House general calendar, 2025 February 24

HB 14 HB 34
HB 52 HB 77 HB 78 HB 79 HB 91
HB 94
HB 107
HB 108 HB 110 HB 111 HB 112 HB 113 HB 115 HB 123
HB 124 HB 131 HB 134

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2025 TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS State symbols; cornbread as official state bread; designate Professional licensing boards; continuing education tracking solution to monitor compliance of licenses with applicable continuing education requirements; establish Ad valorem tax; qualified disabled veterans; extend homestead exemption to unremarried surviving spouses or minor children Motor vehicles; encountering funeral procession on two-lane highway; revise responsibilities Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; total percentage of funds invested in alternative investments; raise limit Firearm Safe Handling and Secure Storage Tax Credit Act; enact Professions and businesses; licensure for graduates of foreign colleges or schools of veterinary medicine who are board certified in a specialty; provide Insurance; medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medically necessary treatment for cancer, sickle cell disease, or lupus may directly or indirectly cause an impairment of fertility; require coverage Professions and businesses; issuance of digitally verifiable licenses for certain military spouses and transitioning military service members; provide Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act or SAVE Act; enact Pawnbrokers; certain protections for current military members and related persons; provide Income tax; reduce rate of tax Income tax; one-time tax credit for taxpayers who filed returns for both 2023 and 2024 taxable years; provide State government; prohibit the state or its agencies from purchasing goods from certain foreign countries or related entities Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide Criminal procedure; pretrial proceedings in capital offense cases where the death penalty is sought when the accused has an intellectual disability; provide Insurance; require coverage for healthcare services for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders; provisions Self-service storage facilities; revise advertisement requirements before an owner can enforce an owner's lien Sales and use tax; manufactured homes; revise and expand exemption

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HB 136
HB 140 HB 141
HB 143
HB 150 HB 153
HB 154
HB 156 HB 158
HB 163
HB 164
HB 169
HB 171 HB 172 HB 173
HB 176
HB 180 HB 182
HB 185
HB 187 HB 197
HB 208 HB 217
HB 218
HB 222
HB 225

Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit End Local Taxation by Citation Act; enact Revenue and taxation; allow businesses and practitioners to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns Water resources; water-measuring devices for farm use of surface and ground water; revise provisions Combating Threats from China Act of 2025 - Higher Education; enact Sales and use tax; maintenance and replacement parts for certain machinery used to mix or transport concrete; extend exemption sunset date Emergency medical services; designate ambulance services as an essential service Transportation, Department of; authority over vertiports; provide Commerce and trade; filing of registration statements with the office of the Secretary of State; provide Food service establishments; certain food products be disclosed as containing cell cultured meat and plant based meat alternatives; require Highways, bridges, and ferries; allowable variance for weight limitations upon a vehicle or load; repeal automatic repeal provisions Ad valorem tax; breach of a covenant for bona fide conservation use related to solar generation of energy; limit exceptions Crimes and offenses; obscenity; repeal and replace Code Section 16-12-80 Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide Education, Department of; provide parents and guardians of students entering sixth grade information regarding adolescent vaccinations in print and electronic form Appeal and error; judgments deemed directly appealable; change a provision Probate courts; modify certain requirements for probate judges Life insurance; excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; prohibit Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions Insurance; health care provider to respond to a private review agent or utility review entity's attempt to discuss the patient's care; detail the effort Special license plates; support state parks and historic sites; establish Education; make Dual Achievement Program a permanent state-wide program Health; lower the age from 50 to 18 years old at which hospitals shall offer inpatient vaccinations for the influenza virus prior to discharge Criminal procedure; inclusion of certain contact information on bonds and recognizances; require Motor vehicles; enforcement of speeding violations in school zones through automated traffic enforcement safety devices; repeal all laws
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HB 227 HB 232 HB 233 HB 240
HB 241
HB 242
HB 246
HB 247
HB 249 HB 253 HB 254
HB 287
HB 295
HB 296
HB 308
HB 309
HB 315 HB 318
HB 320 HB 322
HB 327 HB 329
HB 348
HB 350 HB 352 HB 353 HB 377 HB 378

Putting Georgia's Patients First Act; enact Interstate Massage Compact Act; enact State symbols; Brunswick stew as the official state stew; designate Mortgage lenders and brokers; prohibit unfair or deceptive practices in consumer transactions related to mortgage trigger leads Contracts; convenience fees for payment by electronic means; revise provisions Crimes and offenses; disorderly or disruptive conduct at any funeral or memorial service; include religious worship and observance Courts; office of sheriff and training of peace officers; revise qualification requirements Motor vehicles; restoration of licenses; authorize written consent for release of certain information to be obtained and transferred electronically Public utilities; solar power facility agreements; revise provisions Ethan's Law; enact State government; provide placement of Revolutionary War Patriots marker on state capitol building grounds and state archives building grounds Environmental Protection Division; Environmental Advisory Council; update reference date to standards, rules, and regulations Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions Motor vehicles; operation of miniature on-road vehicles on certain highways; provide Local government; require adoption of a resolution or ordinance and voter approval prior to abolishment of a police force that was created by such method Law Enforcement Partners Act; enact Appeal and error; appeal of superior court decisions on zoning decisions of counties and municipal corporations; provide Waste management; require recycling of solar panels Ga. Board of Dentistry; issuance of a dental or dental hygiene license for the sole purpose of teaching in an accredited dental, dental hygiene school, or academic medical center; revise provisions Official Code of Georgia Annotated; amend various titles Professional and businesses; authorize certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform artificial insemination Insurance; expand lines of insurance or reinsurance in which a limited purpose subsidiary and captive insurance company may engage Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact Georgia Music Office and Music Ready Communities Act; enact Buildings and housing; manufactured homes; provisions State courts of counties; online publishing of terms; provide
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HB 392 HB 393 HB 398 HB 410 HB 414 HB 420 HB 423 HB 424
HB 426 HB 435 HB 444 HB 460
HR 32 HR 69 HR 121 HR 132 HR 251
SB 35
SR 7

Georgia Tax Court; certain events; revise dates Safer Cycling in Georgia Act; enact Food, drugs, and cosmetics; authorize production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures Insurance, Department of; efficiency in the practices; provide Elections; "person" to include certain nonresidents; revise definition Insurance; require certain health benefit policies to cover genetic testing for an inherited mutation and cancer imaging under certain conditions Emergency telephone number 9-1-1 system; Next Generation 9-1-1 systems and services; provide Agriculture; clarify that a manufacturer cannot be held liable for failing to warn consumers of health risks above those required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency Courts; nonpartisan election of magistrates; provide Crimes and offenses; sexual exploitation of children; expand limitations to include Division of Family and Children Services Holidays; April of each year as Georgia Native Plant Month; designate Evidence; exclude certain communications made between attorney and client when client is in a penal institution
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property - CA (Postponed) Biomedical Research Day; every third Thursday in April; recognize John W. Mixon Georgia Forestry Building; Dry Branch Community; dedicate Joint Georgia-North Carolina and Georgia-Tennessee Boundary Line Commission; create Local government; probate judges shall be elected in nonpartisan elections; provide - CA
SENATE BILLS Property Insurance Policies; notice required to be given a policyholder before the nonrenewal of his or her homeowners' insurance policy; increase the number of days
SENATE RESOLUTIONS State Highway System; dedicate certain portions

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