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Georgia House declines to reach required threshold on procurement ban targeting products tied to foreign adversaries
Summary
House Bill 113 would have let the Georgia Technology Authority and state purchasing prohibit purchases of certain foreign-made technologies identified by federal lists; the measure failed to receive the constitutional majority after a 148–17 roll call.
House Bill 113, a proposed update to state procurement rules that would have authorized the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) to publish a list of companies and products tied to foreign adversaries and barred state agencies from contracting with them, failed to reach the constitutionally required threshold in the Georgia House on Feb. 27.
Representative Lauren McDonald, sponsor of HB 113, presented the bill as a cybersecurity measure that would protect state systems by relying on federal determinations of risk. The bill directed GTA to compile and…
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