--- title: HR 123. Girl Scout Day at the state capitol; February 4, 2025; commending Girl Scouts as a national leader in providing the best leadership development experience in the world to American girls; recognize collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hr123 cite_as: HR 123, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr123 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr123.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr123/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69742 date: 2025-01-30 status: passed corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr122.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr124.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 131 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr123.md?full=1 bill_number: HR 123 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: House bill_type: resolution status_date: 2025-01-30 last_action: House Read and Adopted sponsors: - Debbie Buckner - Rhonda Burnough text_version: Introduced has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HR123/2025 upstream_id: 1949644 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - Girl Scouts - state capitol recognition - Juliette Gordon Low - ceremonial resolution --- # HR 123. Girl Scout Day at the state capitol; February 4, 2025; commending Girl Scouts as a national leader in providing the best leadership development experience in the world to American girls; recognize ## Text House Resolution 123 By: Representatives Buckner of the 137th and Burnough of the 77th A RESOLUTION Recognizing February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the state capitol and commending Girl Scouts as a national leader in providing the best leadership development experience in the world to American girls; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, more than a century ago, native Savannahian Juliette Gordon Low started the movement known as Girl Scouts. Beginning with the first gathering of 18 girls in Savannah on March 12, 1912, Juliette broke the conventions of the time by reaching across class, cultural, and ethnic boundaries to ensure that all girls, including those with disabilities, had a place to grow and develop their talents and leadership skills; and WHEREAS, the life mission of Juliette Gordon Low was to build girls of courage, confidence, and character; and WHEREAS, the Girl Scout Leadership Experience encourages girls to develop a strong sense of self, connect to their communities both locally and globally, and feel empowered to make a difference in the world; and WHEREAS, Girl Scouts offers hands-on, girl-led, and girl-centered learning in STEM, the outdoors, and entrepreneurship and provides abundant opportunities to help girls develop invaluable life skills; and WHEREAS, the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn, acknowledges each recipient's power and dedication to not only bettering herself but also to making the world a better place for others; and WHEREAS, more than 59 million American women are Girl Scout alumnae, and 2.6 million girls and adult volunteers are active members; and WHEREAS, the movement started by Juliette Gordon Low now reaches every corner of the world with Girl Scouts living throughout the United States, its territories, and in more than 90 countries across the globe; and WHEREAS, today, the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia and Greater Atlanta Councils serve approximately 43,000 Girl Scout members in the State of Georgia. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body recognize February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the state capitol and commend the Girl Scouts as a national leader in developing girls of courage, confidence, and character. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to make appropriate copies of this resolution available for distribution to the public and the press. ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the resolution. Quote the text, not the summary. A Georgia House resolution designates February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the state capitol and commends the Girl Scouts for its leadership programs for American girls. ### Plain-language summary This resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives recognizes February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the state capitol. It honors Juliette Gordon Low, the Savannah native who founded the Girl Scouts movement in 1912, and highlights the organization's role in building girls' courage, confidence, and character through programs in STEM, the outdoors, and entrepreneurship. The resolution notes that more than 59 million American women are Girl Scout alumnae and that the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia and Greater Atlanta Councils currently serve about 43,000 members in Georgia. It directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make copies available to the public and press. The resolution does not change any Georgia law; it is a ceremonial statement of recognition. ### What it does - Formally designates February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the Georgia state capitol. - Commends the Girl Scouts organization as a leader in developing girls' leadership skills nationally. - Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to distribute copies of the resolution to the public and press. - Does not create any new law, funding, or regulatory requirement, since it is a commendatory resolution rather than legislation. ### Who it affects This resolution mainly affects the Girl Scouts organization and its members in Georgia, including the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia and Greater Atlanta Councils, which serve about 43,000 members. It has no direct legal effect on other Georgians. ### Why it matters The resolution carries symbolic weight rather than legal effect, giving official state recognition to the Girl Scouts' history and mission on a designated day at the capitol. It does not change any rights, funding, or obligations for Georgians. ### Key provisions - The resolving clause recognizes February 4, 2025, as Girl Scout Day at the state capitol and commends the Girl Scouts organization. - A further resolution clause directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to prepare and distribute copies to the public and press. - The whereas clauses recount the founding of the Girl Scouts by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah in 1912 and cite current membership figures. ## Status - Status: Passed (2025-01-30) - Last action: House Read and Adopted (2025-01-30) - Sponsors: Debbie Buckner, Rhonda Burnough - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69742 > The history, votes, and amendments (131 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hr123.md?full=1