This week the General Assembly convened Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 9 through 12. Legislative and committee action began to pick up substantially this week, with dozens of bills being introduced in each chamber every day this week. Committees that did not already hold their first meeting to adopt rules did so this week, and those that had already held organizational meetings began hearing and voting on bills.
The pace of the session will likely pick up dramatically in the coming weeks, This week the legislature convened for its second full week of the 2023 Legislative Session after meeting for budget hearings last week. The House and Senate were in session Monday through Thursday for Legislative Days 5 through 8. Several committees held meetings for the first time this week, though the majority were purely organizational, convened for the purpose of adopting the committee’s rules for the next two years.
The General Assembly will be back in session Monday through Thursday again next This week the General Assembly was not in session to allow the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to hold AFY23 and FY24 budget hearings. With Senate Appropriations Chairman Blake Tillery (R-Vidalia) and newly selected House Appropriations Chairman Matt Hatchett (R-Dublin) at the helm, Governor Kemp kicked off the three days of hearings on Tuesday morning with a presentation of his administration’s budget recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year. Each state agency head went on to present its Legislators from all corners of the state descended upon Atlanta this week for the beginning of the 2023-2024 Legislative Session. Both the House and Senate gaveled in for a relatively brief session on Monday to swear in members of the General Assembly, and then a number of legislators hopped on a plane to watch the Georgia Bulldogs become back-to-back national champions that evening. After being in recess on Tuesday, the legislature met again on Wednesday through Friday, convening for Legislative Days
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