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Don Balfour's Voting Records

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Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added

Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.

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Georgia Key Votes
Bill No. HB 1244
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (39 - 10)
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. HB 1281
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (39 - 13)
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. HB 1158
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (43 - 7)
Date 03/31/2008
Bill No. HB 1244
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (49 - 6)
Date 03/28/2008
Bill No. HR 1246
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (46 - 7)
Date 03/28/2008
Bill No. SB 276
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (43 - 10)
Date 03/06/2008
Bill No. SB 404
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (42 - 12)
Date 03/06/2008
Bill No. SB 449
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (38 - 14)
Date 03/06/2008
Bill No. SB 506
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (37 - 13)
Date 02/29/2008
Bill No. SB 433
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (31 - 23)
Date 02/27/2008
Bill No. SB 454
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (30 - 20)
Date 02/26/2008
Bill No. SR 845
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (51 - 4)
Date 02/20/2008
Bill No. SB 379
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (40 - 9)
Date 02/19/2008
Bill No. SB 454
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/13/2008
Bill No. SR 686
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (53 - 3)
Date 02/12/2008
Bill No. SR 796
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (48 - 7)
Date 02/12/2008
Bill No. SR 822
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (52 - 0)
Date 02/12/2008
Bill No. SB 340
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (45 - 8)
Date 02/07/2008
Bill No. SB 350
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (38 - 13)
Date 02/07/2008
Bill No. SR 701
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (39 - 12)
Date 01/18/2008
Bill No. HB 89
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (41 - 15)
Date 01/17/2008
Bill No. SCS HB 340
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (32 - 21)
Date 04/17/2007
Bill No. SCS HB 147
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (36 - 17)
Date 04/11/2007
Bill No. SB 148
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (39 - 15)
Date 03/20/2007
Bill No. SB 174
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (48 - 1)
Date 03/20/2007
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