Monday, March 29, 2010

Legislators Shift Gears to the Other Chamber's Bills

By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
The Athens Banner-Herald
March 29, 2010

ATLANTA - The major action this week in the Georgia General Assembly will be passage in the House of the budget for the coming fiscal year.

Bills that passed Friday would raise $96 million through higher fees and $175 million from a new tax on hospital revenues, paving the way for legislators to consider the budget. If those bills had failed, the income assumptions used to draft the budget would have had to be changed.

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