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Some Georgia Republicans who promoted Fulton County’s mobile voting buses last year voted to restrict them after the party lost the state’s presidential and Senate races. The Election Integrity Act of 2021, Georgia’s sweeping election reform law, has widely been described as a “voter suppression” effort, largely prompted by baseless allegations of election fraud spread by former President Trump and his allies. President Joe Biden and other Democrats have compared the law to those of the Jim Crow era, and numerous voting rights groups have already sued to strike down key measures the...

UpdatedThu, Mar 4, 2021 at 5:07 pm ET Reply The House voted Wednesday 101-67 to pass House Bill 94​, making porch piracy a felony in Georgia, punishable by up to five years in prison. (Shutterstock/WNstock) ATLANTA — With everyone shopping online, should porch pirates — thieves who steal packages left on porches — be charged as felons? A Gwinnett County legislator thinks so. And most of Georgia's House of Representatives agree. The House voted Wednesday 101-67 to pass House Bill 94, making porch piracy a felony in Georgia, punishable by up to five years in prison. Subscribe Stealing p...

Bill approved by Georgia House would make 'porch piracy' a felony Published  A new Georgia bill aims to deter porch pirates from steal packages from people's front door. ATLANTA - Stealing a single package, no matter the value, off of people's porches could become a felony and require mandatory prison time, according to a bill approved by the GeorgiaHouse of Representatives. The House voted 101-67 on Wednesday to approve House Bill 94, which creates a specific crime of porch piracy. The bill also makes it a felony to steal at least 10 pieces of mail from three different addresses or mailb...

Committee Reports House Small Business Development — Incentives and Education Workforce Subcommittee Subcommittee Chairman Dale Washburn (R-Macon) called up one bill, HB 611, authored by Representative Mike Cheokas (R-Americus). HB 611 seeks to provide a new definition in O.C.G.A. 50-5-121(3) for the term, ‘small business.’ This legislation was brought to the General Assembly by Scott Hilton with the Georgia First Commission. The new definition creates three tiers: Tier 1 - 10 or fewer employees or $1 million or less in gross receipts per year; Tier 2 - 100 or fewer employees or $10 mil...

  Caption The bustling interior of the state Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., in this file photo from January 2020. Credit: Riley Bunch, CNHI Tuesday on Political Rewind: New movement on possible reforms to Georgia's citizen's arrest law. Support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp could mean the swift passage of legislation to change the controversial law. Meanwhile, the Biden administration pauses Kemp’s plan for a partial expansion of Medicaid. President Donald Trump previously approved Kemp’s plan, which ties expanding Medicaid to a work requirement, b...