ATLANTA — The Georgia House of Representatives gave final passage this week to legislation letting a recently created oversight board for prosecutors set its own rules.
The bill cleared the Republican-controlled House 97-73 primarily along party lines. The state Senate, where the legislation originated, passed it early last month, also in a party-line vote.
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