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Georgia Senate reads a slate of bills for first time, refers them to committee
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Summary
During the morning session the Georgia Senate read numerous bills for the first time on topics including education code changes, a new interagency council for the homeless, and updates to criminal procedure; most were referred to committee with no floor debate recorded.
The Georgia Senate read a series of bills for the first time and referred them to committee during its morning session. The items announced included measures on education code amendments, revisions to portions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, proposals affecting homestead exemptions, and a bill proposing creation of the Georgia Interagency Council for the Homeless (SB 170).
Senate members were asked to bring introduced bills and resolutions to the secretary's desk for formal first reading and reference. The session included a consolidated read-aloud of many bill captions (for example, SB401, SB402, SB403, SB404, SB405, SB406, SB407, SB408, SB409 and others). No substantive floor debate on the merits of those bills was recorded in the transcript; the items were entered into the legislative process and referred to the appropriate committees for further consideration.
Context: The session is part of the legislature's routine opening activities; substantive committee work and hearings on these bills would occur later in committee calendars.
Sources: Morning session bill captions read into the record and the clerk's instructions for first reading and reference.
