The House wasted little time this week tackling issues of importance to Georgia families.

One of the nation’s toughest child molestation laws was passed as was a significant child care tax credit proposal.

In an effort to protect Georgia’s children from sexual predators offenders face a certain minimum sentence of twenty five years in prison, lifetime parole which includes mandatory electronic monitoring and elimination of first offender status.

The tax credit bill, which passed unanimously, would allow single child families to receive a progressively increasing tax credit which will reach $300 by 2008.

Also adopted was legislation allowing the display of the Ten Commandments in court houses and other public buildings.  Specifically the measure allows the display of  the Mayflower Compact, the covenant agreed to by the first colonists, the Declaration of Independence, and the King James version of the Ten Commandments.

And finally Friday the House approved the 17.9 billion dollar revised spending plan for the current fiscal year.

I’m ___________________ reporting from the capitol.