Gov. Brian Kemp has beaten the deadline for signing legislation the General Assembly passed this year with a flurry of bill signing. Kemp signed 120 bills on Wednesday, including Senate Bill 244, which combines provisions from two measures related to the criminal justice system that had failed to gain passage earlier in the session. The original bill will allow criminal defendants to recover legal costs when their prosecutor is disqualified and the case against them is dismissed. The second portion of the measure overhauls the system of compensating the wrongly convicted in Georgia.
Kemp also signed legislation that requires police agencies to accept a digital version of Georgia drivers’ licenses. On Tuesday, the next-to-last day for bill signing, the governor inked a measure expanding the state’s child care tax credit.
