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DEL.ICIO.USUPDATED: Action coming to the House … soon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Day 9 of the 2009 General Assembly and the Georgia House could see its first action on actual legislation today.
It’s a fairly innocuous bill, but HB 117 has been approved for consideration by the almighty House Rules Committee, the gatekeeper to a floor vote.
The bill, co-sponsored by Republican and Democratic leaders cleans up some language in the state code, making consistent the names of a couple of House and Senate committees. Still, it’s a sign that bigger and better things are on their way to the floor.
Speaking of which … HB 143, the bill dealing with the homeowner tax relief grants, is on the House’s general calendar, meaning it has made it out of committee. The Rules Committee is meeting as this is written and 143, as well as the constitutional amendment, HR 1, which deals with freezing property assessments, are being discussed. Both bills could come up on the floor on Friday.
When those do come up, we could see the first actual floor debate of the year.
UPDATE: The Rules Committee just voted to put HR 1 and HB 143 on the calendar for Friday, meaning both bills should come up for debate and vote. One amendment was approved for the resolution. There was opposition to both, but Ehrhart gave the vote to the supporters.
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