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Lake Area State Lawmakers Appointed To Key Committees

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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

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