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Floor Action
The Senate took up the following measures on the floor today:
HB 90 - Torts; certain persons, firms, or corporations who are buyers of land for conversion of timber shall be exempt from certain liabilities; provide PASSED 47-0
HB 245 - Professions and businesses; podiatry; amend a provision relating to fingerprint and criminal background checks PASSED 46-0
HB 367 - Controlled substances; Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V; change certain provisions PASSED 47-0
The House did not have a Rules Calendar today.
Committee Reports
House Health and Human Services Committee
The House Health and Human Services Committee, chaired by Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), met to consider the following measures today:
Georgia House votes to bump adult criminal age from 17 to 18
Published article
ATLANTA - Georgia’s House approved a measure Monday that would raise the age for charging most people from 17 to 18.
The House voted 113-51 to pass House Bill 272, sending it to the Senate for more debate.
House Juvenile Justice Committee Chairman Mandi Ballinger, a Canton Republican, has been pushing the idea for years. She cites testimony from experts that teen’s brains are still developing to full adulthood and they lack the impulse control that older people usually develop. We’re one of three states with this horribly antiquated practice of treating 17-year-olds like grownups, Ballinger told the House.
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