Bill aims to ban election offices from mailing absentee ballots requests
Georgia’s House Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday voted to ban election officials from mailing absentee ballot applications to voters, a Republican-backed proposal that would likely...
Bill to protect police passes, shifts bitter debate from hate crimes effort
Pro-law enforcement legislation that adds more protections for police officers as lawmakers try to take Georgia off the short list of states without a...
UPDATE: Lawmakers’ bipartisan push sends governor historic hate crimes law
Georgia lawmakers passed a hate crimes bill Tuesday with bipartisan support, pushed to action by a viral video of the February killing of an...
A cold beer or bottle of wine could soon be just a click away...
The Georgia Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to allow businesses licensed to sell alcohol to deliver beer, wine, and spirits to customers’ doorsteps.
The current...
State Senate push for cigarette tax hike aims to cushion spending cuts
A Republican-led effort to add hundreds of millions dollars to the state's revenues proposes to raise the state’s current 37-cent per pack rate up...
Ga. Senate approves plan to boost broadband expansion
Georgia’s Public Service Commission is close to taking control of regulating the fees local electric membership co-ops can charge internet companies to use their...
State lawmakers put gambling back on the table, or at least online
Online sports betting and casino gambling might still be on the table as state lawmakers wind down Georgia’s 2020 legislative session.
The Senate Special Judiciary...
UPDATE: Georgia Senate cuts $2.6B from next year’s spending plan, $1B from k-12
The state Senate passed its version of next year’s shrunken spending plan Friday, with the vote falling along party lines.
Senate budget writers unveiled a proposal...
House hate crimes bill aired out in Senate for first time Thursday night
A hate crimes bill backed by a bipartisan group of Georgia politicians and the business and religious community received a long-awaited hearing on Thursday,...
Ga. lawmaker wants to refresh U.S. history with Juneteenth recognition
Marietta officials seemed unsure of the local NAACP’s plans for the first Juneteenth celebration now held nearly two decades ago.
“You weren’t that interested...
Proposed state laws that aim to de-escalate police conflicts stacking up
As protests continue across Georgia and the country over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers, state lawmakers are...
Arbery family meets with Trump, skips ‘police reform’ Rose Garden event
WASHINGTON — Relatives of Ahmaud Arbery met privately with President Donald Trump Tuesday, but did not attend a later Rose Garden event where Trump...