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40 bills for “Professions and businesses”.
Professions and businesses; prohibit massage therapy businesses from operating during certain set hours
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 892 would ban massage therapy businesses from performing massage services between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. starting August 1, 2026, and trims some outdated definitions from state massage therapy law.
Professions and businesses; issuance of digitally verifiable licenses for certain military spouses and transitioning military service members; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 107 would require Georgia's professional licensing boards to create digitally verifiable licenses for military spouses, spouses of transitioning service members, and transitioning service members by July 1, 2026.
Professions and businesses; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial art associations and federations; change certain provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would trim the list of martial arts and kickboxing organizations whose amateur matches are exempt from state boxing and wrestling regulation, removing five named federations.
Professions and Businesses; certain education and training requirements for the performance of dry needling; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would require healthcare professionals who perform dry needling, including physical therapists, to complete specific training and supervised practice hours starting January 1, 2026, with exceptions for acupuncturists and physicians already approved.
Professions and businesses; improve efficiencies in issuance of permits for dentists to administer conscious sedation and general anesthesia
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1278 changes how Georgia dentists get permits to administer conscious sedation and general anesthesia, letting the state dental board or its designees certify sedation facilities without requiring an in-person, on-site exam.
Professions and businesses; licensure for graduates of foreign colleges or schools of veterinary medicine who are board certified in a specialty; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 91 would let graduates of foreign veterinary schools become licensed to practice veterinary medicine in Georgia if they hold board certification in a recognized specialty, but only within that specialty area.
Professions and businesses; athletic trainers; revise and update definitions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 314 would update Georgia's athletic trainer licensing law, tightening supervision rules for athletic training students and changing how the state certifies and licenses athletic trainers.
Professions and businesses; clarify certain veterans' eligibility for exemption with regard to payment of occupation taxes, administrative fees, and regulatory fees
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 632 would update Georgia's law letting disabled veterans and blind people run businesses or professions without paying local occupation taxes or regulatory fees, by defining 'armed conflict' to match federal rules and removing an outdated income tax requirement.
Bromberg, Sam M.; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Senate resolution honors Sam M. Bromberg, a Georgia accountant and financial planner, for his career upon his retirement.
Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 219 lets two Georgia licensing boards, the Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists and the Board of Nursing, set up confidential programs to monitor and help rehabilitate impaired healthcare professionals.
Health, Insurance, and Professions and Businesses; medically necessary tests for metal allergies and metal sensitivities to be administered prior to any cardiovascular, dental, or orthopedic surgery involving the insertion of a metal implant; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would require doctors and dentists to test patients for metal allergies before implant surgeries, require insurance to cover those tests, and let patients sue providers who skip the screening.
Professions and businesses; expand certain advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant prescriptive authorizations
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 981 would let advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants write 30 day emergency prescriptions for certain painkillers and stimulants, up from five days, and would drop the current rule limiting those prescriptions to adult patients.
Professions and businesses; expand certain advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant prescriptive authorizations
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would let advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants prescribe stimulant medications and would remove a rule that limited emergency hydrocodone and oxycodone prescriptions to patients 18 and older.
Wasserman, Mark; decades of service and leadership to Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and Eversheds Sutherland LLP; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A House resolution recognizes Atlanta attorney Mark Wasserman for more than three decades of leadership at law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and its successor, Eversheds Sutherland LLP.
Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 187 would set up new consumer protection rules for 'vehicle value protection agreements,' the add-on products that promise to cover a car's lost value after a wreck or theft.
Professions and businesses; regulation of trailer manufacturers; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 590 would create a State Board of Trailer Manufacturers and require anyone who builds or assembles trailers for use on Georgia roads to get a state license.
Professions and businesses; pawnbrokers to exclude motor vehicle certificates of title from pawn transactions; revise provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 300 would stop Georgia pawnbrokers from taking motor vehicle certificates of title as pawned collateral, ending their ability to hold a title as if it were the car itself.
Professions and businesses; authorize and regulate teledentistry by licensed dentists
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 567 creates legal rules for teledentistry in Georgia, letting licensed dentists diagnose, prescribe, and supervise dental hygienists remotely under specific safeguards, and requires dental insurance plans to consider covering it starting in 2026.
Professions and businesses; licensure to engage in trade; provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 579 would let the state's professional licensing division director approve routine license applications, renewals, and reinstatements on behalf of Georgia's professional licensing boards, while also changing board meeting rules, license rosters, and board member removal procedures.
Professions and businesses; licensing of radiologist assistants; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 571 creates a new state license for radiologist assistants in Georgia, setting education, certification and supervision rules under the Georgia Composite Medical Board, effective July 1, 2026.
Clay IV, Alexander Stephens "Steve"; condolences
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate resolution honors the life of Atlanta attorney Alexander Stephens "Steve" Clay IV, who died in November 2025, and offers condolences to his family and colleagues.
Professions and Businesses; dry needling to be performed by certain licensed professionals; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Senate bill, as substituted by a House committee, would loosen the criteria hospitals must meet to qualify as rural hospital organizations for Georgia's tax credit program and would create a new state certification system for community health workers.
Professions and businesses; move regulation of various professions from individual boards to Secretary of State
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1254 moves licensing and oversight of cemetery owners, auctioneers, geologists, and hearing aid dispensers away from separate professional boards and into the Secretary of State's office, restructuring how Georgians in these trades get licensed and disciplined.
Professions and businesses; authorize physician assistants to receive certain delegated authorities from podiatric physicians
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 1273 would let podiatric physicians in Georgia supervise physician assistants and delegate to them many of the same duties, like prescribing drugs and signing medical records, that physician assistants already handle for medical doctors.
Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create
Summary by Georgia Commons: Senate Bill 207 would require Georgia occupational licensing boards to follow a set process, including notice and hearings, before denying a license because of an applicant's criminal record, and lets people ask boards in advance whether their record would disqualify them.
Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act
Summary by Georgia Commons: House Bill 185 rewrites Georgia's dietitian licensing law to create a new, separate license for nutritionists, sets detailed education and supervised-practice rules for both, and lets Georgia join a multistate dietitian licensing compact.
Professions and Businesses; repeal Chapter 14, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low voltage contractors, and utility contractors and enact a new Chapter 14
Summary by Georgia Commons: Senate Bill 553 rewrites Georgia's licensing system for electrical, plumbing, HVAC, low voltage, and utility contractors, replacing the old chapter of law with a new one and creating a 27-member state licensing board with five specialty divisions.
Importance of National Board Certification in strengthening the teaching profession in the State of Georgia; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution commends teachers who earn National Board Certification and calls for continued support of programs that help teachers pursue it, without creating new law or funding.
Reaffirming our commitment to attorney integrity and recognizing fiduciary duties owed by attorneys to clients and co-counsel; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution reaffirms lawmakers' commitment to attorney integrity and states that attorneys sharing a case owe fiduciary duties to their clients and to each other.
Riekeman, Dr. Guy F; honoring the life and memory; condolences
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution honors the life of Dr. Guy F. Riekeman, former Chancellor and President of Life University, and offers condolences to his family.
The Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution commends The Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association for over three decades of supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander attorneys and legal students in Georgia.
Courts; prohibit inclusion of Georgia-specific content on all future Georgia bar examinations for attorney licensure
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would bar the state bar exam from testing on Georgia-specific law starting July 1, 2025, changing what future lawyers in Georgia are tested on before they can practice.
Biomedical Research Day; every third Thursday in April; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution designates every third Thursday in April as Biomedical Research Day, honoring biomedical researchers and animal care professionals in the state.
Lamar-Blackwood, Dr. Tammi; condolences
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution honors the life of Dr. Tammi Lamar-Blackwood, a Macon pharmacist and community leader who died in November 2025, and extends condolences to her family.
Lundy, William L. "Bill", Jr.; 40 Years of Distinguished Legal Service; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally commends attorney William L. "Bill" Lundy, Jr. of Cedartown for 40 years of legal practice and community service in Georgia and Alabama.
Adegoke, Adekunle Rasheed Okiki; Senior Advocate of Nigeria; distinguished legal service, human rights advocacy, and contributions to democratic governance; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution commends Adekunle Rasheed Okiki Adegoke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, for his legal career, human rights work, and support of democratic governance.
Courts; make certain acts of the unauthorized practice of law felonies and to provide for penalties
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House bill would make certain violations of the state's unauthorized practice of law rules a felony instead of a misdemeanor, with prison time and fines up to $1 million for repeat offenders.
State Bar of Georgia; responsibilities of the administrative arm of the Supreme Court relative to the practice of law in this state; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia Senate bill would end mandatory membership in the State Bar of Georgia, letting the Supreme Court keep licensing and discipline duties without requiring lawyers to join or pay dues to a bar association.
Shaw, Ariel; Southern Crescent Women In Business Inc.; upon their 2025 Small Business Conference: Equip, Inform, Transform; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution formally commends Ariel Shaw and Southern Crescent Women In Business Inc. for hosting the 2025 Small Business Conference: Equip, Inform, Transform in Henry County.
Small Business Advocacy Day; March 5, 2025; small business advocacy organizations; recognize
Summary by Georgia Commons: A Georgia House resolution recognizes March 5, 2025 as Small Business Advocacy Day and commends seven organizations that support small businesses across the state.