JEFF AMY

Statehouse reporter

Amy covers Georgia politics and state government for The Associated Press. He began work with the AP in 2011 and covered Mississippi for eight years before transferring to the Atlanta bureau in 2019.

Georgia governor names labor commissioner and vaults first Hispanic woman into statewide office

A cotton picker moves through Chris Hopkins' cotton field, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, near Lyons, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Tens of billions in Hurricane Helene aid to start by March 21

House Appropriations Chairman Matt Hatchett speaks about the State's 2026 budget at the Georgia State Capitol on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Atlanta. (Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia budget proposes spending more on poor students for the first time

Betting odds for Super Bowl LIX are displayed on monitors at the Circa resort and casino sports book, Jan. 30, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Efforts by Georgia lawmakers to legalize sports betting fizzle again

Gov. Brian Kemp speaks before signing the budget bill at the Capitol in Atlanta on Crossover Day, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Arvin Temkar /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia’s budget sets Hurricane Helene aid and tax rebates. Here’s a look by the numbers

Rep. Lucy McBath D-Ga., discusses Congressional Black Caucus priorities for the 119th Congress and the Trump administration, Dec. 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

Georgia Democrat Lucy McBath says she’s exploring a 2026 run for governor

Rep. Holt Persinger, right, R-Winder, is congratulated by Rep. Kimberly New, R-Villa Rica, following the passage of the school safety bill he sponsored, HB 268, at the House in the Capitol in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Arvin TemkarAtlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia House passes school safety bill after Apalachee High School shooting

Traffic passes an automated speed camera outside Beacon Hill Middle School in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Georgia lawmakers push to ban automated speed cameras near schools

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia, speaks to supporters on election night watch party at a hotel in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP,File)

Georgia committee that has pursued Fani Willis now wants to investigate Stacey Abrams

Transgender activists speak at the Georgia Capitol on Jan. 13, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon, File)

Georgia House keeps hate crimes protection as it seeks to restrict transgender sports participation

Maurice Lightfoot, a member of 'The Tramps,' the oldest unit of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a historic New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe, participates in King's Day festivities in New Orleans, Jan. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

As Mardi Gras approaches in New Orleans, maskers and parades take center stage

Andy Brown takes a break on top of what remains of a tree that destroyed his SUV when it fell during Hurricane Helene on in Augusta, Ga., Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)

Georgia Senate wants further boost to spending on Hurricane Helene relief

Georgia state Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, speaks to reporters on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 at the state Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Georgia bill to veto government rules isn’t the same as DOGE. But Democrats are still upset

State. Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, speaks on a bill he sponsored to rewrite Georgia's litigation rules to limit lawsuits at the Senate at the Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Arvin Temkar /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia bill to limit lawsuits advances after Kemp makes concession to Republican senators

Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta, on May 14, 2022. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia justices order new look at whether lawsuit challenging near-ban on abortion can proceed

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones speaks at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Georgia Senate unanimously backs pricey push for $250 child tax credit

Tashiya Umoja M'kanga, of Atlanta, right, instructs students during a math lesson at the Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute, March 28, 2023, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)

Georgia school voucher list makes more than 400,000 students eligible

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a news conference pushing for tort reform on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP, File)

Georgia’s governor wins support for his top legislation from 3 skeptical senators

Georgia Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, listens to a reporter's question following Senate passage of a bill limiting state funding of gender affirming care on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Georgia Senate bill would cut funding for adult gender-affirming care, but it may have cloudy future

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones speaks at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

As Georgia lieutenant governor raises cash, a possible 2026 opponent questions how it can be spent

Georgia state Rep. Mack Jackson, D-Sandersville, looks at a map of proposed state House districts at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

A judge won’t order a new election in a Georgia state House district despite ballot errors

Battery firm abandons plan for a $2.6 billion plant in Georgia

Sparta residents attend a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing on whether a railroad company can use eminent domain to condemn property in their community, in Atlanta, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon, File)

Judge rules Georgia railroad can seize land as landowners vow to fight

Georgia House Appropriations Committee Chairman Matt Hatchett, R-Dublin, explains proposed changes to the current state budget during a committee meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. House members are scheduled to vote on the changes on Wednesday, Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia House moves to boost spending on Hurricane Helene relief

Georgia state employee Carrie Scott speaks against of a bill that would cut off public funding of transgender care by Georgia state government on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

The transgender care fight targets more adults as Georgia and other states weigh laws

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones speaks at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Georgia lieutenant governor pushes to aid parents through tax credits

Parent of a school shooting victim, Richard Aspinwall is greeted by lawmakers after a press conference discussing school safety legislation on the south wing of the State Capitol, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Atlanta. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Father of Apalachee High School shooting victim backs Georgia push to track students

Plant Bowen, commonly known as Bowen Steam Plant, is a Coal power station, operating, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Euharlee, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Georgia Power wants to keep coal plants alive to meet electricity demand

In this photo provided by Kaitlin Marie Sells, Sam Lilley, left, pilots a small airplane that took off from Savannah, Ga., on Aug, 6, 2022, for a flight to reach the 1,500 flight hours required for Lilley to begin training to become an airline pilot. (Kaitlin Marie Sells via AP)

Crews in midair crash included second-generation pilot and flight attendant ‘full of life’

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Hufstetler, R-Rome, speaks at a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, as Lt. Gov. Burt Jones looks on. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, file)

Georgians voted to limit property taxes on homes. Many school districts are opting out