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.
HB1400: HB1400 Georgia Artist-Promoter Fair Practices Act; enact
A Georgia House bill would require concert promoters and venues to give artists written disclosures about performance fees and booking terms, and would let artists cancel certain advance fees within 48 hours.
HR1419: HR1419 Turner Syndrome Awareness Month; February 2026; recognize
A Georgia House resolution would recognize February 2026 as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month, aiming to raise public awareness about the chromosomal disorder that affects women and girls.
HB1392: HB1392 Funeral establishments; maintain at least eight caskets at each of its locations; revise requirement
A Georgia House bill would lower the minimum number of caskets a funeral establishment must keep in stock at each location from eight to one, changing a state licensing rule for funeral homes.
HR1418: HR1418 State-wide sales and use tax; property tax relief in counties or consolidated governments; provide - CA
A Georgia House resolution would ask voters to approve a new 1 percent state-wide sales tax, with the money sent to counties and consolidated governments to cut property taxes based on population.
HB1387: HB1387 Ad valorem tax; state-wide homestead exemption in an amount as determined from proceeds generated from collection of certain ad valorem property taxes on data centers
A Georgia House bill would create a state-wide homestead exemption from property taxes funded by the extra property taxes collected from data centers each year, subject to voter approval in November 2026.
HR1417: HR1417 Dale Murphy Day; February 26, 2026; recognize; urge the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Committee to induct Dale Murphy into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
A Georgia House resolution recognizes February 26, 2026, as Dale Murphy Day and urges the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Committee to induct former Atlanta Braves player Dale Murphy into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
HB1362: HB1362 Public officers; persons having certain financial interest shall be ineligible to hold certain public offices; provide
HB1362 would let the state remove Georgia's top elected officials, including the Governor and Attorney General, from office if they or a family member hold a financial interest in a state or federal contract, while also tightening conflict-of-interest rules for other state officials.
HB1364: HB1364 Property; nonjudicial foreclosures on time-share estates; provisions
A Georgia House bill would end the current nonjudicial (out-of-court) foreclosure process for most time-share estates, except for time-shares created between July 2023 and June 2026, which would keep limited foreclosure options.
HB1348: HB1348 Civil practice; compensation for receivers; provide
A Georgia House bill would cap how much court-appointed receivers can be paid for handling money or property in civil cases, limiting total compensation to 5 percent of the funds they handle unless a judge orders otherwise.
HR1348: HR1348 School superintendent; qualifications, duties, and salary shall be established by the board of education and elected by voters; provide - CA
A proposed Georgia constitutional amendment would let the General Assembly authorize local school systems to elect their school superintendent by popular vote instead of having the local board of education appoint one, if local voters approve in a referendum.
HB1301: HB1301 Commerce and trade; clarify requirements for certain data reported by consumer reporting agencies
HB 1301 would rewrite part of Georgia's consumer reporting law (O.C.G.A. § 10-1-393.14) to require that employment background checks reflect a person's current legal status, including sealed or restricted criminal records, rather than outdated public record entries.
HB1305: HB1305 Home Inspector Licensing Act of Georgia; enact
A Georgia House bill would create a state licensing system for home inspectors and home inspection companies, requiring background checks, exams, insurance, and adherence to state-set standards starting January 1, 2028.
HB1292: HB1292 Health; exempt from certificate of need requirements certain nursing homes for war veterans
A Georgia House bill would exempt nursing homes for war veterans run by or on behalf of the state Department of Veterans Service from having to get a certificate of need before opening or expanding.
SR744: SR744 Stilettos on Steel Day; recognize May 2, 2026
A Georgia Senate resolution recognizes May 2, 2026, as Stilettos on Steel Day and International Female Ride Day at the state Capitol, honoring a female motorcyclist organization's Newnan chapter.
HB1236: HB1236 Insurance; medical necessity of a healthcare service; provisions
A Georgia House bill would require that any decision denying a healthcare service as not medically necessary be agreed to by a state-licensed clinical peer before insurers or utilization review companies can finalize that denial.
HB1198: HB1198 Insurance; limited license to offer or sell portable electronics and consumer goods insurance; provide
A Georgia House bill would expand the state's existing limited insurance license for portable electronics sellers to also cover general consumer goods, updating definitions and licensing rules for retailers who sell this coverage.
HB1221: HB1221 Property owners' associations; written notice of certain sums; provide
A Georgia House bill would require homeowners' and property owners' associations to send written notice and give lot owners 30 days to pay before charging attorney's fees, and would require judges to review those fees for reasonableness.
HB1197: HB1197 Georgia Lottery for Education Act; authorize certain billiards and darts tournaments and prizes
House Bill 1197 would let bars and other locations with coin operated amusement machines run billiards and darts tournaments for noncash prizes, and would rewrite how the Georgia Lottery Corporation disciplines and appeals violations under the state's coin machine and gift card rules.
SR684: SR684 American Heart Month; recognize February 2026
A Georgia Senate resolution recognizes February 2026 as American Heart Month, highlighting cardiac arrest survival statistics and encouraging Georgians to learn CPR and support community defibrillator access.
HB1058: HB1058 Insurance; authorize tax-exempt organizations to be beneficiaries of employee group life insurance policies
A House bill would let tax-exempt nonprofits be named beneficiaries of employee group life insurance policies in Georgia, if the insured employee designates them in writing.