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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.
HR1049: HR1049 Fentanyl and Opioid Awareness Day; last Wednesday of October each year; designate
A Georgia House resolution designates the Wednesday of the last week in October each year as Fentanyl and Opioid Awareness Day, aiming to raise awareness about fentanyl and opioid dangers.
SB239: SB239 Funeral Directors and Establishments; funeral directors be licensed embalmers; remove the requirement
A Georgia Senate bill, as substituted by the House, would let funeral directors and embalmers get separate licenses instead of requiring every funeral director to also be a licensed embalmer, while still requiring the person in charge of a funeral home to hold both licenses.
SB116: SB116 DNA Sampling; the collection of DNA samples from any individual in a detention facility charged with a misdemeanor or felony who is subject to an immigration detainer notice; require
Senate Bill 116 would require detention facilities in Georgia to collect a DNA sample from anyone charged with a misdemeanor or felony who is also subject to a federal immigration detainer notice.
HR145: HR145 Education and Public Health, Departments of; collaborate to prioritize the expansion of vision and hearing screenings at various grade levels; urge
A Georgia House resolution urges the Department of Education and the Department of Public Health to work together to expand vision and hearing screenings for students at several grade levels.
HR1659: HR1659 Herring, Reverend Moses Lee; honoring the life and memory; condolences
A Georgia House resolution honors the life of Reverend Moses Lee Herring, a Bibb County native, veteran, and pastor, and offers condolences to his family.
HR1661: HR1661 Holston, Reverend Dr. Sidney; honoring the life and memory; condolences
A Georgia House resolution honors the life of Reverend Dr. Sidney Holston, a longtime pastor and DeKalb County community leader, and directs the House Clerk to send a copy to his family.
HR1660: HR1660 Knight, Tasso; honoring the life and memory; condolences
A Georgia House resolution honors the life of Tasso Knight, a longtime labor lobbyist at the state capitol who died on October 14, 2025, and offers condolences to his family.
SR930: SR930 Latin American Association; commend; LAA Day; recognize March 10, 2026
A Georgia Senate resolution commends the Latin American Association for its decades of work with Georgia's Latino community and designates March 10, 2026 as LAA Day.
SR931: SR931 Qcells Day; recognize March 10, 2026
A Georgia Senate resolution designates March 10, 2026 as Qcells Day, honoring the solar panel manufacturer's investments and factories in Dalton and Cartersville, Georgia.
SR934: SR934 Dobbs, Mike; recognize
A Georgia Senate resolution honors Mike Dobbs for his ten years of leadership at Camp Southern Ground, a camp for children of all abilities and veterans founded by musician Zac Brown.
SR933: SR933 National Statuary Hall Collection Replacement Committee; create
A Georgia Senate resolution would create a committee to replace the state's Alexander Hamilton Stephens statue in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection with a statue of President Jimmy Carter.
SR935: SR935 Hill, Ms. Sharon J.; congratulate
A Georgia Senate resolution congratulates Sharon J. Hill of Cobb County for receiving the 2026 Yellow Rose Nikki T. Randall Servant Leadership Award for her community and civil rights work.
SR932: SR932 United States Treasurer Brandon L. Beach Highway; Fulton County; dedicate
A Georgia Senate resolution would name a stretch of State Route 9 in Fulton County the United States Treasurer Brandon L. Beach Highway, honoring the former state senator's career.
HB1520: HB1520 Rental Pricing Integrity Act; enact
House Bill 1520 would ban landlords and rent-pricing software companies in Georgia from using algorithms that pool nonpublic competitor data to set rental prices or occupancy levels, with enforcement by the Attorney General.
HB1524: HB1524 Gwinnett County; school district ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption
A House bill would create a new school property tax break for older homeowners in the Gwinnett County school district, cutting the tax bill in half for those 65 to 69 and eliminating it for those 70 and older, if voters approve.
HR1609: HR1609 Lt. Col. Albert "Butch" S. Welch Jr. Memorial Bridge; Dekalb County; dedicate
A House resolution would name a DeKalb County bridge on State Route 42 over I-85 the Lt. Col. Albert "Butch" S. Welch Jr. Memorial Bridge, honoring a longtime Georgia Department of Transportation engineer and Army veteran.
HB1517: HB1517 Nuisances; presumption of the creation of a nuisance based on certain residential local ordinance violations; provide
A Georgia House bill would create a legal presumption that repeat residential code violations count as a nuisance, add criminal penalties for tax officials who fail to collect delinquent property taxes, expand Medicaid estate recovery protections for homes, and require corporations to list authorized filers with the Secretary of State.
HR1639: HR1639 Darryl Jordan Intersection; Clayton County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would name the intersection of State Route 3 (Tara Boulevard) and Upper Riverdale Road in Clayton County the Darryl Jordan Intersection, honoring former state representative and educator Darryl W. Jordan.
HB1521: HB1521 Ponzi Scheme Prevention Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would repeal a state law exemption that let certain financial institutions avoid securities regulation, and would treat most promissory notes as securities unless they fall into specific exempt categories.
HB1516: HB1516 Revenue and taxation; sales to United States Department of Homeland Security or United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; revise tax
A Georgia House bill would remove the real estate transfer tax exemption for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and instead tax property sales to those agencies at 100% of the sale price.