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Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · April 2, 2026
House floor session, April 2, 2026 (legislative day 40, PM, part 1)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House debated school attendance restrictions, public health changes, tax relief, insurance coverage, school safety, care for children stranded in hospitals, and regulatory changes. Members initially rejected SB 513, then voted to reconsider it and returned it to the Rules Committee. The House passed SB 440 after debate focused on access to ivermectin without a prescription. Members approved amended Senate versions of property and income tax measures, prosthetic coverage legislation, an education package, a Medicaid and child placement measure, and regulatory legislation that also addressed disclosure of harassment settlements. Six local measures passed together, while HB 1534 returned to committee. The House recessed until 7:30.
This bill creates a new administrative system, a new data-sharing pipeline, a new category of student ineligibility, and a new compliance burden without demonstrated evidentiary basis that the intervention it's built around actually changes student behavior. Uh, there's a further problem of fit. Um, we have urban and rural districts all represented here,...
Um, I also wanna say that in committee when there was testimony to this bill, two things came up that I thought were interesting. One is that several years ago and a whole bunch of you were here when this happened, we, this House took up, uh, justice, criminal justice reform. And you worked to uncouple license, uh, license restriction from other crimes. You...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · March 6, 2026
House floor session, March 6, 2026 (legislative day 28, PM, part 2)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House passed 18 bills covering property taxes, housing, health coverage, utility disconnections, service dogs, criminal law, education aid and court procedures. Extended debate focused on HB 1116, a property-tax and local sales-tax package that passed 98-68, and HB 947, changes to SNAP administration that passed 95-66. Members also approved HB 1413, establishing need-based college scholarships, 165-2. A proposed constitutional amendment to allow voters to decide on sports betting, HR 450, failed 63-98 after debate over addiction, regulation and the use of revenue. The House adopted a group of recognition and memorial resolutions, then adjourned until March 9 at 1 p.m.
I can't go back and tell you we got nothing out of this. But we can clean this up and make it happen. Won't happen this year. I don't believe. It won't happen. And the world is not gonna end. The sun's gonna come up in the morning or the day after when we get home, but it's coming up. Don't give away that that's yours. You've got a responsibility to not...
How you gonna threaten me? I've been there and done that. Don't worry about tonight. It ain't the end of the world. It's going to happen, but it needs to happen in a concerted effort. We need to look at the pros and the cons and see what we can do. We need to look at the worst that's happened in this country and make sure we don't make the same mistake. I...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · March 3, 2026
House floor session, March 3, 2026 (legislative day 26, AM)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House passed HB 158, creating a central database for business trade names, HB 1191, expanding eligibility for military specialty license plates, HB 1192, requiring public-assistance accounting reports, and HB 1195, changing veterinary teletriage rules. The House rejected HB 717, which proposed licensing and safety rules for ketamine clinics, after debate focused on patient safety and physician ownership requirements. The majority leader gave notice of reconsideration, and the chair said the matter would return the next legislative day. The House also heard first and second readings and committee reports on numerous measures, recognized the retiring executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission under HR 1196, and welcomed community groups. The session recessed until 2 p.m.
They have just seen clinics across our country become a $3.6 billion business, not a medical practice, not making sure these patients are okay and don't have other comorbidities that would put them at risk, but are just regular businesses. Sort of like the businesses are not now buying up houses and we have a problem with a housing shortage, and they're run...
Thank you very much. Oh, yes. Um, and Mr. Speaker, I will yield my time to our doctor in the house. The gentlelady does have some additional time. Um, Chairman Newton, gonna yield you have up to 16 minutes. Hope you don't take that long. But the gentleman does have that long, but it's up to the gentleman. The gentleman's recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · March 6, 2026
House floor session, March 6, 2026 (legislative day 28, AM)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House passed HB 717, regulating ketamine clinics, and four education and workforce measures: HB 1293, HB 1114, HB 1328 and HB 1345. Members debated HB 1446, which would move emergency medical services oversight to a new council. It failed 52 to 114, but the House then voted 107 to 62 to reconsider it. No second passage vote appears before the lunch recess. The House also returned HB 812 and HB 1116 to the Rules Committee, heard first and second readings and committee reports, and recognized visitors and public service. The session recessed until 2:15 p.m.
Um, and then the state office would be moved under that council, and other associated tasks that the state EMS office does would also be moved to the council. And then we make just a number of other conforming changes to the code. So the intention is we're not really ... O- other than that structural change, we're not making any substantive policy changes...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Do you yield? Yes, ma'am. I wanted to ask about particularly the requirements around infant CPR requirements that currently exist. Not to belabor the point, but I've had a constituent who reached out to EMS. They arrived, they did not know how to do the infant CPR and now they have a nonprofit for that lost child. And I've been...
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