HB 69: Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025

Georgia's legislature passed a state budget for the fiscal year running July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, known as Act No. 709 or the General Appropriations Act. This bill is a supplemental appropriations bill, a common yearly tool the General Assembly uses to revise that budget partway through the fiscal year based on updated revenue estimates or funding needs. The text provided replaces the introductory Part I language of the original budget act with a similar restatement that money is appropriated for state government operations, the university system, public schools, counties, municipalities, and other authorized activities for that fiscal year, but it does not include the specific dollar figures or line items that a final version would contain. The bill would take effect immediately upon the Governor's signature or upon becoming law without signature, and it repeals any conflicting laws.

• Amends Act No. 709, the General Appropriations Act for state fiscal year 2025, which set the current state budget.
• Replaces the introductory Part I language of the existing budget act with restated appropriations authority for state departments, schools, counties, and other governmental activities.
• Sets the bill's effective date as the moment the Governor signs it or it otherwise becomes law without a signature.
• Repeals any existing laws that conflict with the bill's provisions.

State government departments, boards, bureaus, and commissions, the university system, K-12 public schools, counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions of Georgia that receive funding through the state budget are all potentially affected by adjustments made in this supplemental appropriations bill.

Supplemental budget bills let the General Assembly redirect or adjust state funding mid-year based on updated revenue or needs. Because the text supplied here does not list specific dollar amounts or programs, its concrete day-to-day effects on agencies or services cannot be determined from this version alone.

• Part I amends Act No. 709 by striking the prior Part I text and substituting new appropriations language for state fiscal year 2025, though specific dollar amounts are not shown in this version of the bill.
• Part II sets the effective date as the date of the Governor's approval, or the date the bill becomes law without approval.
• Part III repeals any 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
• appropriations