Number of working days left until the end of the 2015 session of the General Assembly: 15
The House and Senate will convene at 10 a.m. Most of the morning action is in the House, which is set to debate eight bills, including H.B. 71, which would require greater transparency from the Pardon and Paroles Board. That bill had been scheduled to come up Monday, but lawmakers ran out of time.
Also on the calendar is H.B. 190, which would require popular ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft to have insurance for their drivers. The ride-sharing services will come up again in a 2 p.m. committee meeting where lawmakers will discuss further regulating drivers.
The House will also take up H.B. 147, which would allow drivers to choose to register their car for two years instead of one; and H.B. 315, which would change the name of the Technical College System of Georgia to the Georgia Career College System. The bill is not a hit with former technical college leaders.
The Senate calendar has four lower profile bills including S.B. 89, which would eventually require schools to provide instructional materials in digital or electronic format.
Outside the state Capitol, look for a 2:30 p.m., Georgia-Baptist driven rally in support of the Legislature's two "religious liberty" bills. S.B. 129, sponsored by state Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, had been hung up in Senate Judiciary Committee -- until Monday, when a lightning-quick untabling of the stalled measure caught Democrats by surprise.
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