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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.
That's pretty good. Thank you, Madam Chair, for, for letting me address yet another bill. We've had a lot of good bills in here today, so we appreciate it. Um, I wanna just share a little bit more about the survey that Representative Hilton mentioned from Georgia Southern. We worked with Georgia Southern on that survey. Um, they, they were, they surveyed...
So again, thank you all for considering this bill. Thank you to Representative Hilton for carrying both Hou- House Bill 340 and House Bill 1099, and PAGE is in strong support of this legislation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Tripp Richardson. Good afternoon, Madam Chair, members of the committee. My name is Tripp Richardson with the Frontline Policy...
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.
against minors. And I say against minors because right now with adults, you know, if you look at all of our laws, you know, we have age restrictions for tobacco, and age restrictions for alcohol and, you know, you have to be a certain age to drive a car. Um, there are a lot of vices out there. And as an adult, I think, I won't speak for all adults, but most...
If it makes you happy, you know, if you like seeing puppies, you'll see puppies. If you, you know, disagree with someone and you engage 'cause it makes you so mad, you're gonna see that. And as I was saying earlier, this may be a business decision for adults, but it's a serious problem when the user is a child. So there's a pretty popular book called The...
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, Chair Lady and members of the committee. My name is Sarah Hunt Blackwell. I'm senior policy counsel at the ACLU of Georgia. First, I'd like to thank Senator Harrell for this bill. Um, we were, um, attending the study committee over the summer, and we've seen the progress and all of the research, time and effort that has gone into this...
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...
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 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.
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,...
Well, is there anything that the foster care system can do to make sure that the schools know- You know, the situation the, the child is in, knows something about the child they're receiving, so that if precaution needs to be taken for behavioral issues, they can be taken- There might be- ... even without the records ... there might be, except that, again,...
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 · 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.
So, um, stay tuned. We'll be rolling out some exciting information that should help our kids in the foster care system. One of the first things that we're gonna do is, uh, we're gonna start with Senate Bill 402 today, and that is because one of our people who's testifying is a physician who's seeing patients, and she's making a window in her schedule. So...
As appropriations allows, it costs about $451,000 per district to run this pilot in that area. And then, uh, with the goal of going to all 14 regions o- over a series of years. That's all Senate Bill 402 does, helps us to see if we can see that this correlation is more than just in one region, and then begin addressing it, uh, with services that we hope...
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.
Thank you. Okay. Um, this is very likely our last meeting for this session. And, um, we have three bills today. And we're gonna start with House Bill 943. Representative Silcox, you wanna have a seat up at the table? Thank you, Madam Chair. I bring to y'all this afternoon, um, House Bill 943. And House Bill 943 is identical to, um, Chairman Tillery's bill...
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