2025-2026 Regular Session

HB1597

Georgia Dream Expansion and Housing Affordability Act of 2026; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Community Affairs, so as to provide for maximum loan amounts for certain home buying assistance programs; to provide for loan structure and forgiveness; to provide for certain qualifications for eligibility; to provide for certain minimum fund allocation; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Planning and Community Affairs
Last status date: March 27, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: State Planning and Community Affairs
Author: Derrick Jackson
Co-sponsors: Billy Mitchell Teddy Reese Jasmine Clark Debra Bazemore

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Committee referrals

March 25, 2026 · House

State Planning and Community Affairs

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.

March 27, 2026
House House Second Readers
March 25, 2026
House House First Readers
March 23, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2137403
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB1597.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00