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Session
The 2026 legislative session began on January 12, 2026 and ends April 2, 2026.
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Weekly Reports
Each week our lobbyist firm, Peachtree Government Relations prepares weekly legislative reports for our members. These reports contain important updates about session, committees, and state-wide offices.
January 11, 2026 | Pre Session
The 2026 Georgia legislative session will begin January 12, run for 40 days through late March or early April, occur during a highly political election year, and is expected to address major issues such as tax reform, foster care, medical marijuana, artificial intelligence, and spending the state’s budget surplus.
Week 2
The second week of Georgia’s 2026 legislative session focused heavily on budget hearings, with agencies outlining major funding proposals for elections security, emergency management, public safety staffing and facilities, transportation upgrades, housing and homelessness programs, environmental monitoring, and natural resources projects.
Week 3
During the third week of Georgia’s 2026 legislative session, lawmakers advanced major property-tax reform proposals aimed at expanding homestead exemptions, revising school funding formulas, extending local option sales taxes, and imposing new revenue and budget caps on local governments.
Week 4
On Thursday, February 5th, The House passed HB 973, the supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026. The Amended FY2026 budget is now on the Senate side, where Appropriations Subcommittee hearings will continue next week until the upper chamber passes their version of the bill.
Week 5
The fifth week of the 2026 Georgia legislative session is now behind us and several big developments, especially with regards to scaling back the state income tax, have occurred. These bills, alongside the House’s homestead exemption efforts, await further action in the General Assembly’s lower chamber.
Week 6
The 2026 Amended Fiscal Budget passed out of both the House and Senate and is on the Governor’s desk. This week and next week the chambers are taking up as much of their own respective legislation ahead of Crossover next Friday. After Crossover, the Senate will not be able to pass Senate bills out of the Senate Committee and the House will not be able to pass out House bills from their respective chamber committees.
Week 7: Crossover Week
From Monday, March 2nd to Friday, March 6th, candidates wishing to appear on their respective race’s primary ballot needed to show up to the Capitol building to qualify with the Secretary of State. As expected, most of the major political names and political incumbents showed up to qualify. Here are some of the key qualifying week developments within the state legislature:
Week 8:
Only five legislative days remain in the 2026 session and it is do or die for the legislation that hasn’t made it across the finish line. Several bills saw action this week, including Governor Kemp signing a 60 day gas tax suspension which will save drivers 33 cents per gallon. On Friday, the Governor also signed a $9.7 billion return to certain taxpayers, giving those who are eligible a rebate of up to $500. The Senate Appropriations Committee is still ironing out their version of the FY 2027
budget; we expect them to release it as early as next week.
Week 9:
Two days remain in the 2026 legislative session and lawmakers are pushing to get their bills to the floor. Next week, there will be no Committee Work Days, meaning that Tuesday and Thursday are the final chances for bills introduced during the 2025-2026 biennium.
