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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.
HB1439: HB1439 Georgia Surveillance Pricing Act; enact
House Bill 1439 would ban large Georgia grocery and retail food stores from setting different prices for shoppers based on their personal data, a practice called surveillance pricing, with several exceptions for loyalty discounts and electronic shelf labels.
HB1425: HB1425 Worker Tariff Relief Program Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would create a new Worker Tariff Relief Program at the Department of Labor to give temporary cash help, job placement, and training to workers who lose jobs, hours, or pay because of federal tariffs or trade disruptions.
HB1426: HB1426 Peace officers; training in evacuation of persons with disabilities during an emergency; provide
A Georgia House bill would require peace officers to complete training on evacuating people with disabilities during emergencies and would create a voluntary state registry, accessible shelters, and coordinated evacuation planning for people with disabilities.
HB1431: HB1431 Child custody; presumption of joint physical custody in divorce proceedings; provide
A Georgia House bill would create a presumption that divorcing parents share joint physical custody of their children until a judge holds a hearing, unless there is family violence or joint custody is not practical.
HB1427: HB1427 State employees; require state health benefit plan to cover cranial prostheses for certain covered persons
House Bill 1427 would require Georgia's state health benefit plan to cover cranial prostheses, meaning medical wigs, for state employees and others who lose hair from illness or treatment.
HB1450: HB1450 State militia; oversight of any deployment of the National Guard by the Governor; provide
A Georgia House bill would set new legislative oversight rules for the Governor's use of the National Guard, requiring notice, briefings, and in some cases General Assembly approval before deployments.
HB1438: HB1438 Tariff Transition Advisory Councils Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would create five regional advisory councils to study how tariffs affect Georgia industries and workers, and recommend state responses to the General Assembly.
HB1398: HB1398 Georgia Child Care Alternatives, Resources, and Education Act; Trixtian's Law; enact
A House substitute bill, known as Trixtian's Law, would require pregnancy testing for women held more than 72 hours after arrest, cap bail in certain cases, and expand protections for pregnant and postpartum women in Georgia jails and prisons.
HB1346: HB1346 Georgia Maternal Mental Health Improvement Act; enact
A House committee substitute for HB 1346 would require Georgia health insurance plans to cover maternal mental health screenings and set up a Medicaid screening and pilot program for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, contingent on state funding.
HB1336: HB1336 Ad valorem tax; levy and collection of tax upon apportioned valuation of aircraft by local tax jurisdictions; provisions
A Georgia House bill would require local tax jurisdictions to spend at least half of the property tax money they collect on apportioned aircraft valuations on maintaining and operating airports within that jurisdiction.
HB1314: HB1314 Banking and finance; require licensees to disclose whether a transaction is reportable to a credit reporting agency
A Georgia House bill would require installment loan lenders to tell borrowers whether their loan payments are reported to credit reporting agencies, starting July 1, 2026.
HB1282: HB1282 Criminal procedure; offenses involving a victim under 16 years of age; include offense of aggravated sexual battery
A Georgia House bill would add aggravated sexual battery to the list of crimes against children under 16 for which the statute of limitations is paused or removed, letting prosecutions start later.
SB492: SB492 State Court of Cobb County; additional assistant solicitor positions; provide
A Senate bill would let the solicitor-general of the State Court of Cobb County hire more assistant solicitors and would raise their minimum pay to $83,400 a year starting in 2027.
SB491: SB491 Cobb Judicial Circuit; assistant district attorneys; change the salaries
A Senate bill would raise the minimum annual salary for assistant district attorneys in Cobb County's judicial circuit to at least $83,400, starting January 1, 2027.
HB1240: HB1240 Local government; total ad valorem tax digest limitation upon creating new tax allocation districts shall also apply to the renewal of existing tax allocation districts; provide
A Georgia House bill would apply the existing 10 percent property tax digest cap on new tax allocation districts to the renewal of existing ones as well, affecting cities and counties that use tax increment financing.
HB1226: HB1226 Crimes; justification for use of force in defense of self or others; revise standards
A House Judiciary substitute for HB 1226 would rewrite Georgia's self-defense law by adding a rebuttable presumption that use of force in self-defense is reasonable, tightening when force against police is unjustified, and requiring clear and convincing evidence to defeat an immunity claim.
HB1035: HB1035 Georgia Homeownership Protection Act of 2026; enact
A Georgia House bill would stop counties, cities, utilities, and homeowners' or condo associations from foreclosing on or forcing the sale of someone's primary home over unpaid service fees or association assessments.
SR567: SR567 State Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day; express support for the designation
A Georgia Senate resolution expresses support for designating a Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day at the Capitol to raise awareness of the genetic disorder and encourage research.
SR480: SR480 Georgia Forests; acute and ongoing threat to Georgia's forests posed by the southern pine beetle; recognize
A Georgia Senate resolution recognizes the threat that the southern pine beetle poses to the state's forests, especially in western Georgia, and urges landowners to follow forest management guidance from the Georgia Forestry Commission.
HB863: HB863 Georgia Small Business Set-Aside Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would direct the Department of Administrative Services to set up a small business set-aside program, requiring state agencies to try to steer 20 percent of yearly procurement contracts to certified small businesses.