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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.
HB1422: HB1422 State employees; add stillbirth as a qualifying event for parental leave
A Georgia House bill would let eligible state and local school employees take parental leave after a stillbirth, adding it to the list of qualifying life events under state personnel law.
HB1411: HB1411 Quality Basic Education Act; include domestic violence prevention in the existing program for teen dating violence prevention for students
A Georgia House bill would expand an existing teen dating violence prevention program in public schools to also cover domestic violence prevention for students in grades eight through 12.
HB1412: HB1412 Courts; payment of certain money arising from traffic fines generated by members of the Uniform Division of the Department of Public Safety; provide
A Georgia House bill would send 70 percent of traffic fine revenue from Uniform Division state trooper citations to the state's general fund instead of local county or city treasuries, with an exception for motorcycle enforcement unit tickets on urban interstates.
HB1405: HB1405 Courts; cognitive behavioral therapy for certain children in restrictive custody with the Department of Juvenile Justice; provide
A Georgia House bill would require the Department of Juvenile Justice to evaluate and provide cognitive behavioral therapy to certain youths held in restrictive custody for serious felony offenses.
HB1421: HB1421 Insurance; prohibit improper steering to repair facilities under motor vehicle liability insurance policies
A Georgia House bill would bar auto insurers from steering drivers to specific repair shops, including shops the insurer has a financial stake in, when settling motor vehicle claims.
HB1410: HB1410 Georgia Student Vision and Literacy Readiness Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would require every public school student to get regular vision screenings from kindergarten through grade 10, using modern digital screening devices, and would create a new state fund to help pay for follow-up eye care.
HB1420: HB1420 Insurance; original equipment manufacturer repair procedures for repairs under motor vehicle liability insurance policies; provide
A Georgia House bill would require motor vehicle insurance companies to cover repairs done according to the manufacturer's official repair standards, and would limit when insurers can deny paying for those repairs.
HR1427: HR1427 Congress; pass Thiokol Memorial Gold Medical Act; urge
A Georgia House resolution urges the U.S. Congress to pass the Thiokol Memorial Gold Medal Act, which would award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 30 workers killed in the 1971 and 1973 Thiokol plant explosions in Woodbine, Georgia.
HB1407: HB1407 Civil Practice Act; scheduling of civil trials; provide
A Georgia House bill would rewrite how civil trials are scheduled in state courts, adding detailed rules for trial calendars, pretrial deadlines, and the order in which cases are called for trial.
HB1416: HB1416 Income tax; exclude tips from taxation
House Bill 1416 would exempt tips from Georgia's state income tax starting with the 2026 tax year and require employers to report the total tips workers receive.
HB1406: HB1406 Elections; publication of calls of election on newspaper and government websites; provide
A Georgia House bill would update the legal definition of a special election 'call' to count posting on a government website as valid publication, alongside newspaper notice.
HB1418: HB1418 Georgia Resource Exchange and Sharing for Community Uplift and Emergency Resilience (RESCUER) Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would let counties and cities set up local food-sharing programs, using digital platforms, to cut hunger and food waste while shielding good-faith food donors from lawsuits and criminal charges.
HB1417: HB1417 Education; inclusion of advanced placement, international baccalaureate, and Cambridge fine arts courses in calculation of grade point averages for determining student eligibility for HOPE scholarships and other scholarships; provide
A Georgia House bill would let advanced placement, international baccalaureate, and Cambridge fine arts courses count toward the grade point average used to decide eligibility for the HOPE scholarship and other state scholarships.
HB1354: HB1354 Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; require certain health insurers providing a network plan to approve credentialing applications within a certain time frame
A Georgia House bill would require health insurers to approve complete provider credentialing applications within 45 days and move toward a single standardized application form by mid-2027.
HB1320: HB1320 Public utilities; nuclear energy generation facilities in the integrated resource plan; provide
A Georgia House bill would add nuclear power plants to the list of energy sources utilities must specifically address when filing their long-term resource plans with state regulators.
SB486: SB486 Laws and Statutes; provisions relating to the effect and enforcement of foreign laws; revise
A Georgia Senate bill would bar courts, arbitrators, and other tribunals from enforcing foreign laws when doing so would violate rights guaranteed by the U.S. or Georgia Constitution, and would tighten the state's rules for sending lawsuits to foreign courts.
HB1250: HB1250 Daniel Waters Act; enact
House Bill 1250, the Daniel Waters Act, would require certain Georgia hospitals to offer bereavement counseling and cooling devices to families after a stillbirth, neonatal death, or fetal death, but only if the legislature funds it.
HR1106: HR1106 Audiology Practice Modernization Act; urge state-wide support for passage
A Georgia House resolution urges state-wide support for a proposed "Audiology Practice Modernization Act" that would update the legal scope of audiology practice, without itself changing any law.
HR1111: HR1111 Georgia public high schools; promotion of critical media consumption and literacy education; encourage bipartisan support
A House resolution urges Georgia lawmakers to back a future critical media literacy law and asks local school systems to promote such curriculum in public high schools to reduce political polarization.
HB1040: HB1040 Health; prohibit smoking within a 25 foot radius of any state and local government buildings or enclosed public places
A House committee substitute for HB 1040 would expand Georgia's smoke-free air law to ban smoking within 25 feet of government buildings and enclosed public places, and would end several existing workplace smoking exemptions.