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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.
HB1445: HB1445 Juvenile proceedings; authorize sharing of GPS monitoring with law enforcement and school districts
A Georgia House bill would let the Department of Juvenile Justice share the names of juveniles on GPS monitoring with police and local schools, including alerts about violations or when the device is turned off.
HB1437: HB1437 Notaries public; notarial acts to be performed using electronic means when certain requirements are satisfied; provide
A Georgia House bill would let notaries public perform notarizations electronically, adding legal definitions for electronic signatures and seals and updating the rules for how notaries sign and stamp documents.
SB510: SB510 Board of Education of Cobb County; future elections for members of the board of education shall be nonpartisan; provide
A Senate bill would make future elections for the Cobb County Board of Education nonpartisan, meaning candidates would no longer run with a party label starting with elections held after January 1, 2028.
HB1276: HB1276 Community Health, Department of; review information from certain sources to determine and verify eligibility of Medicaid recipients; provide
A Georgia House bill would require the Department of Human Services and the Department of Community Health to regularly cross check income, residency, incarceration, and other records to verify Medicaid recipients' eligibility, ending self-attestation for key eligibility facts.
HB1267: HB1267 Motor vehicles; increase penalties for certain offenses; provisions
A House committee substitute would raise fines and criminal penalties for license plate and title fraud, add new rules for dealer plates, and shift regulation of used motor vehicle and used parts dealers from a state board to the Georgia Department of Revenue.
HB1201: HB1201 Fire protection; compliance with safety standards for smoke detectors; provide
A Georgia House bill would require smoke detectors in dwellings to meet a specific national safety standard, with newly installed or replaced detectors required to comply starting in 2027 and all detectors by 2028.
HB1167: HB1167 Sleep Health Awareness Week; second week in March of each year; designate
A Georgia House bill would designate the second week of March as 'Sleep Health Awareness Week' and encourage the Department of Public Health to promote sleep health education across the state.
HR1114: HR1114 Homeowner's Incentive Adjustment clause; remove cap on benefits - CA
A Georgia House resolution would ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment gradually cutting the taxable value of homes from 40% to 10% of appraised value over 10 years, add a new disabled veterans' homestead exemption, and let local governments create new sales taxes to make up lost property tax revenue.
HB1045: HB1045 You Are Not Alone Awareness Act; enact
House Bill 1045 would require Georgia public schools that issue student ID badges to students in grades six through 12 to print the 9-8-8 crisis hotline number and a short message on those badges starting July 1, 2026.
HB942: HB942 Ad valorem tax; public property owned by a political subdivision outside of its territorial limits; limit an exemption
A Georgia House bill would cap the property tax exemption for public land that a city or county owns outside its own boundaries, limiting it to 60 percent of the property's value starting in 2027.
HB899: HB899 Property; transfer-on-death deeds; modify certain provisions
A House Judiciary substitute for HB 899 would rewrite several parts of Georgia's transfer-on-death deed law, changing how beneficiaries accept property, how estates can protect it before acceptance, and how it interacts with year's support claims.
HB664: HB664 Property owners' associations; development and affirmative election; provisions
A Georgia House bill would let existing homeowners' associations vote to opt into the state's Property Owners' Association Act by a 75 percent vote and recording an instrument, without having to rewrite their full governing declaration.
SB299: SB299 Notaries Public; members of the armed forces on active duty to use online notaries public for certain matters; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would let active-duty members of the armed forces use online notaries public licensed anywhere in the country for state and local vehicle tax, titling, and licensing paperwork.
HB626: HB626 Criminal procedure; extend retention period of evidence of sexual assault when victim elects not to immediately report assault
A Georgia House bill would extend how long police must keep sexual assault evidence when the victim initially chooses not to report the crime, from 12 months to 30 years.
HB545: HB545 Terry Act; enact
House Bill 545, called the Terry Act, would change how appeals lawyers get trial transcripts prepared by requiring the appellant to request them directly from the court reporter named on the notice of appeal.
HR1568: HR1568 Arnold, Mercedes A.; receiving the 2026 Yellow Rose Nikki T. Randall Servant Leadership Award; commend
A Georgia House resolution formally congratulates Mercedes A. Arnold of Savannah for receiving the 2026 Yellow Rose Nikki T. Randall Servant Leadership Award, honoring her community service work.
HR1543: HR1543 Anyaegbunam, Breyana; 2025-2026 Youth of the Year for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Chattahoochee Valley; commend
A Georgia House resolution formally congratulates Breyana Anyaegbunam, a Carver High School student, for being named the 2025-2026 Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Chattahoochee Valley.
HR1537: HR1537 Atlanta Children's Day Shelter; 40 years of service to Georgia's children and families; commend
A Georgia House resolution commends the Atlanta Children's Day Shelter for 40 years of serving homeless and housing-unstable children and families in the state.
HR1567: HR1567 Afrovibez; cultural leadership; Africa Day; May 25, 2026; recognize
A Georgia House resolution recognizes May 25, 2026, as Africa Day and commends the organization Afrovibez for its work promoting African and diaspora culture in Georgia.
HR1577: HR1577 Johnson, Elise; recognize
A Georgia House resolution formally recognizes and commends Elise Johnson, a Dutchtown High School senior and 2026 Showtime Pros Cotillion debutante, for her academic and community achievements.