Delivering Results for Georgians

Georgia House Republicans focused on protecting Georgians – protecting their pocketbooks from high costs and bad actors, protecting children while in school, and protecting families and their rights to live freely.

We're focused on delivering legislation that directly impacts the budgets, businesses, and quality of life of every Georgian. 

ECONOMIC RELIEF

In recent years, Georgia has passed more than $8 billion in relief for Georgia taxpayers. Building off this success, Georgia Republicans have championed legislation to provide tax relief and rebates, provide storm recovery funding, and reform litigation laws that will help drive down costs for consumers. This year, the House passed legislation to:

• Bring balance to our courtrooms by preserving victims’ rights while eliminating incentives for frivolous lawsuits and prohibiting third-party litigation funded by foreign influences, helping stabilize high insurance costs and lower the “tort tax” every Georgian pays when the courts are abused (SB 68 and SB 69). 
• Cut income taxes by $800 million, lowering the income tax rate to 5.19% immediately - and ultimately below 5% (HB 111), as well as another $1 billion rebate for taxpayers (HB 112)
• Fund over $800 million in Hurricane Helene relief (HB 67) as well as making relief non-taxable so that Georgians can rebuild effectively after the damages caused by the hurricane (HB 223)
• Champion property tax relief as overwhelmingly approved by the voters in November - and give local governments another chance to make the right decision for taxpayers (HB 92)

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND AFFORDABILITY

Georgia House Republicans have invested in our state’s healthcare infrastructure to ensure Georgians in all counties have access to quality, affordable healthcare. In addition to passing historic tort reform legislation to limit unfair lawsuits that can devastate medical providers, House Republicans passed legislation to:

• Invest $8.8 million in new funding towards maternal health including $2.9 million to expand the home visiting program from 50 to 75 counties (HB 68)
• Deliver $7.4 million in new funding for graduate medical education (HB 68)
• Protect a family’s access to in-vitro fertilization (HB 872)
• Bring Georgia patients relief from high drug costs and ensure independent pharmacists are not reimbursed below cost (HB 196)
   
  

PUBLIC SAFETY

In years past, House Republicans have invested in increased pay for state law enforcement officers to recruit and retain public safety personnel and we have done our part at the state level to protect all Georgians from the effects of a reckless, open border.  This Session, House Republicans continued these investments and passed legislation to:

• Strengthen Georgia’s prison system to keep gangs from running operations while behind bars (HB 67 and HB 68)
• Invest in the next generation of 9-1-1 services to enable the use of phone calls, texts, and multimedia messages by emergency responders and improve response times (HB 423)
• Create and fund a program to empower and require schools to transfer the records of students from school to school, which we know was a key failure that could have prevented the Apalachee School Shooting (HB 68)

EDUCATION

Georgia Republicans have continually invested in teacher pay raises, school security funding, and school choice. This year, House Republicans are advancing additional school safety measures and ensuring our kids are safe in the classroom and on the field, and have the resources they need to succeed. The House championed legislation to: 



• Fund $162 million for additional school security grants to K-12 public schools to improve school safety (HB 67 and HB 68)
• Fund a statewide literacy initiative to improve reading outcomes for students in grades K-5, including new literacy coaches and universal reading screeners  (HB 68 and HB 307)
• Keep cell phones out of K-8 classrooms (HB 340)
• Prevent biological men and boys from playing in women's and girls' sports (SB 1, known as “The Riley Gaines Act”)

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