Dentons' State Government Affairs team examines a battery of
local third-rail issues on tap when the Georgia General Assembly
convenes January 11. We look at expanded rail service in Atlanta,
balancing religious freedom, Medicaid expansion, Las Vegas-style
casinos as a stop-gap for the HOPE scholarship fund, education and
child welfare reform, local cultivation of medicinal marijuana,
fantasy sports' legality and craft brewery sales, and what
happens when the GOP race for the White House comes to Georgia.
Transit funding
Expanded state funding for public transit in Georgia's
clogged capital city and its outlying suburban and exurban
communities continues to register among the local business
community's highest priorities for the coming legislative
session, an extension of the powerful lobby's successful
passage last year of a $900 million highway and bridge funding
package.
