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Fight continues over lottery and gaming machines
A small group of House and Senate members continues to try to reach a compromise on a bill to put video gaming machines under the purview of the Georgia Lottery. The bill is being touted by Gov. Nathan Deal as a way to generate money for the HOPE Scholarship while ...
Deal supportive of push for new abortion restrictions
Gov. Nathan Deal is backing the Senate’s surprise move to make it illegal for any state-sponsored insurance plan to pay for abortions. “Within the context of the state employees’ health benefit plan, this should be an auxiliary benefit that’s paid for separately,” said Deal, who said he was taken by ...
Senate to vote on ethics reform
The state Senate is set to vote today on a tough ethics reform bill, but it’s already receiving criticism from the man who wrote it. The bill by House Speaker David Ralston included a ban on gifts from lobbyists except for dinners for large groups and out-of-town trips, excluding travel. ...
Daycare worker bill heading to Gov. Deal
Those applying to become daycare workers would undergo more scrutiny under a bill now headed to Gov. Nathan Deal. If the bill is signed into law, Georgia would join more than 25 other states that require licensed and in-home daycare workers undergo a national fingerprint background check. Sen. Butch Miller ...
Ethics reform bill faces hearing
Will a Senate committee gut an ethics proposal by House Speaker David Ralston? The measure that includes a ban on gifts from lobbyists will get a public hearing later this morning. The ban makes exceptions for dinners for large groups of lawmakers and out-of-town trips. But Sen. Josh McKoon ...
Ethics, guns in the spotlight
Two of the biggest topics at the Georgia Legislature this year — ethics and guns — will dominate discussion Tuesday, as state lawmakers gear up for their last two weeks of work.A 9 a.m. public hearing by the Senate Rules Committee will focus on an historic piece of legislation, one ...
PolitiFact: Cobb E-SPLOST advocates use no-debt argument
On Tuesday, Cobb County residents will go to the polls to vote on a fourth installment of the school system’s sales tax plan. The 1-cent special purpose local option sales tax, or SPLOST (E-SPLOST when the tax program is conducted by and for a school system), will be collected for ...
Ga. House passes compensation for Columbus man
The final piece of legislation passed by the State House on Crossover Day would compensate a Columbus man $400,000 for his wrongful conviction for armed robbery in 1999. Lathan Word had spent 11 years in prison when he was granted a re-trial for poor legal representation. Instead of being offer ...
Mugshot bill clears Crossover Day
A bill lawmakers say will prevent the extortion of people whose mug shots show up on private websites makes it through Crossover Day at the State Capitol. Rep. Roger Bruce, sponsor of the legislation, says it would prevent those sites from charging individuals to remove them even if they’ve been ...
Crossover Day 2013
Photos: It's Crossover Day at the Georgia Capitol, and legislators are scrambling to debate as many bills as they can.
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