- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Serial:
- Legislative update.
- Title:
- Legislative update [Mar. 26, 2007]
- Creator:
- Georgia. Department of Technical and Adult Education
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Department of Technical and Adult Education
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia. Department of Technical and Adult Education
- Date of Original:
- 2007-03-26
- Subject:
- Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Began with Jan. 9, 2006.
Issued by Technical College System of Georgia, 2008-
Jan. 9, 2006; title from pdf of cover (GALILEO, viewed July 8,2008).
Mar. 7, 2008, viewed July 8, 2008. - External Identifiers:
- Call Number GA T500 .P1 L4 2007/3-26
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bt500-b-pp1-bl4-b2007-s3-h26-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bt500-b-pp1-bl4-b2007-s3-h26-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
-
2007 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education
The Week Ahead:
No committee meetings scheduled for the week of April 2.
Newsletters will resume the week of April 9.
Useful Links:
For more information on House and Senate members or to track legislation, logon to www.legis.state.ga.us
To access live committee meeting broadcasts in the House, logon to www.legis.state.ga.us, click on House, then select Georgia Legislative Network from the Daily Update which will provide a menu of broadcasts
Week of March 26, 2007
Lawmakers met Tuesday through Friday and completed 33 days of the legislative session. Both houses will return to work on April 10 for the 7 days that remain. Highlights for the past week include:
Tuesday, March 27 (the 30th day of the session), was "crossover day", the deadline for getting a piece of legislation adopted by the chamber where it was introduced. Bills that failed to cross from one chamber to the other by the end of the day have no chance to pass this year. However, the Senate will be forced to suspend its rules to accept the fiscal year 2008 budget once the House approves.
The House released its hold on the fiscal year 2007 amended budget and sent it to the Senate marked "urgent attention required". The House budget included the replacement of TANF funding for adult literacy, the KIA training request and $750,000 for roof repairs at Moultrie Technical College.
As expected, on Wednesday the Senate Appropriations Committee stripped what they considered "non-emergency" items in their version of the fiscal year 2007 amended budget. Unfortunately, the adult literacy TANF funding and the KIA training requests were among the items that were eliminated. The full Senate is expected to vote on the budget on April 10. Once the Senate approves the budget, a conference committee will be appointed to iron out the differences.
The Governor's HOPE Chest legislation (Senate Resolution 125), which restricts the use of lottery funds, passed out of the Senate by the required two-thirds majority on Tuesday.
House Resolutions 593 and 594, which commend our GOAL and Rick Perkins winners, were introduced by Higher Education Chairman Bill Hembree. Both Kayla Chaney and Paul Graham will be recognized on the House and Senate floors at a time and date to be determined.
Senate Bill 111, which allows the University System to carry forward tuition revenues from fiscal year to fiscal year, was heard by Chairman Bob Smith in the House Higher Education Subcommittee of Appropriations on Tuesday. The committee decided to delay action on the bill until further work can be done to study the impact of the legislation.
For questions regarding information contained in this bulletin, contact Laura Gammage lgammage@dtae.org (404) 374-6557