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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.
HR1949: HR1949 House Study Committee on Gamecock Fighting in Georgia; create
A Georgia House resolution would create a five-member House Study Committee on Gamecock Fighting in Georgia to examine possible criminal penalties and legislation related to cockfighting.
HR1951: HR1951 House Study Committee on MARTA Governance, Financial Accountability, and Regional Transit Oversight; create
A Georgia House resolution would create a study committee to examine MARTA's governance, finances, debt, and oversight, as the transit agency seeks a decade-long extension of its penny sales tax through 2067.
HB1606: HB1606 Crimes; offense of disruption of a worship service; provide
A Georgia House bill would create a new crime of disrupting a worship service, covering people who intentionally interfere with church gatherings or block access to church property, with penalties of up to five years in prison.
SB629: SB629 Town of Braswell; transfer of duties and obligations to Paulding and Polk counties; provide
A Senate bill would dissolve the town of Braswell and split its territory, assets, debts, and duties between Paulding and Polk counties, effective August 1, 2026.
SB627: SB627 City of Dallas; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide a homestead exemption
A Senate bill would let City of Dallas homeowners exempt $50,000 of their home's assessed value from the city's municipal property taxes, pending voter approval in November 2026.
SB614: SB614 City of Hampton; homestead exemption; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide
A Senate bill would let long-term homeowners in the City of Hampton skip city property taxes entirely on their home, if voters approve the idea in a November 2027 referendum.
SB586: SB586 "K-9 Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2026"; enact
A Senate bill originally about police dogs was replaced in the House with a substitute that instead lets county sheriffs donate impounded stray livestock to nonprofits or capable individuals instead of only selling or destroying them.
HB1396: HB1396 State government; require certain privately funded organizations that operate a shelter or provide outreach services to homeless individuals participate in the Georgia Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
A Georgia House bill would require privately funded shelters and outreach programs near schools, parks, and playgrounds in the metro Atlanta area to join a state homeless services database, with police citations for those that refuse.
SB513: SB513 "Every Day Counts Act"; enact
Senate Bill 513, the "Every Day Counts Act," would overhaul how Georgia schools track and respond to chronic absenteeism, adding attendance intervention plans and tying compliance to eligibility for school activities and to teen driver's licenses.
HB1295: HB1295 Physician Assistant Licensure Compact; enter into an interstate compact
House Bill 1295 would have Georgia join the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact, letting PAs licensed in other member states practice in Georgia without a separate Georgia license, while also requiring criminal background checks for Georgia PA licensure.
SB501: SB501 Office of the Safety Fire Commissioner; update provisions
A House substitute for SB 501 would restructure leadership in Georgia's Office of the Safety Fire Commissioner, create a new appeals board for local fire code disputes, raise several fireworks and fire-safety fees and penalties, and give probate courts power over certain fire code misdemeanors.
HB1300: HB1300 Georgia Higher Education Savings Plan Act; raise maximum amount of contributions allowed per beneficiary for savings trust accounts
A Georgia House committee substitute for HB 1300 bundles several higher education changes, including raising the cap on Georgia 529 college savings accounts from $235,000 to $550,000 and creating new scholarships for low-income and medical students.
HB1238: HB1238 Community Health, Department of; submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the qualification of certain caregivers for Medicaid reimbursement
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 1238 would require the Department of Community Health to ask the federal government for permission to let family caregivers get Medicaid reimbursement for respite care of severely ill children.
SB475: SB475 Charter School Funding; local boards of education to treat local charter schools no less favorably than other local schools; expenditure of the proceeds of a special purpose local option sales tax; require
A House substitute for SB 475 would lower the signature threshold for petitioning to dissolve an independent school system and require local school boards to fund charter schools equally from education sales tax proceeds.
HB1142: HB1142 Courts; require certain agreements for certain offenses to be eligible for a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program
House Bill 1142 would create a public registry of repeat domestic violence offenders run by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and require offenders entering a pretrial diversion program to agree to future registration if convicted again.
SB454: SB454 Regulation of Fire and Other Hazards; use of temporary door locking devices in public buildings during certain emergency situations; authorize
A Georgia Senate bill would let public buildings, including schools, use temporary door locking devices during active threats or lockdown drills, and would let elementary and secondary schools install exterior key boxes for police access.
HB1116: HB1116 Homeownership Opportunity and Market Equalization Act of 2026; enact
A Senate substitute for HB 1116 would let Georgia counties adopt a new 1% local sales tax to fund homestead property tax exemptions, cap future property tax revenue growth for schools and local governments without voter approval, and change several property assessment rules.
SB440: SB440 Department of Public Health; provisions relative to duties or functions; modernize and update
A Georgia Senate bill, as substituted by the House, would strip away dozens of outdated boards, reports, and programs run by the Department of Public Health while adding new rules on ivermectin sales, health insurance credentialing, and mental health parity enforcement.
HB1114: HB1114 Quality Basic Education Act; allow for students in ninth and tenth grade to complete the high school graduation financial literacy course requirement
A Georgia Senate substitute to HB 1114 would let high schoolers complete the required financial literacy course anytime in grades 9 through 12 instead of only in 11th or 12th grade, while adding new digital literacy and gambling risk lessons for students statewide.
SB411: SB411 Professions and Businesses; dry needling to be performed by certain licensed professionals; provide
A Senate bill, as substituted by the House, would change which hospitals qualify as 'rural hospital organizations' for Georgia's rural hospital tax credit and would create a new state certification system for community health workers.