House Technology and Infrastructure Innovation Committee, February 23, 2026 Video: https://vimeo.com/1166096956 (a timestamp t plays at https://vimeo.com/1166096956#t=s) Page: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-23/house-technology-and-infrastructure-innovation This is a machine transcript of the General Assembly's video, made by a speech-recognition model. It is not an official record and can mishear words, names, and numbers. Speakers are not identified. The video is the record: every timestamp links to the moment it plays. [0:20:32] Hey guys, good afternoon. I have it on good authority that we'll be getting a few more members here in the not too distant future. So what I'd like to do is give you guys the run in terms of what we're gonna do. Um, the first thing that we're going to hear, uh, is the substitute to Senate Bill 177, LC474065S, and then after that we're going to hear the substitute to 1230, and that is LC640073S. What I'd like to do, if it's possible, I'd ask the, the leader, uh, to come up and provide the changes to the committee, and we sure'd appreciate to, uh, appreciate that Mr. [0:21:09] Leader. [0:21:22] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I didn't know if I'd actually get to present a bill this session. Um, so real quick, uh, SB 177, the, the substitute the chairman referenced, I'm just gonna go through three or four of the changes we made to the bill since y'all have seen this, uh, last session. Starting on line 43, um, in addition to the definition of what control is and how that would capture other forms of share, stocks, equity, that would provide the holder authority to the direct, uh, to direct a company's affairs. [0:21:55] Um, the second change starting on line 47 changes to the definition of foreign supported political organization to help clarify those potential bad actors that we intend to capture in this legislation. Lines 152, 158, and 190, uh, the changes to the reporting requirements to fall in line with quarterly campaign reports. Uh, in the previous version it was a little wonky in terms of there wasn't c- consistency in when those reports would be due. Um, so these changes now makes it consistent with the other reporting of the State Ethics Commission. [0:22:26] And then finally, uh, line 207, um, we added a, a s- a, some language there to carve out requirements for organizations that are subject of, covered by, or qualify a divestiture, um, under the federal qu- federal Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary, um, Act and a recent executive order. That's all I got, Mr. Chairman. [0:22:50] Mr. Leader thank you very much for that pithy explanation of your substitute. Um, I do not see any questions at this time. What's the will of the committee? [0:23:00] Motion to pass. [0:23:01] I got a motion to pass. Do I have a second? [0:23:04] Second. [0:23:05] I have a second. Any discussion? All right, all in favor say aye. [0:23:10] Aye. [0:23:10] All opposed? [0:23:11] No. [0:23:15] No. [0:23:15] Let's- [0:23:15] Thank you Mr. Chairman. [0:23:16] Let's go to vision. All in favor raise your right hand please. Patrick, can you help? [0:23:24] Okay, all opposed? [0:23:29] We got four to four. I'm the chair, the tie breaker goes to the yay. Mr. Leader, you move on to rules. [0:23:35] Thank you Mr. Chairman for passing this great piece of legislation. God bless y'all. [0:23:43] Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, we're gonna move on to House Bill 1230. Um, what I can assure you of 100%, and I want to point out, Whip Park, the last time we met we spoke to the separation of Title VI and Title 42. What we did was we took all of the recommendations of PAC for section one, which is section 42. We then took Title VI and moved that to section two, and that is there. [0:24:15] So we were able to put both into one bill. That is the substitute. I'm more than happy to take questions, but I want to assure the committee that this is exactly what we saw from PAC last week on section one, and section two did not change. It stayed consistent. Uh, are there any questions on the substitute to House Bill t- 1230? [0:24:39] Seeing no questions, what's the will of the committee? [0:24:44] Motion. [0:24:44] I got a motion do pass. [0:24:45] Second. [0:24:45] I got a second. Any discussion? [0:24:49] All in favor say aye. [0:24:51] Aye. [0:24:51] All opposed? Thank you very much. I appreciate it. We're adjourned. [0:25:02] Five minutes of your bill.