6 days ago · ATLANTA - The signs are clear as Georgia lawmakers prepare to resume the 2025 General Assembly session on Monday after a weeklong recess: Gov. Brian Kemp is making tort reform a high priority. Even before the session began two weeks ago, Kemp issued a …

3 days ago · ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp unveiled comprehensive tort reform legislation Thursday aimed at reining in huge jury verdicts Republicans say are making it hard for Georgia citizens and businesses to afford insurance premiums. “Georgians should have every opportunity to pursue their constitutionally ...

5 days ago · ATLANTA – Georgia Chief Justice Michael Boggs used his annual State of the Judiciary address to members of the General Assembly Tuesday to plug two bills raising the salaries of superior court and statewide judges. “An independent judiciary must be able to attract and retain qualified jurists ...

Jan 24, 2025 · ATLANTA – The signs are clear as Georgia lawmakers prepare to resume the 2025 General Assembly session on Monday after a weeklong recess: Gov. Brian Kemp is making tort reform a high priority. Even before the session began two weeks ago, Kemp issued a call for tort reform in a speech to newly ...

Jan 13, 2025 · ATLANTA – The General Assembly gaveled into session Monday with the usual pageantry and little of the heavy lifting that will be required to make it through the 40-day session. House lawmakers voted 153-21 to reelect Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, to preside over the chamber during the next two ...

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6 days ago · ATLANTA – State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the U.S. Justice Department harshly criticized in an …

5 days ago · Georgia student scores mostly unchanged in national test. by Ty Tagami | Jan 29, 2025 | Capitol Beat News Service. ATLANTA – Scores on a biennial federal test for Georgia fourth and eighth graders show that students on the whole are not progressing enough to regain academic losses sustained during the pandemic.

Jan 7, 2025 · ATLANTA – The celebration of the life of former President Jimmy Carter moved from Atlanta to the nation’s capitol Tuesday, with a day full of pageantry capped by a memorial service inside the Capitol Rotunda. The nation’s top political leaders praised the many accomplishments of Georgia’s ...

Nov 8, 2024 · ATLANTA – Georgia voters have reasserted the Peach State’s bona fides as a Republican stronghold. Four years after losing to Democrat Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in Georgia, former President Donald Trump captured the state’s 16 electoral votes Nov. 5 by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by more than 117,000 votes.