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.
PolitiFact s ruling: Pants on Fire
Here s why: Attacks on Senate Democrats’ latest attempt to rewrite the nation’s voting laws have grown fierce, and perhaps no other Republican has condemned the Democratic measure quite like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
To Cruz, the For the People Act, or S 1, is “the most radical legislation the Senate has considered” since Cruz entered office in 2013, and it’s “the most dangerous legislation pending before the U.S. Congress,” he said during a Tuesday morning meeting of the Senate Rules Committee.
Then, invoking a term many Democrats have used to denounce the slew of voter restriction bills being pushed by GOP-led state legislatures across the nation, Cruz called the For the People Act “Jim Crow 2.0.”