Surviving the skepticism from a key senator, legislation that would revamp the state’s rules of evidence passed the Senate Judiciary Committee this week and is awaiting clearance for a vote by the full chamber, one of the last hurdles to becoming law.

“We are very thrilled the bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously,” said S. Lester Tate III, the president of the State Bar of Georgia, which has been trying to get an evidence bill passed for more than two decades.

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