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Legislators pass flurry of bills to end session
Abortion, criminal justice reform bills among legislation that beat the gavel
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Rep. Doug Collins talks with his family, from left, wife Lisa, sons Cameron and Copeland and daughter Jordan, on Thursday before delivering the daily devotion. - photo by SARA GUEVARA
In what would be their final chance to make an impact on Georgia’s laws this year, legislators hustled bills Thursday that banned some abortions, reformed the state's criminal justice system and changed how special sales taxes are divvied up among school districts. Georgia’s General Assembly is now adjourned, much of its work from the past three months still pending a signature from Gov. Nathan Deal.