Senate · Introduced · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SR207: SR207 General Assembly; appropriate an additional $2 million annually to the Georgia Pregnancy and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program; urge

Last action February 20, 2025 · Senate Read and Referred

A Georgia Senate resolution urges lawmakers to redirect about $2 million a year from crisis pregnancy centers to the Georgia Pregnancy and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which sends nurses or trained visitors to at-risk families.

In plain language

This resolution, called the "Fund Healthy Pregnancy and Parenting Resolution," does not change any law by itself. Instead, it urges the full General Assembly to shift about $2 million in annual state funding away from crisis pregnancy centers and toward the Georgia Pregnancy and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, a Department of Public Health program that sends home visitors to pregnant people and families in underserved and rural areas to improve birth outcomes and reduce infant and maternal deaths. The resolution states that Georgia currently has about 89 crisis pregnancy centers and that the most recent state budget included roughly $2 million for them. It argues that since abortion is already restricted after six weeks in Georgia, demand for services at those centers should be declining, and that redirecting the money would not cost taxpayers anything extra. The resolution directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies to legislative leaders.

What the bill does

Urges the General Assembly to appropriate an additional $2 million annually to the Georgia Pregnancy and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
Calls for that $2 million to replace, not add to, the roughly $2 million currently budgeted for crisis pregnancy centers.
States a policy position that no further taxpayer money should go to crisis pregnancy centers.
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to the General Assembly's legislative leaders.
Names the resolution the 'Fund Healthy Pregnancy and Parenting Resolution.'

Who it affects

The resolution touches the Department of Public Health, which runs the home visiting program; the roughly 89 crisis pregnancy centers in Georgia that currently receive state funding; pregnant people and families in rural and underserved areas who use home visiting services; and the General Assembly, which controls the state budget.

Why it matters

Because this is a resolution rather than a funding bill, it does not itself move any money. It signals a Senate position that could influence the next state budget, potentially shifting about $2 million a year away from crisis pregnancy centers toward home visiting services for pregnant people and young children.

Key provisions

The resolution's preamble notes the Governor supported adding $2.98 million to expand the Georgia Pregnancy and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
States the most recent state budget appropriated approximately $2 million to fund crisis pregnancy centers.
The operative resolving clause urges the General Assembly to appropriate an additional $2 million annually to the home visiting program in lieu of funding crisis pregnancy centers.
A further resolving clause directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to legislative leaders.

From the bill

“crisis pregnancy centers are often fronts for antiabortion activities”
A stated rationale in the resolution's preamble for cutting funding to these centers.

Status timeline

2025-02-20Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2025-02-19Senate Hopper (Senate)

Topics

state budget
maternal health
crisis pregnancy centers
home visiting program
abortion policy