Prohibits the use of state funds or resources for gender transition-related medical treatments for inmates in Georgia correctional facilities. This includes surgeries and hormone replacement therapy.

SB185

Prohibition of Certain Medical Treatments for State Inmates

Establishes a new "America First" specialty license plate. This plate features an American flag and the words "America First," symbolizing national pride and patriotism. Proceeds from the plate sales are directed to Georgia's general fund.

SB291

Establishment of 'America First' Specialty License Plate in Georgia

Protects individuals' religious freedoms by limiting government actions that substantially burden religious practices. The law stipulates that state and local governments cannot impose such burdens unless they can demonstrate a "compelling governmental interest" and that the action is the "least restrictive means" of achieving that interest.

SB36

Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Georgia mandates that school sports teams be designated based on participants' sex assigned at birth, with separate restrooms and changing areas at athletic events. It also establishes a grievance procedure for enforcement.

GA SB1

Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports In Schools

Prohibits public schools from sharing student directory information, such as names and contact details, with political candidates, campaigns, PACs, or political organizations. It amends the Quality Basic Education Act to ensure student data cannot be used for political purposes, protect student privacy and keep schools free from campaign influence.

SB212

Children’s Privacy and Anti‑Political Solicitation Act

A major tort reform law that makes it harder to sue property owners for crimes committed by third parties, lets juries see the actual medical costs paid instead of inflated bills, and allows trials to be split into separate phases for liability and damages. 

GA SB68

Comprehensive Civil Practice and Liability Reform Act

Allows the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) to fund and support natural gas projects. Currently, GEFA mainly finances water systems and renewable energy, but this bill expands its role to help build natural gas infrastructure, like pipelines or storage facilities

SB13

Georgia Environmental Finance Authority Enhancement Act

Accelerates the state's planned income tax reductions. Effective retroactively from January 1, 2025, the state income tax rate decreases from 5.39% to 5.19%. The legislation outlines further annual reductions of 0.10% each year until the rate reaches 4.99%, contingent upon specific economic conditions being met. This measure is projected to save Georgia taxpayers approximately $880 million in the upcoming tax year.

HB111

Georgia Income Tax Rate Reduction Act

Currently, magistrates in Georgia are elected in partisan races (Democrat, Republican, etc.). This bill would make these elections nonpartisan, meaning candidates would not be listed with a party affiliation on the ballot.

HB426

Nonpartisan Election of Magistrates Act

A school safety law passed after a high school shooting. It requires panic buttons for school staff, yearly digital maps of campuses for first responders, and mental health coordinators in every school district. It also creates a statewide tip line and speeds up how schools transfer student records. Initially, the bill included a statewide student tracking database, but that part was removed after privacy concerns. Instead, the final version allows for a limited alert system to flag students who have made verified threats or committed school violence, with due process protections in place.

HB268

Safe Classrooms Act

Foreign entities and individuals can no longer buy or lease agricultural and forestry land in Georgia, but those who already own such land can keep it. The bill makes sure that there is state oversight and enforcement to block future transactions violating these restrictions.

HB358

Regulation of Foreign Acquisition of Military Installation Land

Legalizes home-based cottage food businesses by allowing the sale of low-risk items like baked goods and jams, provided they meet state labeling requirements. It prohibits local governments from imposing stricter rules and creating consistent regulations statewide.

HB398

Support Georgia Bakers Act

"Riley Gaines Act," proposes defining "sex" in state law and mandating that public schools, including colleges, designate restrooms, changing areas, and athletic teams based on biological sex assigned at birth. This would restrict transgender students from using facilities aligning with their gender identity.

HB267

Riley Gaines Act: Gender-Specific Facilities and Athletic Participation

Allows the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) to fund and support natural gas projects. Currently, GEFA mainly finances water systems and renewable energy, but this bill expands its role to help build natural gas infrastructure, like pipelines or storage facilities.

HB51

Georgia Environmental Finance Authority

This bill amends Georgia tax law to increase the maximum acreage for properties qualifying for bona fide conservation use assessment from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres. The bill specifically modifies how conservation use property is defined and assessed, allowing landowners to receive preferential tax treatment on a larger amount of land used for agricultural production, timber harvesting, or environmental conservation. For family-owned farm entities, the bill enables owners to allocate their acreage limitation more flexibly, potentially allowing more total land to receive conservation use assessment. The changes apply to properties used for agricultural production, timber, or environmentally sensitive land that maintains its natural condition or helps control pollution.

HB90

Georgia Conservation Use Property Assessment Act

This Bill promotes safe and responsible social media usage for children. It establishes social media policies in public schools, requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors, and mandates social media platforms to provide certain information to parents upon request.


GA SB351

Protecting Georgia's Children on Social Media Act of 2024 

This bill creates a tax exemption for data center equipment in the State of Georgia from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026. This bill also creates a special commission on Special Commission on Data Center Energy Planning. The commission is set to expire on June 30, 2026

HB1192

Data Center Equipment Tax Information

This bill aims to strengthen regulations on state contracts to ensure integrity and to make sure they are not offered to companies with ties to foreign adversaries. This bill also regulates who state agencies can contract  for marketing services.

SB502

Ensuring Integrity in State Contracts

Allows for immigration status verification before issuing a citation instead of making an immediate arrest. This bill requires local agencies to assist federal agencies with enforcement of immigration laws.

HB1105

The Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act of 2024

This bill prohibits state governmental agencies from using central bank digital currency as a form of payment.

HB1053

Preventing Digital Currency

This Bill will expand Public access to prescription drugs by Increasing the number of pharmacy technicians supervised by pharmacists. This bill also requires reversed drug distributors to make diligent efforts to donate drugs rather than destroy them.

HB1072

GA Prescription Drug Program

This bill, the "Georgia Promise Scholarship Act", establishes promise scholarship accounts funded by the state in the amount of $6,500 per school year for eligible students. The bill creates the Georgia Education Savings Authority to administer the program, which allows participating students to use the account funds for qualified education expenses at participating private schools or for other approved services. The bill also increases the limits for individual tax credits for qualified education donations and removes a restriction on designating donations for specific schools. The program will be implemented in the 2025-2026 school year, subject to full funding of the Quality Basic Education Act, and will stand repealed by June 30, 2035 or 10 years after it becomes effective, whichever is later.

SB233

The Georgia Promise Scholarship Act

This bill amends Georgia's election laws to require that ballots used in optical scan voting systems and ballot marking devices must be printed on security paper with a visible watermark. It also requires the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a state-wide system for posting digital images of scanned paper ballots, with a minimum resolution of 200 dots per inch. The bill expands the number of contests subject to risk-limiting audits and sets specific risk limit percentages over time. It also establishes a pilot program to audit paper ballots using optical character recognition technology.

HB974

Mandating Paper Ballots in Statewide Elections

This bill establishes a criminal offense of election interference with a deep fake. This bill provides exceptions and penalties for committing this crime. It also provides provisions for the State Election Board To publish the results of investigations into offenses that involve this crime.

HB986

Election Interference with a Deep Fake

HB933 establishes that when an adult grooms a minor, the adult will be guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment for 1-5 years.

HB993

Penalties for Grooming a Minor

This bill proposes several changes to Georgia's election laws. It requires that any person employed or retained by a county election superintendent to conduct election duties must be a U.S. citizen. It allows for the reopening of candidate qualifying if no one qualifies during the initial period. It requires election superintendents to provide ballot proofs to candidates for review prior to finalizing the ballots, and allows superintendents to make changes based on candidate feedback. The bill also grants poll watchers broader access and observation rights at various election locations. Additionally, it prohibits the use or threat of violence that would prevent election officials or poll watchers from carrying out their duties. Overall, the bill aims to modify various aspects of Georgia's election procedures and oversight.

HB1207

Requiring Election Workers to be US Citizens

This bill relates to primaries and elections generally, so as to expand the number of contests subject to risk-limiting audits; to provide for percentages of risk limits; to provide procedures for selection of contests subject to risk-limiting audits.


HB977

Election Audit Act

Prohibits certain health care providers and facilities from discriminating against potential organ transplant recipients due solely to the vaccine status of the potential recipient.

HB576

Protecting Organ Transplant Recipients 

Changes the rules for bail. If a person on bail does not show up for trial, they will be arrested. Under this bill, judges will be required to look at the suspect's criminal history before making a decision on bail. Lastly, this bill limits how many times a citizen can pay cash bail.

SB63

Limiting How Many Times a Citizen May Pay Cash Bail

Provides a visible watermark on ballots used in optical scan voting systems.

HB976

Visible Watermark for Optical Scan Ballots

Provides a homestead exemption from Lamar County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $7,000 to residents 70 years and over.

HB865

Lamar County Homestead Tax Exemption

Provides a definition of antisemitism in the state of Georgia. 



HB30

Antisemitism Definition

The bill proposes that all costs and expenses related to election administration should be paid with lawfully appropriate public funds. It prohibits certain local governments, government employees, and election officials from soliciting or accepting donations or gifts to support election administration, with exceptions for voting location donations, voluntary services, and goods of nominal value. 

SB222

Election Expenses Funding

A RESOLUTION reauthorizing the House Rural Development Council; and for other purposes.

HR488

Reauthorize House Rural Development Council

The bill relates to definitions regarding racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations.

SB68

Including Dogfighting as Racketeering Activity

No agency shall require proof of COVID-19 vaccination of any person as a  condition of providing any service or access to any facility, issuing any license, permit,  or other type of authorization, or performing any duty of such agency.

SB1 2024

Vaccine Freedom Act

This bill prohibits deceptive or misleading terms or false representations by health care practitioners in advertisements and representations; to prohibit the misappropriation of medical or medical specialty titles by health care practitioners in advertisements and representations

SB197

Health Care Practitioners Truth and Transparency Act

Richmond County and the City of Augusta the mayor shall be a full voting member of the commission.

SB231

Richmond County and the City of Augusta; mayor

The bill creates a board of elections and registration for Cherokee County.

HB642

 Cherokee County Board of Elections

A Bill relating to the conditions of employment in elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for daily duty-free planning periods for teachers in grades six through 12

HB340

The Daily Duty Free Planning Period Act

A bill relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for a school safety and anti-gang endorsement for eligible certificated professional personnel issued by the Professional Standards Commission; to require school safety plans to be submitted to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to require intruder alert drills in all public schools in this state; to require public schools to report completion of such drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide for parents and guardians to opt their children out of such drills.

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