Legislators Georgia spent about 12 hours on the crossover day last week to advance legislation due to a crucial hurdle for a chance of a law. Atlanta Civic Circle pursued a number of suggestions regarding democracy, work and housing construction, which passed or failed on March 6 at around 11 p.m.
This was the last opportunity to move legislative templates to the other legislative chamber in order to receive an adoption chance this year. Suggestions that made it through the crossover day have now completed a final vote until April 4, the last day of the legislative period. The legislation, which has not been adopted in the House of Representatives and the Senate until then, could still be for examination next year, the second of the two-year legislative period.
Here is a breakdown of invoices that are still involved and those that have failed.
Language and bourgeois freedoms
Senate Bill 57: Freedom of speech and faith act
Status: Senate rejected (43-13)
This proposal to prohibit this law on the legal provider supported by Republicans to prohibit financial services providers and pension companies to refuse business customers on the basis of certain activities, e.g.
Senate Bill 74: Criminalizes librarians to distribute “harmful materials” to minors
Status: Senate said goodbye to March 3 (32-23)
This calculation would eliminate the current exemption, which protects libraries and librarians from criminal punishments, in accordance with a state law of 2024 against the distribution of harmful materials to minors. It would make every violation of a “high and intensified offense” that contains a fine of 5,000 US dollars and a prison sentence of up to one year. It also offers a legal defense for librarians who strive to remove such materials.
Senate Bill 1: Prohibitions of transgender women from female sports teams, limit the access of the bathroom
Status: The Senate adopted February. 6 (35-17)
The “Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunity Act” went through several changes before finally passing the Senate.
It would forbid transgender students (middle school via the college) to play in sports teams that match their gender orientation. For example, transgender students must not play in female sports teams. In addition, the schools have to spend teams and sports fabrics for sports facilities based on gender using gender uses. The democratic legislature questioned the need for the law and pointed out that there is no instance of transgender girls and women who participate in sports teams in Georgia.
The law also defines the female gender nationwide as “a person who, or for development -related or genetic anomaly or a historical accident that would be able to produce human egg cells”. It does the same for male gender and replaces “egg cell” with “sperm”.
Elections and governance
House bill 397: Allows you to vote on Saturday for local elections
Status: Haus passed on March 6th (159-13)
This legislation would enable the municipalities in Georgia to opt for the advance payments on Saturdays for local elections. The aim is to improve access to the voters, which could increase the turnout.
House bill 215: Voter List Integrity Act
Status: says goodbye in the committee – no ground vote
This legislation would have banned the Georgia secretary for state and local elections, in participating in the maintenance organizations with multi-state voters lists that list voters in the states to ensure that the participating states have current, precise voting roles. For example, a registered Georgia voter who moved to Maine and registered for coordination would be deleted by the Georgia role. President Donald Trump asked Georgia to pull himself out of the electronic registration information center (ERIC) in March 2023.
House bill 502: No waiting for older voters or those with small children
Status: says goodbye in the committee – no ground vote
The voters who are over 75 or have a disability can vote immediately without waiting for the current statute in line. This accommodation was extended to the voters, which were accompanied by a child under two years of age. The aim is to increase access to surveys for parents with young children.
Senate Bill 175: Prohibition of coordination with ranking choice
Status: Senate passed on March 3 (36-19)
The legislation would prohibit any local, state or federal elections in Georgia to use an electoral system for the election. The legislation defines the choice of ranking as “a method of coordination that enables voters to evaluate candidates for an office in the order of the preference and to tab it up to a single candidate in several rounds after the elimination of a candidate.”
The measure was made by Lt. Governor Burt Jones and Senator Randy Robertson (R-Catamus) driven forward. “The choice of ranking should cause confusion and tiredness among voters,” said Jones. Proponents of coordination with the election of rank list say that voters can express preferences for candidates for non-prontrunner without fear of fearing “waste their voice”-and increasing the participation of voters by eliminating the need for drainage elections and the additional costs for taxpayers.
Senate Bill 37: Accountability Act for artificial intelligence
Status: Stocking in the committee
In this cross -party law, it endeavors to found the “Georgia Board for Artificial Intelligence”, a state corporation that would determine best practices for the use of artificial intelligence through local and state governments. The legislative template would also request and disclose AI “usage plans” on site and state government agencies so that the public understands when and how they use AI.
Labor rights
House bill 16: Warehouse Workplace Protection Act
Status: Stocking in the committee
This legislation supported by Democrat would create more comprehensive occupational safety for employees who work in warehouse sales centers such as Amazon. The most important provisions include: limitation of work speed rates, regulations for paid breaks and the guarantee of adequate health and security protection such as water stations and adequate air conditioning.
Housing
House bill 92: Obliges the local governments to decide annually from the tax offense of the homeestead exemption
Status: House adopted Feb. 18 (173-1)
This legislation would require the local governments that have registered until the deadline of the new Homestead real estate tax exemption on March 1, 2025 in order to continue to decide annually. The new constitutional change in Georgia limits all increases of the valued value of the primary residence of a person in the annual inflation rate nationwide for real estate tax purposes.
House bill 305: Protect the dream act
Status: Stocking in the committee
This cross-party invoice would prohibit investment funds with a fortune of $ 6.25 million or more or have at least 25 single-family houses in a single district if they buy more houses anywhere in the state. Hausbauer and non -profit organizations would be liberated. The legislative template aims to reduce the excessive price influence and have institutional investors on the Georgia's housing markets.
House bill 399: Large landlords must have employees in the state
Status: House on March 3 (163-4) passed
This accompanying legislation for HB 305 would require large landlords outside the state to employ employees of the state in order to react to the communication of tenants about maintenance issues. This would apply to a landlord outside the state who owns or operates 25 or more single-family houses or duplex rental houses in Georgia.
House bill 374: Allows local landlords
Status: Stocking in the committee
This legislation would enable local governments to establish rent registers – databases to pursue the landlord, owner and/or real estate manager information – to improve transparency and obligation in the rental apartment markets. It would also impose fines for companies that do not provide this information. The aim is to the local administrations in the Georgia's housing markets in Georgia in Georgia's housing markets in Georgia so that they can better assert the apartment use codes and the landlord.
House bill 170: Nationwide Interagency Council for the homeless
Status: The Senate was adopted on March 6th (50-2)
This legislation would create a Georgia Interagency Council for homeless people in order to coordinate a nationwide approach to combating homelessness. The 21-person group, all of which were appointed by the governor, would carry out a nationwide overview of current resources for unrestrained people, identify gaps in services and coordinate the services nationwide. It would also coordinate nationwide efforts to combat criminalization of homelessness.
The Council would be led by the Community Affairs Commissioner with 13 officials from the Ministry of Public Health and other state authorities as well as a member of the Continuum of Care Network, three members who have experienced personality and three members of the service provider.
House bill 725: Creates standards of habitability for rental apartments
Status: introduced, no transfer of the committee
MEP Terry Cummings (D-Mableton) submitted the legislation on March 4 to supplement house accounts 404 of the last year, the “Safe at Home Act”, according to which the landlords have to provide rental apartments that are “suitable for human dwellings”. HB 404 does not define “habitability”, so Cummings aims to determine viable standards under state law for rental apartment conditions.
House bill 689: Stable law on the prevention of family and homelessness
Status: Stocking in the committee
This cross-party legislation would create a flexible local grant program that is based on the nationwide housing fund of the Georgia Department of Community for homeless people in order to support short-term rental and pension support, legal representation for tenants in cases of the landlord (e.g.
House bill 295: Press the local governments to enforce urban camping laws
Status: Stocking in the committee
This legislation supported by Republicans would enable owners to apply for a tax refund if they can prove that their ownership of value is switched off or that they arise because the local government cannot be enforced the failures or the enforcement of urban camping or pan handling laws. The goal of legislation, which was produced by the Cicero Institute, a conservative think tank, is to put pressure on local governments, to clarify homeless camps and to enforce applicable laws for people with homelessness.
