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Georgia House State Planning & Community Affairs panel adopts rules after rejecting higher quorum
Summary
The Georgia House Committee on State Planning & Community Affairs adopted its committee rules and rejected a proposal to raise the quorum from five to nine. The rules passed 8-3 after members debated representativeness versus scheduling difficulties across multiple panels.
At a meeting of the Georgia House Committee on State Planning & Community Affairs, committee members approved their committee rules and rejected a motion to raise the quorum from five members to nine. The committee voted 8-3 to adopt the rules.
The committee considered a motion by Representative Derek Jackson to change rule number 2, increasing the quorum threshold from five members to nine so that a quorum would represent 50% of an 18-member body. Jackson said increasing the quorum would make it easier to explain to constituents that “it was 50% of this committee that…
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