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|By Alicia Lewis
If you can’t smoke cigarettes in an area, you won’t be allowed to vape in it either. That’s how lawmakers are treating vaping in public under SB 47.
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Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 8:55 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
An effort to make more changes to Georgia's mental health system could stall in the closing days of the 2023 legislative session even though a Senate committee on Wednesday unveiled a rewritten bill that House sponsors and advocates found broadly acceptable.
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Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 8:09 PM EDT
|By Natasha Pollard and Abby Kousouris
A bill has been introduced to remove Stone Mountain Park as a Confederate Memorial designation by three DeKalb County legislators.
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Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:17 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
ConocoPhillips has said the project will produce an estimated 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 9:17 PM EDT
|By Alicia Lewis
The active shooter training would require schools to conduct an intruder alert drill every year before October.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Abby Kousouris
More than 5 years ago, 17 families lost their children in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Now lawmakers in Georgia and across the country are supporting a bill named for one of the students who was killed.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 3:35 PM EDT
|By Bridget Spencer and Miles Montgomery
The HB 147 bill that makes annual active shooter drills mandatory in Georgia classrooms passed on Monday.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 6:58 PM EST
|By Alicia Lewis
“Georgia is down about 7,000 police officers over the last several years. Everybody is having to work harder, longer under more difficult conditions," one state official said.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 5:44 PM EST
|By WALB News Team
In total, over 100,000,000 voter history records will be stored in the new system.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 4:30 PM EST
|By Jim Wallace
Warnock and Republican Senator John Thune from South Dakota have proposed the bill calling it the “Promoting Precision Agriculture Act.”
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Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:46 PM EST
|By Alexandra Parker and The Associated Press
Georgia House Rep. Letitia “Tish” Naghise has died.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 6:31 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The 33-22 vote on Monday to pass Senate Bill 140, with all Republicans backing the measure.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 8:57 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
The Senate voted 33-23 on Monday to pass Senate Bill 233 along party lines, sending it to the House for more debate.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 5:37 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Experts say teenage brains are still developing to full adulthood and they lack the impulse control that older people usually gain.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
The Senate has rejected both the constitutional amendment and an earlier plan that would have allowed betting on sports including horse races without seeking a statewide referendum.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 3:49 PM EST
|By Stetson Miller
Senator Tammy Baldwin has reintroduced legislation that would limit what can be labeled as milk to dairy products.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM EST
|By The Associated Press
Kemp has signaled a willingness to legalize sports betting.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 9:20 PM EST
|By Fallon Howard
"This should create nearly 100 affordable housing units for Dougherty County residents,” Sen. Jon Ossoff said.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 1:56 PM EST
|By Tim Darnell
The Republican congresswoman posted details about the alleged incident on Twitter.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 12:42 PM EST
|By Natasha Pollard
Former Atlanta Mayor Kiesha Lance Bottoms is leaving the White House to return to Atlanta.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:26 AM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Lawmakers push changes to federal laws on marijuana, with a special focus on banking regulations.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 8:33 PM EST
|By Mackenzie Petrie
Senate Bill 62 has been sent to the full Senate for further debate and could be voted on before the end of the legislative session in April.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 5:59 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Senate hearing looks at whether legislation is needed to protect children online.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 5:54 PM EST
|By Abby Kousouris
Dozens of people packed the room for their chance to testify about the positive effects of the drug.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM EST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Rep. Barry Moore, who serves Alabama’s 2nd District in Congress, called the Education Department “a nest of radical D.C. activists masquerading as educators pushing indoctrination schemes of radical anti-American ideas.”
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 6:09 PM EST
|By Abby Kousouris
House Bill 200 would allow for cities to choose between runoff elections and instant runoffs- or ranked-choice voting, where a candidate can rank their choices to pick the winner to avoid heading back to the polls.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 9:16 PM EST
|By WCTV Staff
The seat was left open after Republican Sen. Dean Burke stepped down.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:15 PM EST
|By Fallon Howard
The Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act requires states to recognize the professional licenses of military spouses from other states when their family’s station changes.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 5:50 PM EST
|By Jim Wallace
The 2023 Georgia legislative is just under a month in, and as many items are on the agenda, WALB’s Jim Wallace sat down with a southwest Georgia senator to see what his focuses are this session.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:32 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
The Senators believe there is little difference between the JR-15 and an AR-15.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:56 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
“It’s an obvious fact," says Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Days before the March for Life rally, the House GOP advanced a measure called the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 3:50 PM EST
|By WALB News Team
Joe Campbell is now vice chairman of the House Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 8:56 AM EST
|By Abby Kousouris
Last year, Representative Ron Stephens led a push to legalize sports betting.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 6:47 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
House Republican leadership announces new committee and conference chairs.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 9:47 AM EST
|By Brendan Cullerton
Current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, is the frontrunner to become the next speaker of the House, but he is short on the votes required
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 3:37 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Legislation to sort out Afghan refugee status remains stalled in Congress.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 5:39 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Nancy Pelosi is stepping down as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
For the past 48 years Senator Patrick Leahy has served the nation and his home state of Vermont.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 6:05 PM EST
|By Abby Kousouris
His environmental work earned him the nickname “Champion of the Chattahoochee."
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 8:29 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Journalist Katie Couric joined lawmakers to announce the ‘Find it Early Act' for cancer screenings.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 5:36 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Senator Leahy was first elected in 1974.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 3:08 PM EST
|By Tim Darnell
Georgia is also recording a huge number of absentee ballots and will break the 2018 record.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 1:02 PM EST
|By Tim Darnell
The race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker could have national political implications heading into 2024.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 7:29 PM EST
|By Mike Rogers
The Thomas County Supervisor of Elections office said Monday’s voter turnout was “overwhelming” and surpassed the 1500 voter threshold.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 6:16 PM EST
|By Gabrielle Taite
Many people showed out to let their voices be heard.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 12:38 PM EST
|By Jim Wallace
Hundreds of voters came out to take advantage of the early voting hours voting at the Albany Civic Center.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2022 at 9:11 PM EST
|By Anthony Bordanaro
Early voting runs from Monday to Friday this week ahead of the Runoff race on Dec. 6.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Ashanti Isaac
In less than a week, voters across the Peach State are heading back to the polls. Early voting across Georgia starts in the coming days and elections leaders in Lowndes County are gearing up for another round of early voting.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:06 AM EST
|By Tim Darnell
Neither candidate in Georgia's nationally watched U.S. Senate runoff has enough of a majority to win the race outright.