An amended version of legislation that stiffens Georgia’s anti-bullying laws passed in the last hours of the Senate’s 2010 session and now awaits Gov. Sonny Perdue’s signature.
Gov. Perdue’s spokesman, Chris Schrimpf, said this week that the governor and his staff have 40 days to review the bill, but that he “has not indicated one way or the other” whether he will sign or veto it.
The governor’s education and legal advisors will review the measure over the next few weeks to make sure it has no “unintended consequences,” Mr. Schrimpf said.
The bill started in the House as HB 927 and appeared to be stalled for the year when it didn’t get a vote on Crossover Day, the 30th legislative day of the session and the last day bills can pass from one chamber to another.
But the bill’s House sponsor, Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Atlanta, found a Senate bill, SB 250, that revived the legislation.