Hot Nights In Georgia

This week I learned that the Georgia Legislature meets for only 40 days each year and that new laws enacted in the session go into effect on July 1. Why would a bill brought up fo a vote on the evening of day 39 be retroactive to the previous year?

Today in the AJC:

But Perdue did reply when a caller on a radio talk show asked him last month, "The one thing I haven't been able to do is find a way to have a friend of mine write me a bill that saves me a $100,000 on my taxes. I was wondering how I might be able to get that done."

"Well, you get elected governor," Perdue replied.