HR 473: Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant; 2024 Georgia Peach Queens; commend

This resolution is a ceremonial statement from the Georgia House of Representatives honoring the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant, an annual event that began in Peach County in 1982. The pageant is open to girls ages 4 to 24 statewide and aims to build self-confidence while recognizing community contributions. The resolution formally commends the pageant for promoting Georgia's peach industry, which the text notes ranks third nationally in peach production, and congratulates the five women crowned as 2024 Georgia Peach Queens across different age categories. It directs the Clerk of the House to send a copy of the resolution to the pageant's Board of Directors. The resolution does not change any Georgia law.

• Formally commends the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant for promoting Georgia's peach industry.
• Congratulates the five named 2024 Georgia Peach Queens by title and name across different age divisions.
• Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to send a copy of the resolution to the pageant's Board of Directors.
• Creates no new law, funding, or regulatory requirement, as resolutions of this type are symbolic statements by the House.

The Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant organization and its Board of Directors, the five named 2024 Georgia Peach Queens, and the Pilot Club of Fort Valley, which the text credits with founding the pageant in Peach County in 1982.

The resolution carries no legal or financial consequences; it is a public, formal recognition by the Georgia House of Representatives of a longstanding community pageant and its winners, and a nod to the state's peach industry.

• The resolution's whereas clauses describe the pageant's 1982 origin in Peach County and its purpose of building self-confidence and community recognition among participants ages 4 to 24.
• The resolved clause has the House commend the pageant and congratulate the named 2024 Georgia Peach Queens: Charleigh Harper, Mia Loyd, Kendall Bella Gaines, Skye Harris, and Ellie James Young.
• A further resolved clause directs the Clerk of the House to prepare a copy for distribution to the pageant's Board of Directors.

1. 2025-03-03House Read and Adopted (House)
2. 2025-03-03House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-03-03House Hopper (House)

• Robert Dickey (R, HD-134)Primary sponsor
• Patty Marie Stinson (D, HD-150)
• Jaclyn Ford (R, HD-170)
• Shaw Blackmon (R, HD-146)
• Bethany Ballard (R, HD-147)
• Bill Werkheiser (R, HD-157)

• Georgia Peach Pageant
• legislative commendation
• Peach County
• Georgia agriculture