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Georgia House committee consolidates compensation resolutions, corrects drafting error and advances children’s mental-health discharge bill; dozens of bills put
Summary
Committee members voted to adopt House Resolution 128 to combine five compensation resolutions, approved a drafting correction to House Bill 555, passed House Bill 677 to create a discharge process for children with mental-health needs, and placed numerous bills on the second supplemental calendar.
House committee members voted to adopt House Resolution 128, approved a technical fix to House Bill 555 and passed House Bill 677, then set a second supplemental calendar that placed more than 20 bills on that calendar during a committee meeting.
Chairlady Dempsey said HR 128 “pulls together the 5 resolutions that we have on here, the compensation resolutions, and puts them in 1 HR, hopefully, to help with time tonight.” The committee recorded a motion, a second and a voice vote and the resolution was adopted.
The Leader of Administration said House Bill 555 had passed out of the Judiciary Committee “near unanimous,” with reported Judiciary committee action of about 15–1, and that the rule substitute corrects drafting errors introduced when the legislative council…
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