Sine Die crunch: Bills that are still on lawmakers’ agenda
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Thursday is the last day of the 2026 Georgia General Assembly.
State lawmakers passed a budget, which is their only required constitutional duty.
But ahead of a nationally watched series of midterm elections, Republicans and Democrats also have dozens of other measures they are considering before heading home for the rest of 2026.
Here are some of the most notable:
HB 641. Electric utilities are required to hold any proposed discontinuation of electrical service to a customer who suffers from a serious illness.
HB 664. Updates the Georgia Property Owners’ Association Act to make it easier for existing mandatory-membership HOAs to opt into being governed by the act after they’re already created.
HB 874. The Georgia Taxpayer Privacy Protection Act prohibits the disclosure of taxpayer telephone numbers in property tax records sold, transferred, or shared with third parties.
HB 960. Replaces electronic scanners with paper ballots and also publicizes voter lists five days before advance voting begins.
HB 961. Provides insurance coverage for some out-of-network ambulance transportations.
HB 1023. Provides for school weapons detection systems.
HB 1076. Makes obstructing a law enforcement officer with a vehicle, even one that is parked, a felony.
HB 1402. Requires revision and hearing screening for all public school students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through third grade.
SB 29. Requires Georgia law enforcement officers to collect DNA from anyone charged with certain felonies without a warrant.
SB 116. Requires police, also without a warrant, to collect DNA from anyone who is charged with a misdemeanor or felony and is subject to detention by federal immigration officials.
SB 398. Makes it a felony to use artificial intelligence to generate any image of a minor without consent and a felony to generate an obscene image of a minor, regardless of consent. Also would make it a misdemeanor or felony, depending on circumstances, to use AI to generate an obscene image of an adult without their consent.
SB 482. Requires people seeking law enforcement videos and booking photographs to submit requests for these government records in person. Requestors would be required to fully name a person shown in a police-generated video or to provide the approximate time and date the video was recorded, and requestors would have to ask for each photo or video individually.
SB 591. Bans certain protests within 500 feet of a religious service.
SB 214, which extends the QR code deadline and transitions Georgia to a hand-marked paper ballot system beginning in 2027, passed the House on Sine Die.
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