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GA HB485

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/6/2025

Primary Sponsor

Bill Yearta

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Repeals unfunded provisions enacted prior to 2013, including regulations on prescription medication integrity, Agent Orange veteran reports, TASER training requirements, and Georgia Composite Medical Board disciplinary publication requirements.

  • Removes Code sections previously held unconstitutional, including provisions on disrupting lawful meetings, criminal street gang evidence rules, profane vehicle stickers, and cross-boundary garbage transportation restrictions.

  • Updates outdated federal law references throughout the Georgia Code, replacing "No Child Left Behind Act" with "Every Student Succeeds Act" and "Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975" with "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act."

  • Revises terminology from "trout streams" to "trout waters" across environmental buffer requirements, maintaining 50-foot buffers for primary trout waters and 25-foot buffers for small springs averaging 25 gallons per minute or less.

  • Corrects unconstitutional provisions in traffic violation bureau jurisdiction, income tax penalties (capping failure-to-pay fines at $1,000), and local occupation tax authority while requiring public hearings before adoption of occupation tax ordinances.

Legislative Description

Official Code of Georgia Annotated; various provisions enacted prior to 2013 which are contingent upon funding and which remain unfunded; repeal

Last Action

Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

2/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Government Oversight3/10/2025
Code Revision2/19/2025

Full Bill Text

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