Candidate LinkedIn

Bentley attended Mercer University where they studied philosophy.

Bentley is a strategic communications consultant. They have been in this role for seven years. Previously, they were a political strategist at the New Georgia Project.

Bentley's campaign for State Representative is their first entry into politics.

Plans to repeal anti-worker laws and protect workers’ right to unionize.

Supports comprehensive paid leave for every worker.

Wants to pass statewide protections from workplace discrimination and harassment.

Wants to pass the Georgia Work Credit, a state earned income tax credit that would reduce the amount of income tax owed by lowand middle-income families.

- Wants to increase the minimum wage.
- Plans to repeal anti-worker laws and protect workers’ right to unionize.
- Supports comprehensive paid leave for every worker. 
- Wants to pass statewide protections from workplace discrimination and harassment. 
- Plans enact pay equity legislation.
- Wants to pass the Georgia Work Credit, a state earned income tax credit that would reduce the amount of income tax owed by low- and middle-income families.

Economy

Plans to "protect and streamline voter registration by enacting same-day voter registration and ending the use-it or lose-it policy that purges voters for inactivity."

Supports expanding vote-by-mail and allowing community organizations to collect and deliver marked and sealed ballots and count all ballots postmarked on or before Election Day.

Wants to expand early voting options with more locations and longer hours.

Plans to open mass vote centers across the state and allow voters to vote at any polling location in their district, rather than only at their precinct.

Supports easing the process of making sure votes were counted.

- Wants to repeal SB 202.
- Plans to "protect and streamline voter registration by enacting same-day voter registration and ending the use-it or lose-it policy that purges voters for inactivity."
- Supports expanding vote-by-mail and allowing community organizations to collect and deliver marked and sealed ballots and count all ballots postmarked on or before Election Day.
- Wants to expand early voting options with more locations and longer hours.
- Plans to open mass vote centers across the state and allow voters to vote at any polling location in their district, rather than only at their precinct. 
- Supports easing the process of making sure votes were counted.

Voting & Elections

Wants to invest in public health infrastructure.

Plans to repeal "Georgia’s abortion ban and invest in reproductive health care."

Plans to repeal statutes that "left HIV-positive residents open to felony charges for failing to inform partners of their status prior to unprotected sex."

- Wants to invest in public health infrastructure. 
- Supports expanding Medicaid.
- Plans to repeal "Georgia’s abortion ban and invest in reproductive health care." 
- Wants to enforce mental health parity. 
- Plans to repeal statutes that "left HIV-positive residents open to felony charges for failing to inform partners of their status prior to unprotected sex."

Healthcare

Plans to invest in higher education by funding the need-based scholarships authorized by the Georgia General Assembly in 2018, restoring HOPE Grants at technical colleges (including associate degrees).

- Supports fully funding the QBE formula. 
- Plans to invest in higher education by funding the need-based scholarships authorized by the Georgia General Assembly in 2018, restoring HOPE Grants at technical colleges (including associate degrees).

Education

Wants to use diversion methods for nonviolent crimes.

Supports safer immigration policies including expanded access to driver’s licenses for immigrants and the expansion of family-based immigration.

- Wants to use diversion methods for nonviolent crimes. 
- Plans to end cash bail. 
- Supports safer immigration policies including expanded access to driver’s licenses for immigrants and the expansion of family-based immigration. 
- Wants to end the death penalty.

Public Safety

Bentley Hudgins

- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Georgia State House of Representatives.
- Your state representative can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws. All bills dealing with the state budget originate in the Georgia House of Representatives.
- The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up our state lawmaking body: the Georgia General Assembly.
- There are 180 members of the Georgia House of Representatives, each representing a single district.
- State Representatives are elected to two-year terms. They are paid a yearly salary of $17,342. They only serve in the role part-time.