Hereâs how the newly passed state budget affects South Georgia K-12 education received over 40% of the fiscal year 2022 s budget. (Source: WALB) By Gabrielle Ware | April 13, 2021 at 7:09 PM EDT - Updated April 13 at 7:09 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - State legislators are shelling out big money in areas affected by the pandemic in its recently passed budget.
Lawmakers spent about $27 billion total.
At $10 billion, K-12 education is the largest single expenditure in the fiscal year 2022 state budget.
âWe came in and we restored many of the cuts that were made in the previous yearâs budget. Due to the COVID crisis and reduction of said revenue, we had to take almost a billion dollars out of K-12 revenue, it was $950 million to be exact. But in this budget, we were able to restore about $567 million back into the budget,â said State Rep. Winfred Dukes.
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ATLANTA - Owners of convenience stores and restaurants featuring coin-operated amusement machines (COAMs) would be able to sell gift cards to players under legislation the Georgia House of Representatives passed Monday.
The use of gift cards would go a long way toward cleaning up the industry by discouraging the illegal cash payouts that have long plagued COAMs, said Rep. Alan Powell, R-Hartwell, chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee and House Bill 544âs chief sponsor.
Powellâs bill, which the House passed 110-54, also includes regulations aimed at ensuring fair competition among the companies that own the machines and the retail businesses that house them, prohibiting machine owners from offering inducements to retailers to house their machines and imposing late fees when license holders fail to renew their licenses.
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Caption From left: Michael Fowler, Winfred Dukes, Jon Ossoff, CaMia Hopson, Demetrius Young, and Derrick Jackson pose during Ossoff s visit to Albany on the U.S. Senate campaign in 2020. Credit: Brad Bailey
“We didn t just show up; we showed out and Georgia shocked the world.”
So said Georgia state Rep. Winfred Dukes of the November election during a December campaign speech in Albany for U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff.
“Now listen, we have a little more business left to do,” Dukes continued. “We are going to show not only the people of Georgia … but the entire nation what the people of Georgia are all about.”