ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers pushed dozens of bills through the House and Senate on Friday, working into the evening to meet a deadline for keeping proposed legislation alive.
A Senate rule requires that bills pass the chamber where they were first introduced by the 30th day of the legislative session, which fell on Friday. There are ways to get bills through in the final 10 working days, but it can be trickier.
Both chambers had passed high-priority legislation before Friday, including a transportation-funding bill in the House and Gov. Nathan Deal’s plan to take over schools dubbed chronically failing in the Senate.
Here’s a look at some of the bills that passed either the House or Senate and are headed to the opposite chamber for review:
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