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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.
SB605: SB605 Prosecuting Attorneys; additional grounds for discipline of a district attorney or solicitor-general or for his or her removal or involuntary retirement from office; provide
A Georgia Senate bill would add new reasons a district attorney or solicitor-general could be disciplined, removed, or forced into retirement, including failing to follow open records and criminal discovery laws.
SB587: SB587 Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide
Senate Bill 587 lets courts order searches for missing children or elder abuse victims during open investigations, and requires Georgia to build a public online database of people convicted of animal cruelty crimes.
HB1440: HB1440 Petrea-Stephens-Franklin-Watson Tax Relief Act; enact
House Bill 1440 would give Bryan County school district homeowners a property tax break that caps how much their school taxes can rise as their home's assessed value grows, pending voter approval in November 2026.
HB1434: HB1434 Aviation; air facilities; identification of airport affected areas; provide
House Bill 1434 would require airport owners and nearby local governments across Georgia to map areas under airport flight paths and adopt height limits on buildings and trees to keep those areas clear.
HB1424: HB1424 Sumter County; board of education; revise compensation
House Bill 1424 would set the pay for Sumter County Board of Education members at $500 per month, plus up to $3,000 a year in travel reimbursement for official business.
SB553: SB553 Professions and Businesses; repeal Chapter 14, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low voltage contractors, and utility contractors and enact a new Chapter 14
Senate Bill 553 would rewrite Georgia's licensing rules for electrical, plumbing, HVAC, low voltage, and utility contractors, restructuring the state board that oversees them and setting new education, exam, and experience requirements for each trade.
SB552: SB552 "True Patriotism and Universal Student Access (TPUSA) Act"; enact
A Georgia Senate bill would guarantee public school students the right to organize and take part in political clubs and activities, giving partisan and nonpartisan student political groups the same access to school facilities as other student clubs.
HB1435: HB1435 Mount Airy, Town of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee
A Georgia House bill would let the Municipal Court of the Town of Mount Airy charge a technology fee, up to $10, on criminal and quasi-criminal fines to pay for court computer and communications equipment.
SB575: SB575 City of Metter; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide a homestead exemption
A Georgia Senate bill would give low-income senior residents of the City of Metter a $4,000 break on their homestead's assessed value for city property taxes, pending voter approval in a November 2027 referendum.
SB570: SB570 "Georgia Human Trafficking Prevention Training Act"; enact
Georgia Senate Bill 570 would require hotel staff and short-term rental managers to complete annual human trafficking awareness training, with fines for owners who ignore the rule.
SB556: SB556 HOPE Scholarship; the inclusion of advanced placement and international baccalaureate fine arts courses in the calculation of grade point averages; provide
Senate Bill 556 creates a new DREAMS scholarship for Georgia college students with unmet financial need, counts advanced fine arts courses toward HOPE scholarship grade calculations, and requires University System and Technical College campuses to stock opioid overdose reversal medication.
SB574: SB574 City of Metter; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide a homestead exemption
A Senate bill would give homeowners in the City of Metter a $2,000 property tax break on their home's assessed value for city taxes, pending voter approval in a November 2026 referendum.
SB543: SB543 Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Butts County; required to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter before the board at one meeting prior to the adoption; provide
A Senate bill would let the Butts County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues adopt an ordinance, resolution, or other matter after reading it at just one meeting instead of multiple meetings.
HB1408: HB1408 Veterinarians; authorize licensed veterinary technicians to administer antirabies vaccinations to animals
A Georgia bill would let licensed veterinary technicians give rabies vaccinations to animals, as long as a licensed veterinarian is directly supervising them.
HB1415: HB1415 Stone Mountain Memorial Association; hold all real property obtained before January 1, 1971, in trust; require
House Bill 1415 changes how the Stone Mountain Memorial Association can sell land, requiring it to hold in trust any real property it acquired before January 1, 1971, and generally barring sales of that property except for public road right of way.
SB542: SB542 Sexual Offenses; clergy members to be charged with certain improper sexual contact offenses; permit
Senate Bill 542 creates new Georgia crimes for clergy members who use their spiritual authority to pressure someone into sexual contact, with penalties ranging from a high and aggravated misdemeanor to life imprisonment for repeat offenders.
SB544: SB544 Butts County; a homestead exemption from Butts County ad valorem taxes for county purposes; provide
Senate Bill 544 would create a new $70,000 homestead tax exemption from Butts County property taxes for county residents age 62 and older, pending voter approval in a November 2026 referendum.
SB545: SB545 Butts County; a homestead exemption from Butts County ad valorem taxes for county purposes; provide
A Senate bill would let Butts County voters decide whether to create a $50,000 homestead exemption from county property taxes, with a referendum set for November 2026.
SB540: SB540 Online Internet Safety; certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; require
A Georgia Senate bill would require companies that operate AI companion chatbots to disclose that users are talking to a bot, verify ages in certain situations, and build in protections against sexual content and self-harm encouragement for minors, taking effect July 1, 2027.
HB1356: HB1356 Macon County; board of commissioners; revise compensation of chairperson and members
House Bill 1356 sets new monthly pay for the chairperson and members of the Macon County board of commissioners, replacing whatever compensation applied under the county's earlier local laws.