Georgia conservatives are getting closer to a long-held goal of broadening state funding for private school tuition and home schooling. A House committee has passed a bill that would give $6,500 educational vouchers to students who would otherwise attend low-performing schools.
The Georgia Senate gave a final stamp of approval to a bill that would ban most types of gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Senate Bill 140 would prohibit doctors from prescribing hormone replacement therapy to transgender people under age 18. The bill also bans gender-affirming surgeries for minors.
Two organizations, one for profit and one nonprofit, are working together to address food insecurity in the Atlanta metro area. They held a ribbon cutting for a new project this week.
A bill that would define antisemitism in Georgia law has stalled after an unfriendly amendment in a Senate committee altered the measure Monday. The sponsors say a definition would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people.
On the Tuesday March 21 edition of GeorgiaToday: Lawmakers pass gender-affirming care ban; Papa Johns sued over firing of blind employee; attorney from South Georgia convicted for role in January 6 attack
Officials in Houston County said gender-affirming surgery for sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange was too costly. They spent more than $1 million on private lawyers in a fight to keep transition-related care from being covered by their health plan — far more than it would have cost the county to offer such coverage to all of its 1,500 health plan members.
The Georgia House and Senate have each passed similar measures to regulate electric vehicles. They've narrowed their priorities down to one bill hoping to agree on a final version before the end of the legislative session.
Former President Donald Trump is asking a Georgia court to essentially shut down any ability to prosecute crimes stemming from a Fulton County special grand jury's investigation into 2020 election interference.
Georgia Ports Authority police officers would have more power granted to them under a bill passed by the state Senate Monday.
Two organizations, one for profit and one non-profit, are working together to address food insecurity in the Atlanta metro area.