A lobbyist is an educator. Georgia’s part-time legislators may have jobs as farmers, attorneys, doctors, accountants, teachers, or may have retired from their careers. It is the GFIA lobbying team that educates legislators on how a bill will affect the food industry. Our legislators cannot be experts on every field. That’s why a lobbyist plays an important role in the legislative process.
After determining our legislative agenda, your GFIA lobbyists will reach out to legislators, asking them to sponsor bills that will help the food industry. Passing a bill is a very difficult task due to the many steps it takes before becoming law. Other times, we play defense by reading each bill as it is introduced, writing a summary of the bill and asking our members to assess the potential impact the legislation will have on their business.
The GFIA lobbyists work for you by analyzing hundreds of bills; finding legislators to sponsor a bill; encouraging other legislators to co-sponsor a bill; writing position papers; meeting with committee members; working through the committee process; testifying in committee; building coalitions; reaching out to members to get calls in to the legislators and managing the bill through the committee and floor votes. If a bill makes it out of one house, we start all over again.
If you have any questions or would like to spend the day at the capitol with the GFIA lobbying team, please call Kathy Kuzava, 404-819-7744 or kkuzava@gfia.org.
After determining our legislative agenda, your GFIA lobbyists will reach out to legislators, asking them to sponsor bills that will help the food industry. Passing a bill is a very difficult task due to the many steps it takes before becoming law. Other times, we play defense by reading each bill as it is introduced, writing a summary of the bill and asking our members to assess the potential impact the legislation will have on their business.
The GFIA lobbyists work for you by analyzing hundreds of bills; finding legislators to sponsor a bill; encouraging other legislators to co-sponsor a bill; writing position papers; meeting with committee members; working through the committee process; testifying in committee; building coalitions; reaching out to members to get calls in to the legislators and managing the bill through the committee and floor votes. If a bill makes it out of one house, we start all over again.
If you have any questions or would like to spend the day at the capitol with the GFIA lobbying team, please call Kathy Kuzava, 404-819-7744 or kkuzava@gfia.org.