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Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 5, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 5, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee approved five substitutes and placed 15 bills on the next legislative day's floor calendar. Members objected to placing HB 1324, HB 1377, HB 880 and HB 1261 on the calendar, but each motion carried by voice vote. Presentations covered vehicle-tag fraud, postproduction tax credits, youth GPS monitoring, ketamine clinics, Medicaid appeals, permitting, taxpayer privacy, cash-payment rounding and firearm suppressors. Members also requested consideration of a road-naming resolution. The chair deferred action on bills not yet available in members' packets and announced another Rules meeting for the following morning.
Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the substitute to House Bill 1112 LC 62-0462-S. Any opposition? It's approved. Okay. All right, and lastly, House Bill, Substitute House Bill 1324 LC 39-5038S. Uh, Secretary Kelley. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, this was the legislation that talks about the suppressors. Uh, there were some concerns in Section 5...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 11, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 11, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on vehicle titles, bankruptcy exemptions, foster caregivers, firefighter safety, judicial privacy, student sports physicals, pharmacy payments and insurance coverage. It returned HB 211 and HB 1024 to the Judiciary Committee. It approved a substitute for HB 998 and placed it on Thursday’s House calendar along with HR 999, HB 948, HB 983 and SB 195. The committee held off on scheduling HB 810 after a request to consider it Tuesday instead. No further action was recorded on the other bills presented. The chair announced that the committee would not meet Thursday morning and would next meet Tuesday.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I have a rule substitute I would like to propose for the committee's consideration today. It's a substitute to House Bill 998. That was the, uh, Universal Access Fund bill that I presented last week. Um, I believe the substitute is in your books. It's LC56-0570S. 56-0570S. So just very briefly, you'll recall this, uh, bill...
We're also apo- imposing a $50 million annual cap on the disbursements. We're requiring that audits be submitted. The PSC already requires it, but we're making it part of the statute. And we're requiring PSC to submit a biannual report on the fund because there have been a number of questions about how much money is in the fund, how many people pay in, how...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 20, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 20, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on bills and resolutions covering public safety, health care, education, development, transportation and other topics. Members questioned proposals on road obstruction penalties, firearm suppressors, interference with first responders, permitting deadlines and development impact fees. The committee approved a substitute for SB 384 that added removal of vehicle registration decals to the optional five-year registration proposal. It then placed SB 23, SB 284, SB 384 and SB 395 on a supplemental calendar for that day, with no opposition voiced. No calendar decisions were recorded for the other proposals presented.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Rules Committee, uh, Senate Bill 443. Senate Bill 443. A very common sense bill. Simply states that, uh, it's changing if you're blocking roads, streets, bridges, airports, et cetera, et cetera, uh, for blockage of someone passing, like cars, ambulance, mothers taking the kids to school, et cetera, et cetera. It just moves it to a...
Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. Senate Bill 395. Moved. Moved and second. Any opposition? It's on. Okay, that will be our supplemental calendar for today. Uh, we'll have a rules meeting scheduled for 9:00 AM on Monday, and if you have not been by the office and talked to Miss Pam, please, uh, stop by at your convenience. Thank you. We adjourn.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 4, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 4, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard requests to bring bills to the House floor on education, healthcare, taxes, public safety, local government and other subjects. Members questioned proposals on firearm rules, access to death recordings, district attorney pay, foreign funding disclosures and transit tax votes. The committee approved a substitute for HB 1138 restoring earlier language. It sent HB 947 back to Agriculture and Consumer Affairs and HB 490 back to Economic Development and Tourism. A motion to send HB 1386 back to committee failed. The committee then placed 14 bills on the day's floor calendar, including HB 1138 with the approved substitute. Members also questioned differences in how requests for changes were handled. The chair said the approaching legislative deadline limited time to return every proposed change to committee.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I got three bills. Um, the first bill is, uh, House Bill 1266. Uh, this is actually a Sub 474108S, and this is about the boating down on the Ogeechee in that one little section where we changed the horsepower. We did go back and we added one part there that just still bans any personal watercraft, jet skis, uh, from that area. So...
I was gonna see if you'd allow me to share. Probably, I think it'd be on the yellow sheet. It's on the yellow. House Bill 1261. Uh, House Bill 1261 proposes an amendment to Georgia Tax Code to create a level one free port exemption for certain goods held in inventory by electric utilities. This bill is designed to offer targeted tax relief on qualifying...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 6, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 6, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): After a printing delay, the committee set a supplemental House floor calendar. Members approved revised versions of HB 1276 on Medicaid eligibility checks, HB 1413 on scholarships, HB 1116 on local taxes and property-tax limits, and HB 1390 on forfeiture of vehicles used in reckless stunt driving. Questions focused on federal Medicaid requirements, scholarship work requirements, and whether vehicle forfeiture changes could affect existing enforcement tools. The committee then placed these and other measures on the calendar. Several calendar motions passed by voice vote after objections, with no vote counts stated. The committee later moved HB 1116 to the structured portion of the calendar.
And what we will do to start with, we've got a couple of substitutes. I'll call on, uh, Chairman Newton to, to, uh, explain, uh, House Bill 1276. Substitute, give them the LC number and your explanation, please. All right, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Rules Committee members. Um, House Bill 1276, working off of LC521072S, this is a bill that,...
House Bill 1276 substitute. Move. Second.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 4, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 4, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee returned HB 1224 to Agriculture, HB 1254 to Regulated Industries and HB 1232 to Education without objection. It then added 17 bills to a supplemental calendar for the day. Members voiced opposition to adding HB 963, but the chair declared that motion carried after a voice vote. The other calendar additions drew no stated opposition. No bill provisions were presented or debated before the committee adjourned.
Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1272.
Move. Second.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 6, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 6, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on a domestic violence registry, charter school changes, automatic contract renewals and temporary fireworks stands. It also discussed and approved a substitute for HB 812, concerning housing, permits and zoning, after questions about exceptions for certain local governments. The committee then placed 11 measures on a supplemental floor calendar for that day, including HB 812. That bill drew objections during both substitute approval and calendar placement, but both motions passed. The other calendar placements passed without stated opposition. No further action was recorded on the four bills presented earlier.
There's three moves right over here. And we've got a second. Is there any objection? It's on. House Bill 1267. Move. Second. Have a move and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1434. Move. Second. Move and second. Any objection? It's on. House Resolution, House Resolution 1300.
Three moves.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 25, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 25, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee set a supplemental calendar for that afternoon, placing HB 421, HB 1164, HB 1185, HB 1259, HB 1277, HB 942 and HB 1076 under modified structure, and HB 1070 under structured rules. Members objected to adding HB 1164, HB 1185 and HB 942, but the chair declared each approved after voice votes. The other listed bills were added without stated opposition. No bill provisions were presented or debated. The committee then adjourned.
Move. Second. Move and second. Any opposition? It's on.
Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. I like it when we're working together. House Bill 1277.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 16, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 16, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard bill presentations and set a six-bill floor calendar: SB 160, SB 177, SB 432, SB 435, SB 524 and SB 535. Members approved a substitute for SB 177 and placed it on the calendar by voice vote over opposition. The other calendar additions drew no stated opposition. Questions about SB 116 focused on constitutional protections, citizenship determinations, local costs and indefinite DNA retention. The committee also returned SB 411 to the Health Committee without objection. No calendar action was shown for the other bills presented.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of committee. Uh, second page, very top of the page, SB293. And you, everybody will probably recognize 293 as the bill. We had a House bill, HB1267. Didn't, did not make it to the floor on crossover. Uh, SB293, the language from it last year got passed on a another bill when it combined some tag bills. Uh, so I was using...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, members of the committee, I bring to you Senate Bill 551. It's on your back page, uh, third from the bottom. Uh, this is, uh, repealing our state's egg handling law. It's a age-old art, uh, that our Department of Agriculture oversees. Uh, it is not a food safety issue. It's more of a grading thing that, that people do back home,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 6, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 6, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard requests to bring bills before the House on crossover day, covering education, health, taxes, elections, courts, local government and other subjects. Members questioned proposals on development moratoriums, monument removal and lottery reserves for scholarships. Several bills had recently left other committees, and members said copies were missing from their materials. The chair said copies would be provided and that the committee expected to meet again later to set a supplemental calendar. No votes or calendar selections were recorded before adjournment.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the committee, about the middle of, uh, page seven, House Bill 1470 deals with some abusive litigation that's taken place, uh, towards some of our small business owners as it relates to lawsuits being threatened, um, as in violation of our ADA federal statute. The language that sits before you is compromised language from...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, my bill is House Bill 1132. It's not on, uh, the blue sheet, but, um, I'm just kinda hoping to throw a Hail Mary here in the hopes that somebody catches it for the win. Um, I like to call this bill the Affordable Housing Bill. And, um, what it basically does is it allows a tax, uh, ex- um, exemption for, um, the, uh, building...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 17, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 17, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard requests to bring forward bills on taxes, education, health, public safety and other topics. Members questioned the proposed income tax cut, including its effects on different incomes, revenue safeguards and funding for other tax relief. The committee placed eight measures on the day's calendar without stated opposition: HB 256, HB 662, HB 818, HB 956, HB 987, HB 1022, HB 1063 and HB 1121. It also returned HB 880 to the Ways and Means Committee and HB 1266 to the Game, Fish, and Parks Committee without stated opposition. The other presentations did not result in calendar placement or another decision during this meeting.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. Uh, House Bill 1182, page four, seven down. Uh, this bill has to do with our soil amendment program, which is regulated by the Department of Agriculture, and this bill just simply adds a few more rules to that program. Basically for storage, says it must be 100 feet from the property line and trucks cannot...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. House Bill 1202, fourth page, 11th from the top. Basically all we're doing here is just cleaning up a scrivener's error. Uh, it's got listed in the wrong code section where they can, the, uh, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council can provide, uh, grants to differ- uh, the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 26, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 26, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on HB 1178, concerning budget oversight and audits, HB 1415, concerning Stone Mountain Memorial Association property, and HB 664, concerning property owners’ association rules. No further action on those three bills was shown. After a contested voice vote, the committee returned HB 490 to Economic Development and Tourism. The committee also placed HB 1075, HB 1097, HB 1107, HB 1131 and HB 1278 on the day’s supplemental calendar under modified structured rules, and SB 59 under structured rules.
House Bill 1278. Move. Second.
Move and second. Any objection? It's on. Okay, under structured, structured. Senate Bill 59.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 4, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 4, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee sent HB 1095 back to the Regulated Industries Committee without objection. It approved a substitute for HB 1178 adding the House Appropriations Committee chair to the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Oversight Committee, then placed that version on a supplemental calendar. The committee also placed 14 other listed measures on the calendar. Members objected to placing HB 1247, HB 1276 and HB 1379 on the calendar, but each motion carried by voice vote. No vote counts were stated, and the calendar decisions included no discussion of the measures' substance. The chair announced another Rules Committee meeting for 11 a.m. the next day.
Yeah, okay. Thank you. House Bill 1276. Moved. Second. Moved and second. Any opposition? Objection. Have an objection. All those in favor of putting it on, say aye. Aye. All those opposed. No.
Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1247.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 11, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 11, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on SB 428, concerning medical services for people who frequently use jails and emergency departments; SB 399, concerning coordination of automated external defibrillators (AEDs); and SB 427, concerning licensing internationally trained physicians. No votes on those three bills were shown. The committee approved a substitute for HR 1049. It then placed HR 145, HR 1049, SB 177 and SB 220 on the next day's House calendar. A member objected to placing SB 177 on the calendar, but the motion carried by voice vote. The other calendar placements drew no stated opposition.
Okay. Okay. Any other members of the committee have any requests? Don't see any. Okay. Gonna, uh, call on Leader Hugley to speak to the substitute to House Rule, or House Resolution, excuse me, House Resolution 1049. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, members of the committee, House Resolution 1049, the substitute just changes General Assembly to the Georgia...
Move. Have a move and second. Any opposition? It's on. Okay. Senate Bill 177. Move. Have a move and a second. Any opposition?
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 25, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 25, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard requests to advance bills on public safety, healthcare, education, taxes, licensing, property and other topics. It set floor calendars for the current day and Thursday. The current day's calendar included HB 1024, HB 1329, HB 519 and HB 1001, among others. Members objected to adding HB 1001, but the chair declared that the voice vote favored adding it. Thursday's calendar included HB 1262, HB 1263, HB 1274 and HB 1344. The committee returned HB 1275 to the Health Committee after questions about restrictions on stem cell materials. It also returned HB 1073, HB 1028 and HB 1224 to their respective committees. Most other presentations ended without questions or a scheduling decision shown in the transcript.
It's on. House Bill 1344. Moved. Second. Moved and second. Any opposition? It's on. Okay, it's my understanding that we'll probably go in at 9:00 in the morning, so we will not have a rules meeting in the morning. But, uh, we'll be back in, in touch with you as we move along. Thank you for your cooperation and your patience today. We're adjourned.
Tim Wade. Leader Wade. Thank you, Chairman. Uh, we're on page four, c- uh, colleagues, committee members. Uh, fifth from the bottom, House Bill 1164. This is to, uh, do basically two major things. One, to require State Board of Education to appoint an audit committee, uh, that will meet a certain minimum number of times a year, and to enhance and bring into...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 3, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 3, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on HB 1268, an annual code update; HB 1354, concerning medical-provider credentialing; HB 275, concerning uniform assessment language; and HB 963, concerning foreign-national involvement in ballot-measure campaigns. Members questioned whether the credentialing proposal would address Medicaid payment rates and how campaigns would report and verify donations under the election proposal. The committee also heard a presentation on a resolution supporting the arts as a resource for mental health and trauma recovery. No votes or decisions to place measures on a calendar were recorded. Before adjournment, the chair advised members that another meeting might be called later that day.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and committee members. I bring before you House Bill 1268. It's our code revision bill, annual code revision bill, uh, that seeks to, it's a housekeeping bill and updating measures. Um, no substantive changes, just, um, um, uh, modernizing today's code. It's the one we do every year. Okay. I don't see any questions. Thank you....
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · January 28, 2026
House Rules Committee, January 28, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee considered HR 1008, which the sponsor described as changing regional water planning council membership and terms to help councils meet and conduct business. Members asked about longer terms and whether the resolution would change water policy. The committee placed it on the January 29 calendar for legislative day nine, with no opposition voiced. Members also held a moment of silence for a former committee secretary, and the chair announced the next meeting for Monday at 9 a.m.
And so for this to work and the numbers to serve on the committee have to be recommended to our speaker or governor. And what was happening, it was a loop. By the time they got enough names to make the appointments, it, three years were up, and they're having to make new appointments. So the intention in the beginning was good, but the function is not what...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 3, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 3, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee sent HB 1445 back to the Judiciary Juvenile Committee without opposition. It then placed seven bills on a second supplemental calendar for the day under modified structure: HB 664, HB 1230, HB 1268, HB 1290, HB 1310, HB 1324 and HB 1396. A member objected to placing HB 1324 on the calendar. After a voice vote with both support and opposition heard, the chair announced that it was on the calendar. The other calendar motions drew no opposition. No bill presentations or substantive debate occurred.
Moved and a second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1268.
Moved. Second.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 2, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 2, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee returned HB 810 to the Health Committee and set the House calendar for Tuesday, legislative day 26. It placed 16 bills on the calendar under modified rules and HB 1209 under structured rules. A member objected to placing HB 574 on the calendar, but the motion carried by voice vote. No opposition was heard to the other calendar motions. There were no presentations or discussions of the bills’ contents. The chair announced another Rules Committee meeting for 9 a.m. the next morning.
Any objection? It's on. House Bill 892.
Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1167.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 17, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 17, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee approved SR 23, which requests a convention to propose congressional term limits, after debate about whether a convention could be limited and whether term limits would address problems in Congress. The chair said it would be available for Rules consideration Thursday. A member also presented HR 1522, proposing a study of the Department of Community Health, with no decision announced. The committee returned SB 440 and SB 555 to their subject committees and placed six bills on the next day's floor calendar: SB 293, SB 383, SB 399, SB 427, SB 523 and SB 551.
Any opposition? It's on. Senate Bill 551. Moved. Moved and second. Any opposition? It's on. Okay, today's a committee day. I understand there are about 12 committees that will be meeting today, so we should have a good number of bills maybe coming out that would be eligible to be considered after tomorrow morning. So just watch your emails about when we'll...
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