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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.
HB668: HB668 Crimes and offenses; change references to assistance and guide dogs to service dogs
House Bill 668, the "Mara Jade Act," rewrites Georgia law to replace older terms like "assistance dog" and "guide dog" with "service dog," and creates new tiered criminal penalties for people who harass, injure, or kill a service dog.
SB293: SB293 License Plates for Certain Veterans; the number of free license plates issued to certain veterans; increase
A Georgia Senate bill rewrites large parts of the state's motor vehicle laws, raising fines for license plate crimes, increasing dealer and manufacturer plate fees, creating a new permit for unregistered vehicles, and tightening rules for used car dealers.
SB261: SB261 Magistrates Retirement Fund; early retirement benefit; provide
Senate Bill 261 changes how the Board of Commissioners of the Magistrates Retirement Fund of Georgia is composed, raises how much magistrates must contribute to their retirement fund, and lets magistrates count more years of service toward their pension.
HB541: HB541 Education; tuition equalization grants; expand definition of an approved school to include certain institutions which offer programs in nursing
House Bill 541 expands who can get Georgia's tuition equalization grants by adding certain private nursing degree programs to the definition of an 'approved school' under state law.
SB216: SB216 Georgia Judicial Retirement System; membership in the system for individuals employed as the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would let the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission join the Georgia Judicial Retirement System instead of the state employees' retirement system.
SB218: SB218 Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; shall be assigned for administrative purposes only to the Administrative Office of the Courts; provide
Senate Bill 218 changes how Georgia's Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission is funded and administered, moves its appeals to the Superior Court of Fulton County, and gives its investigators limited arrest powers.
HB463: HB463 Ad valorem tax; certain senior citizens who volunteer with local governments; provide homestead exemption
House Bill 463, called the Georgia Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2026, would cut Georgia's personal income tax rate, raise standard deductions, exempt some overtime pay and cash tips from state tax, and repeal several business tax credits and sales tax breaks.
HB445: HB445 Ad valorem tax; language required to be included in notices of current assessment; revise
House Bill 445 would let owners of expensive business personal property, like equipment and machinery, appeal their county tax assessment to a hearing officer instead of only a local board of equalization.
SB170: SB170 Georgia Interagency Council for the Homeless; create
Senate Bill 170 would create a state grant program to help small rural hospitals in Georgia buy or install backup generators so they can keep operating during declared emergencies.
HB414: HB414 Elections; "person" to include certain nonresidents; revise definition
House Bill 414 changes Georgia's campaign finance and ethics law so that nonresidents who do business or take actions in the state can be held to the same rules as Georgia residents, and gives the State Ethics Commission new tools to enforce cases against out-of-state people.
HB438: HB438 Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions
House Bill 438 would let the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety, along with other sworn law enforcement officers already covered by the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, retire with full benefits starting at age 55.
HB382: HB382 Controlled substances; Schedule I; psilocybin; revise a provision
A Georgia House bill would exempt future FDA-approved forms of LSD and psilocybin from the state's Schedule I drug list, and separately update pharmacist supervision rules for pharmacy technicians, interns, and externs.
SB146: SB146 Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide
Senate Bill 146 rewrites Georgia's rules for disturbing abandoned cemeteries, creates a new permit process for family burial plots, and gives descendants a legal right to visit ancestral graves on other people's land.
HB328: HB328 Revenue and taxation; increase annual aggregate limit for tax credits available for certain contributions to student scholarship organizations
House Bill 328 raises the yearly cap on Georgia's tax credits for donations to private school scholarship organizations from $120 million to $150 million, and changes several rules about who can get scholarships, transit sales tax spending, and virtual school funding.
SB111: SB111 "Georgia Consumer Privacy Protection Act"; enact
A Georgia Senate bill would change how the state defines a 'rural hospital organization' for purposes of the rural hospital tax credit program, adjusting eligibility rules under O.C.G.A. § 31-8-9.1.
HB244: HB244 State auditor; local governments to request and receive in certain circumstances due date extensions related to filing annual audits; provide
House Bill 244 raises the spending thresholds that trigger mandatory annual audits for Georgia local governments and adds new rules for waivers, alternative audit formats, and penalties when county officers fail to cooperate with audits.
HB256: HB256 Social services; foster parents bill of rights; revise provisions
House Bill 256 expands Georgia's foster parents bill of rights to cover relative caregivers and fictive kin, and requires juvenile court proceedings to be recorded and made available to parties and the Department of Human Services.
SB76: SB76 License Plates; specialty license plate benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; establish
A Georgia Senate bill expands which military medals qualify veterans for free specialty license plates, creates a new plate for Navy submarine service members, and loosens rules on where off-road vehicles can be driven.
HB185: HB185 Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act
House Bill 185 rewrites Georgia's Dietetics Practice Act, creating a new license for nutritionists alongside dietitians, redefining what each can do, and joining Georgia to a multistate licensing compact for dietitians.
HB141: HB141 Revenue and taxation; allow businesses and practitioners to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns
House Bill 141 would let Georgia businesses and self-employed professionals submit a certified public accountant's affidavit instead of tax returns when local governments calculate their occupation taxes.