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.
SR584: SR584 State-wide Water Management Plan; ratify amendments
A Senate resolution would formally approve updated amendments to Georgia's comprehensive state-wide water management plan, which the Water Council adopted in December 2025.
SR585: SR585 Washington, Booker T.; honoring
A Georgia Senate resolution honors Booker T. Washington, the educator and civil rights leader, for his historic ties to Georgia and his contributions to African American advancement.
SR587: SR587 Rosa Parks Day; recognize February 4, 2026
A Georgia Senate resolution honors civil rights icon Rosa Parks and designates February 4, 2026, as Rosa Parks Day at the state capitol.
SR586: SR586 Thornton, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Otha E.; honoring
A Georgia Senate resolution honors Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Otha E. Thornton, Jr., a Georgia native, for his military career and his national leadership in parent and education advocacy.
SB419: SB419 "Eric's ID Law"
Named "Eric's ID Law," this Georgia Senate bill would let people with non-apparent disabilities add a confidential notation to their driver's license or ID card and would require new police training on interacting with them.
SB417: SB417 Public Officers and Employees; public employees to self-organize or to be represented by a labor organization and bargain collectively with the state; authorize
A Georgia Senate bill would let public employees, including state and local government workers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers, unionize and bargain collectively with their public employers, while still banning strikes.
SB414: SB414 "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975"; transparency and fairness with respect to rent pricing for residential properties; encourage
A Georgia Senate bill would require landlords to clearly disclose the full rental price upfront and ban hidden fees when renting homes, apartments, or short-term rentals.
SB416: SB416 "Stop Online Booking Scams Act"; enact
Senate Bill 416 would require third-party hotel booking websites to clearly tell Georgia consumers they are not directly affiliated with the hotel before letting them book a room.
SB413: SB413 Landlord and Tenant; residential rental or lease agreement terminations if a tenant or a legal occupant of a residence experienced residential firearm violence; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would let renters break their lease early if they or another legal occupant experienced gun violence at the residence, without owing extra fees or damages.
SR582: SR582 Langston Funeral Home of Buena Vista, Georgia; recognize
A Georgia Senate resolution honors Langston Funeral Home of Buena Vista for more than 60 years of service to the Marion County community and its founding family.
SR583: SR583 Bustamante, Zaida; recognize
A Georgia Senate resolution formally recognizes and commends Zaida Bustamante, a Kennesaw State University graduate, for her achievements in the construction management field.
SB415: SB415 Advertising and Sale of Meat; prohibit any person from producing, selling, trading, distributing for human consumption any lab-grown meat
A Georgia Senate bill would ban producing, selling, trading, or distributing lab-grown meat for human consumption anywhere in the state, defining lab-grown meat as food made from artificially cultured animal cells.
HB992: HB992 State parks; free admission on certain public and legal holidays; provide
House Bill 992 would waive entrance fees at Georgia's state parks, historic sites, and recreational areas for state residents on official public holidays.
HB995: HB995 Vape-Free Schools Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would create a state grant program to help public high schools install vaping detectors and require them to adopt vaping prevention policies, but only if lawmakers actually fund it.
HB988: HB988 State employees; require health benefit plan to cover hormone replacement therapy for biological women experiencing perimenopause and menopause when such therapy is ordered or prescribed
A Georgia House bill would require the state employees' health benefit plan to cover hormone replacement therapy for biological women going through perimenopause or menopause when a doctor orders or prescribes it, starting January 1, 2027.
HB989: HB989 Education; public comment periods during meetings of local boards of education; provide
House Bill 989 would require every local school board in Georgia to hold a public comment period at its regular monthly meetings and to record or broadcast that comment period the same way it records the rest of the meeting.
HB996: HB996 Agriculture, Department of; food deserts; require annual reporting
A Georgia House bill would require the Department of Agriculture to file an annual report identifying food deserts across the state and recommending ways to reduce them.
HR1023: HR1023 State of Georgia; every parent has a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and control of their children; provide - CA
A Georgia House resolution would ask voters to add a parental rights amendment to the state constitution, declaring that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children's upbringing, education, care, and control.
HB994: HB994 Crimes and offenses; riot; provide for a felony penalty
A Georgia House bill would make riot a felony instead of a misdemeanor, with a prison sentence of one to twenty years, and would add riot to the list of offenses requiring a court hearing before bail can be set.
HB981: HB981 Professions and businesses; expand certain advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant prescriptive authorizations
A Georgia House bill would let advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants write up to 30 day prescriptions instead of 5 day prescriptions for certain drugs, add stimulants to that list, and drop an existing rule limiting some of these prescriptions to patients 18 and older.