the Senate passed HB 961, a bill to address re-balancing the civil justice system after the Hatcher decision. This bill is on its way to the Governor’s desk. Georgia Data Analytic Center; establish as an agent of all executive state agencies; definitions; provide.
Day 38 began early with a Senate Rules Committee Meeting to add HB 1013, Speaker Ralston’s Mental Health Parity Bill, to the calendar. It was not until the third House Rules Committee.
In the final week of a legislative session, committee meetings under the Gold Dome are a lot like magic shows. Bills and resolutions, including some thought to be long dead, come before.
Georgia Floor Action: The House took up the following measures on Legislative Day 37: SR 463 - Joint Study Committee on the Electrification of Transportation; SB 345 - State Government; state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; prohibit - PASSED 99-67.
Today’s work, as lawmakers close on the sixth week since the session’s opening, focused on local legislative initiatives in the House while there was more variety of subjects taken up by the Senate. In this Report: Floor Action, Committee Reports, New Legislation.