House Minority Whip Sam Park, D-Lawrenceville, amended the bill Wednesday to increase the tax rate on proceeds from sports betting from 20% to 24%. Doing so would raise an additional $40 million a ...

Solar panels have been cropping up on farms across Georgia in recent years. House Bill 249 would require that solar panels be removed from properties upon the termination of the operator’s lease and ...

ATLANTA – U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, filed paperwork Wednesday creating an exploratory committee for a potential race for governor next year. “Georgians deserve a governor who understands what ...

In 2016, lawmakers passed another such measure over objections by civil rights groups that it threatened the state’s LGBTQ community. Business organizations fretted over the risk of convention and ...

“This is not getting rid of the death penalty,” said Rep. Tyler Paul Smith, R-Bremen, whose House Judiciary Committee (Non-Civil) took up the bill. “This ensures our criminal justice system operates ...

House Bill 211 would shield from legal liability companies that have used PFAS chemicals, typically to make fabric stain resistant and fire retardant, while holding companies that produce the ...

House Bill 268, which cleared the House 159-13, is a top priority for House Speaker Jon Burns. It’s chief sponsor is Rep. Holt Persinger, R-Winder, whose district includes Apalachee High School, where ...

Children of active duty military parents would be able to obtain one of Georgia’s new private education tuition subsidies without having to first attend an underperforming public school, under a ...

The Georgia Senate adopted legislation Tuesday that would make it a felony to distribute computer-generated obscenity that appears to depict a child, even one that isn’t real. Senate Bill 9, which ...

It’s unusual for a legislative chamber to pass two bills on the same subject during the same session. Powell said that was done because the state Senate hasn’t been willing to address speed-detection ...

Librarians have been exempted from Georgia’s “harmful to minors” law since the mid-1980s. Republican state senators have been trying to remove that exemption for several years. The party-line 32-23 ...

The Georgia Senate passed legislation Monday that would ban puberty blockers, which would affect children who want to change their gender. Senate Bill 30 was adopted 34-19 Monday in a near party-line ...