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Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · March 17, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, March 17, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee advanced three bills: HB 181, allowing certain internationally adoptive families to obtain a Georgia Certificate of Foreign Birth without another court process; HB 1118, adding three weeks of maternal birth leave for eligible state employees and teachers; and HB 1009, extending school-day restrictions on personal electronic devices to high school students. The committee unanimously approved a substitute for HB 181 and approved HB 1118 with no opposition heard. After testimony from a student, education groups, a policy organization and the state school superintendent, the committee unanimously approved HB 1009.
For this bill, we start in high school at the beginning of the '27, '28 school year. So again, giving high schools plenty of time to adapt, get the culture used to it. Uh, we do make carve-outs. We do recognize that high school demands and needs are different, so we make a carve-out o- on lines 54 through 56 for dual enrollment, work-based learning...
Thank you. Questions from the committee? Oh, there were five. Senator Setzler. Appreciate the author bringing this. I read, uh, two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, they said the average kid, high school kid, um, who has a s- smartphone device checks their phone 64 times in a school day. Yeah. So we have, we have a problem. Thank you. It's amazing,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · February 17, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, February 17, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee held a hearing on SB 467, which the sponsor described as requiring age checks and parental consent for minors downloading smartphone apps or making in-app purchases. Supporters said it would give parents more control and clearer information. Opponents raised concerns about privacy, access to lawful information, costs for small developers and whether the proposal would address harmful content inside apps. Members questioned how parental consent would affect platform responsibility and why technology companies opposed the requirements. The sponsor invited suggestions for addressing concerns. The committee adjourned without voting.
Welcome to the Children and Families Committee. Sorry we're running a bit late. Our session ran over, and we have a couple of people that are on the way. Uh, but because this bill is a hearing only, we don't need a quorum to get started. So we've got a whole bunch of people that wanna speak to the bill, uh, on Zoom and live. So with that, um, Senator Payne,...
This isn't other types, but it's, uh, it's aimed at those. It requires a few things to protect our children. One is that the app store provider, whoever's selling or, or, or pre-installing, uh, these type of applications require age verification to find out what the age of the user is. We have to have that information in order to protect them. It does not...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · February 10, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, February 10, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee held a hearing on a proposed substitute to SB 343 that would restrict addictive social media design features for minors rather than ban younger children from having accounts. Witnesses discussed privacy protections, age checks, enforcement, mental health and young people’s free-speech rights. The chair said a related age-verification proposal would receive a hearing the following week. The committee took no vote.
And, and, and how would they do that? Br- to bring cases? Bring a- Are you- Bring a lawsuit, yeah. Sue, sue the companies So you're, you're- ... on their platform ... you're advocating for a cause of action? Yes. Mm-hmm. Okay. But I'm not sure- All right ... to be honest, whether that's in Senator Harrell's proposal. I apologize. Uh, uh. I, I believe it is....
And, um, some of them are being, uh, having pornography on them, not that they're even seeking it. It ends up seeking them. So I think when you're talking about dealing with these algorithms, these, these types of things that are targeting children, whether it be for some other reason, but mental health issues you've mentioned as well, we do think this is...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · February 24, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, February 24, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee approved SB 540, which would set safety requirements for conversational AI services used by minors, after removing a $500,000 cap on penalties. Members raised unresolved questions about age verification and privacy. The committee also held a hearing on a substitute for SB 495, which would restrict online design features the sponsor described as addictive and strengthen privacy protections. Witnesses offered support and raised constitutional concerns, but no vote was taken. The committee unanimously approved SR 771 to create a study committee focused on making adoption easier and more affordable.
Thank you very much. Um, Mike Griffin and Polly McKinney, you've already spoken. Uh, did you just wanna- Uh, just- ... state your support? Sure. Say on behalf of Georgia Bats, we do support this bill. Uh, we appreciate Senator Harrell and, uh, 495, this bill. And we thank, uh, Senator Hatchett and Cowsert as well. We support that legislation and really...
And to think that while I was putting so much of my effort into r- raising my kids and wanting them to be, you know, healthy adults, um, that there was a company, there were companies out there making conscious decisions to do something to interfere with that, and, and it did interfere, interfere with that, um, it, it leaves a pit in my stomach. And we...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · February 3, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, February 3, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee unanimously recommended passage of SB 431, which the sponsor said would require schools to enroll foster care students within two school days, and SR 622, which would create a joint House-Senate study committee on rising foster care costs. Discussion of enrollment focused on balancing prompt access to school with concerns about missing student records and safety. Georgia Appleseed supported the enrollment proposal. Two witnesses with Georgia Empowerment supported the study committee and urged meaningful involvement by people with foster care experience. The sponsor agreed to work with the House on including those voices in the process.
Let's do Senate Bill 431- All right ... first. This bill, which, uh, is LC492569, is a result of the study committee that met over the summer, and the information from people who testified that foster kids who change placements and schools are not always being immediately enrolled. In some cases, this has resulted in losing credits that did not transfer,...
Thank you. Um, I didn't follow the work of the study committee, so I ask this question, uh, as a sincere just kind of trying to update myself. Um, the school safety bill, 26- what was it? 26- 268 ... 68. Um, I believe that one of the issues that that bill tried to deal with was, um, the issue that in some of the, um, gun in schools incidents, not just here,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · March 10, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, March 10, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee considered HB 1123, which the sponsor said would require public schools offering pre-K and after-school care for kindergarten through fifth grade to make that care available to pre-K students on the same basis. The discussion focused on helping working families and whether staffing differences explained why some districts excluded pre-K students. The sponsor said the bill would allow annual waivers for extenuating circumstances. The committee voted unanimously to recommend passage and then adjourned.
Thank you. All right, we have one bill on the agenda today, House Bill 1123. Pro Tem Jones. You can sit wherever you want, the chair or the podium. What- whatever makes you more comfortable. Well, thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. Um, House Bill 1123 doesn't do a whole lot of things. It just does one thing. Um- Before you start, let's...
Um, we-- It, it does allow DECAL to offer year-to-year waivers s- uh, to school systems for extenuating circumstances as they implement it. I looked at all the different, um, types of services they offer. S- Most school systems offer it themselves. A few of them do, uh, contract it out. And I looked at the 22 school systems, and of, um, the ones that, uh,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · March 24, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, March 24, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee approved HB 943, a five-year pilot program to screen children in foster care for autism. It also approved an amended substitute for HB 256 that expands foster caregiver protections and incorporates the juvenile court recording provisions of SB 525. Members discussed caregivers’ access to confidential records, the role of volunteer advocates, and who could obtain court recordings. The committee adopted an amendment clarifying that parties, including the state, could obtain those recordings. No vote counts were announced. The committee adjourned after these actions.
Okay. Good luck in rules. Thank you very much. We're adjourned.
Um, and that was... I think I had that, that section here. Um, it was a confidentiality statement, confidentiality statement, which we've now al- added for the, the foster placements, um, and the certified- Where is that? Uh, on the new bill? Good question. Oh. 30, you see 29. Um, I think it's on line 70, uh, 70. No, I'm just kidding. That's that part. Uh,...
Meeting transcript · Georgia Senate Children and Families Committee · January 27, 2026
Senate Children and Families Committee, January 27, 2026
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): The committee considered and approved two bills. SB 402 would expand an autism screening and evaluation pilot for children in foster care. Members amended it to require annual reports beginning July 1, 2027, and to clarify that the law would be repealed after the final report, rather than an earlier annual report. The committee revisited its initial approval to make those changes, then approved the amended bill. SB 383 would update child fatality review procedures, membership recommendations, terminology and reporting deadlines. The committee approved it unanimously.
Dr. Zina, did you have any closing remarks? Um, I'm happy to answer any questions, and, um, we've produced several white papers previously, um, as soon as all of the data was available. Producing, uh, reports, um, is not really a problem. Uh, in the first part of the pilot, we had more than monthly meetings, um, with all concerned parties for updates on...
If you want to change that, I think we're saying the same thing. But if you want to change that year, there's no problem with me. We can say it. So Senator Strickland, did you have a suggestion? Well, I would... And I'm open to, I'm doing this on the fly as we do, so any feedback, but I'm thinking annually we could get some sort of report on the status of...
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