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Georgia's 2021 Legislative Session Report

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Georgia lawmakers adjourn

Updated: 3:40 AM EDT April 1, 2021 ATLANTA Georgia lawmakers exited noisily into the night a little after midnight Wednesday. The Senate and House did it with the traditional blizzard of paper – the release of forty days worth of work that will mostly go dormant until January 2022.  Before they left, lawmakers passed a Republican bill that would prevent local governments from making steep cuts in police budgets.  And they passed a bipartisan bill that would repeal Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law – first enacted in 1863. It makes clear that deadly force is not a force that can be used in these matters of defending property, state Rep. Bert Reeves (R-Marietta) told the House before passage.

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Committee Reports House Education Committee The House Education Committee, chaired by Representative Matt Dubnik (R-Gainesville), met to consider the following legislation today: SB 59, authored by Senator John Albers (R-Alpharetta), amends Title 20 relating to funding for local charter schools and charter systems. The bill changes the percentages for calculating FTE funding under Code Section 20-2-165.1, and also requires certain federal fund allocation and facility usage or stipends for local charter schools by local education agencies. Senator Albers presented the bill to the Committee, and the Georgia School Board Association and Georgia Association of Educational Leaders expressed concerns about Section 5 of the bill. Chairman Dubnik held the bill to ensure the language is correct and noted that he intends to act on the bill at the next meeting.

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Floor Action The House took up the following measure today: SB 5 - Professions and Businesses; patient protection measures for patients undergoing sedation in certain settings; provide- Representative Lee Hawkins (R-Gainesville) presented the legislation, addressing in particular “medispas.” Dentists, which do conscious sedation, are now required to have certain equipment. It does not prohibit a person who is duly licensed as a physician assistant in Georgia, who has completed an anesthesiologist assistant program approved by the Georgia Composite Medical Board from administering conscious sedation nor deem such physician assistant to be engaged in the unlawful practice of dentistry, pursuant to their job description as approved by the Georgia Composite Medical Board, provided that such sedation is administered under the direction and responsibility of an anesthesiologist. The legislation also The bill passed by Substitute with a vote of 160-5; it now requires the Senate to agr