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Crossover Day in the Georgia Legislature
by Decius at 11:41 am EDT, Mar 27, 2007 |
A push to legalize the Sunday sale of alcohol topped a list of bills that likely died in the Georgia Legislature on Monday. The bills including a proposed hate crimes law, plans for Confederate History Month and Gov. Sonny Perdue's effort to clarify that church groups may receive state money were not among the ones that made it onto the Senate calendar for Tuesday. WSB's Capitol Reporter Sandra Parrish reports Tuesday is the so-called Crossover Day in the Legislature. That's the 30th day of the 40-day session and the last on which a bill may pass in one chamber to be considered by the other.
While I'm not happy that they aren't fixing Georgia's silly Sunday alcohol ordinance, there are a number of problematic bills that have been discussed on MemeStreams in the past few months which are apparently dead as of tommorow, for this year at least. If you expressed concern about one of those bills, you impacted this result. |
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RE: Crossover Day in the Georgia Legislature
by skullaria at 1:30 am EDT, Mar 29, 2007 |
Just FYI I know that the homeschool bill died that would have allowed homeschoolers to have access to public school sporting teams and stuff like that died. While the homeschool defense league (A christian organization that lobbies like crazy_ was all for it, every homeschool family I knew stood up to OPPOSE it. We had the attitude that if we wanted access to the public schools, we'd be sending our kids there. We saw the law as something that would to more regulation, which it has done in other states that enacted similar laws. |
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Crossover Day in the Georgia Legislature
by Rattle at 12:34 pm EDT, Mar 27, 2007 |
A push to legalize the Sunday sale of alcohol topped a list of bills that likely died in the Georgia Legislature on Monday. The bills including a proposed hate crimes law, plans for Confederate History Month and Gov. Sonny Perdue's effort to clarify that church groups may receive state money were not among the ones that made it onto the Senate calendar for Tuesday. WSB's Capitol Reporter Sandra Parrish reports Tuesday is the so-called Crossover Day in the Legislature. That's the 30th day of the 40-day session and the last on which a bill may pass in one chamber to be considered by the other.
This means that both SB 59 and HB 504 are dead for the year. MemeStreamers may rejoice.. However, you still can't buy booze on Sunday. I guess we can't have everything. |
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