ATLANTA (March 8, 2022) | Senator Nikki Merritt qualified for re-election to Georgia Senate District 9 at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, March 7, 2022 at the Georgia State Capitol.
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ATLANTA (March 7, 2022) | Today, Senate Bill 545 authored by Sen. Sonya Halpern (D – Atlanta), was successfully reported out of the Senate Committee on Education and Youth.
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ATLANTA (May 10, 2022) | Yesterday, Senate Bill 361, known as the Law Enforcement Strategic Support (or LESS Crime) Act, sponsored by Sen. Larry Walker (R – Perry), was signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp.
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By: Sen. Mike Dugan (R – Carrollton)
After the General Election of 2020, there was not a single concern brought to the attention of the legislature more frequently than enacting more serious protections for Georgia’s election security. Your legislators listened to these concerns earnestly and took sensible steps to remedy what were perceived as gaps in Georgia’s election laws. While the Senate and the House brought a number of proposals forward during the 2021 Legislative Session, many were vetted and consolidated into a single legislative measure – Senate Bill 202. The proposals considered to be included into SB 202 were not created in a vacuum or behind closed doors. This bill incorporates ideas brought to us by both parties and serves one singular purpose: to make it easier to vote, but harder to cheat.
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By: Sen. Mike Dugan (R – Carrollton)
Earlier this session, my fellow Majority Caucus members and I laid out our vision for a productive legislative session. Our priorities, as you recall, were reflections of the needs and desires of Georgians all across Georgia. They were not targeted at one political ideology or another, one geographic location or another, or those of one socio-economic background or another. These were priorities designed for Georgians, by Georgians to solve very complex Georgia-specific issues. Several of these measures made it across the finish line before our final day of session on April 4, some with bipartisan support. Others, meanwhile, failed to gain the traction necessary to advance this year, but will remain at the top of our list once the legislative session resumes in January.
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