The Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee passed a measure that could cost local jurisdictions state taxpayer money if they declare themselves a “Sanctuary City.”
The committee passed an amended version of House Bill 301, which the state House passed last year as a measure initially related to motor vehicles and traffic. The push has become a priority in the wake of last month’s murder of a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
“What we’ve done in this legislation is we’ve added some teeth because there were none in the past; we just told them don’t do it, and they didn’t do it,” state Sen. Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, said. “…Primarily, what this will do is if a city does pass these … policies, they risk losing funds that they would normally receive from the state or … federal funds that are currently managed by the […]
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