Summer studies: Georgia legislators in the thick of a season of peering ahead to next session

The Georgia State Capitol is shown in January 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

College football is back, pumpkin-flavored everything has returned, and the legislative study committee schedule is loaded with meetings.

Fall must be creeping in.

Lawmakers, industry leaders and subject matter experts are huddling together to dig into some of the thornier issues that proved too unwieldy to tackle during a jam-packed three-month legislative session last winter.