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Georgia House approves local calendar, reassigns several bills to new committees
Summary
The Georgia House of Representatives approved its local calendar by a recorded vote of 167-0 and ordered committee reassignments for four bills, including recommitting House Bill 252 to the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee.
ATLANTA — The Georgia House of Representatives voted to approve its local calendar on Monday and moved several pending bills to different committees, including a recommittal of House Bill 252 to the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee.
The House approved the local calendar by a recorded vote; the clerk announced the yeas were 167 and the nays were 0. Earlier in the session, members ordered that House Bill 252 — a measure described in the clerk’s reading as providing a homestead exemption from City of Newnan ad valorem taxes — be recommitted to the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee.
House leaders also approved committee reassignments for three other bills without objection. Representative Darlene Taylor moved to withdraw House Bill 173 from the Education Committee and recommit it to the Public and Community Health Committee; Representative Williamson moved that House Bill 257 be moved from Motor Vehicles to Ways and Means; and Representative Anderson moved that House Bill 10 be moved from Governmental Affairs to Judiciary, Non Civil. In each instance the chairmen of the affected committees agreed and the Speaker announced, “hearing none, it is so ordered.”
Clerk readings during the session also listed many first- and second-reading bills; those measures were read into the record but were not debated on the floor during the period covered by the transcript. The clerk read captions for the bills whose committee assignments changed and for the local calendar items prior to the recorded vote.
Action details recorded in the transcript show no roll-call tallies for the committee reassignments; each was approved after the mover stated the motion and the Speaker asked whether there was objection. The transcript includes a recorded roll-call and tally only for the local calendar vote.
The House adjourned at the close of the session and was scheduled to reconvene at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, according to a motion by the majority leader.
Notes on scope and limits: the article reflects only actions recorded in the session transcript. Many bill captions referenced the Official Code of Georgia Annotated by title or chapter in the clerk’s readings; no floor debate on the substance of those bills appears in the transcript provided.
