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40 bills for “Domestic relations”.
Quality Basic Education Act; include domestic violence prevention in the existing program for teen dating violence prevention for students
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would expand an existing school program on teen dating violence prevention to also cover domestic violence prevention for students in grades eight through 12.
Domestic relations; sealing of name change petitions upon request; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would let anyone petitioning for a legal name change ask the court to seal that petition, removing the current requirement that the petitioner be a victim of family violence or human trafficking.
Domestic relations; creation of a registry of recidivist domestic violence offenders; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1207 would create a public registry of repeat domestic violence offenders in Georgia, maintained by the Georgia Crime Information Center and searchable on the GBI's website, starting with convictions in 2027.
Domestic relations; protection for household pets in both family violence and dating violence protective orders; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 177 lets Georgia courts include household pets in family violence and dating violence protective orders, allowing judges to award pet custody and bar abusers from harming, taking, or hiding pets.
Domestic relations; duration of child support for postsecondary education; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 510 would let Georgia judges order parents to help pay for a child's college, technical school, or other postsecondary education, with support ending at age 24.
Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 350 updates Georgia's safe haven law for newborns, renaming it the Eliza Jane Warner Act, allowing ambulance services to accept infants, and permitting fire stations, police stations, medical facilities, and ambulance services to install monitored newborn safety devices.
Animals; prohibit transfer of certain domestic animals at certain locations
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 331 would make it illegal in Georgia to sell, adopt out, or trade dogs, cats, or domestic rabbits at roadside spots, parking lots, flea markets, and similar outdoor public locations, with limited exceptions.
Business Corporations; domestic corporations maintaining a principal place of business in Georgia shall be deemed to reside; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would let lawsuits against a domestic corporation be filed in the county where it actually runs its main operations, even if that differs from the county of its official registered office.
Courts; divorce actions; provide certain lien protections
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would stop divorce attorneys from placing liens on property awarded to the other spouse, and would require standing court orders in divorce cases to be given as formal notice to both parties, the judge, and attorneys.
Domestic relations; Protective Order Registry; revise certain definitions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 325 creates a new process letting members of Georgia's organized militia seek protective orders against fellow members accused of stalking, and adds those orders to the state's Protective Order Registry.
Raksha, Inc.; celebration of its 30th anniversary; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution recognizes Raksha Inc., a South Asian community service organization, on its 30th anniversary of helping survivors of domestic violence and related abuse.
Crimes and offenses; immunity for a prospective offender while seeking assistance from law enforcement as a victim of certain offenses; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A House Judiciary substitute to HB 464 would shield victims of serious violent crimes, like rape or kidnapping, from arrest or prosecution when the only evidence against them came from seeking police help.
Family violence; substitute service when respondent is avoiding service to delay a hearing; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would let judges authorize alternative ways to serve family violence and dating violence petitions when a respondent is dodging service to stall a hearing.
Crimes; offense of criminal trespass involving a wild animal; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1196 would expand Georgia's criminal trespass law involving wild animals to cover throwing objects into enclosures, tampering with cages, and animals kept by private owners, not just facilities open to the public.
Domestic relations; creation and revisions of certain child abuse protocol procedures for cases of alleged child abuse; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: HB 527 would rebuild Georgia's child abuse investigation protocol system around judicial circuits instead of counties, changing who leads and sits on local protocol committees and where their reports get filed.
Eavesdropping; limitations regarding the use of electronic monitoring devices; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would make it a crime to secretly plant a GPS or other electronic tracker on a person to monitor their location without consent, expanding a current law that only covers vehicle trackers used against people with protective orders.
Landlord and Tenant; residential rental or lease agreement terminations if a tenant or a legal occupant of a residence experienced residential firearm violence; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would let renters break a residential lease early if they or another legal occupant were victims of firearm violence at the home, adding to existing protections for domestic violence and stalking victims.
Courts; require certain agreements for certain offenses to be eligible for a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1142 would create a public registry of repeat domestic violence offenders run by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and would bar anyone charged with domestic violence from entering a pretrial diversion program unless they agree that a future domestic violence conviction can lead to registration.
Firearms; persons convicted of family violence offenses cannot possess or purchase; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 452 would make it a Georgia felony for people convicted of family violence offenses or subject to family violence protective orders to receive, possess, transport, or try to buy firearms.
Elections; make certain registration information confidential; expand provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 831 would create a new VoteSafe program letting Georgians who fear physical harm or who are victims of domestic violence, stalking, or trafficking keep their home address confidential on voter rolls.
Desai Safety Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1312, the Desai Safety Act, would make it a felony for people under family violence or dating violence protective orders to possess firearms or ammunition, and would require them to surrender or transfer their guns within 48 hours.
Crimes; persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence from receiving, possessing, or transporting a firearm; prohibit
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would bar people convicted of misdemeanor family violence crimes or subject to family violence protective orders from possessing firearms, and require courts to order surrender of any guns they already have.
Criminal procedure; extend certain protections for victims of family violence and stalking with respect to residential leases
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 188 would let victims of family violence or stalking end just their abuser's part of a shared lease, require landlords to act on those requests, and ban landlords from discriminating against such victims.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation; authority to issue subpoenas of electronic communication records for purposes of investigating certain cyber enabled threats to life and property; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 161 expands the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's power to subpoena electronic communication records in more types of criminal investigations and rewrites the state's domestic terrorism law to make it a standalone crime with added penalties for ignoring GBI subpoenas.
Domestic relations; revise mandated reporting of child abuse
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1409 would rewrite Georgia's child abuse reporting law to add firefighters and animal service workers as mandated reporters and require the state to accept reports through a secure online platform, while separately making certain General Assembly harassment settlement records public. The Governor vetoed the bill.
Georgia Survivor Justice Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 582, the Georgia Survivor Justice Act, lets defendants and already-sentenced people use evidence of family violence, dating violence, or child abuse by an alleged victim to support self-defense claims and seek reduced sentences, while also rewriting the oath and misconduct rules for Georgia peace officers.
Georgia Red Flag Protective Order Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 453 would create a 'red flag' law in Georgia, letting family members, household members, or police ask a superior court to temporarily take firearms and ammunition from someone found to pose a significant danger of harming themselves or others.
"Georgia Red Flag Protective Order Act"; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons: Senate Bill 92 would create a new Georgia legal process called a risk protection order, letting family members, household members, or police ask a superior court to temporarily take firearms and ammunition away from someone believed to pose a significant danger to themselves or others.
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally recognizes and commends the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence for decades of advocacy work supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence in the state.
Possibilities Unlimited for Women, Inc.; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate resolution formally recognizes Possibilities Unlimited for Women, Inc., a nonprofit that supports survivors of domestic violence, for its work helping women rebuild their lives.
Jackson, Khalilah; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally commends Khalilah Jackson, a cancer survivor, entrepreneur, and nonprofit founder, for her community service and advocacy for domestic violence survivors.
Henry County District Attorney's Victim Services Unit; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally commends the Henry County District Attorney's Victim Services Unit for its work supporting victims of felony crime, timed to coincide with Stand With Survivors Day at the state capitol.
Henry County Office of the Solicitor-General; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally commends the Henry County Office of the Solicitor-General for its work prosecuting misdemeanor crimes and assisting crime victims.
Haven House; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A House resolution honors Haven House, a Henry County domestic violence shelter and advocacy organization, for its decades of work supporting survivors of family violence.
Uwigabye, Prisca; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally recognizes Prisca Uwigabye, an Atlanta-based advocate for survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, and reaffirms support for survivors reporting crimes safely, including during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
General Assembly; preserve access to safety and justice for all survivors of gender-based violence and human trafficking; encourage
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution urges the General Assembly to adopt language protecting immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking so they can safely report crimes to police.
Boynton, Nicole; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally recognizes Nicole Boynton, the first person in the state re-sentenced under the Survivor Justice Act, and commends her for advocating for domestic violence survivors.
Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts; provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would repeal the state's promise scholarship account program entirely, eliminating both the Georgia Education Savings Authority and the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act from state law.
Property; landlord and tenant; repeal Code Section 44-7-19, relating to restrictions on rent regulation by local governments
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would repeal the state law that currently bars cities and counties from adopting rent control, opening the door for local governments to regulate rent if they choose.
Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts, including both Articles 1 and 2 of said chapter
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would repeal the state's promise scholarship account program entirely, eliminating both the Georgia Education Savings Authority and the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act from state law.