Georgia Republican lawmakers save Kemp from rare threat of a veto override 

Georgia Republicans on Monday blocked a Democratic attempt to push for what would have been the first vote to override a veto from Gov. Brian Kemp.

Atlanta Democratic state Rep. Stacey Evans called on her colleagues to override one of Kemp’s vetoes on a Republican-sponsored bill. The bill, which passed unanimously out of both chambers earlier this year, would have required funds appropriated to the Department of Human Services and the Department of Community Health for specific purposes to be kept in separate accounts and prohibit the two agencies from using those funds for other purposes.

Kemp, who is serving his final year in office, said in his veto statement last month that the measure “interjects the General Assembly into the operational oversight of executive branch agencies.” The bill was one of a dozen vetoed by the governor this year.