Butch Parrish News Today

(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed several health care-related bills during a Friday ceremony in Athens, including a measure to relax state requirements regulating health care facilities. The centerpiece of the bills the Republican governor signed was House Bill 1339, which reforms Georgia's decades-old certificate of needs requirement. The measure, in part, shortens

(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed several health care-related bills during a Friday ceremony in Athens, including a measure to relax state requirements regulating health care facilities.

The North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service has presented the 2024 Governors Volunteer Service Award to 16 recipients from Pender County.

We are nearing Sine Die and the end of the 2024 session.

Close vote signals end of health care initiative for this year in order, lawmakers said, to give Kemp's limited plan time to work.

“We wanted to move forward in a measured way,” Rep. Butch Parrish, R-Swainsboro said on the House floor Tuesday. “We didn’t want to take giant leaps.”

(The Center Square) — The Georgia House has passed a measure to reduce the guidelines for hospitals looking to expand.

A new commission that would be tasked with advising the governor, lawmakers and the state agency that administers Georgia’s Medicaid program on issues related to the access and quality of health care available for the state’s high number of uninsured residents.

On the Thursday, Feb. 22 edition of Georgia Today: The state Board of Education has upheld the firing of a Cobb County teacher for teaching so-called "divisive concepts" in the classroom; a proposed mine near Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is nearing final approval; and the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a Georgia Supreme Court decision in an unusual case involving a murder in metro Atlanta.

Things are as busy as ever at the Capitol, as we are now only one week away from Crossover Day.