It is expected to be a long and busy day on this 40th and final day of the Georgia General Assembly session. Under the Gold Dome, lawmakers will try to push through as many of the 300-or-so bills as they can to Governor Sonny Perdue’s desk. The 21.2 billion dollar state budget for fiscal 2009 must get hammered-out. Perdue has already requested lawmakers cut out 245-million dollars in spending. A new challenge for the budget was the news from Thursday that state tax collections were down 1.6 percent, or 19-million dollars in March--from the same time last year.
Stay with GPB for all the latest from the Capitol on this final day. GPB Radio will have news updates this afternoon during All Things Considered at 4pm, and again at 6pm during Georgia Gazette. You can get Capitol updates anytime by clicking our website gpb.org, and going to the Georgia News page.
Stay with GPB for all the latest from the Capitol on this final day. GPB Radio will have news updates this afternoon during All Things Considered at 4pm, and again at 6pm during Georgia Gazette. You can get Capitol updates anytime by clicking our website gpb.org, and going to the Georgia News page.
