Georgia Legislative Watch

Grayson Daughters and Tom Baxter will be working with CBS Atlanta to provide a new media twist on this year’s session of the General Assembly.
Check out the CBS page here.

Creative Loafing has put out the always amusing Golden Sleaze Awards.

This is the full debate over HB 115 that includes Sen. Seth Harp’s amendment. Harp begins speaking after Sen. Steve Henson, about 5:25 minutes into the video. Sen. Dan Moody’s amendment to Harp’s amendment is immediately follows. The vote is at the very end of the video.

Here is the Senate debate on HB 614, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Act, a bill that myself and other privacy advocates took interest in:

The AJC highlights lawmakers utilizing social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
We should welcome them into new media. Here’s hoping more join up.
Georgia lawmakers and politicians on Twitter:
- Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle
- Rep. Steve Davis
- Secretary Karen Handel (campaign)
- Secretary Karen Handel (government)
- Sen. Eric Johnson
- Rep. John Lunsford
- Commissioner John Oxendine
- David [...]

I pulled video of the floor discussion over the resolution honoring President Barack Obama and making him an honorary member of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
The initial discussion is divided into two parts (thanks to the 10 minute video limit on YouTube). Speaker Glenn Richardson explains that a member can object to a resolution [...]

Remember “I’m Just a Bill” from Schoolhouse Rock, the Georgia General Assembly has a similar tool for kids. You can watch it here. I get the impression that Rep. Bobby Franklin watched it before proposing a bill to designate red clay as Georgia’s official dirt.

Below is video of the press conference where Republicans presented legislation designed to stimulate business in Georgia:
All four bills (HB 438, HB 439, HB 481 and HB 482) are currently in the House Ways and Means Committee.