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House Republicans pose legal challenge to Senate fix for trauma care

4/6/2010

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Jim Galloway
April 1, 2010

House Republicans have picked what could be an important fight with the Senate, over a measure to fund the state’s woefully unmonied chain of hospital emergency rooms.

On March 10, the Senate passed SR 277, a proposed constutional amendment that would ask voters in November whether a $10 fee (or tax, House members would say) should be added to the price of a license tag to fund a statewide trauma network.

State Rep. Charlice Byrd (R-Woodstock) penned the letter below to legislative legal counsel Sewell Brumby:

(please follow link http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/01/house-republicans-pose-legal-challenge-to-senate-fix-for-trauma-care/)

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