WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:07.8860000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.184 Now do it late night for Georgia NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:02.184 --> 00:00:03.780 lawmakers under the Gold Dome. NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:03.780 --> 00:00:05.748 It was far from a nine to five NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:05.748 --> 00:00:07.779 day for them as Crossover Day NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:07.779 --> 00:00:09.614 officially wraps up at stake. NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:09.620 --> 00:00:12.374 Bills such as the rolling back of the states, NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:12.380 --> 00:00:13.298 Citizen's Arrest Law, NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:13.298 --> 00:00:14.832 an no excuse, absentee voting, NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:14.832 --> 00:00:16.056 11 lives of Richards, NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:16.060 --> 00:00:17.908 also pulling a double forest today, NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:17.910 --> 00:00:19.728 spending all day at the Capitol NOTE Confidence: 0.835875 00:00:19.728 --> 00:00:21.590 where many bills got the votes. NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:27.245 Crossover Day is the day when the NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:27.245 --> 00:00:29.449 vast majority of the 1000 plus NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:29.449 --> 00:00:31.037 bills introduced this legislative NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:31.037 --> 00:00:33.368 session die for lack of interest. NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:33.370 --> 00:00:34.990 The headline is what survived NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:34.990 --> 00:00:37.100 the state Senate passed a bundle NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:38.800 of Republican election bills. NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:40.495 The biggest of the bunch NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:40.495 --> 00:00:42.780 would do away with no excuse, NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:44.404 absentee voting meaning voters NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:44.404 --> 00:00:46.434 requesting absentee ballots would need NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:46.434 --> 00:00:48.929 to state a valid reason for getting it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:48.930 --> 00:00:49.660 Could we NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:49.660 --> 00:00:52.388 pause for a moment in this rush to NOTE Confidence: 0.8696885 00:00:52.388 --> 00:00:55.086 shut down access to the ballot box? NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:00:55.390 --> 00:00:57.598 A parade of Democrats protested vigorously, NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.215 but the Republican majority passed NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:00:59.215 --> 00:01:02.010 it in the name of election security. NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:02.010 --> 00:01:03.850 Apart from the election bills, NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:03.850 --> 00:01:06.426 both the House and Senate passed bills, NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:08.638 increasing the penalty for drag racing. NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:10.812 The House passed a bill requiring NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:10.812 --> 00:01:12.688 hospitals and nursing homes to NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:12.688 --> 00:01:14.160 allow some patient visitors, NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:16.912 and the House passed a bill to rollback NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:16.912 --> 00:01:18.570 Georgia's citizen arrest statute. NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:18.570 --> 00:01:20.814 A bill prompted by the racially NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:20.814 --> 00:01:22.310 charged killing of Ahmad NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:22.385 --> 00:01:24.455 Arbery in Brunswick a year ago. NOTE Confidence: 0.87329423 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:25.200 Anybody would NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.546 have had to. We've shown empathy NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:27.546 --> 00:01:29.942 for that young man and then NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:29.942 --> 00:01:32.186 run the tools of George Floyd. NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:32.190 --> 00:01:35.150 It was, it was just a defining moment. NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:35.150 --> 00:01:38.489 But if our Aubrey has changed in many ways, NOTE Confidence: 0.856007455 00:01:38.490 --> 00:01:40.350 this state, one thing that NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:40.350 --> 00:01:41.834 appears unlikely to change NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:41.834 --> 00:01:43.318 is salaries for lawmakers. NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:46.015 The state Senate voted down a bill NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:46.015 --> 00:01:48.247 that would have given a salary NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:48.247 --> 00:01:50.363 hike of 85% to state legislators NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:50.363 --> 00:01:52.218 who are part time workers. NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:52.220 --> 00:01:54.812 The part time workers of the House and NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:54.812 --> 00:01:56.839 Senate held their longest legislative NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:56.839 --> 00:01:59.024 session of the year tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:01:59.030 --> 00:02:01.165 The house will start voting on bills NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:02:01.165 --> 00:02:03.114 passed in the Senate tomorrow and NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:02:03.114 --> 00:02:05.375 vice versa through the end of the NOTE Confidence: 0.8525501 00:02:05.443 --> 00:02:07.886 legislative session at the end of March.