HB71: HB71 General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

Every year the Georgia General Assembly passes a general appropriations bill that funds state government operations for the coming fiscal year. This version of House Bill 71 covers the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026, and is meant to fund state departments, boards, commissions, the university system, common schools, counties, municipalities, and other authorized government activities. The text supplied here contains only the bill's framing sections (Part I through Part III): a statement that money is appropriated for the fiscal year, an effective date clause saying the law takes effect once the Governor signs it or it becomes law without a signature, and a standard repeal of conflicting laws. The detailed line-item funding amounts for specific agencies and programs, which make up the bulk of a real appropriations act, are not included in the text provided.

• Appropriates state funding for the operation of Georgia state government and its departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, and institutions for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
• Covers funding for the university system, common schools, counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, though specific dollar amounts are not shown in this text.
• Sets the bill's effective date as the moment the Governor signs it or it becomes law without the Governor's signature.
• Repeals any existing state laws that conflict with this appropriations act.

State agencies, boards, commissions, and institutions; the University System of Georgia; K-12 public schools; and Georgia's counties and municipalities all depend on this bill for their state funding, since it authorizes the government's operating budget for the fiscal year.

Without a passed appropriations act, state agencies, schools, and local governments would lack legal authority to spend state funds. This bill's structure shows the funding is set for July 2025 through June 2026, though the specific amounts each agency or program receives are not present in the supplied text.

• Part I states that the funding amounts listed later in the Act are appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026.
• Part II sets the effective date as the date the Governor approves the Act or the date it becomes law without the Governor's approval.
• Part III repeals all laws or parts of laws that conflict with this Act.

1. 2025-01-27House Second Readers (House)
2. 2025-01-17House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-01-16House Hopper (House)

• Jon Burns (R, HD-159)Primary sponsor
• Jan Jones (R, HD-047)
• Chuck Efstration (R, HD-104)
• James Hatchett (R, HD-155)

• state budget
• government funding
• public schools
• university system