“This is not getting rid of the death penalty,” said Rep. Tyler Paul Smith, R-Bremen, whose House Judiciary Committee (Non-Civil) took up the bill. “This ensures our criminal justice system operates ...

In 2016, lawmakers passed another such measure over objections by civil rights groups that it threatened the state’s LGBTQ community. Business organizations fretted over the risk of convention and ...

House Bill 211 would shield from legal liability companies that have used PFAS chemicals, typically to make fabric stain resistant and fire retardant, while holding companies that produce the ...

Children of active duty military parents would be able to obtain one of Georgia’s new private education tuition subsidies without having to first attend an underperforming public school, under a ...

The Georgia Senate adopted legislation Tuesday that would make it a felony to distribute computer-generated obscenity that appears to depict a child, even one that isn’t real. Senate Bill 9, which ...

It’s unusual for a legislative chamber to pass two bills on the same subject during the same session. Powell said that was done because the state Senate hasn’t been willing to address speed-detection ...

House Bill 268, which cleared the House 159-13, is a top priority for House Speaker Jon Burns. It’s chief sponsor is Rep. Holt Persinger, R-Winder, whose district includes Apalachee High School, where ...

Librarians have been exempted from Georgia’s “harmful to minors” law since the mid-1980s. Republican state senators have been trying to remove that exemption for several years. The party-line 32-23 ...

ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia is looking to the private sector to lead Albany State University. The system’s Board of Regents voted Monday to name business executive Robert Scott as ...

ATLANTA – The General Assembly gave final passage Monday to a record $40.5 billion mid-year budget that prioritizes hurricane relief and prisons. The mid-year budget, which covers state spending ...

The Georgia Senate adopted a measure Monday that prohibits the state from providing medical care to inmates seeking to change their sex. Senate Bill 185 passed 37-15, with support from a handful of ...

The Georgia Senate passed legislation Monday that would ban puberty blockers, which would affect children who want to change their gender. Senate Bill 30 was adopted 34-19 Monday in a near party-line ...