State lawmakers in Georgia advanced legislation to authorize a state commission to review complaints and discipline prosecutors and solicitors general in the Peach State.
The state House passed Senate Bill 332 on Tuesday, 97-73, nearly a month after the state Senate passed the legislation, 29-22, meaning the bill is headed for Gov. Brian Kemp‘s (R-GA) desk.
The legislation builds off of a law enacted in 2023, which created the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, and will allow the commission’s rules to be created without the state Supreme Court’s approval, as was previously necessary. The state Supreme Court had reservations about the commission’s ability to regulate district attorneys and solicitors general and refused to approve the rules for the commission.
“Once this bill’s passed, this commission will be able to begin its real work, which
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