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.
HB475: HB475 Income tax credit; film, gaming, video or digital production; revise a definition
House Bill 475 tightens the definition of projects that qualify for Georgia's film, gaming, video and digital production tax credit, and lets the state charge certification fees and recover court costs when it wins denial appeals.
HB454: HB454 Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund Act; enact
House Bill 454 creates the Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund, a state fund that would provide matching grants to nonprofit groups and state agencies buying or protecting land at historic Georgia battlefields.
HB325: HB325 Domestic relations; Protective Order Registry; revise certain definitions
House Bill 325 updates Georgia's Protective Order Registry law and creates a new process letting military judges issue protective orders when one member of the state militia accuses another of stalking, effective July 1, 2025.
HB288: HB288 Appeal and error; declaratory judgments in instances involving accusations made by a prosecuting attorney regarding credibility of a peace officer; provide
House Bill 288 would require most sheriff candidates in Georgia to be certified peace officers and would create a formal process, called a Giglio list, for prosecutors to flag officers whose credibility they doubt as witnesses.
SB79: SB79 "Fentanyl Eradication and Removal Act"; enact
Senate Bill 79 creates a separate, harsher trafficking offense for fentanyl in Georgia law, with new mandatory minimum prison terms and fines based on quantity, and updates dozens of related criminal code references.
SB85: SB85 Grants for Foster Children; a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; establish
Senate Bill 85 would create the Georgia Foster Care Scholarship program, giving college grants of up to $30,000 a year to former foster youth, but only once lawmakers actually fund it.
SB72: SB72 "Hope for Georgia Patients Act"; enact
Senate Bill 72, the "Hope for Georgia Patients Act," expands Georgia's existing right-to-try law so patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses can seek individualized, genetically tailored experimental treatments outside of standard FDA-approved options.
HB192: HB192 Top State for Talent Act; enact
House Bill 192, the 'Top State for Talent Act,' rewrites Georgia's career and technical education law to align high school and college programs with the state's official list of high-demand jobs.
HB172: HB172 Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide
House Bill 172 raises the cap on Georgia's veterinary student loan repayment program from $80,000 to $90,000 and limits eligibility to food animal veterinarians practicing 10 years or less, while adjusting the rural county population threshold and annual payment rate.
HB150: HB150 Combating Threats from China Act of 2025 - Higher Education; enact
House Bill 150 would require the University System of Georgia to file twice-yearly public reports on funding it receives from countries, entities, or individuals tied to designated foreign adversaries such as China.
HB155: HB155 Local government; selection and objection to arbitrators; revise procedures
House Bill 155 rewrites how Georgia resolves disputes over city annexations, limits certain county development authorities from operating inside some cities, and creates a new right to appeal local zoning decisions directly to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
HB131: HB131 Self-service storage facilities; revise advertisement requirements before an owner can enforce an owner's lien
House Bill 131 changes how Georgia self-storage facility owners must advertise a unit's contents before selling them off to cover unpaid rent, allowing more flexible advertising for most stored items.
HB137: HB137 Contracts; increase dollar value of certain public works contracts exempt from provisions relating to retention of contractual payments
House Bill 137 raises several dollar thresholds in Georgia law that trigger competitive bidding, retention rules, and state oversight for public construction and purchasing contracts, affecting counties, cities, school districts, and state agencies.
HB85: HB85 Superior Court Judicial Compensation Reform Act; enact
House Bill 85 rewrites how Georgia's superior court judges are paid, letting each judge choose between a revised state salary system with capped county 'locality pay' or their current pay setup, while phasing out most county salary supplements.
HB86: HB86 Public officers and employees; calculating and setting the salaries of certain state officials; revise provisions
House Bill 86 changes how Georgia sets the salaries of Supreme Court justices, Court of Appeals judges, and the judges of the state's new Business Court and Tax Court, tying their pay to federal judicial salaries.
HB38: HB38 Education; needs based financial aid program; revise definition of eligible student
A Georgia House bill raises the share of coursework a student must complete to qualify for the state's needs based financial aid program and pushes back the program's expiration date to 2029.
SB6: SB6 Controlled Substances; determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; authorize the use of testing equipment
Senate Bill 6 changes Georgia law so that equipment used to test drugs for contamination with synthetic opioids like fentanyl is no longer treated as illegal drug paraphernalia.
HB36: HB36 Guardian and ward; revise list of providers who are authorized to participate in the processes for appointment of a guardian for an adult
House Bill 36 expands the list of medical and mental health professionals who can evaluate and certify the need for an adult guardian or conservator in Georgia, and adds new protections for adults with developmental disabilities facing guardianship proceedings.
HB832: HB832 Paulding County; school district ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption
House Bill 832 would create a new homestead exemption from Paulding County school district property taxes, capping annual assessed value increases to the rate of inflation, pending voter approval in the 2026 primary.
HB850: HB850 Augusta-Richmond County; ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption
House Bill 850 would create a floating homestead exemption for Augusta-Richmond County property owners, capping annual increases in taxable home value at 3.2 percent, pending voter approval in a November 2025 referendum.
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