SR 6: General Assembly Meetings and Adjournments; relative

This resolution lays out the day-by-day schedule the Georgia General Assembly will follow during its 2025 regular session, listing which days count as legislative days, which are committee work days, and marking the crossover day (March 6) and sine die adjournment (April 4). It also restates that each chamber sets its own convening and adjourning hours under existing law (O.C.G.A. § 28-1-2) and stays adjourned between legislative days. A second part addresses emergencies. If a manmade or natural disaster, or enemy attack, makes it unsafe to meet at the State Capitol in Atlanta, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate can jointly suspend the regular schedule and reconvene the General Assembly either at a temporary location the Governor has designated or back at the Capitol once conditions allow. The resolution also serves as the two chambers' advance consent for such relocation under the state Constitution.

• Sets the specific calendar of legislative days, committee work days, crossover day, and sine die day for the 2025 session, from January 13 through April 4.
• Confirms that each chamber controls its own daily convening and adjourning times under existing law (O.C.G.A. § 28-1-2).
• Allows the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate to jointly pause the set schedule and reconvene at a Governor-designated emergency location if a disaster makes meeting in Atlanta unsafe.
• Allows the same two officers to pause the schedule and later reconvene back at the State Capitol if no emergency location was designated by the Governor.
• Requires the Speaker and President to promptly notify all members of any schedule change caused by an emergency.
• States that adopting this resolution counts as both chambers' constitutional consent to relocate under Article III, Section IV, Paragraph I(b) of the Georgia Constitution.

Members of the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate, whose meeting calendar and possible emergency relocation procedures this resolution sets, and by extension anyone tracking when the legislature is in session, such as lobbyists, advocacy groups, and reporters covering the Capitol.

The schedule tells Georgians and advocacy groups exactly which days lawmakers will be voting on bills, including the crossover deadline that determines which bills can still move, and the emergency provisions explain how the legislature would keep functioning if a disaster made meeting in Atlanta impossible.

• Part I lists 40 legislative days between January 13 and April 4, 2025, identifying committee work days and marking March 6 as Crossover Day and April 4 as Sine Die.
• Part I confirms meetings follow O.C.G.A. § 28-1-2, with each chamber setting its own daily convening and adjourning hours, and remaining adjourned between legislative days.
• Part II lets the Speaker and President jointly suspend the schedule and reconvene at a Governor-designated emergency site under O.C.G.A. §§ 38-3-52 and 38-3-53 if Atlanta becomes unsafe.
• Part II lets the same officers reconvene back at the Capitol if no emergency site was designated, once conditions allow.
• Part II requires prompt notice to all members of any emergency schedule change and allows a new joint resolution to set a revised calendar afterward.
• Part II states that adopting this resolution serves as both chambers' consent for relocation under Article III, Section IV, Paragraph I(b) of the Georgia Constitution.

1. 2025-01-13House Read and Adopted (House)
2. 2025-01-13House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-01-13Senate Transmitted House (Senate)
4. 2025-01-13Senate Passed/Adopted (Senate)
5. 2025-01-13Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Steve Gooch (R, SD-051)Primary sponsor
• John Kennedy (R, SD-018)
• Greg Dolezal (R, SD-027)
• Brandon Beach (R, SD-021)
• Randy Robertson (R, SD-029)
• Larry Walker (R, SD-020)
• Ben Watson (R, SD-001)
• Kay Kirkpatrick (R, SD-032)
• Jason Anavitarte (R, SD-031)

1. PassedSenate voteJanuary 13, 2025

   56 yea, 0 nay

   Adoption: Senate Vote #8

• legislative calendar
• General Assembly session
• government continuity
• emergency procedures