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Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage Solution
+ Full Article: Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage SolutionState lawmakers introduced several bills this year aiming to improve access to health care in rural Georgia. Six rural Georgia hospitals closed since 2013 and the state’s high rate of uninsured means many people in rural communities lack health coverage. The House Rural Development Council, created in 2017 to study the problem, traveled across the…
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All Georgians Stand to Lose from Immigrant Crackdown Measure
+ Full Article: All Georgians Stand to Lose from Immigrant Crackdown MeasureGeorgia lawmakers are considering a bill that poses serious risk to the state’s immigrant community and could harm local governments and the state’s economy if enacted into law. Senate Bill 452 cleared the state Senate late last month and is now pending in the House Public Safety and Homeland Security committee. The measure requires Georgia’s…
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Crossover Day Delivers Mixed Bag for Education, Tax Policy
+ Full Article: Crossover Day Delivers Mixed Bag for Education, Tax PolicyLegislation to allow the use of state money for private schools stalled on Crossover Day 2018, while a proposal to give students more time to qualify as HOPE scholars also now faces a more convoluted path to passage. Meanwhile, a risky tax cut package designed to reduce Georgia revenues by $1.4 billion once fully phased…
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Lawmakers Might Come to Regret Georgia’s Risky Tax Plan
+ Full Article: Lawmakers Might Come to Regret Georgia’s Risky Tax PlanBill Analysis: House Bill 918 Substitute (LC 34 5383-ECS); Feb. 22, 2018 Georgia leaders are now rushing a massive tax package through the state’s General Assembly with limited debate and without a clear tally of the plan’s true cost. Gov. Nathan Deal and legislative leaders introduced a revised tax package Feb. 20, 2018, designed to…
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Governor’s Tax Plan Carries $1 Billion Price
+ Full Article: 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 day: “Gov. Nathan Deal’s rushed tax cut plan is worrisome because slashing the income tax rate holds the potential for unintended consequences. Nobody knows what the effect of December’s federal tax cuts will be on Georgia next year…
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
+ Full Article: Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental DisabilitiesGov. Nathan Deal’s budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year adds $50.6 million more than last year’s budget in state general funds for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. The budget directs $14.9 million in state funds toward waiver programs and community support services. This helps continue implementation of a 2010 settlement with…
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Community Health
+ Full Article: Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Community HealthGov. Nathan Deal proposes a 2019 budget of $2.79 billion in state general funds for the Department of Community Health. This is an increase of $249.2 million from the 2018 fiscal year, mostly to replace non-recurring court settlement funds in last year’s budget and to offset a decrease in the federal matching rate for Medicaid.…
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Overview of Georgia’s 2019 Fiscal Year Budget
+ Full Article: Overview of Georgia’s 2019 Fiscal Year BudgetThe $26 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2019 fiscal year starting July 1, 2018 lays out Georgia’s spending priorities for the coming year. It represents a $1.03 billion increase in total state spending over the 2018 budget approved last year. The budget is based on a very lean estimated growth…
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Fast facts on Georgia’s coverage gap
+ Full Article: Fast facts on Georgia’s coverage gapUpdated Jan 17, 2019 Georgia’s Health Coverage Gap State lawmakers can put an insurance card in the pockets of 473,000 Georgians by bringing home money from the federal government to pay for coverage. About 240,000 Georgians make too little to get financial help to buy health insurance on the Marketplace and don’t currently qualify for Medicaid.…
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