Legislative Day 24
Little Budget Compromise. Homestead Exemption Refinement. Weird Looking Stools.
It’s been a weird session under the Gold Dome–but not nearly as weird as the stools displayed outside the State Capitol on Wednesday. Celebrating a successful colorectal cancer awareness campaign entitled “Weird Looking Stools”, the Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education was in the street serving up coffee, thanking lawmakers for supporting the effort, and imploring passersby to know the signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer and be on the lookout for… well, you know.
Lawmakers and lobbyists spent the morning on the lookout for copies of the Conference Committee Report on the Amended FY26 State Budget, which was signed by conferees early on Wednesday. The compromise, described by conferees as reaching “common ground” between the House, Senate, and Governor’s Office, was later signed off by both chambers and sent downstairs to Governor Kemp’s desk. He now has six days to take action on the “little budget”, details of which are inside this #GoldDomeReport.
Thursday is shaping up to be a long day for the House, which left several measures on their Supplemental Rules Calendar on Wednesday and have already adopted a new floor calendar with several of their priority bills focused on insurance reform. Eyes will remain on Room 341 throughout the day for additional Rules Committee meetings and supplemental calendars, perhaps one sending the House homestead property tax elimination measure to the floor for a vote after it passed out of Ways and Means late today.
In this Report:
Floor Action
Committee Notes
New Legislation
What’s Next