HR 2: House of Representatives; relative to officials, employees, and committees

This is an internal governance resolution for the Georgia House of Representatives, not a law affecting the public. It spells out how House operations run for the 2025-2026 two-year legislative term. It gives the Speaker of the House broad authority to hire staff such as a sergeant-at-arms, pages, aides, clerks, and consultants, and to set their pay and duties within available funding. It gives similar hiring authority to the Clerk of the House for that office's staff. The resolution also sets salaries for the Majority Leader and Minority Leader ($2,400 per year) and Administration Floor Leaders ($1,200 per year), and designates House leaders and individual members as one-person committees so they can receive standard expense, mileage, and travel allowances for official business done between sessions. It authorizes the Speaker to create interim study committees and to limit how many paid days members can claim. The resolution takes effect immediately upon adoption.

• Authorizes the Speaker of the House to hire sergeants-at-arms, pages, aides, clerks, consultants, and other House staff, and set their pay and duties.
• Authorizes the Clerk of the House to separately hire staff for the Clerk's office, such as reading clerks, journal clerks, and clerical assistants.
• Sets annual salaries of $2,400 for the Majority and Minority Leaders and $1,200 for Administration Floor Leaders, on top of regular legislative pay.
• Designates House leaders and individual members as one-person committees so they can receive travel, mileage, and expense allowances for official business done when the legislature is not in session.
• Lets the Speaker create interim study committees, appoint their chairs, and set or extend how long they operate.
• Lets the Speaker cap the number of paid days a member can claim for interim committee work and individual legislative business.

This resolution mainly affects people inside the Georgia House of Representatives: the Speaker, Clerk of the House, House leadership positions like the Majority and Minority Leaders, rank-and-file House members, and House staff such as pages, clerks, aides, and interns.

The resolution determines how House leaders staff their offices, how much certain leadership positions are paid, and how members and committees are reimbursed for work done outside regular session, shaping how House business and legislative staffing operate day to day for the 2025-2026 term.

• Section 1-1 lets the Speaker hire and assign House personnel, including joint staff with the Senate, subject to available funding.
• Section 2-1 and 2-2 let the Clerk of the House hire office staff and set the Clerk's salary structure, tied partly to legislative branch pay increases.
• Section 4-3 sets fixed annual salaries: $2,400 for the Majority and Minority Leaders, $1,200 for each Administration Floor Leader.
• Section 4-2 designates each House member as a one-person committee for legislative duties done between sessions, entitling them to expense, mileage, and travel allowances.
• Section 5-2 authorizes the Speaker to appoint interim study committees, name chairs, and set or extend their operating time.
• Section 5-3 lets the Speaker cap the number of paid days members can claim under the committee-of-one and interim committee provisions.
• Section 6-1 specifies that funding for these provisions comes from appropriated or available funds for the House, Clerk's office, or Speaker's office respectively.
• Section 6-3 makes the resolution effective immediately upon adoption by the House.

1. 2025-01-13House Read and Adopted (House)
2. 2025-01-13House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-01-09House Hopper (House)

• Chuck Efstration (R, HD-104)Primary sponsor

• Georgia House of Representatives
• legislative staffing
• legislative salaries
• state government operations