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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.
HB1577: HB1577 Woodbine, City of; mayor; revise powers
A House bill would amend the City of Woodbine's charter to let the mayor vote on all council matters, appoint and supervise a city administrator, and expand the mayor's contracting authority in limited situations.
HR1473: HR1473 House Study Committee on Lupus; create
A Georgia House resolution would create a seven-member House Study Committee on Lupus to examine disability benefits access and other issues facing Georgians with lupus, reporting back by December 1, 2026.
SB572: SB572 Criminal Prosecutions; an additional justification for use of force in defense of self or others; provide
Senate Bill 572 would add a legal presumption that using force in self-defense is reasonable and necessary, add a new exception for force against law enforcement, and extend Georgia's stand-your-ground immunity from civil suits to the heirs of the person against whom force was used.
SB482: SB482 Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; persons requesting booking photographs to provide the first and last names of the individuals in the photographs; require
A Georgia Senate bill would require anyone requesting police booking photos or body camera and dash camera video to give the named individual's first and last name, and would let agencies withhold recordings that show a person's death.
SB463: SB463 Specialized Land Transactions; business enterprises or business enterprises controlled by natural born persons from owning an interest in more than 500 single-family residential properties; prohibit
A Georgia House substitute for SB 463 would create a new fast-track process letting real property owners ask law enforcement to immediately remove squatters, rewrite the unlawful squatting crime, and change eviction and innkeeper removal procedures statewide.
HB1166: HB1166 Local government; zoning decisions shall not affect or be required for certain residential dwellings of 400 square feet or fewer; provide
A Senate substitute to HB 1166 would let Georgia take over financially distressed cities and towns through a court-appointed receiver, replacing the bill's original subject about small backyard dwellings.
HB1085: HB1085 Income tax; various tax credits for forestry manufacturing facilities; provide
House Bill 1085, the 'Keep Georgia Forested Act,' would create new income tax credits for wood, paper, and other forestry manufacturing companies that expand or invest in Georgia, running from 2026 through 2030.
SB442: SB442 Drivers' Licenses; revocation and expiration of commercial drivers' licenses for noncitizens; provide
A Georgia Senate bill, as substituted by the House, would set new rules for commercial driver's licenses held by noncitizens, tying them to visa status, and would repeal state authority to regulate household goods moving rates.
HB979: HB979 State government; procedures for retrocession of jurisdiction in certain circumstances; provide
A Georgia House bill would set detailed rules for how the Governor accepts federal retrocession of legal jurisdiction over military land, and separately require settlement agreements over harassment or discrimination claims against the General Assembly to be made public with the claimant's name redacted.
HB960: HB960 Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; superior courts; provide twelfth judge
A Senate substitute for HB 960 would rewrite several parts of Georgia's election law, covering voter list postings, penalties for registrars, ballot design and equipment rules, and recount and audit procedures, even though the bill's original title concerned adding a judge to the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit.
SB382: SB382 Ad Valorem Taxation; make the state-wide base year homestead exemption mandatory for all political subdivisions
A sweeping property tax bill would make Georgia's state-wide homestead exemption mandatory for every county, city and school system, switch it to a straight percentage cut phased in through 2031, and force many local governments to get voter approval before raising property tax revenue faster than inflation.
SB346: SB346 DeKalb County; the compensation of certain judges, judicial officers, and county officers; revise
A Senate bill would set a new salary formula for DeKalb County's top elected officials and judges, tying pay to a fixed base figure or a percentage of the highest superior court judge salary in Georgia.
HB792: HB792 Courts; increase amount of magistrate court claims from $15,000.00 to $30,000.00
A Senate substitute for HB 792 would replace its original magistrate court subject matter with new criminal and civil penalties for using someone's identity or image on social media without consent to deceive or cause harm.
SB260: SB260 Central State Hospital Redevelopment Authority; create
A Senate bill would create a new state authority, the Central State Hospital Redevelopment Authority, to manage redevelopment of the former Central State Hospital property in Milledgeville and Baldwin County.
HB583: HB583 Motor vehicles; increase number of free license plates issued to certain veterans
A Senate committee substitute for HB 583 would stop special local transit sales taxes from being used to pay for free or reduced-fare public transit and would require an eight-year wait before a failed transit tax vote can be retried in certain metro areas.
HB563: HB563 Motor vehicles; authorize licensed physical therapists to certify an individual is disabled for purposes of obtaining special vehicle decals
Despite its title about disability parking decals, this Senate substitute for HB 563 would instead create a new Georgia income tax credit for large woody biomass power generators, capped at $200 million total.
HB451: HB451 Quality Basic Education Act; local boards shall be authorized to provide instruction in hunting safety in grades six through 12; provide
A Senate substitute to HB 451 would require every Georgia school district to let public school students leave campus for religious moral instruction classes, and would let districts count those classes toward academic credit.
HB291: HB291 Health; certification of community health workers; provide
A Georgia House bill would create an official state certification for community health workers, setting up a new committee under the Department of Public Health to approve training programs and certify these frontline health workers.
HB229: HB229 Sales and use tax; exempt materials used in construction of capital outlay projects for educational purposes; provisions
A Senate substitute for HB 229 would let Georgia workers exclude most tip income and overtime pay from state income taxes for a few years, despite the bill's original title about school construction sales tax exemptions.
HB171: HB171 Crimes and offenses; obscenity; repeal and replace Code Section 16-12-80
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 171 would make it a felony to create or distribute AI-generated sexual images of minors, add tougher sentences for crimes committed using artificial intelligence, and expand the sex offender registry to cover this new offense.