A thorny issue during last summer’s transportation sales tax debate has found its way to the Georgia legislature during this year’s General Assembly. A group of senators has introduced the “Anti-T-SPLOST Penalty Act,” which seeks to reduce the matching portion of state Local Maintenance Improvement Grants from 30 percent to 10 percent for local governments in regions of the state that didn’t pass the tax. The higher match was a criticized part of the unpopular Transportation Investment Act, which called for a July 31 referendum on an additional 1 percent sales tax on transportation.