2024 Signed Legislation
| Document | Description |
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| Education; local school systems to provide certain information to parents and guardians of students in grades six through 12 on Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes; require | |
| Property; clerks of superior courts obtain photographic identification cards of individuals who present deeds or other instruments for recording; require | |
| Controlled Substances; mitragynine and hydroxymitragynine are Schedule I; provide | |
| Crimes and offenses; offense of arson of law enforcement vehicle; provide | |
| Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan; updated every four years; provide | |
| Second Chance Workforce Act; enact | |
| Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship; victims of human trafficking are eligible; provide | |
| State Workforce Development Board; publish a High-demand Career List most critical to the state's current and future workforce needs; require | |
| "Freedom to Work Act"; enact | |
| Cosmetologists and Barbers; persons performing certain limited responsibilities; exempt from licensure | |
| Licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy; issuance of expedited licenses by endorsement for marriage and family therapists; provide | |
Public Officers and Employees; development and administration of the State of Georgia as a Model Employer (GAME) Program; provide |
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| Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia; to enter into and amend existing agreements with the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; encourage and state expectations | |
| 'Accelerated Career Diploma Program'; ACE Grants pilot program; establish and provide | |
| Education; High-demand Career Initiatives Program as the High Demand Apprenticeship Program; redesignate | |
| Criminal Prosecutions; immunity from certain criminal prosecutions against law enforcement officers whose threat or use of force is justified or otherwise lawful; provide | |
| Motor vehicles; federal regulations regarding safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; update reference date | |
| Waynesboro, City of; Redevelopment Powers Law; authorize | |
| Barrow County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes for certain senior citizens with certain maximum incomes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Barrow County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes for certain senior citizens with certain maximum incomes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Barrow County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes for certain senior citizens with certain maximum incomes; provide homestead exemption | |
| The Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act of 2024; enact | |
| Dexter, Town of; provide new charter | |
| Telfair County; ad valorem tax; educational purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Telfair County; ad valorem tax; county purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Bartow County; ad valorem tax; homestead exemption for education purposes; increase income cap | |
| Harris County Public Improvements Authority; revise purpose | |
| Barwick, City of; municipal court to collect a technology fee; authorize | |
| Motor vehicles; require operation of flashing or revolving amber lights upon certain vehicles | |
| Dalton, City of; provide new charter | |
| Edison, City of; municipal court to collect a technology fee; authorize | |
| Douglas County; State Court; add third judge | |
| Clayton County Public Facilities Authority; create | |
| Elbert County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes for certain senior citizens; provide homestead exemption | |
| Elbert County; ad valorem tax for county purposes for certain senior citizens; provide homestead exemption | |
| Elbert County; ad valorem tax for county purposes for certain senior citizens; provide homestead exemption | |
| Muscogee County; School District; revise how vacancies on board are filled | |
| Columbus, City of; Recorder's Court; authorize assessment and collection of technology fee | |
| Muscogee County; Probate Court; authorize assessment and collection of technology fee | |
| Brooks County; Probate Court; authorize collection of a technology fee | |
| Georgia Student Finance Authority; student loan repayment for peace officers; provide | |
| Buford, City of; ad valorem tax for municipal purposes; lower age for exemption | |
| Buford, City of; ad valorem tax for municipal purposes; increase exemption | |
| Marietta, City of; public schools; provide for compensation of board | |
| Mableton, City of; levy an excise tax | |
| Coosawattee Regional Water and Sewerage Authority; repeal Act and dissolve | |
| Taylor County; Magistrate Court; assessment and collection of technology fee; authorize | |
| Pine Mountain, Town of; provide new charter | |
| Paulding County; State Court; provide additional judge | |
| Public officers and employees; supplemental, illness-specific insurance for certain first responders with occupational post-traumatic stress disorder; require provision | |
| Offenses Against Public Order And Motor Vehicles and Traffic; knowingly attending and facilitating an illegal drag race or a laying drags exhibition; punishment; provide | |
| Correctional Institutions of States and Counties; wireless communications and stand-alone electronic devices behind guard lines; prohibit | |
| Sheriffs; qualification requirements for the office of sheriff; revise | |
| Obstruction of Public Administration; offense of transmitting a false public alarm; enhance penalties | |
| Bonds and Recognizances; setting of bonds and schedules of bails; provide | |
| Professions and businesses; professional programs to address career fatigue and wellness in healthcare professionals; provisions | |
| Crimes and offenses; livestock theft; increased penalties; provide | |
Tifton Judicial Circuit; provide for a third judge |
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| Courts; provide for probate court fees; funding of the State Children's Trust Fund; requirement of permit for conduct of fireworks display; amend |
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| Sales and Use Taxes; firearm safes and firearm safety devices; exempt | |
| Agriculture; acquisition of possessory interest in certain land by certain foreign persons and entities; prohibit | |
| Farm Use Vehicles; define a term | |
| Homicide; the felony offense of aggravated involuntary manslaughter; provide | |
| 'Georgia Hemp Farming Act'; hemp products; regulate | |
| Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority; maximum amount of bonded indebtedness of the authority; increase | |
| State symbols; white shrimp as official state crustacean; designate | |
| Local government; creation of Commercial Property Assessed Conservation, Energy, and Resiliency Development Authorities; provide | |
| Board of Natural Resources; effective date for certain rules and regulations; extend | |
| Public officers and employees; increase number of hours permitted for paid parental leave | |
| Georgia Squatter Reform Act; enact | |
| Health; advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to order home healthcare services; authorize | |
| Health; drug repository program; revise definitions; provide for pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratios | |
| Community Health, Department of; adult residential mental health services licensing; extend grace periods | |
| Criminal procedure; vacating of sentences of victims of trafficking; provisions | |
| Dispossessory proceedings; authorize landlords to use certain off-duty sheriffs, constables, or marshals to execute writs of possession; provisions | |
| Evidence; sexual assault hearsay for disabled adults and 17 year olds; provide | |
| Insurance; discount for property owners who build a new property that better resists tornado, hurricane, or other catastrophic windstorm events; provide | |
| Insurance; annual notification by insurers to male insureds of coverage for prostate-specific antigen tests; provide | |
| Domestic relations; authorize child support and insurance policies for certain disabled children; provisions | |
| Education; local boards of education use vehicles other than school buses for transport of students; authorize | |
| Schools; automated external defibrillators; require | |
| Banking and finance; update terminology; revise procedures; provisions | |
| Professions and businesses; military spouses to use an existing license in good standing from another state; allow | |
| Crimes and offenses; grooming a minor for indecent purposes; provide for offense | |
| Education; administration of a nationally recognized multiple-aptitude battery assessment that predicts success in the military to certain public school students; require | |
| Public Schools; extension of hearing dates for student discipline tribunals; provide for limits | |
| Funeral Directors and Embalmers; reinstatement of a lapsed funeral director's license; change provisions | |
| Notification of Suspicious or Unusual Deaths; individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death; revise the period | |
| Motor Vehicles; issuance of license plates commemorating the United States of America's semiquincentennial; provide | |
| Human Trafficking Hotline Information; certain establishments to post human trafficking hotline information; require | |
| Identification Cards; certain applicants who are either homeless or in the legal custody of the Division of Family and Children Services do not require signatures; provide | |
| Georgia National Guard; adjutant general to be the official sponsor of the state sponsored life insurance program; provide | |
| Georgia Joint Defense Commission; commission's operations; revise | |
| Senate Foster Care and Adoption Study Committee; implement recommendations | |
| Licensing of Veterinarians; certain sterilization services performed by out-of-state veterinarians from licensing requirements; exempt | |
| Certified Nursing Aid; certain military medical personnel from an examination requirement; exempt | |
| Education; provide for funding requirements to apply to local agencies; charter schools; provisions | |
| Education; reestablishment of Office of Charter School Compliance under State Charter Schools Commission. | |
| Local government; authorize local authorities to dispose of real property in the same manner as county governing authorities | |
| 'The Georgia Promise Scholarship Act'; establishment of promise scholarship accounts | |
| "Protecting Georgia's Children on Social Media Act of 2024"; enact | |
| Education; the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; authorize | |
| School Supplies for Teachers Program; establish | |
| Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax for educational purposes; provide exemption | |
| Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax for educational purposes in the amount of $10,000.00; provide exemption | |
| Lincoln County; board of elections and registration; meetings; revise provisions | |
| Lincoln County; compensation of tax commissioner; remove provisions | |
| Wilcox County; Board of Education; provide compensation | |
| Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act; enact | |
| Education; repeal requirement of screening of public school children for scoliosis; provisions | |
| Gwinnett County; Recorders Court; modify how clerk of court is appointed | |
| Chattooga County; board of elections and registration; create | |
| Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement | |
| Revenue, Department of; authorize use of electronic notifications and communications to motor vehicle owners; provisions | |
| Tybee Island, City of; Municipal Court; charge technology fee | |
| Data Analysis for Tort Reform Act; enact | |
| Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Code of 1986; revise terms and incorporate certain provisions of federal law into Georgia law | |
| Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; replace chairperson of the Governor's Office of Children and Families with the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | |
| Agriculture; agricultural commodity commissions; revise a definition | |
| Smyrna, City of; revise compensation of mayor and councilmembers | |
| Crimes and offenses; Schedule I, Schedule III, and Schedule IV controlled substances; provide certain provisions | |
| Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; allow for certain officials on to be represented by a delegate or agent | |
| State Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless Act; enact | |
| Screven, City of; change corporate limits | |
| Dawson County; ad valorem tax for county purposes for certain senior citizens; provide homestead exemption | |
| Dawson County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes for certain senior citizens; provide homestead exemption | |
| Appling County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Darien, City of; Redevelopment Powers Law; provide for a referendum | |
| St. Mary's, City of; ad valorem tax for municipal purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Camden County; levy an excise tax | |
| Property; means of enforcement of condominium and property owners' association instruments, rules, and regulations; provide | |
| Georgia Code; add appropriate references to United States Space Force; provisions | |
| Solar Technology Trust Fund; fund within state treasury; establish | |
| Retirement and pensions; add appropriate references to United States Space Force | |
| Safe at Home Act; enact | |
| Georgia Cosmetic Laser Services Act; revise a definition; revise a provision | |
| Professions and businesses; authority to certain nurses and physician assistants to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; authorize | |
| Fair Employment Practices Act of 1978; hearing before an administrative law judge; provide | |
| Insurance; insurers providing policies for groups of 20 or more to furnish claims experience at the request of a group policyholder; require | |
| Judicial Retirement System; require certain counties to supplement retirement benefits paid to the circuit's superior court judges and district attorneys; require | |
| Bainbridge, City of; levy an excise tax | |
| Lamar County; school district ad valorem tax for educational purposes; provide exemption | |
| Domestic relations; process by which individuals may change their married surname to previous surname following divorce; provide | |
| Forest Park, City of; levy an excise tax | |
| Douglas County; Probate Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee | |
| Towns County; Board of Education; compensation of board; revise provisions | |
| Habersham County; Magistrate Court; authorize assessment and collection of technology fee | |
| Calhoun County; board of elections and registration; create | |
| Emanuel County; Probate Court judge also serves as chief magistrate judge of Magistrate Court; provide | |
| Columbia County; Magistrate Court; impose and collect county law library fees as part of court cost; authorize | |
| Menlo, City of; future mayors and councilmembers shall be elected to four-year terms of office; provide | |
| Bartow County; Probate Court; authorize assessment and collection of technology fee Versions |
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| Insurance, Department of; Office of the Safety Fire Commissioner; update practices | |
| Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; abolish | |
| Hospital Medicaid Financing Program; extend sunset provision | |
| Houston Judicial Circuit; provide for fourth judge | |
| Motor vehicles; require disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle upon receipt of notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of a positive drug test | |
| Adjutant General; include a roster of all commissioned officers in the organized militia in the annual report to the Governor; remove the requirement | |
| Development Authorities; the length of a director's hold-over period following expiration of term of office; limit | |
| State Government; employee representation by a labor organization for employers to receive certain economic development incentives from the state; provide requirements | |
| "Tax Expenditures Transparency Act of 2024"; enact | |
| Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; add commissioner of veterans service | |
| Juvenile Code; improve timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home; clarify requirements | |
| COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety; provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 liability claims; revise | |
| Nonprofit Corporations; enact "Donor Intent Protection Act"; provide definitions; charitable organizations from violating the terms of charitable contributions; prohibit | |
| Courts; property, and wills, trusts, and administration of estates; neither superior court nor a state court shall have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 5; clarify | |
| Minors; enter into the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children; definitions; provisions; provide | |
| Sexual Offender Risk Review Board; additional penalties for registered sexual offenders; provide | |
| Education; local boards of education which operate a school with grades nine through 12 may provide instruction in lifeguarding and aquatic safety; provide | |
| Hospitals and Related Institutions; required publication by hospital of certain financial documents on its website; provisions; revise | |
| Domestic Relations; provisions relating to income withholding orders; change and clarify | |
| City of Madison; mayor's vote when the city council is electing a mayor pro tempore; revise provisions | |
| Stalking; eligibility for restraining orders; revise | |
| Health; certificate of need; revise | |
| Income tax; limit eligibility for rural physician tax credit to physicians who qualify on or before December 31, 2023 | |
| Medical professionals; rural assistance; expand service cancelable loan program for health care providers to include dental students | |
| County Boards of Health; operational policies and procedures of the Department of Public Health apply to local personnel; provide | |
| Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide | |
| Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; student loan repayment for mental health and substance use professionals serving in certain capacities; provide | |
| Income tax; reduce rate of tax | |
| Income tax; increase amount of dependent exemption | |
| Income tax; match tax rate imposed on corporations to that imposed on individual taxpayers | |
| Agriculture, Department of; regulation and taxation of electricity used as motor fuel and electric vehicle charging stations; extend effective date of provisions | |
| Audits and Accounts, Department of; revise deadlines, selection criteria, and required contents for certain annual economic analyses | |
| Ad Valorem Taxation of Property; extension of preferential assessment periods for certain historic properties; provide | |
| Child Abuse Records; child abuse and neglect registries; authorize the disclosure | |
| Abatement of Nuisances; inclusion of claims against promoters and organizers for costs incurred by local governments due to unpermitted events: provide | |
| Haralson County; ad valorem tax; educational purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Chatsworth, City of; certain territory into boundaries of city; provide annexation | |
| City of Locust Grove; corporate limits of such city; change | |
| Baldwin County; staggered terms for the board of commissioners; provide | |
| Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; promulgate standards of conduct and rules for the commission's governance; provide | |
| Highways, Bridges, and Ferries; duties when death results from an accident upon a highway in certain instances; allow for delegation. | |
| Woodstock, City of; homestead exemption; provide residency requirement | |
| Terrell County; Probate Court judge also serves as chief magistrate judge of Magistrate Court; provide | |
| Baldwin County; board of commissioners; provide staggered terms | |
| Baldwin County; board of elections and registration; create | |
| Miller County, State Court; abolish | |
| Chattooga County; ad valorem taxes for county purposes; provide homestead exemption | |
| Cherokee County School District; full value exemption for senior and disabled residents; provide | |
| State Government; meetings and public hearings of development authorities and community improvement districts to be held by teleconference; permit | |
| City of Mulberry; incorporate | |
| State government; definition of antisemitism; provide | |
| City of Port Wentworth; to levy an excise tax; authorize | |
| Board of Education of Cobb County; education districts; change the description |