For the week ending May 10, 2024, Sens. Warnock and Ossoff focused on legislation protecting children from online sexual exploitation, securing funding for humanitarian aid to fight world hunger, securing funding to build more affordable housing in Clayton County and throughout Georgia.
The landscape at the Georgia Capitol is changing as more women have been elected to the Legislature and as the work of caregiving is increasingly shared among spouses.
Georgia Senate Bill 198, which the state House and Senate passed with only one “no” vote, would have required the State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP) covering teachers and state employees to reimburse independent pharmacies filling prescriptions at rates no less than the average reimbursement provided to chain pharmacies.
The Georgia Court of Appeals is expected to take several months to rule on a request from former President Donald Trump and several co-defendants to remove the Fulton County district attorney from the 2020 presidential election interference case.
Georgia lawmakers vowed they were going to rein in tax breaks for businesses this year, but their efforts came to nothing. Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday vetoed a bill to pause for two years a sales tax exemption the state gives for building and equipping computer data centers.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is both increasing spending and cutting taxes as state tax revenues decline, saying he is looking to the state's billions in surplus to allow him to remain on that course. The Republican governor on Tuesday signed a $36.1 billion budget for the year beginning July 1 that will boost pay for public school teachers and state employees, while spending more on education, health care and mental health.
Georgia's attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority when they outlawed keeping guns in unlocked cars. Savannah's mayor and city council adopted a new ordinance in April that requires people to lock vehicles with guns stashed inside.
For the week ending May 3, 2024, Sens. Warnock and Ossoff worked on improving youth mentorship, reconnecting undeserved communities in Atlanta, creating Georgia's first National Park and Preserve and expanding nursing programs in West Georgia.
Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law. That's after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus.
U.S. Rep. David Scott faces multiple Democratic primary opponents in his quest for a 12th congressional term. He's running in a sharply reconfigured suburban Atlanta district.
Vice President Kamala Harris came to Georgia Monday to kick off a nationwide tour promoting the White House’s record on economic issues and pledge to continue to support small businesses, particularly minority-owned ones.
Much of Sunday’s debate between the two Democrats challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District focused on McBath’s absence from the stage.
Former Fulton County prosecutor Christian Wise Smith Sunday vowed to bring “fresh energy and new ideas” to the Fulton district attorney’s office as he challenges Fani Willis for the DA post.