“Not a single person came up,” said Stephens, who is the chairman of the House Economic Development and Tourism Committee. His bill, Stephens said, would have instantly meant the end of the Hope Scholarship. He asked members to come up and sign the bill.
During a 2021 hearing on legalized sports gambling, he walked to the well of the house and said he was filing a bill to outlaw all gambling in the state.
Ron Stephens, a Savannah Republican, wanted to make a point about gambling in the state of Georgia.
