Lake Area State Lawmakers Appointed To Key Committees
Summary
Lake Area state lawmakers will be on a number of key committees for the next two years. State House members received their assignments on Wednesday. State Representatives Dave Belton, Mack Jackson and Rick Williams are all on the Appropriations Committee, […]
Lake Area state lawmakers will be on a number of key committees for the next two years.
State House members received their assignments on Wednesday.
State Representatives Dave Belton, Mack Jackson and Rick Williams are all on the Appropriations Committee, which is responsible for writing the state’s $27 billion dollar budget.
State Representative Trey Rhodes will be the #3 person on the Ways and Means Committee, which writes Georgia’s tax laws.
Representative Belton will continue to chair the Special Rules Committee, while Representative Rhodes will chair the Game, Fish and Parks Committee.
Representative Williams has been appointed to a Special Election Committee that will look at proposals to change Georgia’s election systems and laws.
And Representative Jackson is on the redistricting committee as Georgia will redraw State House, State Senate and Congressional lines following the 2020 Census. Also worth noting that Representative Jackson is the Vice Chairman of the State Planning & Community Affairs Committee. He is one of three Democrats that is the Chair or Vice Chair of a State House Committee.
Here is the full list of committee assignments for Lake Area lawmakers in the House.
State Representative Dave Belton (Morgan County)
Special Rules (Chairman)
Education (Secretary)
Interstate Cooperation (Secretary)
Appropriations (Public Safety Subcommittee)
Creative Arts & Entertainment
Economic Development & Tourism
State Representative Mack Jackson (Hancock County)
State Planning & Community Affairs (Vice Chairman)
Appropriations (Economic Development)
Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Rules
Small Business
State Representative Trey Rhodes (Greene and Putnam Counties)
Game, Fish & Park (Chairman)
Ways & Means (Secretary)
Assignments
Banks and Banking
Special Rules
State Planning & Community Affairs
State Representative Rick Williams (Baldwin and Putnam Counties)
Appropriations (Transportation Subcommittee, Vice Chairman)
Governmental Affairs
Higher Education
Intergovernmental Cooperation
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Regulated Industries
Special Committee on Election Integrity
See all Georgia House Committee Assignments at https://bit.ly/396Pi5P
GEORGIA STATE SENATORS received their assignments last week.
State Senator Burt Jones (Baldwin, Greene, Morgan and Putnam Counties)
Appropriations
Finance
Government Oversight
Transportation
Worth noting that State Senator Burt Jones lost his chairmanship of the Insurance and Labor Committee. More on that here: https://bit.ly/3nRBNe0
State Senator David Lucas (Hancock County)
Appropriations
Regulated Industries
Insurance and Labor
Transportation
Urban Affairs