The Fentanyl Eradication and Removal Act, which originated in the Georgia Senate, would impose a range of mandatory minimum sentences on convicted traffickers in fentanyl. The smallest amounts covered ...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Senate passed a $37.7 billion fiscal 2026 state budget Friday that will require some compromises with the state House of Representatives on state spending, particularly on ...

Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns made the IVF bill one of his top priorities for the 2025 General Assembly session. The bill was introduced on the speaker’s behalf by Rep. Lehman Franklin, R-Statesboro ...

In a last-minute legislative maneuver, Georgia Senate Republicans have revived a measure that seeks to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the state’s schools and colleges. These programs ...

As introduced in the state Senate, the bill focused on obscene AI-generated images of children. But the version of Senate Bill 9 the House passed 152-12 instead criminalizes using AI in audio or video ...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Senate’s Republican majority voted along party lines Thursday to investigate groups founded by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams after they agreed to pay ...

ATLANTA – Georgia Senate budget writers advanced a $37.7 billion fiscal 2026 spending plan that invests heavily in prisons and education.

Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, has made codifying IVF protections into Georgia law a priority for this year’s General Assembly session. The Senate voted 53-1 to pass HB 428, but the ...

Georgia’s labor force decreased in February by 11,681 to just below 5.4 million. The number of employed Georgians fell during the month by 10,772 to almost 5.2 million. On the plus side, the ranks of ...

ATLANTA – A sweeping school safety bill in reaction to the mass shooting at Apalachee High School last fall cleared a Senate committee Thursday, keeping it in play just ahead of the deadline for final ...

Delaying puberty reduces bone density and can cause problems with “mental capabilities,” he said without elaborating. Dr. Shirley Hao said she was speaking for the Georgia Chapter of the American ...

ATLANTA – Georgia’s two U.S. senators and two members of the U.S. House from South Georgia Wednesday reintroduced legislation to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as the state’s first national park.