SR 95: "Sonny Perdue Legislative Center"; naming the forthcoming new legislative office complex

The Georgia General Assembly is building a new legislative office complex on the State Capitol grounds. This resolution designates that building the 'Sonny Perdue Legislative Building,' honoring George Ervin 'Sonny' Perdue III, who served in the U.S. Air Force, in the Georgia State Senate starting in 1990, as Georgia's Governor from 2003 to 2011, as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Trump, and currently as Chancellor of the University System of Georgia. The resolution's operative language simply states that the new complex 'be forever designated and known as' the Sonny Perdue Legislative Building. It also directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to Perdue and to the public and press. The resolution does not appropriate funding or set a construction timeline beyond noting the building will be completed 'in the coming years.'

• Names the new state legislative office complex, to be built on the State Capitol grounds, the 'Sonny Perdue Legislative Building.'
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to Sonny Perdue and to the public and press.
• Recites Perdue's biography and career as the stated justification for the naming, without creating any new legal requirements or funding.

The naming primarily affects how the public and state officials refer to the new legislative office complex once built. It also formally honors Sonny Perdue, the former Georgia Governor, U.S. Agriculture Secretary, and current University System of Georgia Chancellor.

The resolution does not change any law, spend money, or affect daily governance; its main real-world effect is that Georgians and future lawmakers will know the state's new legislative office building by a specific name honoring a former governor.

• The resolution's whereas clauses detail Perdue's military service, Georgia Senate career, two terms as Governor, federal appointment as Agriculture Secretary, and current role as University System of Georgia Chancellor.
• The first resolving clause designates the new legislative office complex as the 'Sonny Perdue Legislative Building.'
• The second resolving clause directs the Secretary of the Senate to make copies available to Perdue and to the public and press.

1. 2025-02-18House Second Readers (House)
2. 2025-02-13House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-02-12Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute (Senate)
4. 2025-02-12Senate Third Read (Senate)
5. 2025-02-10Senate Read Second Time (Senate)
6. 2025-02-06Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (Senate)
7. 2025-02-04Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
8. 2025-02-03Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Greg Dolezal (R, SD-027)Primary sponsor
• Max Burns (R, SD-023)
• Russ Goodman (R, SD-008)
• Sam Watson (R, SD-011)
• John Kennedy (R, SD-018)
• Randy Robertson (R, SD-029)
• Billy Hickman (R, SD-004)
• Bo Hatchett (R, SD-050)
• John Albers (R, SD-056)
• Mike Hodges (R, SD-003)
• Brian Strickland (R, SD-042)
• Larry Walker (R, SD-020)
• Steve Gooch (R, SD-051)
• Carden Summers (R, SD-013)
• Drew Echols (R, SD-049)
• Shawn Still (R, SD-048)
• Colton Moore (R, SD-053)
• Frank Ginn (R, SD-047)
• Chuck Payne (R, SD-054)
• Bill Cowsert (R, SD-046)
• Brandon Beach (R, SD-021)
• Matt Brass (R, SD-006)
• Ricky Williams (R, SD-025)
• Lee Anderson (R, SD-024)
• Timothy Bearden (R, SD-030)
• Clint Dixon (R, SD-045)
• Ed Harbison (D, SD-015)
• Michael Rhett (D, SD-033)
• David Lucas (D, SD-026)
• Ed Setzler (R, SD-037)

1. PassedSenate voteFebruary 12, 2025

   47 yea, 4 nay (1 not voting, 4 absent)

   Adoption By Substitute: Senate Vote #49

• state capitol construction
• legislative office complex
• Sonny Perdue
• Georgia government buildings