This week brings us SCOTUS oral arguments and the final two days of Georgia General Assembly's 2024 session
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** March 2024
State & Federal Update
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Georgia’s 2024 legislative session ends on Thursday, March 28, Day 40.
To date, the General Assembly has moved some meaningful legislation that protects the voiceless and the vulnerable, including:
* SB 335 ([link removed]) , the Safeguarding Adopted Children from Sexual Violence Act, led by Senator John Albers. The bill protects adopted children by expanding definitions of recipients of familial sexual violence
* SB 370 ([link removed]) , Human Trafficking Hotline, led by Senator Mike Hodges in cooperation with First Lady Marty Kemp. The bill compels certain public and private establishments to post human trafficking hotline information in physical locations and on websites.
* SB 376 ([link removed]) , led by Senator Blake Tillery, improves timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home.
* SB 493 ([link removed]) , led by Senator Bo Hatchett, creates additional penalties for registered sexual offenders convicted of photographing a minor without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian.
* HB 1037 ([link removed]) , Georgia Commission on Maternal and Infant Health, led by Representative Lauren Daniel, establishes a commission to measure perinatal care outcomes and to make policy recommendations.
The only constitutional requirement of the General Assembly is to pass a balanced budget. GLA’s priority this session impacts the budget with a well-founded request to markedly increase funding for Georgia’s Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program. Georgia led its neighboring states by establishing this grant which provides funding to non-profit organizations who support women and their babies for at least one year following birth. However, our state funding has fallen behind our neighboring states who spend at least twice the annual amount.
The budget (HB 916) passed out of the House with an increase removed. Late Thursday, the Senate passed their version without an increase. The budget bill now goes to conference committee for final passage on sine die, March 28th.
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** Federal Update
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While the Vice President of the United States of America is busy using taxpayer dollars to visit abortion clinics ([link removed]) , and Planned Parenthood is doing cartwheels over her visit and exceeding its stated goal of ensuring over 50% of abortions are conducted using medication, and Guttmacher is gleefully reporting ([link removed]) that abortions exceeded 1 million in 2023, the doctors of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) have steadfastly pursued holding the FDA to account for its reckless dismantling of its own safety protocols it required when it approved the dangerous abortion drug, mifepristone.
Thanks to these doctors, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the most significant abortion-related case since Dobbs.
We have been sharing information with you about this case and this drug on our blog ([link removed]) , in our emails ([link removed]) and social media ([link removed]) .
We invite you to listen to the oral arguments at 10:00AM ([link removed])
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** Abortion Pill Effects
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Thanks to our alliance partner, SBA Pro-Life America for the graphic above and other great information about the case before the Supreme Court. Click here ([link removed]) .
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