After a slow start, the Georgia Senate breezed through the first half-dozen bills on its crossover day calendar Thursday morning.
Moving quickly through largely uncontroversial bills aiding in the finding of missing people with medical problems, creating a new judgeship in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit and making medical identity fraud a crime, among others.
Thursday is the 30th day of the legislative session, called crossover day because it is the final day when a bill originating in one chamber must pass that chamber and move to the next or be considered dead for the remainder of the 40-day session.
While a long day is predicted for the House, senators already are looking toward lunch when the Rules Committee will meet to set the calendar for Monday when the chamber will take up House legislation.
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