New Georgia laws taking effect July 1, 2026
133 laws take effect July 1, 2026.
Of the 709 bills enacted since 2025, 703 have an effective date and 6 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.
Updated Oct 31, 2026 at 11:16 a.m. EDT.
Government (27)
HB 1020 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Judicial Retirement System; payment of monthly retirement benefits for creditable service as a district attorney at the age of 65 years; provide
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HB 1083 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Madison County; Magistrate Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee
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HB 1096 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Public Health, Department of; provide that if certain employees of a county board of health become employees of such department such employees will retain accrued annual and sick leave
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HB 1121 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Cordele Judicial Court; change certain terms of court
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HB 1129 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Local government; designation of enterprise zones; provisions
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HB 1181 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Motor vehicles; application for certificate of title; provisions
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HB 1205 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Yatesville, City of; provide new charter
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HB 1208 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Civil practice; require depositions to be taken before certified court reporters
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HB 1234 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
State Employees' Assurance Department; assignment of certain group term life insurance benefits to pay for funeral services of a deceased individual who was a member of certain retirement systems; provisions
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HB 1254 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and businesses; move regulation of various professions from individual boards to Secretary of State
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HB 1268 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise, modernize and correct errors or omissions
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HB 1536 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Eatonton, City of; provide a new charter
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HB 1571 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Bryan County; State Court; revise terms
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HB 244 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
State auditor; local governments to request and receive in certain circumstances due date extensions related to filing annual audits; provide
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HB 304 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Local government; Georgia Municipal Court Clerks' Council; create
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HB 438 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions
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HB 530 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Courts; authorization for electronic filing of pleadings in probate court; provide
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HB 549 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Peace officers; extend time frame for which reimbursement of total training expenses by a subsequent employer may be sought
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HB 579 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and businesses; licensure to engage in trade; provisions
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HB 858 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Cobb County; State Court; change compensation and number of certain staff of solicitor-general
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HB 999 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Magistrate courts; collecting sums and fees authorized by law; revise provisions
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SB 143 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide
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SB 207 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create
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SB 216 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Judicial Retirement System; membership in the system for individuals employed as the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; provide
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SB 447 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Control of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; denial or nonacceptance of permits; revise provisions
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SB 489 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Board of Commissioners of the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia; allow to set monthly dues
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SB 553 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and Businesses; repeal Chapter 14, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low voltage contractors, and utility contractors and enact a new Chapter 14
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Crime (19)
HB 1075 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Sexual offenses; modify penalty for offenders previously convicted of the offense of trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude
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HB 1086 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Preston Fant and Brant Chesney Firefighter Safety Act; enact
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HB 1131 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Criminal procedure; personal service of process for notice of a warrant application hearing; provide
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HB 115 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide
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HB 1202 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advisory Board; correct a scrivener's error in a cross-reference
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HB 1230 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Aviation; prohibit operation of unmanned aircraft systems over a place of incarceration
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HB 1283 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Family Justice Center Act; enact
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HB 162 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Bureau of Investigation; restriction and seal of First Offender Act sentences until such status is revoked; provide
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HB 447 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Crimes and offenses; crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; provide
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HB 668 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Crimes and offenses; change references to assistance and guide dogs to service dogs
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SB 218 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; shall be assigned for administrative purposes only to the Administrative Office of the Courts; provide
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SB 383 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review
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SB 443 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Offenses Against Public Order; the punishment for the offense of obstructing highways, streets, sidewalks, or other public passages; increase
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SB 470 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Emergency & Public Safety Signal Protection Act"; enact
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SB 542 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Sexual Offenses; clergy members to be charged with certain improper sexual contact offenses; permit
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SB 547 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Offenses of Pimping and Pandering; modify the penalties
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SB 570 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Georgia Human Trafficking Prevention Training Act"; enact
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SB 587 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide
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SB 591 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Offenses Against Public Order; the disruption of a religious service; prohibit
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Healthcare (18)
HB 1097 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide
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HB 1275 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Medical practice; ensure that stem cell therapies are used to advance medical treatments and improve patient outcomes in an ethical manner that does not involve stem cells derived from aborted fetuses
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HB 1278 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and businesses; improve efficiencies in issuance of permits for dentists to administer conscious sedation and general anesthesia
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HB 1408 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Veterinarians; authorize licensed veterinary technicians to administer antirabies vaccinations to animals
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HB 219 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize
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HB 334 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Sickle Cell Disease Protection Act; enact
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HB 350 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions
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HB 382 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Controlled substances; Schedule I; psilocybin; revise a provision
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Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
HB 659 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Health; rural assistance; expand medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program to include optometrists
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HB 717 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provide
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SB 162 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Composite Medical Board; implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; provide
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SB 195 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Pharmacies; pharmacists are authorized to dispense preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis under certain conditions; provide
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SB 220 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact
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SB 395 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board
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SB 399 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Mason Sells AED Coordination Act"; enact
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SB 428 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Medical Assistance; Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; direct
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SB 500 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals
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SB 535 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide
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Education (17)
HB 1030 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Math Matters Act; enact
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HB 1107 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Excellent Teacher Preparation Act; enact
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HB 1123 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students
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HB 1164 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Education; require State Board of Education to appoint an audit committee
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HB 1284 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Education; awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; provide
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HB 1302 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Education and Workforce Strategy Act; enact
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HB 1328 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
University of North Georgia military scholarships; authorize selection committee to select additional scholarship recipients
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HB 1379 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Foreign Funding Transparency and Accountability Act; enact
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HB 541 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Education; tuition equalization grants; expand definition of an approved school to include certain institutions which offer programs in nursing
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SB 148 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Public School Property and Facilities; outdoor learning spaces pilot program; provide
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SB 150 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Retirement; permit public school systems to employ certain beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers; extend the program
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SB 179 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require
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SB 369 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Charter Schools Act of 1998"; completion charter schools; provide
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SB 485 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Professional Counselors; applicants for a license in social work enrolled in a master's degree program to take the master's social work licensing examination in their final semester of the program; authorize
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SB 552 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"True Patriotism and Universal Student Access (TPUSA) Act"; enact
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SB 556 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
HOPE Scholarship; the inclusion of advanced placement and international baccalaureate fine arts courses in the calculation of grade point averages; provide
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Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
SB 589 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Quality Basic Education Act"; the date by which a child must attain a certain age to be eligible for enrollment in kindergarten or first grade; revise
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Finance (13)
HB 1015 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Self-insurers Guaranty Trust Fund; revise certain funded levels
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HB 1024 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Property; debtor's aggregate interest in real property or personal property used as a residence; revise exemption
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HB 1185 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Courts; certain shareholder claims to be brought before the Georgia State-wide Business Court; provide
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HB 1272 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Banking and finance; licensing of payment stablecoin issuers; provisions
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HB 1374 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Insurance; methods of payment to healthcare providers; provide certain requirements
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HB 1470 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Torts; abusive litigation based on alleged website access violations under federal and state law; create a cause of action
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HB 455 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Bingo; properties used for games; limit number of sessions; provisions
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HB 945 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Banking and finance; holds on accounts of eligible adults for suspected financial exploitation; provide
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HB 998 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Public utilities; authorize certain Tier 2 local exchange companies to elect to become subject to rate of return regulation
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SB 111 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Georgia Consumer Privacy Protection Act"; enact
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SB 403 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Unclaimed Property; property is presumed abandoned; provide for exceptions
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SB 439 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Fair Business Practices Act of 1975"; regulation of referral agencies for assisted living communities and personal care homes; provide
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SB 441 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Local Government Investment Pool; certain pooled investments to be approved by the State Depository Board; require
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Taxes (9)
HB 1112 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Commerce and trade; rounding of total price of sale of goods or services when using legal tender; provide
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HB 1261 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Revenue and taxation; level 1 freeport exemptions for certain goods in inventory for electric utilities; provide
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HB 134 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Sales and use tax; manufactured homes; revise and expand exemption
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HB 141 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Revenue and taxation; allow businesses and practitioners to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns
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HB 1575 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Kingsland, City of; ad valorem tax; apply exemption to residents 62 years or older
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HB 165 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Income tax credit; business enterprises for leased motor vehicles; repeal and reserve
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HB 328 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Revenue and taxation; increase annual aggregate limit for tax credits available for certain contributions to student scholarship organizations
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HB 445 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Ad valorem tax; language required to be included in notices of current assessment; revise
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SB 430 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Taxes; certain military museums qualify as destination marketing organizations and private sector nonprofit organizations; provide
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Traffic (6)
HB 1161 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Motor vehicles; proper operation upon approach by an authorized emergency vehicle or by a law enforcement vehicle for purposes of a traffic stop; provide
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HB 1277 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Conservation and natural resources; increase project cost threshold for public roads or airports requiring environmental evaluations
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HB 1434 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Aviation; air facilities; identification of airport affected areas; provide
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HB 651 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Motor vehicles; use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; revise provisions
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HB 944 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Motor vehicles; federal regulations regarding safe operation of commercial motor carriers and commercial vehicles; update reference date
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HB 986 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Motor vehicles; personal delivery devices; revise operation procedures and restrictions
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Public Lands (5)
HB 1266 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Watercraft; use of certain motors on vessels being operated on the Ogeechee River; repeal a provision
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HB 1415 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Stone Mountain Memorial Association; hold all real property obtained before January 1, 1971, in trust; require
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HB 946 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Game and fish; authorize hunting and trapping of feral hogs under certain circumstances
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HB 956 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Solid Waste Trust Fund; authorize use of funds for implementation of provisions of a solid waste management program
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SB 420 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
License, Permit, Tag, and Stamp Fees; fees for reef and migratory fish endorsement; provide
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Agriculture (4)
HB 466 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
State symbols; marsh tacky horse as official Georgia heritage horse breed; designate
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HB 983 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Conservation and natural resources; prescribed burning for silviculture purposes is exempt from certain burning notice and permit requirements; clarify
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SB 435 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Georgia Development Authority; rename as the Georgia Agricultural Development Authority
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SB 551 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Standard, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food; eggs; repeal provisions
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Defense (3)
HB 1128 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
State Board of Workers' Compensation; notice of eligibility for compensation to an injured employee to his or her legal guardian; provide
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HB 985 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Veterans affairs; revise terms of eligibility for persons to be buried in Georgia veteran cemeteries
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SB 293 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
License Plates for Certain Veterans; the number of free license plates issued to certain veterans; increase
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Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
Wages (3)
HB 1118 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Public officers and employees; 120 hours of maternal birth leave; provide
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HB 987 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act; enact
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SB 452 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Retirement and Pension; maximum employer contribution to a 401(k) for certain state law enforcement officers; increase
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Budget (2)
SB 261 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Magistrates Retirement Fund; early retirement benefit; provide
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SB 285 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Emergency Communications Authority; increase in the percentage of all 9-1-1 charges to be remitted to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; increase
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Civil Rights (2)
SB 146 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide
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SB 433 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
"Rio's Law"
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Elections (2)
HB 1514 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Fulton County; Board of Education; change election date of president
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HB 952 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Bulloch County; board of elections; increase size to five members
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Affordability (1)
HB 117 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Food service establishments; require notification of the country of origin of seafood items
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Housing (1)
HB 295 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions
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Other (1)
HB 1310 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
State symbols; cotton as official state fabric; designate
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Enacted, but not yet dated (6)
These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect July 1, 2026 too; the record doesn't say.
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- HB 769ContingentGwinnett Judicial Circuit; salary supplements for judges; change provisionsan Act modifying compensation of superior court judges and amending Code Section 45-7-4 (2025 session) becoming law
- SB 427ContingentPhysicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provideCode section funded in an appropriations Act making specific reference to such Code section
- SB 503ContingentInsurance; rental home marketplace guarantees from the definition of property insurance; exemptFunds specifically appropriated for purposes of this Act in an appropriations Act enacted by the General Assembly
- SB 613ContingentSuperior Court of Clayton County; change the compensation of the sheriffFirst day of the month following the month in which the Sheriff of Clayton County fully complies with the county-wide audits of Clayton County for 2024, 2025, and 2026 required under Code Section 36-81-7(c.1)
- SB 623ContingentState Court of Clayton County; compensation of the solicitor-general of the state court; revise provisionsFirst day of the month following the month in which the solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County fully complies with the county-wide audits of Clayton County for 2024, 2025, and 2026 required by Code Section 36-81-7(c.1)
- SB 85ContingentGrants for Foster Children; a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; establishGeorgia Foster Care Scholarship program is funded in an appropriations Act making specific reference to it; effective when the appropriated funds become available for expenditure