ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers nonetheless have many choices forward on Friday, the final day of their 2025 legislative session. They might comply with ban range efforts in public faculties and faculties, change how automated pace enforcement cameras work at school zones, and grant a brand new $250 state earnings tax credit score for fogeys of kids age 5 and underneath.
It’s the final day for laws to cross the Common Meeting and go to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto.
Some prime proposals gained last passage earlier, together with Kemp’s effort to restrict lawsuits and a college security invoice that got here as a response to final 12 months’s taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive Faculty. Lawmakers additionally already agreed to earnings tax cuts and rebates.
Measures that don’t cross Friday may very well be thought-about once more subsequent 12 months as a result of 2025 is the primary 12 months of a two-year session.
Awaiting motion Friday
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION: Georgia’s public faculties and faculties can be banned from having any packages or actions that advocate for range, fairness and inclusion underneath Home Invoice 127.
SPEED ZONE CAMERAS: Georgia would both ban automated pace enforcement cameras at school zones underneath Home Invoice 225 or additional regulate them underneath Home Invoice 651.
CHILD TAX CREDIT: Mother and father of kids age 5 and underneath might declare a $250 state earnings tax credit score underneath Home Invoice 136, which additionally expands the state earnings tax credit score for baby care bills.
REGULATION RESTRICTION: Senate Invoice 28 would give lawmakers extra oversight over laws created by state companies.
LIBRARY CRIMES: Librarians in public libraries, Okay-12 faculties and faculties might face prosecution if they supply sexually specific supplies to minors underneath Home Invoice 483.
IMMIGRATION: Senate Invoice 21 would take away authorized protections and let individuals sue governments and authorities officers who don’t observe Georgia legal guidelines requiring cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
GUN TAX BREAKS: Home Invoice 79 would provide a four-day gross sales tax vacation on weapons, ammunition and security units, whereas providing earnings tax credit of as much as $300 for paying for gun security programs.
CLARENCE THOMAS STATUE: The state would put up a privately financed statue of U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice and Georgia native Clarence Thomas underneath Home Invoice 254.
ELECTIONS: Georgia’s secretary of state can be required to go away a bipartisan group that lets officers share information to maintain voter rolls correct underneath Home Invoice 397 and Senate Invoice 175.
PUBLIC RECORDS: Senate Invoice 12 would exempt Georgia state legislators and police departments from some necessities to reveal public data.
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: State and native governments wouldn’t be capable of “considerably burden” an individual’s spiritual freedom underneath Senate Invoice 36, however opponents say it might allow discrimination.
INCOME TAXES: An already-planned state earnings tax reduce might be accelerated underneath Home Invoice 111, giving the state a flat 5.19% earnings tax price retroactive to Jan. 1. And Georgians will get earnings tax rebates between $250 and $500 underneath Home Invoice 112.
HURRICANE AID: Home and Senate members agreed to spend greater than $850 million on support after Hurricane Helene did billions of {dollars} of injury in Georgia in September.
LAWSUIT LIMITS: Senate Invoice 68 would make it more durable to carry lawsuits and win massive verdicts whereas Senate Invoice 69 limits who can finance lawsuits.
SCHOOL CELLPHONES: Public college college students in kindergarten by way of eighth grade can be banned from utilizing cellphones in the course of the college day underneath Home Invoice 340.
TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: Each Senate Invoice 1 would ban transgender women and girls from taking part in ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities, whereas Senate Invoice 185 would ban the state from paying for gender-affirming look after prisoners.
AMERICA FIRST LICENSE PLACE: Senate Invoice 291 would create an America First license plate for Georgia automobiles.
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SPORTS BETTING: Georgians would have gotten an opportunity in 2026 to vote on a state constitutional modification authorizing sports activities playing underneath Home Decision 450.