2024
Session Is Coming!

Happy New Year from Georgia House District 54! I hope you had a wonderful and restful end-of-year and holiday season.  Even though it feels like we just left the Capitol for Special Session in December, it's time to prepare for the 2024 legislative session. Both the Georgia House and the Georgia Senate will gavel in on […]

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2023
Special Session, Voting in the Runoff And More!

What’s this, you say? An update from Rep. Holland in December? I didn't expect to hear from her until next year! While the legislature normally takes a break until early January, we were called back into action last week for a special session. I have more details about that, plus information about a runoff election […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 12, Sine Die!

The dust has finally settled, and the legislative session for 2023 has come to an end. The last week of March marked legislative days 39 and 40, both days that went well past sundown as legislators worked to pass bills and - more importantly - come to agreements on changes to bills between the House […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 11

During our second-to-last week of the legislative session, the House has worked to move bills through committee and vote on them on the floor. We delighted in welcoming advocates and constituents for World Down Syndrome Day, Child Suicide Prevention Day, DeKalb County Day, Environmental Justice Day and more.  The Georgia Constitution restricts the legislature to meeting […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 10

It's hard to believe that we have less than two weeks left in the 2023 legislative session. Things really pick up steam in the final days, with committees meeting frequently and Rules Calendars (the lists of bills to vote on each day) getting longer. There are only five legislative days left to pass legislation, with […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 9

What a week of highs and lows! We began on Monday with Crossover Day - the house gaveled in at 10:00 a.m. Fourteen hours later, we had passed more than 50 bills in time for them to crossover to the Senate chamber. On Sunday afternoon, I will cohost a legislative update with Senator Josh McLaurin […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 8

Almost two years ago, the first bill suggesting that the community of Buckhead de-annex from the City of Atlanta dropped in the hopper in the Georgia House of Representatives. For decades, the idea floated around our community but had never seen any legislative action. During the summer of 2021, I brought up the potential City […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 7

Proponents of creating a City of Buckhead City have been busy at the Capitol this year. Two bills have been introduced in the Senate (SB113 and SB114) to sever a portion of Atlanta and incorporate a City of Buckhead City. Some folks thought this issue was dead at the end of the 2022 session, but new leadership and […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 6

We've made it to the halfway point! Thursday was Legislative Day 20 which marks the middle of our 40-day legislative session here in Georgia. So far, things have remained very even-keeled in the House - most bills continue to be non-controversial and pass with a vast majority of the votes. But hold onto your hats […]

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2023
The Holland Report - 2023, Week 5

Another week of session is in the books! We completed Days 13-16 of our allocated 40, and are getting ever closer to Day 28, Crossover Day, this year scheduled for March 6th. This is the last day that bills can cross from the House to the Senate (and vice versa). The past few years have […]

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