The Safe Harbor Law (SB 8) and Amendment (SR 7) are two pieces of legislation that are designed to create a fund in Georgia that is dedicated to serving the needs of victims of human sex trafficking. SB 8 and SR 7, introduced in the 2015 Legislative Session by Senator...
HB 837, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), authored by Representative Ed Setzler, is the House's legislation that would require courts to use a two-part test when handling religious liberty cases. The first part is determining whether the state has a...
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 129) is modeled after the 1993 federal RFRA law that was supported by then-Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. RFRA protects individuals and business owners from the government forcing them to...
SB 305, authored by Senator Renee Unterman, is an oversight bill that requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to provide 60 days notice to all members of the House and Senate Health & Human Services Committees prior to making any changes to the Physicians...
“Death is just another path, one that we all must take,” the wizard Gandalf says in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Return of the King. He is right – sooner or later, everyone faces death – but the path leading there can look very different depending on one’s circumstances at the...
HB 757, the Free Exercise Protection Act, authored by Representative Kevin Tanner, was introduced originally as the Pastor Protection Act and passed from the House. The Senate amended this bill to include comprehensive language from the First Amendment Defense Act...
SB 284, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), authored by Senator Greg Kirk, ensures that private citizens, Christian schools and adoption agencies, pastors, and churches cannot be discriminated against based on the exercise of their belief in the sanctity of...
The Abortion Statistic Reporting Bill (HB 555) was filed during the 2015 Legislative Session in an effort to increase the reporting of abortions and juveniles seeking court orders to obtain abortion without parental notification from the Department of Public Health...