5 things to watch on the final day of Georgia's 2023 legislative session

Lawmakers rush to their seats after the voting machines open in the House Chambers on Crossover Day morning, March 6, 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

The biggest day of the year at the Georgia General Assembly has arrived. On this final day of the session, lawmakers are scrambling to get their passion projects to the governor’s desk — or put a stop to the measures they want defeated. 

Georgia’s Constitution requires that the assembly pass a budget during their 40-day session, which they’ve yet to get squared away. In between, the legislature will keep ticking through a laundry list of unfinished bills up until about midnight. That’s roughly when leadership shouts “sine die” and lawmakers toss their papers into the air — leaving the rest for next session.

Here are five themes the WABE politics team is keeping their eyes on as Sine Die unfolds.