📜 Georgia Legislation

House committee substitute Senate committee substitute Senate committee reassignment Senate committee substitute Senate committee reassignment Senate committee substitute

Author: Mark Newton

Co-sponsors: Sharon Cooper Matt Reeves Scott Hilton Deborah Silcox Sandy Donatucci Jason Anavitarte

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HB80: Law enforcement agencies; option to destroy or sell certain firearms; provide

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Safety and Homeland Security

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 27, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Safety and Homeland Security 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Anne Westbrook

Co-sponsors: Mary Oliver Omari Crawford Miriam Paris Ron Stephens

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HB81: Interstate Compact for School Psychologists; enter into

🗳 2 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
April 28, 2025

Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Bethany Ballard

Co-sponsors: Chris Erwin Rick Townsend Holt Persinger Matt Dubnik Matthew Gambill Larry Walker

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HB82: Georgia Guest Worker Act; enact

Current disposition: Pending: House Industry and Labor

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 27, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Industry and Labor 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Matt Reeves

Co-sponsors: Reynaldo Martinez Mary Oliver Alan Powell William WerkheiserShelly Hutchinson

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HB83: Revenue and taxation; increase tax rate on each pack of cigarettes

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 27, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Michelle Au

Co-sponsors: Ron Stephens Lee Hawkins Gerald Greene Debbie Buckner

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HB84: Revenue and taxation; increase tax rate on consumable vapor products

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 27, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Michelle Au

Co-sponsors: Ron Stephens Lee Hawkins Gerald Greene Debbie Buckner

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HB85: Superior Court Judicial Compensation Reform Act; enact

🗳 3 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
May 12, 2025

House committee substitute Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Rob Leverett

Co-sponsors: Chuck Efstration James Burchett Soo Hong Stan Gunter Matt Reeves Bo Hatchett

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HB86: Public officers and employees; calculating and setting the salaries of certain state officials; revise provisions

🗳 5 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
May 12, 2025

Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Rob Leverett

Co-sponsors: Chuck Efstration James Burchett Soo Hong Stan Gunter Matt Reeves Bo Hatchett

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HB87: Insurance; require health benefit policy coverage for medically necessary orthotic and prosthetic devices and their materials and components

🗳 1 vote · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate

Last status update: Senate Read Second Time
March 23, 2026

House committee substitute Senate committee substitute

Author: David Clark

Co-sponsors: Marcus WiedowerKaren Mathiak Noel Williams Kim Schofield Steven Sainz Marty Harbin

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HB88: State veterinary education; biomedical technicians to be eligible for the state student loan forgiveness program; provide

Current disposition: Introduced in House

Last status update: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
February 26, 2026

House committee substitute House committee reassignment House committee substitute

Author: Imani Barnes

Co-sponsors: Karla Drenner Jasmine Clark Spencer Frye Rhonda Burnough Mekyah McQueen

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HB89: Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records

🗳 2 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
May 1, 2025

House committee substitute House committee reassignment House committee substitute Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Sharon Cooper

Co-sponsors: Will Wade Matthew Gambill Soo Hong Bo Hatchett

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HB90: Revenue and taxation; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property

🗳 3 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
May 9, 2025

Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Chuck Efstration

Co-sponsors: Robert Dickey Leesa Hagan Debbie Buckner Sam Watson

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HB91: Professions and businesses; licensure for graduates of foreign colleges or schools of veterinary medicine who are board certified in a specialty; provide

🗳 1 vote · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities

Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
March 4, 2025

House committee substitute House committee reassignment House committee substitute

Pending: 🏛 Regulated Industries and Utilities 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Sharon Cooper

Co-sponsors: Kasey Carpenter Rick Jasperse Robert Dickey Beth Camp

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HB92: Revenue and taxation; postpone date by which local governing authorities can opt out of base year homestead exemption

🗳 4 votes · 3 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Sent to Governor
April 1, 2025

+3 Senate committee substitute Senate committee reassignment Senate committee substitute Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Shaw Blackmon

Co-sponsors: Trey Kelley Noel Williams Chris Erwin Dale Washburn Clint Crowe Chuck Hufstetler

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HB93: Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit; superior courts; provide additional judge

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 27, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Judiciary 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tyler Smith

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HB94: Insurance; medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medically necessary treatment for cancer, sickle cell disease, or lupus may directly or indirectly cause an impairment of fertility; require coverage

🗳 3 votes · 3 final

Current disposition: Signed by Governor

Last status update: House Date Signed by Governor
May 1, 2025

Senate committee substitute Sent to Governor Governor approved Became law

Author: Eddie Lumsden

Co-sponsors: Darlene Taylor Lee Hawkins Sharon Cooper Deborah Silcox Kim Schofield Chuck Hufstetler

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HB95: Income tax; credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit; provide

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Samuel Park

Co-sponsors: Mack Jackson Floyd Griffin Tangie Herring Jasmine Clark Mary Williams

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HB96: Revenue and taxation; pack of cigarettes; increase rate of tax

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Samuel Park

Co-sponsors: Carolyn Hugley Michelle Au Floyd Griffin Jasmine Clark Long Tran

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HB97: Community Health, Department of; expansion of Medicaid; provide

Current disposition: Pending: House Public and Community Health

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public and Community Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Samuel Park

Co-sponsors: Floyd Griffin Mack Jackson Tangie Herring

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HB98: Income tax; credit equal to 10 percent of the federal child tax credit; provide

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Carolyn Hugley

Co-sponsors: Tangie Herring Jasmine Clark Floyd Griffin Mack Jackson Mary Williams

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HB99: Income tax; credit based upon the federal qualified child and dependent care tax credit; revise

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways and Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Carolyn Hugley

Co-sponsors: Karen BennettDebbie Buckner Tangie Herring Jasmine Clark Mary Williams

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HB100: Prescription Drug Consumer Financial Protection Act; enact

Current disposition: Pending: House Insurance

Last status update: House Second Readers
January 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Insurance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Demetrius Douglas

Co-sponsors: Lee Hawkins Michelle Au Brian PrinceKaren BennettJasmine Clark

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📜 Georgia Legislation

Legislation requiring attention

HB1: Pediatric Health Safe Storage Act; enact

HB2: Safe Storage Tax Credit Act; enact

HB3: Brady Law Regulations; require universal background checks in all manner of firearm transfers

HB4: Brady Law Regulations; three-day waiting period for purchase or transfer of certain firearms; require

HB5: Decatur County; board of commissioners; change district residency requirements for candidates

HB6: Mitchell County; Board of Commissioners; filling vacancies; revise provisions

HB7: Income tax; workforce-ready graduates employed in high-tech full-time jobs in rural counties; provide tax credit

HB8: Income tax credit; certain investments in qualified businesses; renew and revise

HB9: Safer States Act; enact

HB10: Georgia Booking Photo Privacy Protection Act; enact

HB11: Health; sufficient staff for carrying out food and nutrition services at a long-term care facility; provide

HB12: Education; grants; revise definition of qualified local school system

HB13: Echols County; Board of Education; provide for compensation

HB14: State symbols; cornbread as official state bread; designate

HB15: Banking and finance; update terminology; provisions

HB16: Labor and industrial relations; protections for warehouse distribution center workers; provide

HB17: Public Health, Department of; carry out projects to increase education, awareness, or diagnosis of valvular heart disease; authorize

HB18: Dual Enrollment Act; residency requirement for eligible students; provide

HB19: Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Department of; create and maintain electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry; require

HB20: State Board of Education; adopt rules to require all certified public school personnel to receive annual training in depression and suicide awareness and prevention

HB21: Healthy Food Access Tax Credit Act; enact

HB22: Veterans Day Paid Leave Act; enact

HB23: Student Success and Progress Act; enact

HB24: School Behavioral Health Support Act; enact

HB25: Dignity is Essential Act; enact

HB26: School Behavioral Mental Health Support Act; enact

HB27: Investing in Every Student Act; enact

HB28: Colquitt County; ad valorem tax for county purposes; provide homestead exemption

HB29: Colquitt County; school district ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption

HB30: Catoosa County; school district ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption

HB31: Catoosa County; Board of Education adopt a balanced budget; require

HB32: Cook County; Probate Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee

HB33: Cook County; Magistrate Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee

HB34: Professional licensing boards; continuing education tracking solution to monitor compliance of licenses with applicable continuing education requirements; establish

HB35: Courts; private attorney appointed to act as district attorney pro tempore; revise compensation

HB36: Guardian and ward; revise list of providers who are authorized to participate in the processes for appointment of a guardian for an adult

HB37: Education; require local school systems to notify employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for certain benefits

HB38: Education; needs based financial aid program; revise definition of eligible student

HB39: Habersham County; Magistrate Court; authorize assessment and collection of technology fee

HB40: Elections; Secretary of State shall serve as chairperson of the State Election Board; provide

HB41: Georgia Local Governance and Fair Enforcement Act; enact

HB42: Quality Basic Education; calculation and distribution of funds to local units of administration for student transportation programs; revise provisions

HB43: Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Program; establish

HB44: Protections for Consumers Using Self-service Storage Facilities Act; enact

HB45: Courts; special grand jury impaneling procedures; revise provisions

HB46: Public Health, Department of; Maternal Mortality Review Committee; provide composition

HB47: School Security Protection and Safety Infrastructure Act; enact

HB48: Quality Basic Education Act; Refugee and International Students Equalization (RISE) program; establish

HB49: Georgia Anti-Corruption Act; enact

HB50: Special license plates; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; establish

HB51: Georgia Environmental Finance Authority; finance and perform certain duties for projects relating to natural gas facilities; authorize

HB52: Ad valorem tax; qualified disabled veterans; extend homestead exemption to unremarried surviving spouses or minor children

HB53: Georgia veterans; allow certain persons to be buried in Georgia veterans cemeteries

HB54: Health; advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to order home healthcare services; authorize

HB55: Alapaha Judicial Circuit; superior courts; provide for an additional judge

HB56: Education; grants to spouses of law enforcement officers, firefighters, and prison guards who are killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty; provide

HB57: Crimes and offenses; incest; include step-grandparent and step-grandchild relationship

HB58: Aviation; adoption of local ordinances, resolution, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; authorize

HB59: Education; state funding for one school counselor for every 250 full-time equivalent students; provide

HB60: Healthy Start Act; enact

HB61: Motor vehicles; issuance of separate license plates for hearses and ambulances; provide

HB62: Georgia HOA Accountability and Community Empowerment Act (HACEA); enact

HB63: Crimes and offenses; establish offense of failure to adequately secure a loaded or unloaded firearm

HB64: Crimes and offenses; require an owner of an assault weapon to procure and maintain sufficient liability insurance

HB65: State symbols; designate collard greens as official state greens; potlikka as official state dipping sauce of the official state bread

HB66: Ad valorem tax; expand definition of rental motor vehicle

HB67: Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025

HB68: General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

HB69: Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025

HB70: Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025

HB71: General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

HB72: General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

HB73: Seminole County; Board of Education; provide nonpartisan elections

HB74: Georgia Lottery for Education Act; correct a reference; provisions

HB75: Justice for Peanut and Fred Act; enact

HB76: Transportation, Department of; require public hearings for local transportation projects of significant impact

HB77: Motor vehicles; encountering funeral procession on two-lane highway; revise responsibilities

HB78: Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; total percentage of funds invested in alternative investments; raise limit