With a virus-interrupted General Assembly session receding in the rearview mirror, several pieces of legislation deemed worrisome or welcome by Georgia’s legal community have been resolved, at least until a new General Assembly cranks up again in January.

The most high-profile debate involved the wrangle over House Bill 426, the “Hate Crimes Bill” that passed the House last year only to languish in the Senate until streets across the county erupted into pandemonium over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.