Georgia Set to Enact Law to Protect Confederate Monuments

by Warner Todd Huston

The Georgia House of Representatives approved a bill that would protect Confederate monuments and increase penalties for those who damage or destroy them. The law would also make it harder for local governments to replace or move monuments.

Chickamauga Republican State Sen. Jeff Mullis’s Senate Bill 77 passed 100 to 71 on Thursday, placing the bill one step closer to going into effect, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

After the House approved the bill, it was sent back to the state Senate for reconciliation. The Senate already approved it on its first pass through the upper chamber, and if approved a second time, the bill will end up on Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk

While arguing in favor of the bill, Rep. Alan Powell (R-Hartwell) noted that monuments to World War I had also been damaged in the Peach State.

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