State legislators on Monday embark on the final 10 days of this year’s legislative session. The House and Senate will spend this week reviewing the bills that have already passed one chamber.

Neither chamber will debate many bills this week. Instead, Senate committees will hold meetings to consider bills the House has passed, and House committees will look at measures that passed in the Senate.

Republican Senator Don Balfour of Snellville chairs the rules committee, which sets the Senate agenda. He says a Senate committee will continue to look at the budget this week.

“The budget is the big issue, without a doubt --- the No. 1 issue," he said Friday. "And we will take that up in the Senate.”

Balfour said the budget will probably not come to the Senate floor for another week.

A house committee Tuesday will take up the bill allowing voters to choose Sunday alcohol sales, which passed the Senate last week after a lengthy debate.

Balfour said he has not taken a close look at bills the House has passed. But he knows that thanks to the Senate, the House has some tough measures to consider.

“The House may have some of the harder bills because we passed to them an abortion bill," Balfour said. "We passed to them a number of gun bills. I don’t believe they passed any of that to us. We [also] passed Sunday Sales.”

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