Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB378
Introduced
4/4/25
Refer
4/4/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to government transparency and campaign finance, so as to prohibit leadership committees; to prohibit lobbying activities by any organization that is the beneficiary of public funds; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB38
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 71 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to development impact fees, so as to provide for development impact fees for education; to provide for definitions; to provide for the manner of calculation, imposition, and collection of such fees; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and for automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB39
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 18 of Title 45, Chapter 4 of Title 49, and Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the employees' insurance and benefits plans, public assistance, and general provisions relative to state government, respectively, so as to prohibit coverage of expenses for gender-affirming care under the state health benefit plan or with any state funds; to provide for definitions; to provide for limited exceptions; to prohibit state healthcare facilities and healthcare providers employed by the state from providing gender-affirming care; to provide for related matters; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB4
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/14/25
Report Pass
2/21/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to revise provisions relating to the fundamental roles of local boards of education and local school superintendents; to provide for requirements for the model code of ethics for local boards of education to be promulgated by the State Board of Education; to provide for public complaints alleging ethics code violations by members of local boards of education; to provide for required and prohibited topics in training programs for local board of education members; to provide for a sanction for noncompliance; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
GA
Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB40
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Enrolled
4/10/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 14 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to secondary metals recyclers, so as to provide for applicability of the definition of the term "used, detached catalytic converters" to said article; to remove the exception for used, detached catalytic converters from the application of said article; to provide for certain registration requirements for secondary metals recyclers; to provide for the use of certain registration fees; to provide for records and reporting; to make conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
GA
Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB41
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for equal athletic opportunities for public school students; to provide for a cause of action; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB42
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-6-13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to penalties for violating Code Sections 16-6-9 through 16-6-12, so as to repeal certain penalty provisions for the offense of prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, pimping, and pandering; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
GA
Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB43
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
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 transitional property, so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-165 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equalization grants, annual calculations, and allocation, so as to revise the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate or effective millage rate from 14 mills to 10 mills; to provide for a 25 percent reduction of equalization grant awards for local school systems whose millage rate or effective millage rate does not meet the minimum requirement; to require annual reporting by the Department of Education; to repeal a definition; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB45
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
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 transitional property, so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB46
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
4/10/25
Vetoed
5/14/25
Vetoed
5/14/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to state government, so as to improve government service delivery in this state; to provide for the appointment of a State of Georgia Government Service Delivery Lead within the Georgia Technology Authority to coordinate such efforts; to establish the powers and duties of such individual; to establish the heads of each state agency as responsible for the government service delivery of their agency and provide for related powers and duties; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB47
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearms, ammunition, gun safes, and related accessories during an 11 day period each year; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB48
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-3-34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disclosure and dissemination of criminal records to private persons and businesses, resulting responsibility and liability of the issuing center, and provision of certain information to the FBI in conjunction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, so as to provide for a judicial procedure for purging a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by the center for the purpose of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System under certain circumstances; to change provisions relating to the retention of a person's involuntary hospitalization information; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
GA
Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/29/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to establish the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions and affirmative defenses; to provide for criminal penalties; to require a notice by certain firearm dealers; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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Georgia 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/14/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/10/25
Chaptered
5/14/25
Passed
5/14/25
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 46 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certification of private review agents, so as to provide for health insurers to implement and maintain a program that allows for the selective application of reductions in prior authorization requirements under certain circumstances; to provide for an annual filing; to provide for the promulgation of rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.