ATLANTA (July 8, 2020) | Sen. Brian Strickland (R – McDonough) announced $6.7 million in bond financing in the 2021 Fiscal Year Budget for the site acquisition, design and construction of the Center for Education and Entrepreneurship at Southern Crescent Technical College in McDonough. The facility will be located near the entrance of the current Southern Crescent Campus in McDonough where an abandoned strip mall is located at Lakemont Drive and Highway 81.
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ATLANTA (July 7, 2020) | Sen. Bruce Thompson (R – White) was recently appointed to the Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board by SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza.
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ATLANTA (June 29, 2020) | Today, Sen. Lester Jackson (D – Savannah) released the following statement concerning the General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 426:
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ATLANTA (June 25, 2020) | State Senator Tonya Anderson (D – Lithonia) announced today that her authored bill, Senate Bill 288 passed unanimously in both the Senate and the House on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The legislation was carried in the House by Representative Houston Gaines (R – Athens). SB 288 would require that an individual’s criminal history record information be restricted when the charges have been dismissed, or there has been a disposition of the charges. This legislation is now headed to Governor Brian Kemp for consideration.
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ATLANTA (June 23, 2020) | Today, President Pro Tempore Butch Miller (R – Gainesville) released the following statement regarding the General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 426:
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