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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.
HB1283: HB1283 Family Justice Center Act; enact
House Bill 1283 creates a legal framework for Family Justice Centers in Georgia, places for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and human trafficking to get coordinated services and police help in one location.
HB1268: HB1268 Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise, modernize and correct errors or omissions
This annual Georgia housekeeping bill makes hundreds of small technical corrections throughout the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, fixing typos, outdated terms, and cross-references without changing substantive policy.
HR1300: HR1300 Representative Penny Houston Roundabout; Cook County; dedicate
House Resolution 1300 names 18 different road features across Georgia, including a Cook County roundabout honoring former state Representative Penny Houston, after various public figures and community members.
HB1247: HB1247 Georgia Bureaucratic Deference Elimination Act; enact
House Bill 1247 bars Georgia courts and administrative judges from automatically deferring to state agencies' interpretations of laws and rules, makes some General Assembly harassment settlement records public, reworks how agency rules are adopted and reviewed, and creates new rules for homeless outreach groups near metro Atlanta schools and parks.
HB1258: HB1258 Muscogee County; State Court; provide additional judge
House Bill 1258 adds a third judge to the State Court of Muscogee County starting January 1, 2027, with that new judge to be elected in the 2026 nonpartisan general election.
SB478: SB478 Outdoor Stewardship; provide for a sunset
A Georgia Senate bill would raise the share of sporting goods sales tax revenue sent to the state's outdoor land conservation fund from 40 percent to 60 percent, and extend the program through June 30, 2039.
HB1241: HB1241 Decatur, City of; city commission and public school system; revise provisions
A bill revising the City of Decatur's charter would rewrite the entire article governing its city commission, covering election districts, meeting rules, removal procedures, and when the mayor is separately elected.
SB472: SB472 Local Boards of Education; audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; provide for the suspension of members
Senate Bill 472 lets Georgia suspend local school board members, restrict superintendent contracts, and cap advance state funding when the state auditor finds financial mismanagement or flags a school system as high risk, while also lowering the vote threshold to dissolve an independent school system.
HB1234: HB1234 State Employees' Assurance Department; assignment of certain group term life insurance benefits to pay for funeral services of a deceased individual who was a member of certain retirement systems; provisions
House Bill 1234 lets a beneficiary of certain state employee group life insurance benefits assign part of that payout directly to a funeral home to cover funeral costs for a deceased retiree.
HB1192: HB1192 Public assistance; certain accounting practices by Department of Human Services and Department of Community Health; provide
House Bill 1192 would require the Georgia Department of Human Services and the Department of Community Health to keep specially designated funds separate from other money and to report annually on cost-saving reviews. The bill has been vetoed by the Governor.
HB1164: HB1164 Education; require State Board of Education to appoint an audit committee
HB1164 overhauls how Georgia monitors school district and charter school finances, creating a State Board of Education audit committee and a new tiered risk system for flagging troubled local school systems.
HB1120: HB1120 Union County; governing authority; change from a sole commissioner to a five-member board of commissioners; provide advisory referendum
House Bill 1120 would put a nonbinding question on the November 2026 ballot in Union County asking voters whether they want to switch from a sole county commissioner to a five-member board of commissioners.
HB1161: HB1161 Motor vehicles; proper operation upon approach by an authorized emergency vehicle or by a law enforcement vehicle for purposes of a traffic stop; provide
A Georgia House bill would let drivers continue to a safe location before stopping for police, tighten penalties for fleeing officers, lower the legal window tint limit, and add new rules for school zone speed cameras.
HB1092: HB1092 Chehaw Park Authority; extend existence of authority
House Bill 1092 extends the legal existence of the Chehaw Park Authority in Albany, Georgia, through December 31, 2036, keeping the agency in operation rather than letting it dissolve.
HB1075: HB1075 Sexual offenses; modify penalty for offenders previously convicted of the offense of trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude
A Georgia House bill would make a fourth or later misdemeanor conviction under the state's crimes against the person or sexual offenses laws within a 10 year span a felony, with mandatory prison time.
HB1077: HB1077 Sales and use tax; exemption for sales of tickets, fees, and charges of admission to certain museums and fine arts performances or exhibitions at nonprofit facilities; extend sunset date
House Bill 1077 would push back the expiration date for Georgia's sales tax break on museum and fine arts admission tickets from 2027 to 2032, and would add a new sales tax exemption for tickets to the Georgia National Fair.
HB1070: HB1070 Income tax; increase and extend a credit for expenditures on maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by Class III railroads
House Bill 1070 would raise and extend a Georgia income tax credit that small, short-line (Class III) railroads can claim for maintaining their own tracks, roadbeds, and bridges.
HB1057: HB1057 Gwinnett County; State Court; provide eighth judge January 1, 2027 and ninth judge January 1, 2028
House Bill 1057 would add an eighth judge to the State Court of Gwinnett County starting January 1, 2027, and a ninth judge starting January 1, 2028.
HB1020: HB1020 Judicial Retirement System; payment of monthly retirement benefits for creditable service as a district attorney at the age of 65 years; provide
House Bill 1020 overhauls how Georgia district attorneys are paid, replacing most county salary supplements with capped locality pay, and changes retirement rules so district attorney service counts fully toward Judicial Retirement System benefits only after age 65.
HB1029: HB1029 Holly Springs, City of; revise boundaries
House Bill 1029 redraws the City of Holly Springs' city limits and council district lines, expands the city council from five to six members, and adds term limits and a mayoral veto power.