You can sense the strategery that's erupting throughout the state Capitol, all tied to the debut of the House transportation funding package.
There will be many more, but one of the first plays we've spotted is H.B. 110, a measure by state Rep. Jay Roberts, R-Ocilla, on Tuesday – just one day before House leadership dropped its initiative on finding $1 billion a year in new spending for roads and transit.
Roberts is chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and will be shepherding the transportation funding bill through his chamber.
H.B. 110 would legalize real fireworks in Georgia. Not the sparklers currently allowed, but the major eye-catchers and – the medical community surely will assert – finger-removers.
The liberation of fireworks in Georgia has been a major cause for state Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga. Who is the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee and a former chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Mullis will determine whether the House transportation funding bill gets a floor vote – and will have a large say in what it will look like if it does.
Let the bargaining begin.
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