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March 11, 2009
March 10, 2009
- Grocery tax hike 99 percent dead'
- Senate passes English-only driver's license exams
- House adopts massive health overhaul
- House votes to protect access to generic drugs
- House bill would deputize county health inspectors
March 9, 2009
- Grocery sales taxes making a comeback for visitors
- Corporate tax break axed from House package
- UPDATED: House approves stiffer penalties for 'superspeeders'
- Senate committee passes bill that would restrict stem cell research
March 6, 2009
March 5, 2009
- A boost for the ACT
- Charter schools could see rent break
- Top teachers could keep bonuses
- Senate panel sends 'octuplet mom' bill to study committee
- UPDATED: Richardson wants to give state leaders power to perform marriages
- House sets new calendar; session to end in April
- UPDATED: Legislature to meet Monday
March 4, 2009
- Sunday sales bill withdrawn
- House kills homestead hike
- House, like Senate, votes to require voters prove citizenship
- Bill would prohibit octuplet mother scenario in Georgia
- House votes to give math, science teachers more money
- Senator introduces ethics bill on tax evasion
March 3, 2009
- House goes 3-for-3 on transportation
- Senate passes stricter voter registration requirements
- UPDATED: House approves first transportation bill; two more to go
- Dems force changes to transportation overhaul
- Perdue to announce stimulus budget
- UPDATED: Dems make gains on transportation bills?
March 2, 2009
- University system could furlough, raise tuition
- Transportation reorganization bill comes before Senate this week
- Legislative session could end earlier than expected
February 27, 2009
February 26, 2009
- Senate passes property assessment cap
- House adopts amended 2009 budget
- House is on the budget
- Senate passes revisions to trauma care commission
- Senate passes ethics bill on campaign contributions
- Senate approves liquor sales close to public housing
- UPDATE: Georgia Power bill headed to governor
- Georgia Power up now!
- Deaf child wows House
- Long day begins in House
- Voucher bill advances to Senate
February 25, 2009
- Sunday sales vote delayed
- Failure to wear a seat belt could be used against you
- Perdue talks stimulus with state agency heads
- High schoolers could go to college early
- Physical assessments for students OK'd by House
- Governor could remove school board members, under bill passed by Senate Wednesday
February 24, 2009
- Teacher bonuses still in play
- House advances scholarship credit bill
- Senate passes bill cracking down on illegal immigration
- Bills would give lawmakers subpoena power
- State cuts few jobs, but furloughs 25,000
- Bill would allow use of multiple standard parking spaces for the disabled
February 23, 2009
- Senator calls for tougher standards for no-knock warrants
- Candidates to see contribution caps increased
February 20, 2009
February 19, 2009
February 18, 2009
- Senate passes food testing disclosure law in response to salmonella outbreak
- Senate passes foreclosure and assessment law
- MARTA chief: No new expansion through stimulus
February 17, 2009
- Perdue changes tune on homeowner relief grants
- Farmers push peanuts at the Capitol
- HR 1 just ... won't ... die
- U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson says spend stimulus wisely
- UPDATED Georgia's Big Three plan 1:30 budget announcement
February 16, 2009
February 12, 2009
- Freshman senator hazed on first bill
- Assessment cap shot down in House
- Senate passes seatbelt law for pickups
February 11, 2009
- Senate committee approves bill for food safety in wake of salmonella outbreak
- Senate committee debates failing school boards
- Senate approves Georgia Power bill
- HR 1 to return from exile
- Lawmaker defends academic freedom in sex expert spat
- House panel advanced bill offering life with parole
February 10, 2009
- Plea for F-22 Raptor in the Legislature
- Klesko honored by House
- Senate votes to end homeowner grants
- House continues tax break for jet fuel
- One senator wants permanent property tax grants
- House Dems see $1 billion in untapped sales tax
- Teilhet calls for tougher rules for 'refund anticipation loans'
February 6, 2009
- Senate leaders look down on stimulus relief
- State tax collections off 14 percent
- UPDATED THROUGHOUT: Senators vote to double homestead exemption
- House votes to leave in March, return in June
- UPDATED THROUGHOUT: Lawmaker rails against university sex experts
February 5, 2009
- Senate OKs student-administered EpiPens in school
- Boll weevil eradication
- House moves to protect HOPE book grant
February 4, 2009
- Lottery director grilled over bonus
- Early negotiations key to transportation sales tax
- Senator wants "plane train" from Atlanta to Chattanooga
- Lottery sells big in bad economy
- Senate votes to limit some life insurance practices
- Bill would offer home buyers a tax credit
- Tech schools seek $365 million
February 3, 2009
- Senators ask Congress for reservoir in national forest
- Senate passes more options for murder punishment
- Senate passes regional transportation sales tax proposal
- Herding cats, er, lawmakers
- Richardson climbing the charts
February 2, 2009
- A move to cut DOT's control over aviation
- Senator introduces universal school voucher bill
- State workers likely to face more furloughs
- UPDATED HR 1 or no HR 1?
January 30, 2009
- Senator introduces food safety bill in response to peanut butter salmonella outbreak
- Tuxedos vs. blue jeans in the Senate
- Here we go
- This might not take that long after all
- This might not take that long after all
- The fun starts today
January 29, 2009
- Senate passes its first bill
- Keen touts tax legislation
- A plea and a prayer for peanut butter
- Bill would give districts calendar flexibility
- Strip club fee in the works
- UPDATED: Action coming to the House ... soon
January 28, 2009
- Revision of trauma network commission in the works
- More than 2,600 take scholarship tax credit
- An anti-corruption proposal: make state contractors report campaign dollars
- Lawmakers seek tougher food safety rules
- Lonely attempt to merge historically black colleges
January 27, 2009
- Don't ignore foreclosures when valuing property
- Property tax grant could die next year
- Democrat proposes statewide transportation tax
- Action is elsewhere
January 26, 2009
- A powerful message for trauma care
- Senate Republicans support homestead grants
- Senator proposes sales tax for transportation
- Rainy days and Mondays
January 22, 2009
January 21, 2009
January 16, 2009
- Johnson preparing voucher bill
- Bill to give new fees to Georgia Power introduced
- Collins, back from Iraq, returns to House
- Ehrhart proposes changes to to scholarship tax credits
January 15, 2009
- Williams to reintroduce slavery resolution
- Georgia hasn't seen the bottom yet
- Extra fees for Georgia power's nuclear plant
- Another bald (eagle) head at the Capitol
- Senators held hands, listened to Bishop Eddie Long
- Strip club patrons safe another day
- Bill would encourage doctors to take Medicaid
January 14, 2009
- On the Road to Reform at DOT
- Skepticism on New Hospital Fees
- 'This is not the tallest mountain'
- Perdue doesn't take sides on transportation
- Perdue: Add fees to fund Medicaid and trauma
- Perdue: Reform Human Resources
- Here comes the chief, er, governor
- Perdue: think long term
- What's the state of the state?
January 13, 2009
- Trauma Care Plea
- Ralston's fate still undecided
- Eggs and issues, Sonny side up
- Day two: Twice as fun
January 12, 2009
- Happy Birthday, Dear Leaders
- Senate offers money for oil wells
- Williams takes Senate post
- 'Hawks' delay rules adoption
- Representatives to hang it up
- Cagle lays down the law
- With little suspense, Richardson re-elected
- Senate under way as well
- Bells are ringing
- Tick, tick, tick ...
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