Today is Crossover Day, a key deadline in the Georgia General Assembly when legislation has to pass either the House or Senate to be considered by the other chamber before the end of this session.
Georgia Democrats are hoping to pass legislation protecting in vitro fertilization or IVF after an Alabama supreme court decision that threatens the legality of the infertility treatment.
Today is February 29th, a day that comes around only once every four-years.
Host of GPB's Lawmakers, Donna Lowry, talks with Morning Edition's Pamela Kirkland about Crossover Day in the Georgia legislature and the bills that Republicans and Democrats hope to push bills through their chambers before this year's deadline. Lawmakers features a special episode tonight at 7 p.m. on GPB-TV.
Commissioners in Forsyth County are split on whether to use federal COVID relief funds for mental health care now that the planned building costs exceed the budget by $12 million. The plan is now up in the air, to the frustration of many residents.
Mitch McConnell says he'll step down as Senate Republican leader in November. The 82-year-old Kentucky lawmaker is the longest-serving Senate leader in history — one who maintained his power in the face of dramatic changes in the Republican Party.
The Georgia Senate approved a plan on Tuesday that would allow Georgians to decide at the ballot box in November whether legalized sports betting should be allowed in the state.
The killing of nursing student Laken Riley has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump blaming President Joe Biden and his border policies for the Augusta University student's fatal beating, and suggesting migrants are committing crimes more often than U.S. citizens even though the evidence does not back up those claims.
Civil rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in south Georgia, alleging excessive and unlawful use of force in the police killing of Leonard Cure.
State Senate Minority Leader, Gloria Butler, announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of the year.
Georgians may be one step closer to gambling legally.
A Georgia nonprofit has organized a series of litter cleanups of coastal Glynn County’s salt marshes for the month of March.
Both chambers moved through the rules calendar quickly to pass as many bills as possible before Crossover Day. And Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler announced her retirement.
On the Tuesday, Feb. 27 edition of Georgia Today: A special prosecutor is appointed to handle the murder case in last week's killing on the University of Georgia campus; the state Senate passes a bill aimed at protecting teens from cyberbullying; and Republicans are calling on President Biden to unilaterally shut down the border. But can he do that? We'll talk to a constitutional scholar.
Terrence Bradley returned to the witness stand on Tuesday in a hearing that could result in Willis being removed from the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.
