A key part of Gov. Sonny Perdue’s tort reform agenda and the State Bar of Georgia’s extensive rewrite of the state’s evidence rules are among the legislative proposals that appear doomed for this year.

By the end of the last week, neither bill had been approved by the Senate or the House of Representatives. Thursday was the 30th day of this year’s legislative session, the so-called crossover day by which a bill must have cleared one body of the General Assembly for it to be considered by the other.

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