GAWL is watching the Georgia legislature this year! With the help of our members in office, GAWL is launching a legislative update program to bring you news about what is happening this legislative session.

GAWLAtTheGoldDome tracks specific pieces of legislation, focusing primarly on those bills that affect women and families, but also a variety of other topics. Check back here to see which bills GAWLAtTheGoldDome will follow.

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For the 2016 Session of the Georgia General Assembly, GAWLAtTheGoldDome will be following these pieces of legislation:

SB 242

Labor and Industrial Relations; allow employees to use sick leave for the care of immediate family members

HB 560/ HB 827

Law enforcement; submitting certain evidence collected from a forensic medical examination to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation; provide requirements

HR 746

Georgia families; public policies that help them thrive; express the sense of the General Assembly

HB 244

Safe Harbor/Rachel's Law Act; enact

HB 204

Civil Practice Act; opposing affidavits shall be served in motions for summary judgment; change provisions

SB 36

'Underground Water Supply Protection Act of 2015'; prohibit the injection of ground water into the Floridian aquifer in certain counties

SB 129

"Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act"

SR 45

Reapportionment; legislative and congressional; provide for procedures and standards

In addition to these proposed bills, GAWL will be on the look out for proposed bills relating to:

A Georgia earned income tax credit
Reform of medical malpractice system
Georgia’s collateral source rule
MARTA

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