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Georgia budget conferees reach compromise on HB 68; governor adds $50 million to close gap
Summary
Conference committee members for HB 68, the 2026 Georgia general budget, reported they have reached a compromise and said they were prepared to sign the conference spending report.
Conference committee members for HB 68, the 2026 Georgia general budget, reported they have reached a compromise and said they were prepared to sign the conference spending report.
Jim Hatch, a conferee, said the governor “did bring $50,000,000 this morning to make this work.” Hatch and other conferees described the package as the result of negotiation between the House and Senate and said it funds priorities across the state while relying on cash rather than bond financing.
The report, as described by conferees, returns funding for the Promise Scholarship to the governor’s requested level and moves mental-health and school-security funding “much more in the direction of…
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