Legislators reveal funding for Georgia Southern-MCG partnership med school

Sen. Blake Tillery, left, the state Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, and Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, right, are seen during the Building a Better Bulloch Together luncheon, April 27, where they made some revelations about items in the budget still pending the governor’s signature. (AL HACKLE/staff)

Burns Tillery partner med school — Sen. Blake Tillery, left, the state Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, and Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, right, are seen during the Building a Better Bulloch Together luncheon, April 27, where they made some revelations about items in the budget still pending the governor’s signature. (AL HACKLE/staff)

Georgia Senate Appropriations Chairman Blake Tillery and state House Speaker Jon Burns, in Statesboro this week, revealed that money has been set aside in the state budget — still awaiting Gov. Brian Kemp's signature — to create a medical school at Georgia Southern University in partnership with Augusta University, home of the Medical College of Georgia.

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