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Georgia Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Hill dies at 75

FILE - In this April 3, 2009, file photo, Georgia Sen. Jack Hill, R-Reidsville, addresses fellow legislators about the state budget bill from the lower podium in the senate chamber during the last day of the legislative session in Atlanta. The Georgia Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2020, passed its version of midyear budget cuts in a nearly unanimous vote, approving a plan to cut $159 million in state spending for the fiscal year that ends June 30. "This is a budget with few real adds, frankly," said Hill, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
FILE - In this April 3, 2009, file photo, Georgia Sen. Jack Hill, R-Reidsville, addresses fellow legislators about the state budget bill from the lower podium in the senate chamber during the last day of the legislative session in Atlanta. The Georgia Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2020, passed its version of midyear budget cuts in a nearly unanimous vote, approving a plan to cut $159 million in state spending for the fiscal year that ends June 30. "This is a budget with few real adds, frankly," said Hill, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. (AP Photo/John Amis, File) FILE - In this April 3, 2009, file photo, Georgia Sen. Jack Hill, R-Reidsville, addresses fellow legislators about the state budget bill from the lower podium in the senate chamber during the last day of the legislative session in Atlanta. The Georgia Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2020, passed its version of midyear budget cuts in a nearly unanimous vote, approving a plan to cut $159 million in state spending for the fiscal year that ends June 30. "This is a budget with few real adds, frankly," said Hill, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

By Associated Press 4 min read

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia’s lieutenant governor announced Monday that Republican state Sen. Jack Hill has died.

Hill, of Reidsville, was the chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which controls legislation involving how tax dollars are spent. Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced the 75-year-old Hill’s death in a statement.

Tattnall County Sheriff Kyle Sapp told The Associated Press that Hill was found “in his chair slumped over” at his office in Reidsville on Monday afternoon. Sapp said that Hill’s cause of death was not immediately available but that neither the coronavirus nor foul play are suspected.

The coronavirus outbreak has sickened several other members of the Georgia Senate.

Hill was first elected to the state Senate in 1990 as a Democrat and was serving his 15th term in the chamber. He switched parties in 2002.