Tip sheet: The matter of an ‘official state dog’
Number of working days left until the end of the 2015 session of the General Assembly: 14
House and Senate convene at 10 a.m. today The calendars for both chambers contain mostly low-profile bills. The Senate is expected to pass H.B. 292, helps catch state code up with federal tax law changes.
Lawmakers are rushing it to get it done in before the IRS tax filing deadline. The bill has been modified slightly, so this would not be final passage.
Suspense is building for a 1 p.m. press conference with Rep. Joe Wilkinson, R-Sandy Springs, who will introduce legislation designating an official state dog. Wilkinson has not revealed the breed. But let us posit here, and I say this with a UGA degree in hand, that the genetically fragile bulldog would be something of a cliché. A brown-eyed, common hound dog would be more populist, from a crass and electoral point of view, but we are open-minded.
In committees, cityhood is the theme of the day. The House Governmental Affairs Committee will discuss the proposed cities of Tucker, LaVista Hills and South Fulton. Another South Fulton bill will be discussed in the Senate State and Local Government Operations Committee. The Senate Education and Youth Committee will also take up H.B. 91, which would eliminate the Georgia High School Graduation Test.
About the Author
Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
