010 budget out of the Senate and the passage of a new calendar allowing appropriators to take two weeks to work on the FY 2011 budget.
On Day 19, Lawmakers covers legislation that would allow private ownership of public water, a discussion on the budget Kelly McCutchen of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and Alan Essig of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and much more.
In testimony before the House Legislative & Congressional Reapportionment Committee February 3rd, the co-chairs of Georgia’s Complete Count Committee said that the state could see as many as two additional seats in Congress after the 2010 Census is completed.
Mike Beatty, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and Debra Lyons, Director of the Governor’s [...]