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House Governmental Affairs Committee adopts rules, removes cityhood feasibility restriction and names subcommittee leadership
Summary
At an organizational meeting, the House Governmental Affairs Committee approved its rules, removed a clause limiting which institutions may conduct feasibility studies for proposed cityhoods, and announced subcommittee chairs, schedules and an upcoming bill to place the city-creation process in state code.
The House Governmental Affairs Committee adopted its rules at an organizational meeting, removing a provision that had specified which universities and entities could conduct feasibility studies for proposed cityhoods and naming subcommittee chairs and schedules, Representative Eddie Lomson, chair of the committee, said.
The change matters because Lomson said the committee will seek to move the city-creation process into state code rather than leave it solely in committee rules. "Item 13 is the definition or the process to create a city in the state of Georgia. It exists in our committee rules... We do have a bill that is being worked on ready now that will take it out of committee rules and actually put it in code," Lomson said, adding he expects to present the bill within the next week…
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