It’s the last day (login) of Georgia’s legislative session. It will finish a day earlier than its allocated time, which will save the state $40,000. That’s better than past sessions, which have often spilled outside the allocated 40 days and into special sessions at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Of course, it’s easier to be efficient when the House Speaker can essentially change the results of a committee vote whenever he pleases. Or is it? I was surprised to read they still haven’t passed the Sandy Springs bill. I was not surprised to read they’re still having trouble coming up with the votes to pass ethics legislation (wolves… hen house…).
Rusty,
Do not fall for the GOP bull about ending early. The may have only been in session for 39 days, but that does not mean they saved us any money. All they did was add more committee days and the legislators still get paid on those days as well as per diem.
These are the regular session adjournment dates for the past 20 years:
1984 — Feb. 29; 1985 — March 8; 1986 — March 7; 1987 — March 12; 1988 — March 7; 1989 — March 15; 1990 — March 9; 1991 — March 15; 1992 — March 31; 1993 — March 23; 1994 — March 16; 1995 — March 17; 1996 — March 18; 1997 — March 28; 1998 — March 19; 1999 — March 24; 2000 — March 22; 2001 — March 21; 2002 — April 12; 2003 — April 25; 2004 — April 7.
And as Calvin Smyre sacastically said yesterday “We’re going to balance the budget with that $40,000 we save.”
Sine die. Amen.