Georgia Senate passes adoption bill without anti-LGBT provision Patrick Saunders Georgia January 18, 2018 0The Georgia Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would rewrite the state’s adoption laws for the first time in...
Georgia Senate committee strips anti-LGBT language, passes adoption bill Patrick Saunders Atlanta January 11, 2018 0The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 8-2 in favor of a bill to update Georgia’s adoption laws without...
Cagle: Pass adoption bill without ‘religious freedom’ measure Georgia Voice Georgia August 29, 2017 0Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle doesn’t want the issue of adoption to turn into a discussion on so-called “religious freedom.”...
Georgia Senate adjourns session without voting on adoption bill Georgia Voice Georgia March 31, 2017 0A clean, non-discriminatory version of adoption legislation House Bill 159 won’t be on the governor’s desk this year, a move...
Georgia House passes non-discriminatory adoption bill as Senate stalls on anti-LGBT language Georgia Voice Georgia March 29, 2017 0Sen. 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...
Georgia GOP senators make last-ditch pitches for anti-LGBT adoption language, ‘religious freedom’ bills Dallas Duncan Georgia March 28, 2017 0Two controversial pieces of legislation were brought to the Senate well during the second-to-last day of the state’s 2017 legislative session....
Anti-LGBT adoption bill sent back to committee for being too ‘extreme’ Patrick Saunders Atlanta March 21, 2017 0That anti-LGBT amendment to a Georgia adoption bill might just be dead in the water. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Jeff...
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal opposes anti-LGBT provisions to adoption bill Georgia Voice Georgia March 20, 2017 0The proposed anti-LGBT amendment to state House Bill 159 does not have Gov. Nathan Deal’s blessing. “I would hope they...
Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee adds anti-LGBT provision to adoption bill Dallas Duncan Georgia March 16, 2017 0Updated at 6:30 p.m. with comments from Sen. Vincent Fort In a surprise move late this afternoon, the state Senate...
