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.
SB488: SB488 Torts; generative artificial intelligence systems shall constitute personal property for purposes of certain actions for product liability alleging injury to a minor; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would let minors and their families sue makers and sellers of generative artificial intelligence systems under product liability law if the AI causes injury, by classifying the AI as personal property.
HB1257: HB1257 Education; incentive grants for local boards of education to approve charter school petitions; revise provisions
A House committee substitute for HB 1257 would move Georgia's charter school incentive grant program and Office of Charter School Compliance oversight from the State Charter Schools Commission to the State Board of Education, and adjust several charter school rules.
HB1255: HB1255 Criminal procedure; motions and discovery; modify provisions
A House Judiciary substitute would rewrite Georgia's criminal discovery rules, setting new deadlines for prosecutors and defendants to exchange evidence and expert witness information, and would require courts to mail defendants a copy of their indictment or accusation within five days.
SB471: SB471 Education; requires a student to wear a face mask or face covering while present on school property; eliminate automatic repeal provision
Senate Bill 471 would make permanent a 2022 Georgia law that lets parents opt their children out of any school mask mandate, by removing the provision that was set to end that law automatically.
SB473: SB473 Motor Vehicles and Traffic; submission of proof of completion of certified DUI Alcohol or Drug Use Risk Reduction Programs by certain applicants to obtain limited driving permits; require
A Georgia Senate bill would require drivers seeking certain limited driving permits after a DUI-related suspension to first show proof they completed a certified DUI Risk Reduction Program, while also adjusting related fees for driver improvement clinics and DUI programs.
HB1232: HB1232 Education; certain students be excused from school for participating in certain officially sanctioned visits to the state capitol; provide
A Georgia House bill would let public school students who are Girl Scouts miss class for an official Girl Scout visit to the state Capitol without it counting as an absence.
HB1224: HB1224 Contracts; termination of certain automatic renewal provisions; reduce applicable period
A House committee substitute for HB 1224 would tighten Georgia's rules on automatically renewing service contracts, shortening the length of contract that triggers extra consumer protections from 36 months to 24 months.
HB1227: HB1227 Elections; revise information sought from persons registering to vote who indicate that they were previously registered to vote in another state, county, or municipality
A Georgia House bill would require voter registration applicants who say they previously registered elsewhere to give more detailed information, which the Secretary of State would forward to that former state to help cancel the old registration.
HB1178: HB1178 Budget and Fiscal Affairs Oversight Committee of the House of Representatives; establish
House Bill 1178 would create a 19-member Budget and Fiscal Affairs Oversight Committee in the Georgia House of Representatives to review state spending, agency finances, and budget planning between legislative sessions.
HB1148: HB1148 Income tax; donation of real property for conservation purposes; revise tax credits
House Bill 1148 would raise the state income tax credit available to Georgians who donate land or conservation easements, roughly doubling the dollar caps, and would extend the program that limits total statewide credits through 2031.
SR668: SR668 General Assembly; the assessment of property taxes on property; electronic equipment primarily used to process, store, or transmit digital information and data; authorize
A Georgia Senate resolution would ask voters to amend the state constitution to let local governments tax data center property, such as server buildings, at different rates than other property.
HB1095: HB1095 Fire protection and safety; establish permanent consumer fireworks sales facilities
A House committee substitute would rewrite Georgia's fireworks law to create a new category of temporary tent-based fireworks sales facilities, let distributors run more temporary stands, and raise penalties for illegal sales.
HB1089: HB1089 Controlled substances; ivermectin as an over-the-counter medication; provide
A Georgia House bill would let pharmacists sell certain FDA-approved, finished-dosage forms of ivermectin without a prescription, expanding an existing exception to the state's dangerous drug law.
HB1056: HB1056 Education; replace term auto-injectable epinephrine with epinephrine and consolidate provisions relating to epinephrine and schools
A Georgia House bill would rewrite state law on school epinephrine policies, replacing the narrower term 'auto-injectable epinephrine' with the broader term 'epinephrine' and combining three separate school code sections into one.
HB1016: HB1016 Magistrate courts; expand existing remedies regarding unauthorized possession of real property
A House Judiciary Committee substitute for HB 1016 would let condo and homeowner association neighbors, not just property owners, ask law enforcement to remove someone unlawfully occupying real property, while guaranteeing three days to contest removal.
HR1046: HR1046 Property; common interest ownership structure; provisions - CA
A proposed Georgia constitutional amendment would let condo and homeowners' association property owners sue to stop other owners in the same development from unlawfully occupying residential property that isn't theirs.
SB405: SB405 Magistrate Court; the maximum amount of civil claims that can be tried in magistrate court; increase
A Georgia Senate bill would raise the cap on civil claims that magistrate courts can hear from $15,000 to $50,000, letting more small lawsuits skip superior court.
HB984: HB984 Crimes and offenses; court order to locate an alleged victim of child or elder abuse; provide
A Georgia House bill would let superior courts issue orders to locate the parent, guardian, or caretaker of a missing child or vulnerable adult during an open abuse investigation.
HB969: HB969 Georgia State Employees Post-employment Health Benefit Fund; certain fund beneficiaries to not be disqualified from postretirement health benefits; provide
A Georgia House bill would let retirees who serve on local school boards keep their state retiree health coverage instead of being forced into the school board's insurance plan.
HB961: HB961 Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; insurance coverage for certain out-of-network ambulance transportation service; provide
House Bill 961 would require Georgia health insurance plans to cover emergency ground ambulance rides even when the ambulance provider is out-of-network, and would set minimum payment rates and caps on what patients owe.