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.
SB233: SB233 Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission; revise the subcommittees
Senate Bill 233 expands Georgia's Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission from 24 to 30 members, changes its subcommittees, and pushes back the date the commission would automatically dissolve.
HB575: HB575 Transportation, Department of; authorize notice of certain public hearings by electronic publication
House Bill 575 lets the Georgia Department of Transportation post certain public hearing notices online, negotiate directly with condo and homeowner associations to buy shared property, and run a program to clear wrecked heavy trucks from interstates.
SR231: SR231 Officer Jeremy Labonte Memorial Interchange; Fulton County; dedicate
A Georgia Senate resolution names five road locations across Fulton, Paulding, Jackson, and Gwinnett counties after five law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, directing the Department of Transportation to install memorial signs.
HB551: HB551 Motor vehicles; conditions, procedures, and limitations for issuance of temporary operating permits; provide
House Bill 551 rewrites Georgia's rules for temporary vehicle tags, dealer plates, and vehicle immobilization, letting third parties run an electronic system for issuing temporary tags while tightening penalties for scofflaw dealers and unregistered vehicle owners.
SB212: SB212 "Quality Basic Education Act"; disclosure of public student directory information to political candidates or persons or groups acting on their behalf; prohibit
A Georgia Senate bill bars public schools from giving student directory information to political candidates, campaign committees, or political action committees, and adds new penalties for misusing confidential voter data or using minors to stage school campaign events.
HB513: HB513 Local government; criteria for service delivery strategy; revise provisions
House Bill 513 lets local governments keep older ordinances on gas station video cameras and changes how counties split costs for shared services with cities before new service delivery rules take effect in 2026.
HB516: HB516 State government; authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference
House Bill 516 lets county and regional library boards and community service boards hold some meetings by teleconference, and puts the Georgia Attorney General in charge of approving certain bonds for state charter school buildings.
HB532: HB532 Conservation and natural resources; grants and special revenue disbursements; revise provisions
House Bill 532 would bar a Georgia county from collecting two similar state grants at once for hosting large tracts of state-owned land, closing a gap between two overlapping payment programs. The bill was vetoed.
HB511: HB511 Insurance; deductions from taxable income for contributions by taxpayers to catastrophe savings accounts and interest earned on such accounts; provide
House Bill 511 would let Georgia homeowners open tax-advantaged catastrophe savings accounts to cover insurance deductibles and storm damage costs, with contributions and account interest exempt from state income tax.
SB213: SB213 "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975" commercial cheating services that target students and examinees seeking a professional license as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; ban
Georgia's Fair Business Practices Act would be amended to ban commercial services that sell completed homework, essays, or exam-ready work to students and license examinees, with only the Attorney General able to enforce it.
SB199: SB199 State Ethics Commission; shall not accept or reject complaints made against candidates 60 days prior to an election; provide
Senate Bill 199 rewrites Georgia's campaign finance and ethics disclosure laws, barring the State Ethics Commission from acting on complaints in the 60 days before an election and shifting local officials' financial filings to the commission.
HB491: HB491 Game and fish; remove an exception for use of air guns to hunt wildlife
House Bill 491 extends how long air guns stay legal for hunting big game in Georgia and rewrites the rules for catching catfish with a bow and arrow in the Savannah River Basin.
SB191: SB191 Employment Security; certain notice provisions relating to benefits and appeals; revise
Senate Bill 191 changes how Georgia counts the deadline to appeal unemployment benefit decisions, switching from the date a notice was mailed to the 'issue date' printed on the decision itself.
HB495: HB495 Education; Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation; repeal; provide for Georgia Rural Development Council
House Bill 495 moves Georgia's Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation out of the university system and into the Department of Agriculture, and creates a 12-member Georgia Rural Development Council to guide it.
HB462: HB462 Toombs County; Redevelopment Powers Law; provide for a referendum
House Bill 462 would let Toombs County use Georgia's Redevelopment Powers Law, including creating tax allocation districts and issuing tax allocation bonds, but only if county voters approve it in a November 2025 referendum.
HB426: HB426 Courts; nonpartisan election of magistrates; provide
House Bill 426 would end partisan election of Georgia county chief magistrates, requiring them to be elected in nonpartisan elections starting July 1, 2025, and would block any local law from restoring partisan magistrate elections.
HB422: HB422 State employees' health insurance; include high deductible health plans
House Bill 422 would require Georgia's state employee health insurance plan to offer high deductible health plans and let covered employees make pretax payroll contributions to health savings accounts.
HB433: HB433 Human Services, Department of; authorized to access restricted and sealed information to conduct employee oversight in certain circumstances; provide
House Bill 433 would let the Georgia Department of Human Services access restricted and sealed criminal history records to check job applicants, verify foster parents, and conduct oversight of licensed programs. The bill passed the House and Senate but was vetoed by the Governor.
HB416: HB416 Local government; enterprise zones; revise class of retailer from which fees may be collected
House Bill 416 revises Georgia's enterprise zone law by changing which retailers can be charged infrastructure fees within certain large redevelopment projects and extending how long some zones can last, up to 30 years.
SB153: SB153 Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code
Senate Bill 153 is the Georgia General Assembly's annual housekeeping bill that corrects typos, updates cross-references, and reenacts the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, without changing the substance of most laws it touches.
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