SB 171, the result of the 2022 Senate Study Committee on Development Authorities and Downtown Development Authorities, limits holdover terms and imposes continuing training requirements for board members, which will begin to take effect this [...]
Murray Barnes Finister was awarded the top tier “Band 1” rating from Chambers USA in its inaugural ranking of Georgia public finance lawyers and law firms. The firm’s three named partners also received top [...]
Despite rising interest rates and the end of a monarch’s reign, our lawyers still managed to get Out & About in 2022! Take a look at some of our engagements: Murray Barnes Finister sponsored [...]
Several new public facilities authorities were created during the 2021 Legislative Session. Public Facility Authorities are created by local law rather than by a general enabling act (such as the Development Authorities Act), suggesting that [...]
On Thursday, March 11, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (“ARP”) into law. The ARP will provide state and local governments with up to $350 billion in funds targeted at softening the financial effects [...]
There are plenty of things we won’t miss about 2020 – toilet paper shortages, dire warnings of murder hornets, the presidential candidate debates, the Harry and Meghan Brexit. In all seriousness, it was a [...]
August 5th, 2020 marked the conclusion of the bill signing period following one of the longest legislative sessions in Georgia history. In addition to the constitutionally mandated appropriations acts, the legislature passed 611 pieces [...]
The Federal Reserve announced on April 9, 2020 that it was creating a Municipal Liquidity Facility (the “MLF”) to help states and local governments manage cash flow pressures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The [...]
Issuers of tax-exempt, direct pay Build America Bonds (“BABs”) and Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds (“RZEDBs”) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”) are entitled to receive direct subsidy payments from [...]
Many cities, counties, school districts and other obligated persons (“Obligors”) have recently or are about to file their annual financial information and operating data on EMMA to comply with their existing continuing disclosure undertakings. [...]