State Senate panel approves $40.5B mid-year budget
ATLANTA - The state Senate is upping the ante on funding to help victims of Hurricane Helene recover from the massive storm that marched through South Georgia and east Georgia from Valdosta to Augusta last September. The Senate Appropriations Committee signed off...
Legislature considering multiple measures that would affect transgender people
Transgender people, particularly youths, remain a subject of Republican-led policy in Georgia, as lawmakers consider several bills that would regulate their interactions with the medical industry and with female athletes. Both the Georgia Senate and House of...
Georgia lawmakers seek more regulation of drones, with national security among their concerns
Drones would be subject to more restrictions under a couple of pieces of legislation that passed the Georgia House of Representatives Friday. House Bill 58 would prohibit flights over public gatherings. It would require that drones stay at least 400 feet from the...
Lawmakers pass their first bill of this legislative session
The Georgia General Assembly has adopted its first bill of this year's legislative session, a measure that allows bail bond businesspeople to hold more elective offices. The state House of Representatives passed the legislation 159-6 Friday, following Senate passage...
Republican-controlled state Senate passes tort reform
ATLANTA - A sharply divided Georgia Senate passed a comprehensive tort reform bill Friday that is Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's top priority for the 2025 General Assembly session. Senate Bill 68, which the Senate's GOP majority passed 33-21 primarily along party lines,...
Two bills targeting mining near Okefenokee Swamp
ATLANTA - Supporters of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge are taking another crack at protecting the environmentally fragile swamp from mining. Two bills introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives Thursday call for prohibiting mining along Trail...
Georgia lawmakers target fentanyl
Legislation that would enhance the criminal penalties for trafficking fentanyl cleared a state Senate committee Thursday. People who manufacture, deliver, possess or sell traditional drugs, such as morphine, opium or heroin can be sentenced to between five and 25...
Measure exposing banks to lawsuits over alleged “de-banking” is advancing through Senate
Republican state senators voted Thursday to advance a bill that would expose banking institutions to lawsuits if they deny services to customers because of the way they exercised their rights under the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The measure applies...