U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, recently introduced the Affordable Retirement Advice Protections Act. This new legislation is meant to protect access to affordable retirement savings services for low- and middle-income Americans. Isakson’s legislation is one of a series of proposals
Channel 11Alive of Atlanta recently reported that a data breach of the health insurer Centene Corporation has put the personal data of 150,000 Georgians at risk. Centene is the parent company of the Peach State Health plan that covers the 380,000 Medicare and PeachCare patients. The data breach occurred when Centene lost six computer hard drives that contain highly
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act (HR 3662). This bill strengthens congressional oversight of U.S. economic and trade sanctions against Iran, specifically over financiers of Iranian terrorism. It prohibits the administration from lifting sanctions related to destabilizing activities, such as its ballistic missile program. This legislation comes after Iran recently test fired ballistic
The House Study Committee on Welfare Fraud was created during the 2015 Legislative Session by the adoption of HR 829. The chairman, Rep. David Clark, along with Representatives Mandi Ballinger, Timothy Barr, Dominic LaRiccia, and Eric Thomas, were assigned to study the great number of “conditions, needs, issues, and problems” regarding Georgia welfare programs. They
On Thursday, State Rep. Brian Strickland, a Republican representing District 111, filed a bill that prohibits discrimination within high school athletic memberships. House Bill 870 targets the Georgia High School Association’s restriction of certain private schools from participating in athletic events with other private and public schools, as well as addresses associations that prohibit religious expression
Hey there, GeorgiaPol world. I’m a new intern that you’ll be hearing from, and I couldn’t be more excited to begin working with such a great and talented team. My name is Nicole Hammett, and I was born and raised in the Dalton area, a city in Northwest Georgia which you may recognize as the
