by Dave Williams | Feb 22, 2024 | James Magazine
The state Senate passed a $37.5 billion midyear budget Thursday that increases spending by $5 billion, including $2 billion from an unprecedented $16 billion surplus. The legislation, which sailed through the Senate 54-1, represents a 9.4% increase over the fiscal...
by Dave Williams | Feb 21, 2024 | James Magazine
Legislation putting guardrails around Georgia’s popular film tax credit cleared a state House subcommittee Tuesday. House Bill 1180, which a House Ways and Means subcommittee approved unanimously, would require film production companies to meet at least four of...
by Dave Williams | Feb 20, 2024 | News, News 2
Georgia legislative leaders’ pledge to rein in some of the state’s generous tax breaks to industry is starting with the most expensive on the books: the film tax credit. A bill introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives earlier this month would require...
by Dave Williams | Feb 12, 2024 | News, News 2
Two years ago, the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed legislation letting parents petition school principals to ban from school libraries books they consider obscene. This year, the state Senate is considering two additional bills aimed at making it...
by Dave Williams | Feb 7, 2024 | James Magazine
The Georgia House of Representatives gave final passage Tuesday to legislation adding a long list of offenses ineligible for no-cash bail. The Republican controlled House voted 97-69 along party lines to adopt a conference committee report on Senate Bill 63...