Category: Karen Lupton

ATLANTA – State Representative Karen Lupton (D-Chamblee), in partnership with We Love Buford Highway (WLBH), today announces the launch of “Lupton Lifts Community,” a community initiative aimed at helping families across the Buford Highway corridor who are experiencing sudden financial hardship. The campaign seeks to support the We Love Buford Highway Emergency Community Stabilization Fund, which provides short-term assistance to families facing certain needs such as groceries, transportation, temporary rent assistance, utility payments, childcare and other expenses.

ATLANTA – State Representative Karen Lupton (D–Chamblee) recently signed onto a letter with 285 female state lawmakers and 128 members of Congress in demanding the removal of rideshare sexual assault liability shields from a proposed federal house bill – the BUILD America 250 Act. The letter urges U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to reject the rideshare liability provision in the upcoming transportation bill.

ATLANTA – State Representative Karen Lupton (D-Chamblee) was recently appointed by House Speaker Jon Burns (R-Newington) to serve as a member of the House Blue-Ribbon Study Committee on Education Performance Metrics and Workforce Stability. 

ATLANTA – State Representative Karen Lupton (D–Chamblee) urges CareSource and Peach State Health Plan to rescind recent decisions to reduce Medicaid reimbursement rates and return to their previously agreed-upon reimbursement rates until the next reenrollment period. These private care management organizations (CMOs) recently notified providers of reimbursement reductions to 80 percent of the Medicaid fee schedule, effective in May.