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On Friday, the Senate completed the fifth week of the legislative session. As we wrapped up legislative day sixteen, we feel strongly that we have continued to tackle the issues of the utmost importance to Georgians.
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After a long and busy day on Friday, the Senate wrapped up its third week of the 2021 legislative session. This week, the Senate took an important first step in fulfilling our constitutional obligation of passing a balanced budget.
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The first week of the first term of the 156th General Assembly has officially concluded, and we are off to a busy start.
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Please see my update concerning the 2020 election and the call for a special session of the General Assembly.
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We’ve all heard the horror stories and can admit that nursing homes, or agencies for caregivers, aren’t thought of as always best care facilities. With an increase of elder care lawyer cases, there is a lack of regulation and oversight in the caregiver for elderly facilities.
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There is a growing need for medical insurance and billing literacy in our communities due to an increase in surprise medical billing. Surprise medical billing is when individuals that are facing medical challenges come home from hospitals to find excessive bills for items that they thought were covered by insurance.
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The news bombards us with stories of cyber crime, illegal immigrant crime, gang violence, missing persons, people being held hostage, school shootings, riots with active shooters and criminal profiling. With today’s social climate, our First Responders are finding it more difficult than ever to do their jobs, which is to protect Georgia citizens.
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This Week in the Senate | February 24 – 28, 2020 Past the Halfway Point
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This Week in the Senate | June 22 – 26, 2020: Sine Die
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On April 20th, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp gave an Executive Order updating Georgia citizens on COVID-19 and his plan for reopening some businesses. You can watch that here. Below you’ll find some helpful information about the new Executive Order that includes the actions that businesses must take if they choose to open as well as more information about the continued shelter-in-place order.
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SBA Disaster Assistance in Response to the Coronavirus
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This Week in the Senate | February 3 – 5, 2020 Momentum is Picking Up
Continue ReadingGeorgia State Senate District 17 encompasses parts of Newton, Henry, and Rockdale counties with nearly 150,000 registered voters. Brian Strickland entered his second full term in the Georgia Senate in 2020. Brian, his wife Lindsay, and their two children reside in McDonough, GA. Through Brian’s leadership position at the capitol where he fights for District 17, and all of Georgia, he has impacted Georgia for the better through various executed actions. Not only did Brian support the First Responder bill which aids police, firefighter, and EMS personnel but he was a key player in the passing of the Georgia Criminal Justice reform bills and Georgia Surprise Medical bills. Above and beyond that, Brian labored to bring funding to Southern Crescent Technical College making it one of the top technical schools in Georgia and is constantly raising the bar in the fight against human trafficking.
