2023 Week 10 Legislative Update This week the Georgia General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 32 through 35. The number of bills under consideration by the legislature has narrowed significantly following last week’s Crossover Day deadline. Any bills that failed to pass out of the chamber in which they started by last… Read more »
Legislative Updates
2023 Legislative Update – Week 9
2023 Week 9 Legislative Update This week the General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 28 through 31. Monday, March 6 was Crossover Day, which is the last day that a bill can pass out of the chamber in which it originated to stay alive this year. Bills that did not pass out… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update – Week 8
2023 Week 8 Legislative Update This week the General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 24 through 27. Monday, March 6 is Crossover Day, which is the final day that a bill can pass out of the chamber in which it originated to stay alive this year. In the Senate, Wednesday was the… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 7
2023 Legislative Update Week 7 This week the General Assembly convened Tuesday through Thursday for Legislative Days 21 through 23. At this point in the session, we are still seeing a significant number of bills introduced in both chambers each day, and committee meetings are increasingly running longer, but the clock is quickly running… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 6
2023 Legislative Update Week 6 The General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday again this week for Legislative Days 17 through 20, with Thursday marking the halfway point in the 40-day session. This week once again saw a significant uptick in the number of bills introduced and considered by committees. As of Wednesday, the Office… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 5
2023 Legislative Update Week 5 This week the General Assembly was in session Monday through Thursday, convening for Legislative Days 13 through 16. There was a significant uptick in committee activity this week, as well as an influx of new bills introduced in the House and Senate each day. While each chamber is still focused… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 4
2023 Week 4 Legislative Update This week the General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 9 through 12. Legislative and committee action began to pick up substantially this week, with dozens of bills being introduced in each chamber every day this week. Committees that did not already hold their first meeting to… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 2
Week 2 Legislative Update 2023 This week the General Assembly was not in session to allow the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to hold AFY23 and FY24 budget hearings. With Senate Appropriations Chairman Blake Tillery (R-Vidalia) and newly selected House Appropriations Chairman Matt Hatchett (R-Dublin) at the helm, Governor Kemp kicked off the three days… Read more »
2023 Legislative Update Week 1
Week 1 Legislative Update 2023 Legislators from all corners of the state descended upon Atlanta this week for the beginning of the 2023-2024 Legislative Session. Both the House and Senate gaveled in for a relatively brief session on Monday to swear in members of the General Assembly, and then a number of legislators hopped on… Read more »
2022 Final Legislative Report – Week 12
2022 Final Legislative Report Middleton Public Affairs Legislators threw confetti in the House and Senate chambers about 15 minutes after the midnight deadline on April 4 when the legislature adjourned Sine Die. The 2022 session was the second year of a two-year term, so any bills that did not successfully pass both chambers by the… Read more »