2025-2026 Regular Session

HB1071

Georgia Workplace Safety and Heat Protection Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Labor, so as to provide for protections for employees from occupational heat exposure; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Industry and Labor
Last status date: February 2, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Industry and Labor
Author: Kim Schofield
Co-sponsors: Dewey McClain Viola Davis Sandra Scott El-Mahdi Holly Derrick Jackson

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Committee referrals

January 29, 2026 · House

Industry and Labor

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.

February 2, 2026
House House Second Readers
January 29, 2026
House House First Readers
January 28, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2100460
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB1071.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00