157th Georgia General Assembly

157th Georgia General Assembly
157th Georgia General Assembly
	Great Seal of the State of Georgia
Overview
Legislative body	Georgia General Assembly
Meeting place	Georgia State Capitol
Senate
Members	56 Senators; Republican (33); Democratic (23); (as of 8 March 2023);
Senate President	Burt Jones (R)
Party control	Republican Party
House of Representatives
Members	180 Representatives; Republican (101); Democratic (77); Vacant (2); (as of 8 March 2023);
Speaker of the House	Jon G. Burns (R)
Party control	Republican Party
Sessions
1st
1st	January 9, 2023 – March 29, 2023
2nd	January 8, 2024 – April 28, 2024
Special sessions
Redistricting
Redistricting	November 28, 2023 – December 7, 2023

The 157th Georgia General Assembly consisted of two sessions of the Georgia General Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the first in 2023 and the second in 2024.^[1] It convened its first session on January 9, 2023 at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta,^[2] which adjourned sine die on March 29; as stipulated in the Constitution of Georgia, the General Assembly can only hold a session "for a period of no longer than 40 days in the aggregate each year".^[3]

The Assembly's members were elected in the 2022 State Senate and State House elections.

On October 26, 2023, a special session was called by Governor Brian Kemp for November 28, 2023, to redraw congressional and legislative maps which were approved in the previous General Assembly.

During the first session, March 6, 2023 was "Crossover Day", the informal name for the date by which bills must have passed through one chamber in order to remain on track to become law.^[2]

^ "Session Summary - 1st Session of the 157th Biennium of the General Assembly of Georgia, 2023" (PDF). Georgia General Assembly. Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Prabhu, Maya T.; Niesse, Mark (January 8, 2023). "What you need to know about Georgia's General Assembly". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
^ "Constitution of the State of Georgia" (PDF). Georgia State Senate.

[gga-23-summary-1] "Session Summary - 1st Session of the 157th Biennium of the General Assembly of Georgia, 2023" (PDF). Georgia General Assembly. Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved 1 May 2024.

[ajc-pn-jan-9-2] Prabhu, Maya T.; Niesse, Mark (January 8, 2023). "What you need to know about Georgia's General Assembly". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

[ga-const-3] "Constitution of the State of Georgia" (PDF). Georgia State Senate.

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