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Georgia Senate passes adoption bill without anti-LGBT provision

The Georgia Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would rewrite the state's adoption laws for the first time in 27 years, and they did so without adding an anti-LGBT provision back in. House Bill 159 passed by ...

Georgia State Sen. Jesse Stone (R-Waynesboro)

Georgia Senate committee strips anti-LGBT language, passes adoption bill

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 8-2 in favor of a bill to update Georgia's adoption laws without an anti-LGBT provision that caused the bill to stall in the final days of last year's l...

Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle vows to sign 'religious freedom' measure.

Cagle: Pass adoption bill without ‘religious freedom’ measure

Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle doesn’t want the issue of adoption to turn into a discussion on so-called “religious freedom.” “I don’t want us to get caught up in a religious liberty debate on the adoption b...

Georgia Senate adjourns session without voting on adoption bill

A clean, non-discriminatory version of adoption legislation House Bill 159 won't be on the governor's desk this year, a move that LGBT rights coalition Georgia Unites Against Discrimination called "a travesty f...

Georgia House passes non-discriminatory adoption bill as Senate stalls on anti-LGBT language

Sen. William Ligon (R-Brunswick) and several fellow GOP senators are not backing down from including anti-LGBT language in House Bill 159, so the bill's author found another vehicle to get what he was looking f...

Georgia GOP senators make last-ditch pitches for anti-LGBT adoption language, ‘religious freedom’ bills

Two controversial pieces of legislation were brought to the Senate well during the second-to-last day of the state's 2017 legislative session. Brunswick Republican Sen. William Ligon's amendment to House Bil...

Anti-LGBT adoption bill sent back to committee for being too ‘extreme’

That anti-LGBT amendment to a Georgia adoption bill might just be dead in the water. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga) announced that House Bill 159 would be sent back to the Judiciary...

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal opposes anti-LGBT provisions to adoption bill

The proposed anti-LGBT amendment to state House Bill 159 does not have Gov. Nathan Deal's blessing. "I would hope they would reconsider the addition to this language that could put the whole bill in jeopardy...

Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee adds anti-LGBT provision to adoption bill

Updated at 6:30 p.m. with comments from Sen. Vincent Fort In a surprise move late this afternoon, the state Senate Judiciary Committee added anti-LGBT language to House Bill 159, a piece of legislation deali...

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