You won’t see Georgia’s medical marijuana laws expanded: Early in the legislative session, an effort from state Rep. In addition, South DeKalb residents this November will also be able to cast ballots to create the city of Stonecrest, which would be located in the Lithonia area. The measure, which was killed late in last year’s session thanks to Mayor Kasim Reed, is the latest cityhood effort in metro Atlanta’s continued balkanization.
Roger Bruce, an Atlanta Democrat, snuck through a bill that will let voters decide whether they want to create a new city of South Fulton. You will have a chance to create the city of South Fulton and Stonecrest (if you live in those areas): At 12:10 a.m., state Rep. Thanks to a bill that passed, many of the 27,000 delinquent entries in the state ethics commission’s database between 20 could soon be expunged. Your officials won’t have to pay their outstanding ethics fines: When your town’s local mayor, commissioner, or school board member doesn’t file a campaign finance report-the document showing how they spent cash on the campaign trail-they get fined because, well, they broke the law. You may now bring a stun gun onto a college campus: If carrying guns around the grounds of a public university wasn’t enough (see below), adults over the age of 18 will also be permitted to bring their Taser or stun gun to history class. It’s a huge win for criminal justice activists who argued that the system was unfavorable to families of victims killed in police shootings. In addition, officers giving a statement to a jury will be subject to cross-examination.
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This Republican-sponsored bill will put an end of the controversial practice of allowing police officers facing criminal charges to sit through the full grand jury proceedings for their own cases. Police officers will no longer have special grand jury privileges: Over the past few years, a recent string of officer-involved shootings placed the spotlight on an apparent loophole in the state’s criminal justice laws. (The lone “no” vote came from Tyrone Republican Marty Harbin.) The House, which had previously passed the bill unanimously, passed it once again and Holcomb received a standing ovation for corralling bipartisan support-and for having outmaneuvered a politician who claimed the issued had been “over-politicized.” A showdown with Unterman seemed inevitable, but she eventually backed down and the bill sailed through the Senate with a 55-1 vote. However, thanks to some 11th-hour legislative maneuvering, Holcomb’s bill was revived. Scott Holcomb, an Atlanta Democrat, that would have expedited the testing of rape kits by local police agencies-a measure designed to clear a large backlog of unprocessed evidence. Renee Unterman, a Buford Republican, gained national notoriety by blocking a bill from state Rep. Georgia’s untested rape kits will be tested: Last week state Sen.
A few minutes before 9 p.m., the Senate voted 43-5 to send the measure to the governor, who’s expected to sign the bill. “This is good for the city of Atlanta, it’s good for the environment, it’s good for the region,” said state Sen. Out of the larger proposal’s ashes, a measure was crafted to let Atlanta voters decide whether to raise the sales tax by half of one percent to fund future transit projects such as light-rail expansion and the BeltLine’s continued construction. But the proposal fell apart when north Fulton officials wanted some of the money to go to building more roads. The move was bold, considering that the transit agency had long served as the Gold Dome’s whipping boy thanks to CEO Keith Parker’s improbable turnaround, though, they had a shot. 400, northeast of Emory University, and east along I-20 toward Stonecrest Mall. You’ll have a chance to vote for MARTA expansion (if you live in Atlanta): Headed into the 2016 session, MARTA officials swung for the fences in pushing an $8 billion transit expansion plan that called for new rail lines north along Ga. Seven bills that made it to Governor Nathan Deal’s desk: If you didn’t keep track of what bills lived and died in the session’s final days, we’ve got you covered. Legislators then turned their attention to other measures, such as letting Atlantans decide whether they want to raise taxes for transit, requiring police forces to process untested rape kits, and reforming grand juries. At $23.7 billion, it’s the largest in Georgia’s history and includes a 3-percent pay raise for state employees and teachers. Earlier this week, lawmakers performed their sole constitutional duty: approving next year’s state budget.
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