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.
HB455: HB455 Bingo; properties used for games; limit number of sessions; provisions
House Bill 455 changes Georgia's bingo law by allowing nonprofits to run bingo at more than one location, raising session limits and prize caps, and increasing pay for workers who help run the games.
HB447: HB447 Crimes and offenses; crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; provide
A Georgia bill creates new crimes for gift card theft, forgery, and fraud, targeting people who steal, alter, or scam gift cards from shoppers, retailers, or card issuers.
HB439: HB439 Revenue and taxation; revise deductions allowed to dealers
House Bill 439 would let Georgia counties and cities create local homeowner's incentive adjustment grant programs, funded by surplus revenue, that give qualified homeowners a credit against their property tax bill after voters approve the program in a referendum.
HR251: HR251 Local government; probate judges shall be elected in nonpartisan elections; provide - CA
A Georgia House resolution would ask voters to amend the state Constitution so that all probate court judges are elected in nonpartisan elections, removing party labels from those races.
SB143: SB143 Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would let firefighters retire as early as age 50 with reduced pension benefits, allow retired firefighters to keep working while collecting benefits, and add judges on the new Georgia Tax Court to the state's judicial retirement system.
HB376: HB376 Income tax; rehabilitation of certified structures; increase amount of tax credits
House Bill 376 would raise the minimum spending required to claim Georgia's historic rehabilitation tax credit and increase the caps on how much credit developers and homeowners can claim each year.
HB369: HB369 Motor vehicles; sale of food or beverages; provide vehicle equipment standards
A Georgia House bill would require nonpartisan elections for most county officers and certain district attorneys in counties that have abolished the elected office of coroner, starting January 1, 2028.
HB350: HB350 Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions
House Bill 350 updates Georgia's Safe Place for Newborns law by renaming it the Eliza Jane Warner Act, adding ambulance services as a place a newborn can be safely left, and allowing locked, monitored 'newborn safety devices' at qualifying facilities.
HB295: HB295 Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions
House Bill 295 would let property owners in Georgia file compensation claims against county and city governments that fail to enforce certain laws or that maintain a public nuisance, and it lets people sue local officials over immigration sanctuary and detainer violations.
HB304: HB304 Local government; Georgia Municipal Court Clerks' Council; create
House Bill 304 creates a new Georgia Municipal Court Clerks' Council and sets up a system for retired municipal court judges to serve as senior judges under Georgia law.
HB297: HB297 Ad valorem tax; define multipurpose off-highway vehicle; provisions
House Bill 297 would dissolve the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and rename the Atlanta-region Transit Link 'ATL' Authority as the Georgia Transportation Efficiency Authority, transferring its assets, staff, and powers over transit planning statewide.
SB59: SB59 Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; a limitation on leased property; remove
Senate Bill 59 would raise the total cap on Georgia's timber casualty tax credit for Hurricane Helene losses from $200 million to $250 million and adjust how timber producers apply for and claim the credit.
SB23: SB23 Retirement; total percentage of funds that the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia may invest in alternative investments; raise the limit
A Georgia Senate bill would raise the cap on how much the state's large public pension funds can invest in higher-risk 'alternative investments' from 10 percent to 15 percent of fund assets, while keeping the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia's cap at 10 percent. Governor Kemp vetoed the bill after it passed the General Assembly.
HB14: HB14 State symbols; cornbread as official state bread; designate
Despite its title about designating cornbread as Georgia's official state bread, this bill's actual text creates a new Georgia Music Office within the Department of Economic Development to support the state's music industry.
HB1569: HB1569 McDonough, City of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee
A local bill for the City of McDonough would let its Municipal Court charge a technology fee of up to $15 on criminal fines to pay for court and public safety technology.
HB1578: HB1578 Arcade, Town of; municipality; clarify name
House Bill 1578 renames the Town of Arcade to the City of Arcade throughout its 1995 charter and updates several procedural rules for the city council and mayor, including a new mayoral veto power.
HB1571: HB1571 Bryan County; State Court; revise terms
A bill would change how often the State Court of Bryan County holds its criminal and civil trial terms, setting four annual criminal terms and monthly civil terms starting July 1, 2026.
HB1570: HB1570 Cochran/Bleckley Airport Authority; board; revise membership
A House bill would expand the Cochran/Bleckley Airport Authority board from its current setup to seven members and loosen residency rules for some of them, allowing certain appointees to live outside Bleckley County if they have aviation, business, or finance expertise.
HB1568: HB1568 Woodstock, City of; change corporate limits
House Bill 1568 expands the City of Woodstock's official boundaries by adding roughly 139 specific tax parcels along Townview Drive, Bobbie Way, Dixie Drive, and other nearby roads to the city limits.
HB1580: HB1580 Henry County Airport Authority; current operative provisions; repeal and replace
House Bill 1580 rewrites the 2023 law that created the Henry County Airport Authority, replacing nearly all of its operating rules covering membership, meetings, powers, and bond financing.