During this session Rep Bruce will introduce legislation to make it easier for you to vote. The Bill allows you to vote at any Precinct within your county. A process similar to early voting, on election day.
A second Bill will prohibit individuals from making guns with 3D printers. These guns can be taken on planes, into schools and other places undetected by metal detecting equipment.
Our state budget is 26 Billion Dollars. Less than 3% of that is spent with minority owned business. I will introduce legislation to create a state agency to oversee state spending policy and to insure equity in the process for all Georgia citizens.
Increasing numbers of women using opioids, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, marijuana and/ or alcohol during pregnancy are coming to emergency rooms to give birth. Many mothers have not had prenatal care or have had inconsistent prenatal care. The babies are born substance exposed and in need of special services not always available at the hospital of choice. Mothers and babies are separated.
Best Practices
: Encourage enrollment on insurance for prenatal care. Link women and other household members to substance use treatment during pregnancy for healthier babies with fewer problems at birth. Provide peer support during pregnancy and substance use treatment. Keep families together while addressing pregnancy, birth and substance use.
Intend to present Legislation that
Allows communities to form teams to encourage and support pregnant women and members of their household to seek medical treatment during pregnancy and substance use treatment during pregnancy through voluntary Plans of Safe Care. Allows Family Treatment Courts to accept pregnant women and their partners in an accountability court for intensive case management and services for a healthier pregnancy and birth.
