Topic: Benjamin Watson



February 20, 2026 • Legislative Update

At The Capitol: Week 6

Georgia Lawmakers Reevaluate Data Center Tax Breaks

February 6, 2026 • Blog

At The Capitol: Week 4

The House approved its amended budget for the current fiscal year, which now heads to the Senate.

January 30, 2026 • Blog

At The Capitol: Week 3

The pace under the Gold Dome shifted as lawmakers turned their attention to the traditional “budget week.”

March 31, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 31, 2023

It’s Friday! It takes 120 votes to pass a bill through the General Assembly: 29 or more in the Senate, and 91 or more in the House. In the waning […]

March 30, 2023 • Blog

At the Capitol: Sine Die

A recap of the final week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.

March 24, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 24, 2023

It’s Friday! Any hope of reforming the state’s regulatory system for approving new healthcare facilities in 2023 appears to be effectively dead with only two legislative days remaining in the […]

March 23, 2023 • Commentary

What happened to CON reform this year?

Three bills that would have reduced certificate of need regulations by varying degrees were introduced this year. 

March 10, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 10, 2023

It’s Friday! The Georgia legislature has advanced two issues that lawmakers have been debating under the Gold Dome for years. In some cases, decades. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. […]

February 24, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: February 24, 2023

It’s Friday! Craft brewing is a cultural phenomenon that has progressed from a niche hobby to a ubiquitous growing industry for many Americans over the course of only a few […]


January 20, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: January 20, 2023

It’s Friday! Georgia lawmakers brought a tax reform package across the finish line in 2022 that will change the state’s progressive income tax to a 5.49% flat tax beginning in […]

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