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Lawmakers Approve Major Tax Plan, Still Reviewing Several Tax Breaks

Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: Post Crossover Day 2018 A range of tax bills are still in the ...
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Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage Solution

State lawmakers introduced several bills this year aiming to improve access to health care in rural Georgia. Six ...
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All Georgians Stand to Lose from Immigrant Crackdown Measure

Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that poses serious risk to the state’s immigrant community and could harm ...
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Bill Proposes Grant for Working Georgia College Students with Financial Need

Bill Analysis: Senate Bill 405 (LC 21 5954 S, AM 21 3929) Georgia needs more people with higher ...
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Lawmakers Push to Shift Public Money to Private Schools

Georgia lawmakers seem determined to subsidize private schools with public dollars. Witness several bills in the 2018 General ...
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Crossover Day Delivers Mixed Bag for Education, Tax Policy

Legislation to allow the use of state money for private schools stalled on Crossover Day 2018, while a ...
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Time for Lawmakers to Choose Students Over Tax Cuts

Lawmakers are racing to pass a risky tax package that drains $1.4 billion a year from the state ...
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Private School Savings Accounts Lack Oversight, Could Prove Costly

Bill Analysis: House Bill 482 (LC 33 7253S) Georgia lawmakers are considering a plan to allow parents to ...
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Invest in College Students Like They Invest in Themselves

Lizzie Mathias balances a full-time course load at Middle Georgia State University’s campus in Macon, works about 40 ...
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Lawmakers Might Come to Regret Georgia’s Risky Tax Plan

Bill Analysis: House Bill 918 Substitute (LC 34 5383-ECS); Feb. 22, 2018 Georgia leaders are now rushing a ...
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Governor’s Tax Plan Carries $1 Billion Price

– GBPI press statement issued Feb. 20 in response to governor’s revised tax cut plan introduced earlier that ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services

Foster Care Services Get Increases for Foster Parents, Child Placement Agencies Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $788 million Department ...

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