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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.
Moved. Second.
Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1365.
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.
It's on. House Bill 1396.
Moved. Second. Moved and second. Any opposition? It's on. Thank you very much.
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.
Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Chairman. Um, on your yellow sheets, um, on page eight, sixth from the bottom is House Bill 1393. This would allow our, our rural hospitals to collaborate on contracts and- Is a priority from Hometown Health, the Hospital Association, and the 61 hos- rural hospitals that we have. Okay, don't see any questions. Thank you....
Bottom of page 11 is House Bill 376. This is coming back. Uh, we made a minor change in ways and means. This is a historic tech- historic rehabilitation tax credit. We, uh, changed the per project from 10 to 15 to account for the impact of inflation over the last few years.
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 move and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1345.
Moved.
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.
House Bill 1276 substitute. Move. Second.
Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1394. Move.
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. Second.
Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1391.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 6, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 6, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee placed seven bills on a supplemental calendar for the day. Six were added without objection. A committee member objected to adding HB 1265, prompting a voice vote. The chair declared that the ayes carried, and that bill was also added. No bill presentations or debate on the bills’ contents occurred.
Moved and second. Any objection? It's on. House Bill 1354.
Moved. Second. Moved and second. Any objection? It's on. Thank you.
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. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I appreciate this opportunity to bring you House Bill 1096. This is a result of our, uh, study committee that was evaluating funding for public health. It is a department bill. It seeks to assist in creating a sustainable career ladder that will help in improving employee retention at the department. Uh,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · March 3, 2026
House Rules Committee, March 3, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee approved revised versions of HR 1114 and HB 1116, a paired property-tax relief proposal. The sponsor described a 10-year reduction in the taxable share of home values, sales-tax options to replace property-tax revenue, and state grants to help local governments and schools. Members questioned school funding, financial analysis and whether the proposal would increase sales taxes. The committee approved both substitutes without stated opposition, then placed both measures on the day's supplemental floor calendar under a structured rule. Members voiced objections to each calendar placement, but the chair declared both approved after voice votes. No vote counts were given.
Is there any opposition? It's approved. Okay. Now we're gonna call on Chairman Blackmon to present, uh, House Bill 1116, the rule substitute. That's LC33-9896S. Right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Um, similarly, without getting into, uh, too much more, I would just mention that, that this, uh, bill once again provides, helps provide...
Aye. All those opposed, no. No. It's on. House Bill 1116, LC3398 96S. Is there a motion? So moved.
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.
Moved and second. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1196.
Moved. 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.
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.
Okay, it's on. House Bill 1076. 1076.
Move. Second. Move and second. Any opposition? It's on. Under structured,
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 · 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.
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...
Uh, Mr. Chairman, I know, uh, I'm happy to have a direct conversation offline. I don't think that that's actually the, the determination. It would be in a situation where if that superintendent was derelict in their duty, that then they would be remanded to have a minimum one year to create a sense of urgency to get back to doing the job. Most of the time,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 19, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 19, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard bill presentations and set House floor calendars for Thursday and Friday. Members questioned a proposal to create state terrorism-related offenses, including its need, speech protections and investigative resources. Other presentations addressed professional training, property association fees, mental health facility background checks, utility disconnections and criminal penalties. The committee approved a technical correction to HB 1199, returned HB 1042 and HB 1226 to their subject committees, and placed five bills on Thursday’s calendar and five measures on Friday’s calendar. No opposition was voiced to those actions. The chair announced there would be no Friday Rules meeting and that the next meeting would be Monday at 11 a.m.
House Bill 1086. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. Now, under structured,
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 10, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 10, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard presentations on pedestrian visibility, library access to harmful materials, and protections against passing data center electricity costs to other customers. Members questioned whether removing librarians' exemption from obscenity laws would expose them to criminal prosecution. No calendar action was shown for those three measures. The committee adopted a substitute for HB 907 to let an existing completion school expand services into another region and returned HB 1066 to the Governmental Affairs Committee. The committee also placed six measures on the next day's calendar: HB 57, HB 383, HB 903, HB 907, HB 986, and HR 251.
House Bill 986. Move. Have a move and a second. Any opposition? It's on. Now, House Resolution, House Resolution 251. Move. Have a move and a second. Is there any opposition? It's on.
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.
Okay. Is there any objection? Okay, it's on. House Bill 1097.
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...
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.
That bill number is HB 467. 467, okay. Thank you. Chairman Gunter.
Meeting transcript · Georgia House Rules Committee · February 23, 2026
House Rules Committee, February 23, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee heard requests to advance bills on education, insurance, courts, public safety, taxes and other subjects. Members questioned proposed SNAP eligibility checks, mandatory jail time for fleeing state officers, environmental review thresholds and scholarship rules for students with disabilities. The committee placed eight bills on the next day's House calendar: HB 310, HB 372, HB 385, HB 971, HB 1009, HB 1023, HB 1123 and HB 1193. No opposition was heard to those calendar decisions. The committee also sent HB 376 back to Ways and Means and HB 1112 back to Banks and Banking without opposition. The other requests did not receive calendar votes in this meeting. The chair announced another Rules meeting for the following morning at 9:00.
House Bill 372. Moved. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 385. Moved. Moved. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 971. Moved. Second.
Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1009. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1023. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1123. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on. House Bill 1193. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any opposition? It's on.
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