Republican Larry Walker, III was elected to the State Senate for Georgia’s 20th District in 2015, representing the citizens of Bleckley, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Laurens, Pulaski, Treutlen and Wilcox counties.
Sen. Walker has championed legislation to grow Georgia’s economy by reducing unnecessary regulatory burden on businesses, cutting taxes, funding education and workforce development, incentivizing capital investment in areas outside of metro Atlanta, and protecting Georgia’s water rights. Additionally, he has worked to stabilize and improve access to rural health care.
His signature legislation includes eliminating the corporate net worth tax on small business, establishing tax credits for job creating investment in rural Georgia, abolishing redundant information practices notice requirements for insurance companies and agents, enhancing Georgia’s successful digital entertainment industry incentives, strengthening our agriculture water use metering program and supporting our military installations through the creation of military economic opportunity zones.
Sen. Walker is Majority Caucus Secretary, Chairman of the Insurance & Labor Committee, and Secretary of the Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee. Senator Walker also serves as Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Department of Natural Resources. He is also a member of the joint Agricultural Exposition Authority Overview Committee, the Agriculture Education Advisory Commission, the Georgia World Congress Center Overview Committee, and is the Governor's appointee to the One Georgia Authority.