What to expect from the 2024 legislative session.
Lawmakers at the Georgia state Capitol throw scraps of paper in the air as the 2023 legislative session closed on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)
236 lawmakers, their staff, lobbyists, and journalists are ready to descend on the Georgia Capitol for 2024’s 40-day legislative session! Boojah!
The session kicks off today, just a few weeks since the Special Session saw state Republicans codify new political maps and only a few weeks before our presidential primary. And it kicks off just down the street from the courthouse where former President Trump and more than a dozen other defendants are about to face charges in Fulton County’s sweeping election interference case.
SO, WHAT’S ON DECK FOR THIS YEAR’S SESSION?
Passing an annual budget, the only constitutional requirement of our General Assembly. This budget funds state schools, parks, and prisons; our public health system, some policing, and professional licensing; the regulation of car insurance, utilities, and banking; and the salaries of 200,000 state employees and teachers.
Wrapping up last year’s unfinished business, including codifying the definition of antisemitism, providing basic protections for renters, a mental health care bill, and the legalization of online sports betting.
ADDITIONALLY, STATE REPUBLICANS LOOK TO:
Pass additional income tax cuts, heading, it seems, toward Lt. Gov’s Burt Jones’ goal of eventually dissolving our state income tax.
Provide bonuses to state employees, like teachers.
AND STATE DEMOCRATS HOPE TO:
Expand Medicaid in collaboration with state Republican interested in reforming hospital regulations and exploring the Arkansas coverage model.
Improve gun safety by offering a $300 tax credit to encourage safe firearms storage around children.
MEANWHILE, PAST ISSUES MAY BE REVISITED:
Private-school vouchers for students in underperforming public schools.
Restricting abortion medication sent through the mail.
Changing Georgia’s runoff system.
Restricting absentee ballot voting.
Rolling back Georgia’s use of electronic voting machines.
JD JORDAN FOR GEORGIA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 56
For anyone in East Cobb, Roswell, or Woodstock alarmed by the state’s escalating attacks on our bodies, our families, our doctors’ offices, our classrooms and libraries, even our polling places, I’m running for state senate district 56 to fight for our freedoms and to deliver a better future for everyone in Georgia.
And unlike my opponent who’s spent 14 years rolling back our freedoms, failing to safeguard our kids, and gerrymandered his district to stay in office, I promise to bring everyone in the 56—regardless of ideology—the best possible constituent experience so you feel heard, valued, and supported. As we all deserve to be.
I’m running for the 56. Let’s make a better Georgia for all of us.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
Jordan For Georgia, LLC
10800 Alpharetta Hwy Ste 208 #629
Roswell, GA 30076-1467
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