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.
HB1486: HB1486 Education; term "education record"; revise definitions
House Bill 1486 would rewrite several definitions in Georgia's education code, standardizing the term 'school business day' across student records laws and updating cross-references for how parents and legal custodians access their children's education records.
HB1493: HB1493 Georgia Worker Empowerment Act; enact
A Georgia House bill called the Georgia Worker Empowerment Act would give many private-sector workers new union and collective bargaining rights, create industry worker standards boards, repeal several bans on public employee strikes and bargaining, and require prevailing wages on larger state contracts.
HR1525: HR1525 Teddy Ray Webb Memorial Bridge; Crisp County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would name the bridge on State Route 7 over Cedar Creek in Crisp County the Teddy Ray Webb Memorial Bridge, honoring his 50-year career in bridge construction.
HR1580: HR1580 Mayor Rick Roberts Intersection; Cherokee County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would name the intersection of State Route 5BU and Gilmer Ferry Road in Cherokee County the Mayor Rick Roberts Intersection, honoring former Ball Ground Mayor A.R. "Rick" Roberts III.
HB1497: HB1497 Georgia Home Title Protection and Deed Fraud Prevention Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would require quitclaim deeds and similar ownership-transfer documents to carry a bold, capitalized warning explaining that the person signing away property gives up all ownership rights once the document is recorded.
HR1531: HR1531 Representative Mandi L. Ballinger Memorial Interchange; Cherokee County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would honor former Representative Mandi L. Ballinger by naming the I-575 and State Route 5/Riverstone Parkway interchange in Cherokee County in her memory.
HB1494: HB1494 Motor vehicles; require ride share network services to provide ride share drivers with certain information on a monthly basis
A Georgia House bill would require ride share companies like Uber and Lyft to give drivers monthly pay reports, detailed trip receipts, and written notice with an appeals process before deactivating their accounts.
HR1528: HR1528 Joint Study Committee on Higher Education Fiscal Stewardship; create
A Georgia House resolution would create a ten-member joint legislative committee to study how the University System of Georgia manages and spends state funds, with a report due by December 2026.
HR1579: HR1579 House Study Committee on Hospital/Homebound (HHB) Services and Medically Fragile Student Attendance; create
A Georgia House resolution would create a study committee to examine hospital/homebound instruction and attendance issues for medically fragile students, with a report due before the committee ends on December 1, 2026.
HR1532: HR1532 National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month; September 2026; support designation
A Georgia House resolution would express support for designating September 2026 as National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, citing statistics on ovarian cancer's toll and disparities in diagnosis and treatment.
HR1530: HR1530 Ending Slavery in Georgia Amendment; propose - CA
A House resolution would ask Georgia voters to remove the state constitution's exception that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime or for contempt of court.
HR1524: HR1524 General Assembly; reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule III substance in accordance with presidential Executive Order 14370; urge
A Georgia House resolution urges the General Assembly to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance and to expand medical marijuana and cannabidiol research, following a federal executive order.
HR1523: HR1523 Victoria Travis Jackson Memorial Highway; Fulton County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would name a stretch of State Route 139 in Fulton County the Victoria Travis Jackson Memorial Highway, honoring a longtime Atlanta civil rights and education advocate.
HB1483: HB1483 Civil practice; ad valorem taxation of property; prohibit class action suits by taxpayers for refunds
A Georgia House bill would bar taxpayers from filing class action lawsuits to recover erroneously or illegally collected property taxes, requiring each taxpayer to pursue a refund claim individually.
HB1495: HB1495 Senior Stabilization Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would cap rent increases at 10 percent for elderly tenants who rely mainly on Social Security income, applying to rental agreements in effect on June 30, 2026 through the end of 2028.
HB1499: HB1499 Ad valorem tax; qualified caregiving expenses; increase amount of credit
A Georgia House bill would raise the state income tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses from $150 to $1,500 per year, starting with the 2026 tax year.
HR1581: HR1581 Sidney R. Miles Memorial Highway; Tattnall County; dedicate
A Georgia House resolution would name a stretch of State Route 23 in Tattnall County the Sidney R. Miles Memorial Highway, honoring a former Georgia State Patrol commissioner.
HB1498: HB1498 Ad valorem tax; procedures for transmission of relevant information following a real estate closing to allow for the automatic granting of homestead exemptions; provide
A Georgia House bill would require closing attorneys to automatically send homestead exemption information to local tax offices, so new homeowners would not have to file a separate application.
HB1502: HB1502 Community Health, Department of; contracts with care management organizations for the provision of healthcare services for Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids recipients; establish requirements
A Georgia House bill would set new rules for how the Department of Community Health awards and oversees contracts with the private companies that manage healthcare for Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids enrollees.
HB1482: HB1482 Jails; certain municipal corporations make municipal detention facilities or jails available for use by a sheriff under certain conditions; require
A Georgia House bill would require certain municipal jails near the State Capitol to let a county sheriff use them for housing inmates, if the sheriff has funding and asks for it.