After Wednesday, we spent our time combing through the State budget trying to confirm what the Governor decided to earmark to the unlock the waiting list issue. There is both good news and bad news...the good news is that the Governor showed a significant improvement this year in the number of services he has decided to fund - a total of 1,500! The bad news is that number is shy of the goal set by the Departments of Human Resource and Community Health of 2,000 that was recommended to the Governor. We have our work still cut out for us and we will need your help!
We are still waiting for assignments to be made public for the Appropriations subcommittee members. These are the members that will be working with Rep Mark Butler in great detail on our issue. As soon as we know, we will ask you to contact them to request their support.
Today they are not in session and most legislators have headed home for a long Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend.
Some stories from around the State:
Georgia House of Representatives Daily Report
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USAMickey Channell of the 116th - House Committee: Rules - Rule: Modified-Structured - Amendments(s): N/A - Yeas: 166; Nays: 0 * ...Plan in works for mental health ills
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA"State hospitals are very specialized places where you have some of the toughest people to work with," said Division Director Gwen Skinner. ...Speaker in sights of ethics panel?
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USASeth Harp, R-Midland; Jack Hill, R-Reidsville; and Michael Meyer von Bremen, D-Albany, also will serve on the committee. ...LEGISLATIVE NOTEBOOK
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USAIncidentally there's a spirit of bipartisanship in the entire Georgia Senate this year, which Staton jokingly called a "lovefest" in a conversation with ...
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