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.
SB125: SB125 Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; decouple the sequential order of experience and examination requirements
Senate Bill 125 rewrites Georgia's licensing rules for electrical, plumbing, low voltage, conditioned air, and utility contractors, creates a statewide continuing education tracking system, and lets professional engineers take their licensing exam before finishing their required work experience.
HB340: HB340 Distraction-Free Education Act; enact
Georgia House Bill 340 would require public schools to ban student cell phone and personal device access from kindergarten through eighth grade during the entire school day starting July 1, 2026.
HB331: HB331 Animals; prohibit transfer of certain domestic animals at certain locations
A Georgia House bill would make it illegal to sell, adopt out, or trade dogs, cats, or rabbits at roadsides, parking lots, flea markets, and similar public spots, with limited exceptions.
HB322: HB322 Ga. Board of Dentistry; issuance of a dental or dental hygiene license for the sole purpose of teaching in an accredited dental, dental hygiene school, or academic medical center; revise provisions
House Bill 322 rewrites the rules for how the Georgia Board of Dentistry issues special teaching licenses to dentists who want to instruct at accredited dental schools or academic medical centers in the state.
SB109: SB109 Life Insurance; a policy of group life insurance from excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; prohibit
Georgia's group life insurance law would be changed so insurers can no longer deny death benefits just because the insured was an active duty or reserve member of the U.S. armed forces, unless the death was war-related.
SB96: SB96 Official Code of Georgia Annotated; provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; update and modernize
Senate Bill 96 overhauls dozens of Georgia state boards, councils, and commissions, expanding some, eliminating others, and updating rules for firefighter and volunteer fire councils, housing, environmental, and health advisory bodies.
HB252: HB252 Newnan, City of; ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption
House Bill 252 would let City of Newnan homeowners freeze the taxable value of their homestead for city tax purposes, so future tax bills would not rise with reassessments, pending voter approval in a November 2025 referendum.
SB83: SB83 Bartow County; school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption
A Georgia Senate bill lets Bartow County school district homeowners cap how fast the taxable value of their home can rise for school property tax purposes, pending voter approval and lasting through 2030.
SB77: SB77 City of Cartersville; independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption
Senate Bill 77 would create a floating homestead exemption from City of Cartersville school district property taxes, capping annual increases in taxable home value at the inflation rate, if Cartersville voters approve it in a November 2025 referendum.
SB58: SB58 "Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act"; enact
Senate Bill 58 creates a new category of emergency vehicle in Georgia law for transporting donor organs, tissue, and transplant personnel, and sets licensing, insurance, and road-use rules for those vehicles.
HB167: HB167 Game and fish; authorize fluorescent pink hunting outer garments
Georgia hunters will be allowed to wear fluorescent pink outer garments as an alternative to blaze orange while hunting feral hogs, bears, and deer during firearms seasons, under a bill amending state hunting law.
HB153: HB153 Sales and use tax; maintenance and replacement parts for certain machinery used to mix or transport concrete; extend exemption sunset date
House Bill 153 extends, from 2026 to 2031, a Georgia sales tax break on maintenance and replacement parts for the machinery that mixes and hauls wet concrete.
HB148: HB148 Public Accountancy Act of 2025; enact
House Bill 148 updates Georgia's Public Accountancy Act, renaming it for 2025 and revising how certified public accountants qualify for licenses, reciprocity, and cross-state practice privileges.
HB113: HB113 State government; prohibit the state or its agencies from purchasing goods from certain foreign countries or related entities
House Bill 113 rewrites Georgia's foreign-vendor restrictions, barring the state and its agencies from buying goods, services, or technology from companies or countries the federal government flags as security threats, replacing narrower rules aimed only at Russia, Belarus, and China.
HB90: HB90 Revenue and taxation; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property
House Bill 90 would double the maximum acreage that qualifies for Georgia's preferential conservation use property tax break, from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres, but only if voters approve a related constitutional amendment in 2026.
HB74: HB74 Georgia Lottery for Education Act; correct a reference; provisions
House Bill 74 rewrites part of Georgia's lottery law to spell out when the Georgia Lottery Corporation must follow the state's standard rulemaking process and when it can skip it, mainly affecting rules for coin operated amusement machines.
HB68: General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to make and provide appropriations for the State Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026; to make and provide such appropriations for the operation of the state government and its departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions, and other agencies, for the university system, common schools, counties, municipalities, and political subdivisions, for all other governmental activities, projects, and undertakings authorized by law, and for all leases, contracts, agreements, and grants authorized by law; to provide for the control and administration of funds; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
SB201: SB201 Consumer Transactions; increased consumer protection for homeowners entering into contracts with contractors following natural disasters; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would bar contractors from taking assigned insurance proceeds and require cancellation rights and notices for homeowners who sign repair contracts within a year of a natural disaster, and would stop insurers from allowing such proceed assignments during that same period.
SB185: SB185 Correctional Institutions of State and Counties; use of state funds or resources for certain treatments for state inmates; prohibit
Senate Bill 185 bars the Georgia Department of Corrections from using state funds or resources to pay for gender transition surgeries, hormone therapy, or related cosmetic procedures for state inmates, with narrow medical exceptions set by the Board of Corrections.
HB423: HB423 Emergency telephone number 9-1-1 system; Next Generation 9-1-1 systems and services; provide
House Bill 423 updates Georgia's 9-1-1 laws to formally recognize Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) technology, expands the state's emergency communications board, and requires new or expanded 9-1-1 systems to meet modern wireless or NG9-1-1 standards.
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