Georgia CommonsBills and resolutions
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.
HB1046: HB1046 Corporations, partnerships, and associations; restrict powers to only the powers the General Assembly expressly grants
House Bill 1046 would strip Georgia corporations, nonprofits, partnerships, limited partnerships, and LLCs of their general legal powers and limit them to only what the General Assembly expressly grants, while also banning these entities from spending money on elections or ballot measures.
HB1050: HB1050 Law enforcement officers and agencies; protection of student data from immigration officials under certain circumstances; provide
HB1050 would limit how Georgia public schools and law enforcement share student information with immigration officials, and would generally bar immigration agents from school grounds without a judicial warrant.
HB1044: HB1044 Torts; deprivation of constitutional rights of state citizens by civil immigration enforcement officers; provide remedies
House Bill 1044 would let Georgia residents sue people who violate their constitutional rights while carrying out civil immigration enforcement, and would let courts weigh factors like wearing a mask or hiding a badge when awarding punitive damages.
HB1051: HB1051 Lanier Johnson-Hunt Student Protection Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would limit when school resource officers can step into student discipline and require local school districts to set up formal complaint processes against those officers.
HB1039: HB1039 Georgia Equitable Economic Development Act; enact
House Bill 1039 would create a new state fund and a legislative oversight commission aimed at directing OneGeorgia Authority economic development money toward counties with high poverty, unemployment, and underinvestment, including many urban and suburban counties currently excluded from such funding.
HB1049: HB1049 Donation Without Hesitation Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would expand the state's legal protections for people and groups who donate leftover or surplus food, shielding good-faith donors, gleaners, and charities from most lawsuits or criminal charges over the food's condition.
HB1031: HB1031 Landlord and tenant; limitations on increasing rent on residential properties; provide
A Georgia House bill would cap how much a landlord can raise rent when renewing an existing tenant's lease, limiting increases to 5 percent, starting July 1, 2026.
HB1036: HB1036 Property Rights Through the Ballot Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would let homeowners in HOA and property owners' association communities petition for a binding vote on whether to dissolve their association, and it would bar foreclosure over unpaid dues on owner-occupied homes.
HB1048: HB1048 Quality Basic Education Act; State Board adopt criteria for assessment and placement of students who are eligible for initial public school enrollment in first grade
House Bill 1048 would require the Georgia State Board of Education to set criteria for assessing whether children eligible for first grade are ready, while letting parents choose kindergarten instead regardless of the results.
HB1054: HB1054 Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 2026; enact
Modeled on California's Proposition 65, this Georgia House bill would require businesses to warn people before exposing them to chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, and would ban discharging those chemicals into drinking water sources.
HR1048: HR1048 General Assembly; adopt the Georgia Bereaved Parents and Family Support Act of 2026; urge
A Georgia House resolution urges lawmakers to introduce and pass a new law giving parents job-protected bereavement leave after the death of a child, though it does not create that leave itself.
HB1033: HB1033 Georgia Access to Healthcare for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would require health insurance plans to cover biomarker testing, diagnostic imaging, and FDA approved treatments for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, starting July 1, 2026.
HB1017: HB1017 Property; prohibit certain business enterprises from purchasing or acquiring an interest in a single-family residential property
A Georgia House bill would bar large corporate landlords that own 100 or more rental single-family homes from buying more such homes starting in 2027, and would tax those companies' existing rental homes at full market value if voters approve a related constitutional amendment.
HB1018: HB1018 Sales and use tax; exempt sales of clothing and school related supplies during the month of August each year
House Bill 1018 would bring back an annual August sales tax holiday for clothing and school supplies in Georgia and add a new one for motor fuel purchases during the same month.
HB1053: HB1053 Law enforcement officers and agencies; local law enforcement involvement with immigration and cooperation with federal authorities; repeal provisions
House Bill 1053 would repeal Georgia's current laws requiring local police to help enforce federal immigration law, arrest suspected illegal aliens, and comply with detainer requests, replacing them with a new process for certifying immigrant crime victims for U and T visas.
HR1047: HR1047 State government; rate of ad valorem tax assessment of a single family residential property; provisions - CA
A proposed Georgia constitutional amendment would create a new property tax category for large corporate landlords, taxing single-family rental homes they own at 100 percent of fair market value if they hold at least 100 such properties statewide.
SB412: SB412 Education; accumulated sick leave days teachers and other school personnel may take each school year for personal or professional reasons; increase
A Georgia Senate bill would let teachers and other school personnel use up to five accumulated sick days each school year for personal or professional reasons, up from three.
HB991: HB991 Labor and industrial relations; definition of employment for certain services performed by certain healthcare technology platform contractors; provisions
A Georgia House bill would let healthcare staffing apps classify workers who pick up hospital or nursing home shifts through the app as independent contractors instead of employees, as long as certain conditions are met.
HB522: HB522 Health; prohibit certain health care providers and facilities from discriminating against potential organ transplant recipients due solely to their vaccine status
House Bill 522 would expand Georgia's organ transplant anti-discrimination law so that hospitals and other health care providers cannot deny someone a transplant solely because of their COVID-19 vaccination status.
HB140: HB140 End Local Taxation by Citation Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would limit how much of a city's yearly budget can come from court fines and forfeitures, phasing the cap down from 30 percent to 15 percent by 2030, with excess money sent to the state.