General Assembly

The committee’s work follows stalemated attempts during this year’s General Assembly session to both increase the potency of medical marijuana and ban hemp beverages.

The state ended fiscal year 2025 with a healthy budget surplus, but the impact of the federal budget cuts remains uncertain.

A slew of new laws passed during the last session of the General Assembly take effect July 1st

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.

Under the program, every high school senior in Georgia receives a personalized letter from the governor listing the public universities, colleges, and technical colleges he or she is academically eligible to attend.

The ban goes into effect in the summer of 2026. School districts have until January to write policies and procedures for locking up students’ phones from the first bell in the morning to the last one in the afternoon.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a $37.7 billion fiscal 2026 state budget Friday, a spending plan that prioritizes education and prisons.

Georgia’s rural hospitals tax credit program is continuing to prove popular with Georgians who want to help financially struggling hospitals across the state in return for a tax break.

House Speaker Jon Burns has announced the creation of three blue-ribbon study committees to consider further reforms to Georgia’s election procedures and examine the state’s hemp policies and insurance rates.

Children and adolescents won’t be allowed to use personal cellphones in public schools starting next fall after the General Assembly overwhelmingly supported banning the devices in elementary and middle schools.