On February 10, 1787, the Georgia House of Assembly named William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, George Walton, William Houstoun, and Nathaniel Pendleton to the Constitutional Convention called to revise the Articles of Confederation at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
On February 10, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi received word that he was chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
On February 10, 1972, David Bowie made his first appearance as Ziggy Stardust.
On February 10, 2015, on the anniversary of the United States House of Representatives passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation proclaiming February as Black History Month.
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Fulton County Superior Court Robert McBurney noted that the FBI raid of Fulton County election records will impact private lawsuits seeking information from those recordsa, according to the AJC.
A Fulton County judge has dismissed one lawsuit and stayed another that sought access to the county’s 2020 election ballots in a pair of decisions that expressed frustration with the recent FBI seizure of those same materials.
Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had already ruled the State Election Board could obtain ballot images and other documents from the election as it seeks to investigate the county’s conduct of the election. But on Monday the judge noted those documents now are in possession of the FBI.
“This court thus can no longer set measured and thoughtful parameters governing the handling and copying of these materials,” McBurney wrote. “We are left to hope that the Bureau and the Department of Justice handle the ballots and related records with the care required to preserve and protect their integrity.”
McBurney also dismissed a separate lawsuit brought by Garland Favorito, an election integrity advocate, who also sought access to the ballots.
“Those records were, until recently, here in Fulton County,” McBurney wrote in a brief order dismissing Favorito’s lawsuit. “Now, however, they are somewhere else. Where exactly the court cannot say.”
House Bill 1187 by State Rep. Soo Hong (R-Gwinnett), called “Trey’s Law,” would prohibit NDAs against victims of childhood sexual abuse, according to the Capitol Beat News Service via the Savannah Morning News.
A bill that would free victims of childhood sexual abuse to speak out after winning court settlements advanced Monday at the Georgia Capitol.
The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve a measure that would prohibit nondisclosure agreements as a condition of settling lawsuits against abusers.
The bill, called Trey’s Law, is named for Trey Carlock, who was sexually abused at a Kanakuk Kamps as a boy in Missouri, along with other victims. He settled a lawsuit against Kanakuk, but a nondisclosure agreement prevented him from talking about it.
“There was never justice or true accountability. Nobody was fired or held accountable as a result of this abuse,” Carlock’s sister, Elizabeth Phillips, told representatives on Monday. “He died by suicide in 2019 because he wasn’t allowed to have a voice.”
State Rep. Soo Hong, R-Lawrenceville, said Georgia needs to continue being a leader against human trafficking and abuse.
“These NDAs … force victims to choose between compensation and their voice,” Hong said. “The purpose of this law is to ensure that survivors can speak openly about the abuse they suffered, help expose abusers and negligent institutions, and prevent harmful secrecy in future cases.”
Under House Bill 1187, any settlement agreements that conceal the details of a claim of childhood sexual abuse would become unenforceable. Identifying information about victims of childhood sexual abuse would remain confidential.
Four other states have passed versions of Trey’s Law: California, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas.
Gov. Brian Kemp said during his State of the State address last month that Trey’s Law is a priority of First Lady Marty Kemp and the Georgians for Refuge, Action, Compassion, and Education Commission, which was created to combat human trafficking.
The bill could soon advance to a vote in the full state House of Representatives.a
State Senate Republicans introduced legislation to cut the state income tax, according to the Capitol Beat News Service via the Valdosta Daily Times.
Georgians would get an income tax cut — or avoid paying the tax entirely — under a proposal unveiled by Republican Senate leaders Monday.
The cost would be paid in large part by eliminating or reducing a variety of tax breaks, including for data centers, low-income housing and yachts.
The plan calls for a dramatic increase in the amount of income exempt from taxation, to $50,000 for individuals and $100,000 for married couples. The state’s current standard deduction is $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for couples.
Meanwhile, Georgia’s state income tax rate would drop from 5.19% to 4.99%
“Families in the middle class right now are having a hard time paying for gas, groceries, childcare,” said Senate Appropriations Chairman Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia. “What the Senate’s plan does instead is completely eliminates their income tax liability for families making less than $100,000.”
Families earning more than $100,000 would save an estimated $5,000 in income taxes, Tillery said.
The proposal cleared its first hurdle Monday by passing the Senate Finance Committee.
The income tax legislation, Senate Bill 476, is lawmakers’ latest attempt to prioritize affordability and cost of living.
Other bills are seeking to eliminate local property taxes and cap increases in assessed property values by preventing them from rising more quickly than the inflation rate.
Legislators are targeting a series of tax breaks to raise over $1 billion to help fund the income tax reduction.
Those tax breaks currently benefit data centers, businesses headquartered in Georgia affordable housing projects, small businesses in rural areas, life insurance companies, personal protective equipment manufacturers, medical equipment manufacturers, low-emission vehicles, cigarette exporters, boat owners and more.
Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones II, D-Augusta, said he supports eliminating state income taxes for families making less than $100,000, but said many Georgians would pay the price if other taxes have to be raised to make up for loss of government funding.
He said some of the tax breaks that would be reduced, such as the affordable housing credit, would harm residents more than lower income taxes would help.
“The problem with the bill is very simple: It’s going to create tax hikes. It’s going to create job loss,” Jones said. “This bill decimates the middle class. It really has severe consequences.”
A government accounting of the legislation’s costs hasn’t yet been completed.
In addition to SB 476, Tillery also introduced an alternate proposal that focuses on reducing the income tax rate without eliminating tax breaks.
That measure, Senate Bill 477, would lower the income tax rate to 4.99% starting this tax year, followed by reductions to 3.99% by 2028. The bill would also increase the standard deduction to $16,000 for individuals and $32,000 for married couples.
Georgia Senate Republicans unveiled a sweeping plan to cut hundreds of millions in corporate tax credits while completely eliminating income taxes for some Georgians and cutting it for others.
Senate Bill 476, sponsored by Vidalia Republican Sen. Blake Tillery, who is currently running for lieutenant governor, would align with Gov. Brian Kemp’s recommended accelerated reduction in the state’s income tax to 4.99%. But his plan would also waive income taxes for all Georgians on up to $50,000 a year for individuals and $100,000 for married couples, which Tillery said would completely eliminate income taxes for roughly two-thirds of Georgians.
The proposed legislation would also cut a number of corporate tax credits, such as a costly credit given to data centers in Georgia, tax credits given to insurance companies and banks, a tobacco export tax credit, a number of credits adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic aimed at increasing available personal protective equipment and ventilators, as well as a tax credit for selling yacht parts.
“You see that we end quite a few corporate credits — corporate welfare, let’s call it what it is. Why should a family have to pay sales tax for a laptop when their kids are going to Kennesaw State, but if they buy $15 million worth of computers because they’re building a data center, they pay no sales tax at all,” Tillery said.
Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, a Rome Republican, indicated that Kemp may be more open to eliminating the data center tax credit after he vetoed similar legislation previously. Hufstetler said the “dynamics have changed,” adding that the cost of this tax credit has increased significantly over the years while the benefits have decreased, pointing to a recent audit that found about 70% of current data center investment in Georgia would likely have occurred regardless of the tax break.
Responding to concerns about whether cutting special interest tax credits would hurt Georgia’s economy, Tillery said the proposals are about more “than just Georgia remaining competitive,” saying that it’s meant to help Georgians pay for everyday essentials at a time of rising prices. Senators also introduced another bill, Senate Bill 477, also sponsored by Tillery, that would reduce the state income tax to 3.99% by 2028. But it does not slash special interest tax incentives like the other proposal does, and it only exempts up to $16,000 a year for individuals and $32,000 for married couples in income tax, a 33% percent increase from current levels.
Tillery, who chaired a Senate study committee on eliminating the state income tax, said that the goal is still to completely eliminate it by 2032, and that either or both bills would help the state achieve it.
“What we wanted to do is be prudent. Because you’ve heard everyone across the hall say, ‘Be prudent on these things, be prudent.’ Well, if you want us to be prudent, we’ll be prudent, but the plan from the Senate is still to be at 0% in six years,” Tillery said. “It would take another bill.”
In the other chamber, House lawmakers are fast-tracking an incremental income tax proposal backed by Kemp. That measure would accelerate an already planned income tax cut, taking the rate from 5.19% to 4.99%, and cost the state more than $750 million in future revenues.
A separate House measure, sponsored by Rep. Shaw Blackmon, a Bonaire Republican who chairs that chamber’s tax-writing committee, paves the way for the income tax rate to gradually drop to 3.99% so long as certain economic conditions are met. That bill is on the move, too.
But a part of the governor’s tax relief package hit a snag last week when the House replaced another round of rebates with a tax break for homeowners. A measure approving the rebates, which would cost about $1.2 billion, had a public airing at a House subcommittee meeting Monday but did not advance alongside the other Kemp-backed tax cut bill.
“I trust the leadership of our House and the governor to work that out and figure out what we need to do,” Rep. Matthew Gambill, a Cartersville Republican and one of the governor’s floor leaders, told his colleagues Monday. “I think the great thing is we’re having a conversation about two things that ultimately will benefit Georgians and support tax relief.”
The proposal, contained in two bills introduced Friday, would eliminate the income tax for most Georgians by 2027. It’s a big step toward [Lieutenant Governor Burt] Jones’[s] ultimate goal of eliminating the tax altogether by 2032.
The bills almost certainly will face stiff opposition from the beneficiaries of various tax breaks and skepticism from political leaders who have their own ideas about tax relief. But despite long odds, Jones has made eliminating the income tax a centerpiece of his campaign for governor and is likely to push hard for his plan.
The bills are the latest entry in a three-way competition among Georgia’s top Republicans to define the best way to provide tax relief in an election year.
Gov. Brian Kemp took the first shot last month, announcing plans for a $1.2 billion income tax rebate paired with a reduction in the state income tax rate from 5.19% to 4.99% this year. Under Kemp’s plan, single filers would receive a rebate of up to $250, heads of household would get up to $375 and married couples filing jointly would get up to $500.
House Speaker Jon Burns favors property tax relief. This week the House approved an amended fiscal year 2026 budget that scraps Kemp’s rebates in favor of $850 million in property tax relief that advocates say would average $500 per homeowner.
Burns also has floated a plan to eliminate the property tax on primary single-family residences, a plan that would cost schools and local governments more than $5 billion a year.
Jones’ bid to eliminate the personal income tax may be the most ambitious, and the most difficult to implement. The state expects to get about $15.7 billion from the personal income tax this year — about 42% of state revenue.
Senate Bill 476 includes Kemp’s proposal to lower the individual income tax rate to 4.99%. It would raise the standard deduction for single taxpayers, heads of household of married people filing separately from $12,000 to $50,000 beginning next year. Married couples filing jointly would see the deduction rise from $24,000 to $100,000.
Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, the bill’s sponsor, said that would eliminate the income tax for two-thirds of Georgians next year and significantly reduce the tax for higher earners.
Senate Bill 477 would then reduce the income tax rate to 4.49% next year and to 3.99% in 2028. The corporate income tax rate would fall from 5.19% to 4.99% this year and remain there.
As Jones’ top priority, the bills are expected to pass the Senate. After that, their fate is less certain. Burns has expressed skepticism about Jones’ plan, and Kemp has urged lawmakers to take a cautious approach to tax relief.
House Bil 1193 by State Rep. Chris Erwin (R-Homer), the “Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026” aims to improve reading and writing performance for Georgia students, according to the Capitol Beat News Service.
Another Georgia legislative initiative this year seeks to build on prior efforts to increase the reading and writing performance of young students.
“We must teach our children to read,” Rep. Chris Erwin, R-Homer, chairman of the House Education committee, said Monday about the new initiative. “We must have the belief that all of our children can read on grade level.”
Erwin is the chief co-sponsor of House Bill 1193, which is backed by leaders in both the House and Senate. The Senate even has its own version of essentially the same bill.
The Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026 would require sweeping changes, from mandatory curriculum and teacher training to routine testing and state-funded tutoring for children. The legislation also would encourage but not require kindergarten attendance. Students who skipped kindergarten and then failed a literacy test would have to start in kindergarten even if they were old enough for first grade.
One of the most far-reaching proposals would amend the state education funding formula. The legislation would send state money to every school district to hire a classroom literacy coach in each school that has kindergarten through third grade classrooms. (K-3 schools with fewer than 200 students would only get a part-time coach though.)
The wholistic approach is necessary because teaching and learning to read is difficult work, said Erwin, a retired school superintendent. “So it’s got to be planned; it’s got to be precise.”
The Legislature has not yet published a cost associated with the initiative.
But House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, said at the start of this year’s legislative session that literacy was among his top agenda items this year, a position he reiterated last week. He said the state was prepared to pay for classroom reinforcements.
“How many Georgians would be leading happy, healthy, fulfilling lives if they had only been able to read?” he asked at a news conference.
A House subcommittee voted unanimously Monday to send HB 1193 to the House Education committee. Before the vote, several parents commented favorably, including Jeremy Hendrix from Gwinnett County, who said he was “pleasantly surprised” by the legislation.
“It is amazing what you are doing and especially in this political climate where we can see everybody get behind one cart and push in the same direction,” he said. “I really appreciate that and it makes my heart happy as a citizen.”
House Bill 1063 by State Rep. Brad Thomas (R-Holly Springs) would protect consumers from higher electric rates caused by data centers, according to the Capitol Beat News Service via the Savannah Morning News.
With affordability a top concern of voters, Georgia lawmakers are moving to insulate electricity ratepayers from costs driven by demand from power-guzzling data centers.
Late last year, the state Public Service Commission authorized a Georgia Power request to expand its power production by nearly 10 gigawatts, mostly to serve current and projected demand from data centers.
That expansion will require the construction of new methane-burning facilities, and House Bill 1063 seeks to ensure that those costs are borne only by data centers.
Data center electricity costs are a top concern, said Rep. Brad Thomas, R-Holly Springs, chief co-sponsor the bill.
Lawmakers have heard from people across the state that ratepayers are concerned their electrical bills will rise because of data centers, he said. The main concern, he said, is that Georgia Power’s demand projections will prove inaccurate, leading the company to build excess capacity and then pass on the costs.
“We have heard that concern, and we are going to address it,” Thomas said Friday after a House committee unanimously passed HB 1063. A similar measure — Senate Bill 34 — awaits a hearing in the Senate.
During the hearing held last week on Thomas’ bill, advocates for the public, for the environment, and for data centers said they supported the measure but had concerns about some of the details.
Thomas took that to mean he had struck the right compromise between their competing interests.
A Georgia Power executive who testified said the company was neither for nor against the bill. Many of the protections the legislation would codify are already required by Public Service Commission regulations, an agency representative said, but regulations can change, and passage of HB 1063 would write the requirements into law.
House Bill 946 by State Rep. Rob Clifton (R-Augusta) would allow hunting feral hogs on private property with a license, according to the Savannah Morning News.
While state agencies like the DNR have encouraged the hunting of feral hogs, the Georgia House of Representatives has made it even easier. In a landslide 163 to 1 vote on Feb. 3, the House passed House Bill 946, authorizing the hunting and trapping of feral hogs on private land, without a hunting or trapping license, provided the hogs are killed upon capture.
Drones, or “unmanned aircraft systems,” can also be used to locate the hogs on the property, the bill states. Shooting from vehicles would also be permitted.
The bill allows hunters to kill hogs without a license on land they don’t necessarily own, said bill sponsor Rob Clifton. But, they would need permission from the landowner, or else that would be considered illegal poaching and trespassing, he added.
Last year, Georgia DNR killed 673 hogs—some shot, some trapped and then shot, and some hunted overhead by helicopter, a Bond-like but cost-effective technique employed in open areas like farmland, said Killmaster. Of all the techniques, trapping is among the most effective.
The only vote in opposition of the bill came from Democrat District 91 Representative Angela Moore, who cited personal reasons against hunting and using drones.
“I wouldn’t feel comfortable with that,” she said. While she did not realize the drone would not be permitted to shoot anything itself at the time of the vote, neither did she realize the hogs were invasive, she still fears someone could be misidentified as a hog by an aerial survey.
“At least I know that in my heart, I didn’t vote to kill another thing,” Moore said.
Her seat mate in the House was astonished when she voted against the bill, she said. But in an effort to keep up light-hearted running joke between them, Moore made sure to bring her pinto beans with extra “feral hog” (store-bought honey-baked ham) for lunch the following week.
Senate Bill 456 by State Sen. Tim Bearden (R-Carrollton) would allow some breweries to bypass the three-tier distribution system, according to Atlanta News First via WALB.
Small and independent brewery owners from across Georgia gathered at the State Capitol Monday to urge lawmakers to support Senate Bill 456. The bill has the potential to expand sales at local small breweries.
Schoolhouse Brewing in Marietta is on board.
“There could be huge marketing potential for this,” said Thomas Monti, the owner and head brewer at Schoolhouse Brewing.
The legislation would allow limited self-distribution for small breweries, and lift Georgia’s outdated daily to-go sales cap.
Small brewers are currently limited in how they can sell to retailers without going through a distributor. They must go through their distributor to sell to those entities, even if the buyer is right around the corner from them.
The bill would cut out the distributor for in-county orders. Brewers will still need to use a distributor for out-of-county orders.
Schoolhouse Brewing’s distributor is in Cumming. The distributor has to pick up orders at the brewery in Marietta, bring them back to Cumming, then sometimes deliver right around the corner from the Marietta brewery.
“So in all practicality, this would increase my sales top line numbers. It would be able to build better relationships in our community, and it also helped the local community with its economy,” said Monti.
The second part of the bill will allow customers to purchase more than one case of beer at a time from small breweries, which lifts the daily to-go sales cap.
“So the idea of having the somebody being able to come in and purchase two, three cases, it’d be great,” explained Monti.
“It’s an artificial and arbitrary barrier on success. And you know, when they’re operating on thin margins, it’s been a tough few years, every little bit helps,” said Joseph Cortes, executive director of the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild.
The Georgia Craft Brewers Guild defines small breweries as making less than 2 million barrels a year.
Cortes said all of the craft production combined in Georgia equals around a half-million barrels a year, even when including the largest craft breweries.
The Guild said the bill is about giving small businesses the flexibility they need to grow and thrive, amid inflation, tariffs and supply chain issues.
Cortes explained, “They shouldn’t be having to deal with outdated regulations that hinder their ability to hire more employees, to keep their staff to, you know, thrive and serve their communities as again, these gathering spots, which are so critical to neighborhoods.”
The Guild said beer wholesalers have opposed this bill, citing concerns of public safety and taxes. The wholesalers argue that allowing small breweries to self-distribute up to 3,000 barrels annually disrupts the established “three-tier” system and say their opposition is intended to protect that system. Wholesalers argue that the current system ensures a stable, regulated market and that market failures, rather than lack of self-distribution, are causing small brewery closures.
However, Cortes said, customers are still paying taxes on products and there are common-sense regulations to protect public safety and health.
The bill is currently assigned to the Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee and has been called up for a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 10.
House Bill 1138 by State Rep. Beth Camp (R-Concord) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control, according to Georgia Recorder.
Need a prescription for birth control? You may soon be able to get one at your local pharmacy.
On Monday, lawmakers considered a bill that would enable pharmacists to prescribe contraception, such as birth control pills or a birth control shot, directly to Georgia residents.
The bill, House Bill 1138, was introduced by Rep. Beth Camp, a Concord Republican who said she was inspired to propose the legislation after her daughter faced a two-month delay renewing her birth control prescription.
Currently, Georgia law requires patients to receive a birth control prescription from a doctor, which they can then fill at a pharmacy. The bill, Camp said, could help increase access to contraception in areas with primary care provider shortages, or for working Georgians who might struggle to take time off work to go to a doctor’s appointment.
“In our state, we have such a challenge with access for medical professionals,” Camp told the House Health Committee. “This is just really, to me, opening up a whole new stream of opportunities for women to be able to access contraception.”
Under the legislation, pharmacist-prescribed contraceptives would be available to patients who are 18 and older, as well as to those under 18 if they have a previous birth control prescription from a doctor. Other Southern states that currently allow pharmacists to prescribe contraceptives include North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
As the bill is written, pharmacists would be allowed to opt into prescribing contraceptives but would not be required to do so.
“They’re not mandated to do this,” Camp said. “This is an option, and I hope it’s an option that our pharmacists will take.”
The legislation would require the Georgia Composite Medical Board and the State Board of Pharmacy to issue a joint protocol agreement, which would take effect at the start of 2027. It would also waive civil liability, criminal culpability and professional discipline for pharmacists who prescribe contraceptives.
Dr. Winnie Soufi, who chairs the legislative committee of the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, called the bill “a critical step forward in expanding reproductive health care access,” during her testimony in committee.
“We are not replacing the doctor-patient relationship,” she said. “We are ensuring that patients who cannot reach our offices still have the essential care they need to plan their future.”
Rebecca Stone, a clinical professor at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, said that legislation allowing pharmacists to prescribe birth control could help remove barriers to access in both urban and rural parts of the state.
“Women have been using hormonal contraception for 50 years, and this is another way to provide more access to these safe medications,” she said.
However, Stone added that the most successful programs have happened in states that allow pharmacists to bill patients’ insurance for the time they spend providing counseling for and dispensing contraception.
“It’s hard for this to take hold if pharmacists aren’t able to justify the time they spend on the service,” she said.
Both Democrats and Republicans have introduced legislation seeking to reinforce access to contraception in recent years, though the bills have not gained much traction.
HB 1138 only received a hearing Monday. It must pass out of the House Health Committee before it can advance to a vote on the House floor.
Bills have until March 6 to pass out of at least one chamber to have the smoothest path to the governor’s desk. The session ends April 2.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office is investigating allegations against First Liberty Building & Loan, according to the AJC.
“I can understand why some of the victims don’t want to be seen. That’s OK,” he said at a victims’ roundtable Raffensperger convened Monday. “But let your voice be heard.”
In a suddenly crowded Republican race for governor, Raffensperger is leaning into his office’s ongoing probe into First Liberty — while pushing back against a legislative effort that could strip his office of the authority to keep it going.
A federal civil investigation into First Liberty is being led by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The only individual named is the elder Frost. Neither man has been charged with any crime, and Frost IV has issued a public apology and urged investors to cooperate with federal officials.
“We are working hard to get your money back,” Raffensperger said. “No matter how much political hot water it gets me into, we are proceeding full steam ahead.”
The probe’s future is uncertain. Powerful Georgia House Republicans back legislation that would strip Raffensperger’s office of its authority over securities and commodities regulation and transfer it to the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.
Richmond County Board of Elections members are considering some voting location changes to become effective after the May 19, 2026 primary elections, according to WRDW.
Statesboro Mayor Jonathan McCollar will deliver his State of the City address on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, according to the Statesboro Herald.
Tifton City Manager Jeff Shoobridge resigned, according to the Tifton Gazette.
“The City of Tifton thanks Shoobridge for his service and leadership and wishes him all the best in his future endeavors,” the City’s announcement said.
The City has a transition plan compiled. The Tifton City Council will hold a called meeting Thursday to formally approve the appointments in that plan.
City officials did not provide a reason for Shoobridge’s resignation. He is the second city manager to leave the position in less than two years.
In 2024, former City Manager Emily Beeman was placed on administrative leave and later resigned following an executive session.
Republican Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore (Cobb County) will speak in SSI, according to The Brunswick News.
Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore will speak to the Golden Isles Republican Women at a meeting at noon Thursday at Bennie’s Red Barn.
Pridemore represents PSC District 5, the northwest portion of the state, and lives in Marietta. She was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2018.
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