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.
SR875: SR875 State-Wide Grand Juries; jurisdiction, powers, and duties; provide -CA
A Georgia Senate resolution would ask voters to amend the state constitution to create state-wide grand juries with power to investigate and indict election-related crimes committed anywhere in Georgia.
SB606: SB606 "District Attorney Compensation Reform Act"; enact
A Senate committee substitute for SB 606 would overhaul how Georgia district attorneys are paid, letting them opt into a new state salary and capped local 'locality pay' system while protecting current DAs from pay cuts, and it would raise minimum salaries for assistant district attorneys.
SB592: SB592 "One Strike Act"; enact
A Senate bill called the "One Strike Act" would raise minimum prison sentences for aggravated assault, aggravated battery and kidnapping, require life sentences for rape and sexual battery against children under 12, and limit parole and probation for violent offenders.
SB607: SB607 Grand Juries; creation, selection, composition, compensation, procedures, and term; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would create a statewide grand jury focused solely on election-related crimes, run by the Attorney General and able to indict across county lines, contingent on voters approving a constitutional amendment in November 2026.
SB568: SB568 Elections and Primaries; the list of eligible voters is posted and made public prior to each primary or election; require
A Georgia Senate bill would rewrite several parts of state election law, including requiring public posting of voter lists before elections, adding fines for registrars who fail to remove ineligible voters, and changing rules for ballot design, recounts, and audits.
HB1442: HB1442 Local government; local moratoria shall not apply to certain properties in certain circumstances; provide
A Georgia House bill would stop local moratoriums on building permits or zoning decisions from applying to properties where a county or city already gave written approval for a specific development.
HB1446: HB1446 Health; transfer responsibility for oversight of emergency medical services from Department of Public Health to Georgia Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Council
A House committee substitute would move oversight of Georgia's ambulance services, EMS personnel licensing, stroke centers, and cardiac care centers from the Department of Public Health to a newly structured Georgia Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Council, effective January 1, 2028.
SB560: SB560 County Board of Education of DeKalb County; provisions governing the use of third party search firms in selecting a superintendent; provide
A Senate bill would require the DeKalb County Board of Education to have any outside search firm it hires run background checks and risk assessments on all finalist candidates for superintendent, even those the firm did not find itself.
SB573: SB573 Primaries and Elections; the nonpartisan election for county officers and district attorneys in certain counties; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would require nonpartisan elections for most county officers and district attorneys in counties that use an appointed medical examiner instead of an elected coroner.
SR838: SR838 "State Assurance of Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Amendment" -CA
A proposed Georgia constitutional amendment would specify that only U.S. citizens have the right to vote in state elections and require voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot.
HB1402: HB1402 Education; vision and hearing screening for all public school students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through third grade; require
House Bill 1402 would require Georgia public schools to give vision and hearing screenings to all students from pre-kindergarten through third grade, with state grants to help schools buy screening equipment.
HB1385: HB1385 Fire protection and safety; improve government efficiency by updating provisions of office of the Safety Fire Commissioner
A House committee substitute for HB 1385 would restructure leadership of Georgia's Safety Fire Division, create a building permit appeals board, expand arson and fatality reporting rules, and raise several fire safety fines.
HB1370: HB1370 Income tax; exclude a portion of overtime compensation and cash tips
A Georgia House bill would let workers exclude up to $2,500 of overtime pay and up to $2,500 of cash tips from state income tax, starting with the 2026 tax year, with the overtime break expiring after 2028.
HB1368: HB1368 Mental health; re-creation of community service boards; provide
House Bill 1368 would restart Georgia's community service boards, which handle local mental health, developmental disability, and addiction services, and shift control of hiring their top executives to a state commissioner.
HB1365: HB1365 Atlanta Judicial Circuit; superior courts; provide twenty-first judge
House Bill 1365 would add a 21st superior court judge to the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, appointed by the Governor to start in 2027 and later filled by election.
HB1347: HB1347 Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law; provide certain retirement systems the option to invest in real estate
A Georgia House bill would let more large public retirement systems, including certain county and city pension funds, invest up to 10 percent of their assets in real estate and would raise the general cap on alternative investments from 10 to 15 percent.
HB1322: HB1322 Crimes and offenses; riot; repeal misdemeanor penalty and provide for a felony penalty
House Bill 1322 would make riot a felony in Georgia, punishable by one to 20 years in prison, instead of the misdemeanor penalty currently in state law.
HB1324: HB1324 Crimes and offenses; possessing a silencer; repeal prohibition
A Georgia House bill would repeal the state law that makes it a crime to simply possess a firearm silencer, while keeping tougher prison sentences for using a machine gun, sawed-off weapon, or suppressed firearm during certain violent crimes.
HB1296: HB1296 Mental health; pilot program to support clinical research of certain veterans and first responders suffering from certain conditions; provide
A Georgia House bill would create a three-year pilot program letting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities fund clinical research and treatment access to breakthrough therapies for veterans and retired first responders with PTSD and related conditions.
SB497: SB497 School Students; written notification to a parent when a student receives certain noninstructional services from certain school employees; require
A Georgia Senate bill would require school counselors, nurses, social workers, and other school employees to notify a parent in writing within 48 hours whenever a student receives noninstructional services like counseling.