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The Georgia Senate on Tuesday pushed through the first batch of what could be a raft of restrictive voting measures Republican lawmakers say will safeguard voting but Democrats decry as based on a lie and aimed at overturning their party's recent electoral success in Georgia.
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ATLANTA (AP) Georgia lawmakers want to give district attorneys access to prisoner disciplinary records to help the prosecutors oppose parole requests. The House voted 99-66 on Thursday to.
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Caption Raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 37 cents to $2 and increasing the rate for other tobacco products would bring in about $700 million a year, according to state budget analysts. Credit: Pexels/Stock Photo
A key state lawmaker said Friday that he will continue to press his colleagues on ways to grow revenues as they consider a budget proposal that carries forward many of the cuts made when the financial outlook was bleak.
“We obviously need to look at continuing to increase the revenue,” Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, a Rome Republican who heads the Senate Finance Committee, said Friday at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute’s annual legislative conference that was held virtually this year.