Senate Bill 68 passed 91-82 – the minimum number of votes needed to approve legislation in the 180-member House – with several House Democrats supporting it and several Republicans voting against it.

The Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed the state Senate along party lines earlier this month. A committee of the House of Representatives spent four hours vetting the proposal on ...

House Bill 428, which the state House of Representatives passed unanimously last month, was prompted by an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last year declaring that frozen embryos created through IVF ...

ATLANTA – Lawyers representing civil rights and voting rights groups asked the Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday to uphold a lower-court ruling that invalidated seven controversial changes to state ...

One amendment, by Rep. Saira Draper, D-Atlanta, would reduce the measure’s scope. The version that passed the Senate last month had set the threshold for a compliance impact analysis at $1 million, ...

ATLANTA – A bill that would ban cellphones in all of Georgia’s public elementary and middle schools has cleared another hurdle toward becoming law. House Bill 340 passed a Senate committee on Tuesday ...

ATLANTA – Comprehensive tort reform legislation Gov. Brian Kemp has made his top priority for the 2025 General Assembly session cleared a committee in the Georgia House of Representatives Tuesday.

Counties and local governments may push back as land is taken off their tax digest, Katherine Moore, president of the Georgia Conservancy, told the committee when it met last year. Other states, such ...

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp named a Southwest Georgia businesswoman Tuesday to serve as the state’s 11th labor commissioner. Barbara Rivera Holmes will step down next week from her role as president and ...

ATLANTA – A human resources company serving small and medium-sized businesses will build a new corporate center in Dunwoody, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Tuesday. TriNet will invest $15.4 million in the ...

ATLANTA – Both sides of the controversial tort reform issue got their say at the Georgia Capitol Thursday, not on either the state House or Senate floors but in the hallways under the Gold Dome.

ATLANTA – All 1,100 sworn officers at the Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) will receive training from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help identify and apprehend illegal ...