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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.
HB1076: HB1076 Crimes and offenses; create felony offense of obstruction of a law enforcement officer with a motor vehicle
A Georgia House bill would create a new felony for using a car to block or interfere with police, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
SB425: SB425 Education; all schools that receive state funding with students in any of grades three through five to provide instruction in cursive handwriting to all students by no later than third grade; require
A Georgia Senate bill, as amended by a House committee, would require public schools with grades three through five to teach cursive handwriting by third grade, add bleeding control kits to school emergency plans, and let school employees attacked by a student or parent transfer to another school.
HB1022: HB1022 Motor vehicles; prohibit electric tinting
A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 1022 would ban electric window tinting on windshields, add penalties for covering license plates with such tinting, push back a deadline for police to get electronic license verification equipment, and create a new crime for fleeing certain Department of Public Safety officers.
SR622: SR622 Joint Study Committee on Evaluating Escalating Costs in Georgia's Foster Care System; create
A Georgia Senate resolution creates a 20-member joint study committee to examine why out-of-home foster care costs are rising sharply and to recommend ways to manage them.
HB990: HB990 Public Safety, Department of; creation of a program to assist former handlers and adopters of retired law enforcement dogs with veterinary care costs; provide
A Georgia House bill, as revised by a Senate committee, would set up a state grant program to help pay veterinary bills for retired police and correctional K-9 dogs, benefiting their former handlers, adopters, charities, and law enforcement foundations.
HB903: HB903 Georgia Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to all executive branch agencies; provide
A Senate substitute for HB 903 would rewrite Georgia's rules for coin operated amusement machines like arcade games and pool tables, covering prize limits, tournaments, discipline for violations, and where licensees can appeal Georgia Lottery Corporation decisions.
HB818: HB818 Georgia Judicial Retirement System; membership for each judge employed full time in the Georgia Tax Court; provide
House Bill 818 would enroll full time judges of Georgia's new Tax Court in the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, letting them transfer prior state service credit if they pay the full cost of that transfer.
HB632: HB632 Professions and businesses; clarify certain veterans' eligibility for exemption with regard to payment of occupation taxes, administrative fees, and regulatory fees
A Georgia House bill would update the state law letting disabled veterans and blind people run businesses or practice professions without paying local occupation taxes or fees, using a modern federal definition of wartime service.
HB547: HB547 Revenue and taxation; bona fide conservation use property; permit combination of multiple covenants into a single, new, ten-year covenant
A Georgia House bill would let landowners combine multiple conservation use property tax covenants into one new ten-year covenant, and would allow carbon sequestration as a secondary use on such land.
SB163: SB163 Brady Law Regulations; standards for bringing an action against the government for an unauthorized act relating to regulation of weapons; revise
A Georgia Senate bill, as substituted by a House committee, would overhaul how prosecutors and defendants exchange evidence in criminal cases, set new deadlines for expert witness disclosures, and let law enforcement officers keep their home addresses confidential on voter rolls.
HB378: HB378 State courts of counties; online publishing of terms; provide
A Georgia House bill would require every state court clerk in the state's counties to publish the dates and information about court terms on the court's public website.
HB372: HB372 Teachers Retirement System; certain beneficiaries hired to work in certain areas; provisions
A Georgia House bill would extend a program letting retired teachers return to full-time classroom work in high-need subjects through 2030 and would base 'areas of highest need' on individual school systems instead of regional service agencies.
HB169: HB169 Ad valorem tax; breach of a covenant for bona fide conservation use related to solar generation of energy; limit exceptions
A Senate committee substitute for HB 169 would replace its original property tax subject matter with a new income tax credit for small Georgia employers that offer employees individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements alongside other benefits.
HB187: HB187 Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions
A Georgia Senate committee substitute for HB 187 would set new rules for companies that sell vehicle value protection agreements, the add-on contracts that pay toward a replacement car after a wreck or theft, covering disclosures, cancellation rights, and insurance backing.
HB158: HB158 Commerce and trade; filing of registration statements with the office of the Secretary of State; provide
House Bill 158 would create a statewide electronic registry for Georgia trade names, run by the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority, replacing the current system of newspaper notices and paper filings at each county courthouse.
HB108: HB108 Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act or SAVE Act; enact
A Georgia bill would regulate people and companies that charge veterans for help with VA benefit claims, capping fees, banning referral payments, and requiring written disclosures.
HR1849: HR1849 Atlanta Lady Hawks senior women's basketball team; recognize
A Georgia House resolution recognizes the Atlanta Lady Hawks senior women's basketball team for its recent tournament wins and wishes them success at the 2027 Senior Basketball Olympics.
HR1875: HR1875 Bergosh, Alexander; commend
A Georgia House resolution commends Alexander Bergosh, a legal extern in the Speaker's office, for his service during the 2026 legislative session.
HR1850: HR1850 Arbery, Marcus, Sr.; author of Where's Daddy: The Ahmaud Arbery Story; commend
A Georgia House resolution commends Marcus Arbery Sr. for his new book, Where's Daddy: The Ahmaud Arbery Story, and for his work on racial justice since the death of his son Ahmaud Arbery.
HR1851: HR1851 Williams, Sandra Lee; commend
A Georgia House resolution formally commends Sandra Lee Williams, a labor and community leader, for her work with unions, civil rights organizations, and workforce programs across the state.