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Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 20, 2026
Senate floor session, March 20, 2026 (legislative day 35)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed measures on extended-stay hotel removals, nursing grants, high school completion programs, portable benefits for independent contractors, firefighter safety, mental health facility background checks, utility inventory tax exemptions and other topics. The longest debate concerned HB 61, which passed 32-18 after senators adopted a compromise on notice before removal and eviction records, but rejected proposals to give long-term hotel residents tenant rights. The Senate also adopted two state-property resolutions, approved reconsideration of two previously rejected constitutional amendments, and received committee reports and bill readings. A proposed amendment protecting patients from midyear insurance network changes was ruled unrelated to the bill under consideration. Senators honored a retiring committee chair and heard remarks from the U.S. Treasurer. The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. Monday, March 23.
Families, single moms perhaps who can't afford the high security deposit. Maybe they don't have the, the money to put down two months or three months rent in a place. Um, extended stay is an option for them as a bridge to get them from point A to point B. Uh, in many cases, people need temporary lodging. They might have a lease that's ending on a certain...
As I alluded to earlier in my questioning with the senator from the 14th, the landlord-tenant relationship is a covenant. Um, tenants put down a security deposit, one month, two months, in some cases, three months, uh, and they, they sign agreements, uh, that they're gonna be there typically for a longer period of time. Typically, although there are...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 4, 2026
Senate floor session, March 4, 2026 (legislative day 27)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed measures on outdoor conservation funding, retirement benefits, rental-home guarantees, condominium insurance, student political expression, school discrimination complaints, campus police protections, specialty license plates and cursive instruction. It also passed SB 406, establishing oversight of property owners associations, after adopting two amendments. Senators rejected amendments addressing broader religious-discrimination language, excused absences for civic events and local rent regulation. A road-naming resolution was adopted, while SR 668, concerning property taxation of data-center equipment, was set aside. The Senate confirmed a group of governor’s appointments 44-7 and tabled one nomination. Numerous bills received first or second readings. The chamber adjourned until 9 a.m. Friday, March 6.
Secretary will read SB 503. Senate Bill 503 by Senators Harbison of the 16th and others, a bill to be entitled an act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to kinds of insurance, limits of risk, and reinsurance so as to exempt rental home marketplace guarantees from the definition of property insurance, to require...
You do have one question, Senator. I'm sorry. Recognize the senator from the 41st. Thank you, Mr. President. B- Back here, Senator, do you yield? Yes. Thank you. Was trying to figure out where you were. Yes. Um, thank you, sir. I just wanna make sure, is it true that this is requiring the homeowner to have an additional insurance, um, product to protect...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 10, 2026
Senate floor session, March 10, 2026 (legislative day 30)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed HB 945 unchanged, 50-0, after rejecting an amendment concerning denial of banking and other essential services based on constitutionally protected activities. Senators also passed HB 244 by substitute, 48-2, and HB 115, 51-0. The Senate adopted HR 1008 to change regional water council membership and SR 771 to study adoption affordability. It received HB 974 and assigned it to Appropriations, adopted a memorial resolution and a consent calendar of resolutions, and heard committee reports. Visiting federal officials discussed small businesses, agriculture and hurricane assistance. A senator gave notice of plans to consider House action on SB 59 on the next legislative day. The Senate adjourned until March 12 at 10 a.m.
We can work through debanking bills and we'll know what truly is a debanking bill. So I'm asking you all to vote the amendment down. I actually love the fort- uh, senator from the 14th's amendment of the trillion dollars. I mean, that's pretty good. That might protect everybody. That pretty much come close, protecting everybody in the trillion area. I mean,...
We should be incredibly thankful that we have the Department of Banking that we have. We have a robust, healthy, a s- number, set of banks in, uh, Georgia. It's one of the reasons we're the number one business, uh, number one state in which to do business, because we have a very healthy banking climate and we have good bankers and, uh, and we have excellent...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · April 2, 2026
House floor session, April 2, 2026 (legislative day 40, PM, part 2)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House adopted the fiscal year 2027 budget agreement in HB 974, passed voting-system changes in SB 214, and approved numerous agreements on Senate changes to House legislation. Topics included insurance claims, property transfers after death, traffic stops and school-zone cameras, contraception access, repeat misdemeanor offenses, newborn surrender, and child-abuse reporting. The House also passed local legislation and road-naming resolutions. Two local homestead-exemption bills did not receive enough votes to pass, but the House voted to reconsider them, with no later passage shown. Members honored the first lady, heard remarks from the governor, and thanked legislative staff. The chair announced that study-committee requests would be considered for panels to be appointed later. The House then adjourned for the session.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move that we agree to Senate substitute to House Bill 1131. Mr. Clerk will read the caption. House Bill 1131, to be entitled An Act to Amend Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to warrants for arrest, so as to provide for personal service of process for notice of a warrant application...
Uh, filing fi- the PT-61, that caused a lot of problems. This was clarified. Uh, the improper filing of this form was causing people to lose their homestead exemptions and their, uh, first time home buyers status and, uh, so that's been clarified in this. Uh, automatic revocation's been clarified. That it's automatically revoked if the owner sells the...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 27, 2026
Senate floor session, March 27, 2026 (legislative day 38)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed a revised election bill, HB 960, after extended debate, and approved the fiscal year 2027 budget, HB 974, 52-0. After the House rejected the budget changes, the Senate insisted on its version, leaving the chambers in disagreement. Senators also passed measures on income taxes, maternal leave for state employees, religious instruction during school hours, homelessness-service reporting, transit taxes, railroad maintenance, service dogs, teacher preparation and business court cases. Several bills were substantially rewritten from their original subjects. The Senate agreed to House changes on measures covering medical cannabis reporting, emergency services, securities fraud, school finances, clergy misconduct, AI chatbots and other subjects. It tabled SB 346, read numerous bills and committee reports, and adjourned until March 31.
Pre- Mr. President, I move the Senate agree to the House substitute to Senate Bill 284. Secretary, read the caption. Senate Bill 284 by Senators Walker III of the 20th and others, a bill to be entitled an act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008, so as to authorize the issuance...
This bill would allow them to require the perpetrator of the fraud to return invested or stolen funds essentially or invested funds to the defrauded investors. Um, again, we passed this in March of 2025, and I believe it was July of 2025 the First Liberty, uh, scheme came to light and, uh, that has been investigated and is now in, uh, federal receivership....
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · April 2, 2026
Senate floor session, April 2, 2026 (legislative day 40, part 2)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate heard the governor’s closing address and farewell remarks from departing members, then acted on bills and House changes. Senators unanimously adopted the fiscal year 2027 budget agreement and approved an income-tax package after debate. A property-tax proposal failed, but senators later approved a revised version placed in another bill, without the proposed limits on local tax-revenue growth. A combined education, scholarship and transit measure passed after debate about a virtual-school program and whether the provisions belonged together. Senators also approved measures involving transit agencies, newborn surrender options, website-access lawsuits, school speed cameras and local governments. A proposal allowing remote online notarization failed on a tie vote. The Senate adjourned for the session.
Senator, I'm gonna let him present the bill, and then we will answer the question before we make any actions on it. All right? Senator from the 48th. Thank you, Mr. President. House Bill 328 is a blend of a few different things. As the senator from the 41st asked the question about germaneness, that is for others to decide. What I am gonna do is walk you...
Mr. President, I move the Senate agree to the House Substitute of SB 306. Secretary, read the caption. Senate Bill 306 by Senator Robertson of the 29th, a bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · February 26, 2026
Senate floor session, February 26, 2026 (legislative day 25)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed seven measures addressing emergency defibrillator locations, local government investments, signal jammers, school financial oversight, healthcare workforce data, student attendance and community mental health services. Debate focused on state authority over elected school boards and whether new attendance requirements would burden schools without funding. Senators also heard bill readings and committee reports, adopted recognition resolutions, and approved unnamed local bills and resolutions on consent calendars. The transcript does not identify the measures on those calendars. The Senate voted 26 to 20 to adjourn until March 3 at 1 p.m., over an objection that legislation addressing energy affordability remained on the day's calendar.
Without objection, the senator from the 1st and the 42nd are excused. Secretary, read the caption of Senate Bill 441. Senate Bill 441 by Senator Harbin of the 16th and others. A bill to be entitled an act to amend Chapter 83 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to local government investment pools so as to require certain pooled...
The finances of our state and local communities are interconnected in many ways. In 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commissions seized control of the State of Florida's finances because of a false rumor that had occurred with a G- a LGIP that contained subprime bonds. This legislation would help prevent that by giving the state oversight in the crea-...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · February 11, 2026
Senate floor session, February 11, 2026 (legislative day 17)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed SB 400, concerning oversight of private postsecondary schools, by a 48-1 vote, and SB 444, requiring human clinical review before certain insurance coverage denials, by a 49-0 vote. The chamber moved SB 398 to the bottom of the calendar after the chair said its sponsor had left for an emergency. Senators also received bill readings and committee reports, adopted recognition resolutions concerning congenital heart defects, family and consumer sciences, and the Georgia National Guard, and approved an unnamed consent calendar of resolutions. The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. on February 12.
You have these schools in your districts and in your hometowns. I checked my, uh, my Augusta area today and there are 26 schools that cover, that are covered by the Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission. This is a bill that, uh, provides several key features for GNPEC. It allows the commission... It g- it strengthens the commission and allows the...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 31, 2026
Senate floor session, March 31, 2026 (legislative day 39, part 2)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed bills on transportation agencies, repeat misdemeanor offenses, traffic stops, cancer treatment facilities, estate transfers and other topics. It passed HB 297, which would combine two transportation authorities, 30 to 19 after debate over state and local control. Senators also agreed to House changes on teacher retirement, homeowners associations, unclaimed property and other legislation. They replaced SB 17 with a process for intervening in financially distressed cities, approving the amended version 32 to 17 after substantial debate. The Senate rejected House changes to SB 398 because the sponsor said protections for children had been removed. Several bills were tabled, and nine were briefly removed from the table and tabled again to preserve their availability for Thursday. The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. on April 2.
Then from the magistrate court, your next appeal would be the superior court. As you know right now, and we discussed when this bill left here, your only avenue, a, a, an owner, an owner's only avenue for recourse is to go straight to superior court, and you cannot find a lawyer that will take these cases. That's if you can afford one. So we've given, we...
I don't know. What do you think? Senator from the 6th. Recognize the senator from the 6th. Mr. President, I move that the Senate agree to the House substitute to Senate Bill 406. Secretary, read the caption. Senate Bill 406 by Senators Brass of the 6th and others. A bill to be entitled an act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 23, 2026
Senate floor session, March 23, 2026 (legislative day 36)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed HB 1009, extending school-day phone restrictions to high school students, after rejecting an amendment allowing access between classes. Senators also passed measures on advanced math, forestry tax credits, local property-tax relief, bankruptcy protections, school financial oversight, public health employees and medical treatment rules. A substitute to HB 154 replaced its ambulance provisions with a proposal to seek year-round Atlantic Standard Time. A lengthy debate over district attorney pay ended with passage of HB 1020, followed by notice of a request to reconsider it. Senators left SB 350, concerning DeKalb County officials’ pay, available for later action after questions about conflicting pay provisions. They returned HB 79 to the Rules Committee, adopted a family-farm study resolution and agreed to the House changes to SB 427. The Senate adjourned until March 25.
Secretary read House Bill 1024. House Bill 1024 by Representative Hong of the 103rd and others. A bill to be entitled an act to amend Code Section 44-13-100 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to exemptions for purposes of bankruptcy and in- interstate insolvent estates so as to revise the exemption for a debtor's aggregate interest in real...
Recognize senator from the 16th. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, HB 1024, this bill increases the homestead exemption in a bankruptcy case. Bankruptcy law is governed by federal law, but some states, including Georgia, have exemptions governed by state law. Exemptions are amounts of assets that you keep after filing bankruptcy in Georgia. The current...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 19, 2026
Senate floor session, March 19, 2026 (legislative day 34)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed measures on education, public safety license plates, manufactured-home taxes, delivery robots, veterinary care and funeral insurance payments. Senators also agreed 51-0 to changes to HB 1199, including a 60-day motor-fuel tax suspension, and ordered immediate transmission to the House. Two proposed constitutional amendments, HR 251 on nonpartisan probate judge elections and HR 1243 on a dedicated 911 fund, failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. Supporters gave notice they would seek reconsideration. Debate on both centered partly on minority-party requests for negotiation and compromise. The Senate moved HB 960 to Ethics and HB 1193 to Appropriations, heard bill readings and committee reports, and approved an unnamed local consent calendar 49-0. The session also included community recognitions before adjournment until the next morning.
Senators, we're gonna keep working. There are lunches available in the anteroom. Secretary, read the caption to HR 1243. House Resolution 1243 by Representative Martin of the 49th and others. A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize creation of the Georgia Next Generation 911 Fund to provide for submission of this amendment...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 31, 2026
Senate floor session, March 31, 2026 (legislative day 39, part 1)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed measures on early reading instruction, property tax limits, additional judgeships, healthcare, foster care and local government. Senators approved HB 1193 unanimously after revising its literacy coaching and oversight provisions. Debate on HB 1116 centered on homeowner tax relief, sales taxes and limits on local revenue, and the bill passed 31-19. The Senate also approved constitutional proposals for nonpartisan probate judge elections and a Next Generation 911 fund. Senators appointed budget negotiators for HB 974, tabled several measures and voted to prevent floor amendments to a group of tax and campaign finance bills. The transcript ends with HB 297 pending as the Senate paused for dinner.
Secretary read House Bill 1523. House Bill 1523 by Representative Ciokas of the 151st and others. A bill to be entitled an act to act to create the Sumter County Public Facilities Authority and to provide for the appointment of members of the authority to confer powers upon the authority to authorize and provide for the issuance of revenue bonds, to provide...
Secretary, House Bill 1415 House Bill 1415 by Representative Seabolt of the 34th and others, a bill to be entitled an act to amend Part IV of Article VI of Chapter 3 of Title 12 and Article I of Chapter 16 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association and public property of state generally,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · February 20, 2026
Senate floor session, February 20, 2026 (legislative day 22)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed six bills, including HB 973, its revised state budget proposal, which the Appropriations chair said included $409 million for a new mental health hospital and about $1.9 billion in tax relief. The House rejected the Senate’s budget changes, and the Senate appointed a conference committee to negotiate differences. Senators also passed bills addressing bingo, Department of Public Health laws, licensing internationally trained physicians, insurers’ use of aerial images, and AI-generated explicit images. During debate on SB 440, senators proposed Medicaid expansion, but an amendment replaced that proposal with an effective date. The chamber also heard first and second readings and committee reports, adopted an unspecified group of consent-calendar resolutions, and adjourned until February 24.
We also passed, uh, a s- what I call the storm chaser model, uh, bill to protect consumers after a natural disaster from unscrupulous contractors taking advantage of their insurance benefits and assigning those benefits to a contractor, and then the contractor basically leaving town and not ever doing the work and just getting the check. Uh, this is, was...
I, I do not. That would be more. The 1A, uh, if I remember correctly, was the, that was the Medicaid, uh, expansion. I think one did not, uh, didn't affect us relating to PeachCare, and 1A was the Medicaid, uh, expansion explosion. Um, and that's, uh, that, that's, who knows how much that would be. It, we don't really know. And going back to the underlying...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 3, 2026
Senate floor session, March 3, 2026 (legislative day 26)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate approved a joint study of family-farm sustainability and passed measures addressing public contracting, native plants, homebuilding permits and inspections, road obstruction, institutional purchases of homes, sexual-offender monitoring, sheriff qualifications, school mask rules, and parent notification of student services. Members amended the road-obstruction measure to retain the existing offense for blocking sidewalks while increasing penalties for blocking roads. The Senate also adopted a Blue and White Day recognition, passed an unidentified local-consent bill 45-0, and read numerous bills and committee reports. The transcript does not identify the measures adopted on the privileged-resolution consent calendar. The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. March 4.
And in most cases, those are not existing rental inventory, but those investors turn it into rental inventory. And the concern here, Mr. President, is for the last hundred years or so in America, the primary wealth creation tool for the middle class has been the purchase of a single-family home, locking yourself into a thirty-year mortgage, getting up in...
This does not count against apartments. This does not count against anything other than single-family residences. We do not require divestment in this bill. So if an entity today, and there are some of them today that own more than ten thousand units, we just do not allow them to, to acquire any additional units until they would get under the five hundred...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · June 23, 2026
Senate floor session, June 23, 2026 (legislative day 5)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate adopted HR 3, ratifying the governor’s suspension of motor fuel and diesel fuel taxes, by 50 to 1. Two proposals to let Toccoa and Stephens County voters consider sales-tax-funded homestead exemptions, SB 5 and SB 6, failed to receive the required two-thirds support. After extensive debate over hand recounts, election deadlines and minority-party representation, the Senate agreed to the House version of SB 3 by 36 to 16. The Senate also gave SB 10 a first reading, heard a memorial presentation on SR 12, adopted a consent calendar of resolutions and confirmed the governor’s appointments by 45 to 6. The session ended with adjournment without a scheduled return date.
Recognize the minority leader. Be brief. Mm. I'll be brief, Mr. President. I stand in support in this amendment because of the fact of the matter is that we have persons on both sides of this issue that, to some extent, do not trust the process. I believe everyone actually should trust the process, as it makes no sense when we start talking about, uh,...
And so what this amendment does is go back to where we were but also make sure that the minority party gets representation because that's the only way to actually continue or even establish the trust that we're trying to build today, is to give us at least some representation on this particular commission. That's it. Very simple ask, and it's one that all...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · February 24, 2026
Senate floor session, February 24, 2026 (legislative day 23)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed SB 171 on advanced math instruction, SB 395 on medical cannabis registry information, SB 428 on community-based Medicaid services, and SB 430 on military museums and hotel-motel tax funding. It also passed SB 392 on reviewing agency budgets, but a senator gave notice of reconsideration for the next legislative day. Senators approved moving SB 510 to a different committee and rejected moving SB 541. The chamber also heard bill readings and committee reports, adopted recognition resolutions, and passed an unnamed local consent calendar, 53-0. The transcript does not identify the measures on that calendar. Senators gave notice of plans to consider House changes to two bills the following day. A newly elected senator was seated, and the Senate adjourned until February 25.
And that when there is a new addition to the budget, we all vote on it, usually, pages, in a bipartisan manner. Those things are then added the next year to the base budget. But we don't look at that base budget. We then just look at the new things that we wanna buy, and we vote on those things, and we put those things in, and we pass them through, and then...
Effectively, guys, what we did was we took money out of your parents' checking accounts and out of their savings accounts, and we put them into the state's savings account. We over-taxed them. And so not only have we grown government, we have taken more money than we need to run government. And so what this bill does, guys, is it just requires us once every...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · February 12, 2026
Senate floor session, February 12, 2026 (legislative day 18)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed two income-tax proposals and matching versions placed into House bills. SB 476 passed 32 to 18 after extended debate over tax deductions, business incentives, state revenue and the absence of a written fiscal analysis. SB 477, an alternative based on gradual rate reductions, passed 31 to 14. The Senate also passed HB 134 and HB 463 after replacing their original provisions with the respective income-tax proposals. Supporters said the plans would help families meet rising costs. Opponents warned of budget shortfalls, reduced services and future tax increases. The Senate approved committee reassignment of SB 282, read and referred other legislation, and adopted recognitions for the Georgia Aquarium and a retiring Feeding Georgia executive director. The chamber adjourned until February 17 at 10 a.m.
becomes equity, right? That everybody's got equity in each other's homes. And so it's a pro-social community way to build the opportunity for affordable home ownership in Bedford Falls, which is the name of the fictitious town where It's a Wonderful Life takes place. And I won't, you know, comprehensively recite the plot of It's a Wonderful Life, but...
They're the people who own big businesses throughout the state who are expecting Republican government to persist in 2027 and are making sure to fund that outcome and make sure that that happens. And I wanna talk about a scene from It's a Wonderful Life that reminds me a lot, this debate reminds me a lot of. There's an economic crisis in the town of Bedford...
Meeting transcript · Georgia House of Representatives · February 25, 2026
House floor session, February 25, 2026 (legislative day 24)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The House approved an amended state budget, adopted the House-Senate agreement on HB 973 by 169 to 2, and voted to send it immediately to the governor. Members also passed HB 1001, lowering the income tax rate to 4.99%, after debate over who would benefit and whether the state could afford the revenue loss. Other approved measures addressed homelessness prevention, special-needs scholarships, math instruction, bankruptcy protections for homeowners, solar-panel recycling, transportation project reviews, railroad and forestry tax credits, and business-court cases. The House heard first and second readings and committee reports on numerous other measures, adopted recognition resolutions, and postponed six measures until the next legislative day. The House adjourned until February 26 at 9 a.m.
Allow me to offer just a few of the major highlights. The amended fiscal year '26 budget, as presented by the Governor back in January, was built on a revised revenue estimate of $42.3 billion, which included $3.3 billion in undesignated surplus funds. As part of our conference committee discussions, the Governor has agreed to revise the revenue estimate to...
People in jail with serious mental illness should not need to wait months or longer to start receiving the care they need. Speaking of jails, we've already discussed the fact that Georgia's running out of space in our prisons. The original House version of the budget included $220 million for a private prison expansion. The Senate had different ideas on how...
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.
And I'm not gonna start off by talking about the fact that the benefit restrictions are paternalistic like so much of the legislation and action in this chamber. I'm gonna start off by talking about something else that runs through every section of this legislation. And this is the idea that adding administrative complexity is somehow going to produce...
Meeting transcript · Georgia State Senate · March 25, 2026
Senate floor session, March 25, 2026 (legislative day 37)
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The Senate passed bills on education scholarships, elections, retirement benefits, tax credits, courts, boating and military scholarships. After debate, it passed HB 328, expanding education tax credits, 30 to 20, and HB 369, changing certain county elections to nonpartisan elections, 32 to 21. It tabled HB 1185 after discussion of business court rules and several amendments. Senators approved revised school-zone camera rules in HB 651 and agreed to House changes on reckless stunt driving, pharmacist access to HIV prevention medicine, school discrimination complaints, insurance decisions involving artificial intelligence and DeKalb County compensation. The session also included bill readings, committee referrals and ceremonial recognitions. The Senate adjourned until March 27 at 10 a.m.
So just briefly on the sections, section one is the definitions. Section two outlines the option of a limited driving permit, and, uh, that's for someone whose license has been su-suspended for reckless stunt driving. Section three addresses who's eligible for an ISA, the fees, and the conditions for revocation. Section four adds ISAs to the definition of...
Can come in and strip the permit away from any municipality that are misusing these. I have a city in my jurisdiction that were running radar outside of their city limits by one mile. A complaint was made, I followed through with the Department of Public Safety, and that city lost the ability to run radar for one year. So we have that authority here too, or...
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