GA Senate votes to restrict travel funds for sitting members

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(ATLANTA, Ga.) — After former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and state senator Butch Miller raised eyebrows with an overseas trip after 2022′s midterms, the Senate voted to impose restrictions on what kinds of uses sitting members may use taxpayer funds for.

“The funds that we use for legislative operations belong to the people of Georgia,” current Senate President Pro Tempore John Kennedy told WSB’s Sandra Parrish.

The $110,000 delegation to the UK and Germany, which the former Lt. Gov Duncan and then-President Pro Tempore Miller said was to espouse Georgian economic policies to European states. It was a bipartisan delegation, including members of the senate from both parties.

SR-334 will cut funding for international trips, and prevent senators from using public funds on transportation within six months of their end-of-term date. Further guidance regarding use of funds for travel may be written in the future.

WSB investigative reporter Sandra Parrish contributed to reporting for this story.