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2018 Legislative Updates

IMPORTANT DATES

➢ Pre-filing of bills began
November 15th

➢ 2018 Regular Session of the
Georgia General Assembly
begins Monday, January 8th

Did you know? RESOURCES

➢ DDS agency Bills are typically assigned Any member of the public can read and
to either the Motor Vehicles track Bills at the Georgia General
Committee or the Public Safety Assembly’s website below:
Committee in the House of
Representatives. http://www.legis.ga.gov/en-
US/default.aspx
➢ DDS agency Bills in the Senate are
typically assigned to the Public Safety Most Committee meetings are streamed
Committee. LIVE and can be viewed through the
Georgia General Assembly’s website
➢ Agency budgets are considered by the below:
Appropriations Committees in both the
House and Senate. http://www.house.ga.gov/Committees/
en-US/CommitteeList.aspx
➢ Most work related to agency budgets
occurs within Appropriations Learn how a Bill becomes law:
Subcommittees. The DDS budget is
assigned to the General Government http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/docu
Subcommittee in the House and the ments/legchart.pdf
Transportation Subcommittee in the
Senate.