Georgia House passes midyear budget
Ray Henry
Metro Atlanta would get hundreds of millions dollars in transportation funding while Georgia farmers would get help finding workers they say were driven away by a crackdown on illegal immigrants under an $18.6 billion budget adopted Friday by House lawmakers.
The House voted 159-0 to approve the revised spending plan for the current financial year ending in June. That budget proposal written by the GOP majority largely sticks to an earlier spending proposal from Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. It now heads to the state Senate.
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