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.
SB398: SB398 Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance, and Related Offenses; criminal offenses of virtual peeping; establish
A Georgia Senate bill would make it a crime to use artificial intelligence tools to generate obscene, sexually explicit images of a real adult without that person's consent.
HR1007: HR1007 House of Representatives; effectiveness of arts for health initiatives in improving mental health outcomes; acknowledge
A Georgia House resolution formally acknowledges the role of arts based programs, such as art therapy, in improving mental health outcomes and supporting recovery from trauma across the state.
SR553: SR553 Senate Study Committee on Funding for Charter School Capital Improvements; create
A Senate resolution would create a five-member Senate Study Committee on Funding for Charter School Capital Improvements to examine how Georgia funds school building and facility upgrades for locally approved charter schools compared to traditional public schools.
SR545: SR545 Senate Paid Student Teaching Study Committee; create
A Senate resolution would create the Senate Paid Student Teaching Study Committee to examine whether Georgia should pay student teachers, with a report due by December 1, 2026.
SR533: SR533 Senate Study Committee on Enhancing Public Safety and Civic Health; create
A Georgia Senate resolution would create a study committee to look at whether the state should develop an official emergency alert bracelet program for people with PTSD or autism.
SR482: SR482 Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC); create a study committee; urge
A Senate resolution creates the Senate Nuclear Power Study Committee to examine how Georgia could expand advanced nuclear energy, involving lawmakers, Georgia Power, electric co-ops, and the Public Service Commission.
HR713: HR713 Healthcare providers; help promote 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline; urge
A Georgia House resolution urges healthcare providers in the state to mention the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in recorded phone messages to patients and callers.
SR432: SR432 Senate Higher Education in Prison Study Committee; create
A Georgia Senate resolution creates a Senate Higher Education in Prison Study Committee to examine expanding college and career training programs for people incarcerated in Georgia's state prisons.
HB689: HB689 Housing; establish a homelessness prevention program
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 689 would add a new homelessness prevention program to the state's housing trust fund, letting nonprofits and local agencies apply for state money to fund rental assistance, legal help, and eviction diversion for low-income Georgians.
HB657: HB657 Mental health; qualifications of recovery community organizations for substance use; provide
A Senate committee substitute for HB 657 combines a broad rollback of Department of Public Health advisory boards, committees, and reporting duties with new rules requiring the department to certify peer specialists and set standards for recovery community organizations that support people recovering from substance use disorders.
HB634: HB634 Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; expedited completion of a student's first Individualized Education Program; revise provisions
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 634 would change how the state calculates special needs scholarship amounts for students whose first special education plan was fast-tracked, and would set new deadlines and rules for how the Department of Education pays and reports on the program.
HB629: HB629 Education; remove requirement of having a licensed physician in automated external defibrillator programs
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 629 would drop the requirement that a licensed physician oversee school defibrillator programs and would add new rules for bleeding control kits in K-12 schools, while also barring waivers of the state's duty-free lunch period law.
HB646: HB646 Coroners; provide minimum salaries
A Senate substitute for House Bill 646 would raise the minimum salary schedule for Georgia county coroners, change how deputy coroners are paid, and let counties offer retiring elected officials access to county health plans after they leave office.
HB618: HB618 Property; require any seller of real property to make certain disclosures regarding flood damage to such real property
A Georgia House bill would require sellers of one-to-four family homes to disclose past flood damage, insurance claims, and repairs to buyers, and would fine frivolous mechanic's liens $1,500.
HB521: HB521 Local government; deannexation of certain properties; revise procedures
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 521 would require cities to report deannexations the same way they report annexations, cap most deannexations at ten parcels per action, and require county government consent before certain annexations and deannexations take effect.
HB485: HB485 Official Code of Georgia Annotated; various provisions enacted prior to 2013 which are contingent upon funding and which remain unfunded; repeal
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 485 would repeal dozens of old, never-funded or unconstitutional sections of state law, update outdated legal terms, and change how the World Congress Center's oversight committee picks its leaders.
SB175: SB175 Elections and Primaries; use of ranked-choice voting; prohibit
A House committee substitute for SB 175 would rewrite Georgia's monument protection law, making it harder to remove historical monuments, waiving sovereign immunity for lawsuits, and creating a state monument registry, despite the bill's official title referring to ranked-choice voting.
HB460: HB460 Evidence; exclude certain communications made between attorney and client when client is in a penal institution
House Bill 460 would update Georgia's attorney-client privilege law to address phone or electronic communications between attorneys and clients held in jail or prison, including rules for when such communications are intercepted.
HB432: HB432 Game and fish; Georgia turkey stamps; provide
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 432 would require hunters age 16 and older to carry a Georgia turkey permit starting July 1, 2027, and create a voluntary collectible turkey stamp, with fees set by license type.
HB421: HB421 Interstate Sexual Predator Prevention Act; enact
House Bill 421 would expand Georgia's child enticement law to cover people who travel from another state intending to molest a child or commit indecent acts with one.