Georgia conservatives are getting closer to a long-held goal of broadening state funding for private school tuition and home schooling. A House committee has passed a bill that would give $6,500 educational vouchers to students who would otherwise attend low-performing schools.
The Georgia Senate gave a final stamp of approval to a bill that would ban most types of gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Senate Bill 140 would prohibit doctors from prescribing hormone replacement therapy to transgender people under age 18. The bill also bans gender-affirming surgeries for minors.
A bill that would define antisemitism in Georgia law has stalled after an unfriendly amendment in a Senate committee altered the measure Monday. The sponsors say a definition would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people.
The Georgia House and Senate have each passed similar measures to regulate electric vehicles. They've narrowed their priorities down to one bill hoping to agree on a final version before the end of the legislative session.
A Georgia House subcommittee heard testimony on a bill aimed at punishing gun owners who negligently allow firearms to fall into the hands of unsupervised children.
Descendants of enslaved African community have been on Sapelo Island for 13 generations. But just 30 Geechee descendants of the original 44 enslaved families remain — and the General Assembly quietly passed a bill on March 2 to modify the rules of the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority without the input of those residents.
When Rami Genauer learned that his kids’ lemonade stand was illegal in Georgia, he emailed his state senator. The result: the 'Georgia Lemonade Act,' which would exempt children under the age of 18 from acquiring a license or permit to sell lemonade or other products.
Two years have passed since the deadly shootings at spas in Atlanta that left eight people dead, including six Asian women. On the week of the anniversary, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) lawmakers mourn and reflect on progress and challenges since the shootings.
The two sides battling in the nearly four-year saga over whether an Alabama company should be allowed to move forward with its plans to mine the site for titanium dioxide and zirconium were allowed to make their case to lawmakers during a two-hour public hearing held Tuesday.
The House Public Health Committee passed a controversial bill that would restrict gender affirming medical care for transgender minors on Day 33. Senate Bill 140, sponsored by Sen. Carden Summers (R - Cordele) would ban hospitals and doctors from treating transgender people under age 18 with surgeries and hormone replacement therapy.
Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a $32.5 billion mid-year state budget that includes property tax relief for Georgia homeowners and security grants for every public school in the state.
