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Legislation from the 2025-2026 Regular Session with status, sponsors, and votes. Filter by chamber, type, and status, or search by bill number or title. Sorted by most recent activity.
SB430: SB430 Taxes; certain military museums qualify as destination marketing organizations and private sector nonprofit organizations; provide
Senate Bill 430 changes Georgia's hotel-motel tax law to count military museums as tourism projects and rewrites how local governments can switch the nonprofit organizations that promote tourism using those tax dollars.
SB431: SB431 Education; enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; require
Senate Bill 431 requires Georgia public schools to enroll foster care students within three school business days, updates definitions of student education records, and lets inclusive postsecondary education grants be used at qualifying private colleges.
HB1074: HB1074 Suwanee, City of; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide homestead exemption
House Bill 1074 would let City of Suwanee homeowners exempt $15,000 of their home's assessed value from the city's municipal property taxes, pending voter approval in a November 2026 referendum.
HR1050: HR1050 Property; lease or conveyance of certain state owned property; authorize
House Resolution 1050 authorizes the State of Georgia to convey, lease, exchange, or amend leases on 11 separate state-owned properties across the state, from a farmers market turn lane in Clayton County to a Sapelo Island post office lease.
HB1037: HB1037 Cobb County; State Court; change compensation of judges
House Bill 1037 raises the pay of Cobb County State Court judges, increasing the chief judge's extra compensation and the base salary for Division 1 judges under the county's 1964 founding law.
SB428: SB428 Medical Assistance; Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; direct
Senate Bill 428 directs Georgia's Department of Community Health to ask the federal government for permission to let Medicaid pay for home and community based mental health services for adults who don't need full institutional care.
HB1026: HB1026 Valdosta, City of; Board of Education; provide compensation
A local bill sets new monthly pay for members of the City of Valdosta Board of Education, with the chairperson earning more than other board members, funded through local tax revenue.
SB427: SB427 Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provide
Senate Bill 427 would let the Georgia Composite Medical Board issue a limited provisional license to internationally trained physicians who agree to work under supervision in rural hospitals, health centers, or medical schools, with a path to a full license after four years.
SR624: SR624 Officer Drew Haynes Brown Memorial Intersection; Cobb County; dedicate
A Georgia Senate resolution dedicates dozens of highway intersections, bridges, roads, and interchanges across the state to honor law enforcement officers, veterans, elected officials, musicians, and other notable Georgians.
HB1024: HB1024 Property; debtor's aggregate interest in real property or personal property used as a residence; revise exemption
House Bill 1024 doubles the amount of home equity Georgians can protect from creditors in bankruptcy or an insolvent estate, raising the individual exemption from $21,500 to $50,000 and the married-couple exemption from $43,000 to $100,000.
HR1051: HR1051 Property; granting of non-exclusive easements of certain state owned property; authorize
House Resolution 1051 authorizes the State Properties Commission to grant 25 non-exclusive easements across state-owned land in 25 Georgia counties and one Tennessee county for utility lines, roads, and access projects.
SB420: SB420 License, Permit, Tag, and Stamp Fees; fees for reef and migratory fish endorsement; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would create new state fees for reef and migratory fish fishing endorsements and update the reference dates used to define criminal violations of Board of Natural Resources rules.
HB1005: HB1005 Austell, City of; provide for a city manager; revise powers and duties of city council committees, the mayor, and department directors
House Bill 1005 would rewrite the City of Austell's charter to create a city manager position who runs day-to-day city departments, shifting administrative power away from the mayor and city council committees.
SB402: SB402 Children and Youth; pilot program provision for screenings, clinical evaluations, training for autism spectrum disorder to children in foster care; establish
A Georgia Senate bill would create a five-year pilot program for screening and evaluating children in foster care for autism spectrum disorder, starting in three regional service areas and expanding statewide.
HB985: HB985 Veterans affairs; revise terms of eligibility for persons to be buried in Georgia veteran cemeteries
House Bill 985 expands who can be buried in Georgia's state veterans cemeteries, adding surviving Hmong Laotian guerrilla unit members who served alongside American forces during the Vietnam War, and excludes people barred from national veterans cemeteries for certain crimes.
HB987: HB987 Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act; enact
House Bill 987 lets businesses and other entities voluntarily contribute to portable benefit accounts for independent contractors in Georgia, covering things like health insurance or retirement, without those contributions turning the business into an employer under state law.
HB986: HB986 Motor vehicles; personal delivery devices; revise operation procedures and restrictions
House Bill 986 would raise the speed limit for robotic personal delivery devices on Georgia sidewalks and crosswalks from 4 to 7 miles per hour and require the devices to emit a warning sound when close to people or vehicles.
HB982: HB982 Barnesville, City of; city council; change description of election districts
House Bill 982 redraws the five city council election districts for the City of Barnesville using new census block data, without changing the size of the council or removing current members.
SB399: SB399 "Mason Sells AED Coordination Act"; enact
Georgia's "Mason Sells AED Coordination Act" would require anyone who owns or maintains a defibrillator to tell local 911 dispatch centers where it is, and require 911 call takers to learn how to talk callers through CPR and defibrillator use.
SB395: SB395 Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board
This Georgia Senate bill changes how the state's Low THC Oil Patient Registry program handles physician reports and adds a new legal declaration that ambulance services are an essential service in Georgia.