07/14/2026
🚨🚨🚨 New Georgia Laws went in effect July 1🚨🚨🚨
1. You pay an application fee and get denied to live in that apartment, ya get ya money back!!! They cant charge any more than 2 months rent either!! (OCGA 44-7-30.1)
3. You can take your cocktails to go from restaurants (SB 236 (ix))
4. New tax credit for kids, I think 5 and under
is $250, up to 50% credit for qualified child care (HB 136)
5. Every school bus will now have cameras. (HB 344)
6. No more bounce houses if wind is over 15mph (120-3-27)
7. More in depth background for daycares fingerprinting and checking for registered child abusers and s*x offenders.. (How tf was this not a thing?!?!) (HB 175)
8. Disabled Vets can now apply for 2 additional free license plates (HB 208)
9. Storage units have to notify you once a week for two weeks before auctioning off property (HB 131)
10. If you get convicted of trafficking fentanyl they done upped the price and increased the sentence (SB 79)
11. 75 extra million to schools since were so dumb aka low on the education pole (HB 371)
12. Funeral homes can now dispose of the body organically… ya’ll can read more into that (HB 241)
13. Income tax lowered to 4.99% (HB 111)
14. Child can not be expelled from a public school for having excessive absentees (family counseling, family safety plan in place, and converse with parents) (SB 123)
15. If your landlord lives out of state there must be a property manager in state to address any landlord related communications (HB 399)
16. K-8th grade must keep cell phones stowed away during school hours and no social media on school computers (HB 340)
17. $2000 raise to teachers $6000 raise to law enforcement. Public school nurses, nutrition workers, and bus drivers 5.1% raise (HB 916)
18. HOPE scholarship will now pay 100% tuition (HB 19)
19. Homeowners $500 property tax rebates (HB 112)
20. 2hrs unpaid time off to vote on Election Day (Georgia Code 21-2-404)
21. Minors can sell things like lemonade without a permit or incurring taxes (SB 55)
22. No social media under 16 without parents approval (SB 351)
23. School systems should not have a school bus stop requiring children to cross a road of 40mph or more (HB 409)
24. Felony offense for grooming a minor and new penalties for offenses related to child s*x abuse material (HB 993)
25. You can use a digital copy of your license, not required to have a physical license. (Front and back picture is just fine) (HB 296)
26. From K-College if your child is transgender they have to use the bathroom, lockeroom, play SPORTS, etc. relating to their biological s*x. (SB 1)
27. If a crime is committed during your abuse or trafficking there will be a sentence reduction (HB 582)
28. Falsely reporting a bomb threat can be punishable up to 15 years (get ya kids and sit them down cuz it ain’t a joke) (Georgia Code 16-10-28 & SB 421)
29. Homeowners can press misdemeanor trespassing charges and seek fines for rent against folks staying in house without permission (no more squatters) (HB 1017)
30. Misdemeanor and $250 for attending drag racing event. Drag racers face felony charges punishable up to 5years (SB 10)
31. WE CAN NOW SUE TELEMARKETING FROM 3rd PARTY CONTRACTORS!!! (SB 73)
32. $1000 fine up to 12 months in jail for driving past a school bus actively picking up children (HB 344)
33. Beauticians who apply makeup and blow dry hair do not need a license. (SB 354)
34. No more cottage license required for home baked goods (must follow listed food items, nonperishable) (HB 398)
