With eight calendar days left before adjournment, the Senate today will vote on monuments and tax breaks.
The chamber will take up HB 702, the bill to give the Ten Commandments a place on the state Capitol grounds, and HB 1080, the measure to do the same thing for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. To the latter bill, a Senate committee has added language decreeing that the MLK remembrance be "placed as soon as practicable but not before the state has been granted any intellectual license necessary for purposes of this Code section" – an acknowledgement of that awkwardly timed letter the King family sent to Gov. Nathan Deal last week.
The Senate will also take up measures tax breaks to back-to-school shoppers, video-game developments and people building huge regional development projects. A Senate committee will take up HB 990, which would require legislative approval for expanding Medicaid, and the medical marijuana bill.
The House Governmental Affairs committee will take up the controversial bill to create a city of Lakeside.
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