Lawmakers just concluded a legislative session dominated by the GOP’s push to remake Georgia’s election laws after Republicans suffered stunning losses at the ballot box.

Even as the law-making continued under the Gold Dome this week, the struggle to define the sweeping election bill was already playing out on national TV and putting Republican state leaders at odds with some of the state’s largest employers.

But there were also a slew of other bills that passed.

Lawmakers followed through on their threat to hire a “chief labor officer” who would share power with the state’s elected labor commissioner.

They named the pecan the official state nut as an intended boost to an industry that suffered generational losses during 2018’s Hurricane Michael, although – as some have noted – a pecan is technically a drupe.

And after much consternation, they agreed that observing daylight saving time year-round is the way to go, should Congress ever decide to end the unpopular twice-a-year time change ritual and let states choose.

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