This story was updated on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1:17 p.m.
In his seventh State of the State address, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp applauded the resilience of Georgians through natural disasters, the pandemic, economic upheaval and a deadly school shooting and cast Georgia’s approach to health, budgeting and public safety as a model for other states to emulate, declaring “the Georgia Way is indeed the better way.”
But the second-term governor told lawmakers gathered in the House Chamber that in his view, Georgia is falling short in one glaring metric – the state’s legal environment. Kemp devoted more than a third of his remarks to his push for tort reform, which he has called his top legislative priority. He even nodded at the prospect of a special session later this year, ratcheting up the pressure on Republican and Democratic lawmakers to act with urgency.
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