Senate Committee on Assignments Announces Committee Changes

ATLANTA (November 13, 2013) – The Senate Committee on Assignments met today and has made the following changes to Senate committee assignments:

Senator Don Balfour has been removed as Chairman of the Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, and as an Ex-Officio member of the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee.

Senate Rule 2-2.1 allows the Committee on Assignments to remove Senators from committee officer positions and Senate Rule 2-3.2 (b) empowers the Committee on Assignments to remove ex-officio committee members. Senate Rule 2-3.3 prevents the Committee on Assignments from removing Senators from standing committees during a term.

Additionally, the President of the Senate has removed Senator Balfour from the Senate State Fair Tax Study Committee pursuant to Senate Resolution 72.