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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.
HB134: HB134 Sales and use tax; manufactured homes; revise and expand exemption
House Bill 134, called the 'Keep Georgia Forested Act,' would create new Georgia income tax credits for forestry manufacturers that turn wood fiber and forest byproducts into products like renewable fuels, bio-based chemicals, and other forest-supply-chain goods.
HB117: HB117 Food service establishments; require notification of the country of origin of seafood items
House Bill 117 would require Georgia restaurants and other food service establishments that serve foreign imported shrimp to disclose that fact on menus or placards, though it does not cover other seafood.
SB535: SB535 Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide
Senate Bill 535 re-creates Georgia's community service boards, which run local mental health, developmental disability and addiction services, and shifts their executive directors to become state employees appointed by the state's behavioral health commissioner.
SB523: SB523 Education; public schools and postsecondary educational institutions to consider antisemitism in the same manner as discrimination based on religion; authorize
Senate Bill 523 bars discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion in Georgia's public schools, colleges, and technical colleges, and sets up new complaint and enforcement systems, including a statewide K-12 coordinator.
HB1374: HB1374 Insurance; methods of payment to healthcare providers; provide certain requirements
House Bill 1374 sets new rules for how Georgia health insurers pay healthcare providers electronically, and separately tightens state purchasing rules around prequalified suppliers and competitive bidding.
HB1329: HB1329 Controlled substances; Schedule I; provide certain provisions
House Bill 1329 updates Georgia's controlled substances and dangerous drug laws, adjusting one Schedule I chemical description and adding dozens of newly named pharmaceutical drugs to the state's regulated dangerous drug list.
HB1293: HB1293 Education; updated eligibility requirements for the Dual Achievement Program; provide
House Bill 1293 rewrites the eligibility rules for Georgia's Dual Achievement Program, which lets students who leave high school early finish a diploma while earning technical college credentials, and phases in new age and enrollment requirements through 2028.
HB1278: HB1278 Professions and businesses; improve efficiencies in issuance of permits for dentists to administer conscious sedation and general anesthesia
House Bill 1278 changes how the Georgia Board of Dentistry checks dentists' offices and training before letting them use conscious sedation or general anesthesia, letting the board assign qualified designees to handle evaluations instead of requiring on-site inspections by the board itself.
HB1284: HB1284 Education; awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; provide
Georgia House Bill 1284, called the "Gakobe Milton Act," would require local school boards to award high school diplomas to students who are terminally ill and receiving end-of-life care, even after death if necessary.
HB1230: HB1230 Aviation; prohibit operation of unmanned aircraft systems over a place of incarceration
House Bill 1230 would make it a felony to fly a drone over a Georgia jail, prison, or detention facility, and would let law enforcement seize, disable, or destroy drones caught doing it.
HB1208: HB1208 Civil practice; require depositions to be taken before certified court reporters
House Bill 1208 would require depositions taken in Georgia to be conducted before a certified court reporter, replacing the old requirement that testimony be recorded by stenographic means.
HB1181: HB1181 Motor vehicles; application for certificate of title; provisions
HB1181 changes Georgia's rules for titling a vehicle inherited from someone who last registered it in another state, requiring proof the title was issued to the deceased owner.
HB1193: HB1193 Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026; enact
House Bill 1193 overhauls Georgia's early literacy laws by funding school based literacy coaches for grades K-3, creating new state literacy leadership positions, and changing when children can be held back or moved ahead in early grades.
SB444: SB444 Private Review Agents; certain decisions with regard to the provision of insurance coverage for healthcare services shall not be based solely on artificial intelligence systems; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would stop health insurers from letting artificial intelligence alone deny coverage for medical care, requiring a human clinical reviewer to sign off on any denial.
HB1123: HB1123 Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students
Georgia House Bill 1123 would require public schools that run both a Georgia Pre-K program and an after-school program to open that after-school program to pre-k students on the same terms as older students, starting in the 2026-2027 school year.
HB1118: HB1118 Public officers and employees; 120 hours of maternal birth leave; provide
HB1118 would require Georgia state government and public school employers to give eligible full-time employees 120 hours of paid maternal birth leave after giving birth, starting once systems are updated by October 2026.
HB1107: HB1107 Excellent Teacher Preparation Act; enact
House Bill 1107 requires Georgia's Professional Standards Commission to create yearly report cards on teacher training programs, tracking graduate job placement, exam pass rates, and classroom performance.
HB1030: HB1030 Math Matters Act; enact
Georgia House Bill 1030, the Math Matters Act, would require public schools to offer advanced math courses, guarantee minimum math instruction time in grades four and five, and strengthen math training for elementary teacher certification.
HB1015: HB1015 Self-insurers Guaranty Trust Fund; revise certain funded levels
House Bill 1015 raises the funding thresholds for Georgia's Self-insurers Guaranty Trust Fund, the backup fund that covers workers' compensation claims when a self-insured employer defaults.
HB1009: HB1009 Education; enact policies and procedures for use of personal electronic devices at school and school sponsored events by students in grades nine through twelve; require local school systems
House Bill 1009 would require every Georgia public school to bar students from using phones and other personal electronic devices during the bell-to-bell school day, extending an existing K-8 ban to grades nine through twelve starting July 2027.