Republicans pushed a proposal to overhaul the county commission in Georgia’s second most-populous county through a state Senate committee on Thursday, a day after the same panel approved changes to Gwinnett County’s school board.
The Senate State and Local Governmental Operations Committee voted 4-3 along party lines for Senate Bill 6EX, which would add five new members to the all-Democratic Gwinnett County Commission and draw new district lines for elections beginning next year. Senate Bill 5EX, approved Wednesday, would change elections from the county school board from partisan to nonpartisan and redraw school district lines.
Both measures move to the full Senate for more debate.
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