2025-2026 Regular Session

HB1007

Essential Services for Renters Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to landlord and tenant, so as to provide residential tenants with the right to complete repairs required by the landlord and offset rental installments by the reasonable cost of such repairs under certain circumstances; to provide residential tenants with the right to terminate a rental agreement under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; to provide for applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary
Last status date: January 28, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Judiciary
Author: Bryce Berry
Co-sponsors: Spencer Frye Jordan Ridley Gabriel Sanchez Eric Bell Shea Roberts

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Committee referrals

January 27, 2026 · House

Judiciary

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

January 28, 2026
House House Second Readers
January 27, 2026
House House First Readers
January 16, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2085251
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB1007.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00