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Supporters said the bill protects voters from realistic deepfakes and last-minute manipulations. \"If no one can believe what they see, whose First Amendment rights have been taken away?\" Representative Brad Thomas, who presented the bill, said on the floor. The measure passed 152–12.

The bill targets audio and visual files, not text, and requires prosecutors to prove a high bar: the defendant knowingly uploaded and disseminated media that (1) depicts real persons in speech or conduct that did not occur, (2) appears authentic to a reasonable observer, and (3) was distributed with the intent to deceive within 90 days of an election. Under the adopted language, a first offense is a misdemeanor; a second offense becomes a felony. The bill explicitly exempts satire and parody and allows the use of AI if a clear disclosure label states the content is AI-generated. Minor image edits and routine image-enhancement that do not change an observer's understanding are also excluded.

Opponents warned that the measure risked chilling speech and criticized the 90-day timeframe. Representative Charlice Byrd said the bill was \"an attack on our rights,\" calling it a potential tool for censorship. Other opponents questioned who would determine whether content was \"deceptive.\" Supporters, including Representatives Tran, Sanchez and Beckles, said the bill is narrowly tailored to prevent election interference and preserves parody and legitimate uses of AI.

The House adopted a rules committee substitute prior to final passage. Debate on the floor included multiple members pressing for clarification about minor edits, disclaimers, whether text-based AI is covered (it is not), and the technical scope (visual and audio only). Several proponents noted related laws in other states and said the measure had been drafted to withstand First Amendment review.

The bill instructs that labeled AI content is not deceptive for purposes of the statute. It also sets the 90-day pre-election window as the period when the prohibitions apply. Sponsors said that timeframe focuses enforcement on last-minute election interference while limiting constitutional risk.

The measure now goes to the governor.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Session Day 36 03.27.25","oneSentenceSummary","The Georgia House on Thursday passed Senate Bill 9, criminalizing knowingly distributed AI-generated or materially altered audio or visual media intended to deceive voters within 90 days of an election, 152–12.","taxTitle","HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Georgia","taxId",15505,"location","Georgia","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6621652,"Votes at a glance: House passes range of bills on health, education, courts and commerce",1097,16586000,17683000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d&start=16586&end=17683","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d/thumbnail_16586000.jpg","/articles/6621652/Georgia/Votes-at-a-glance-House-passes-range-of-bills-on-health-education-courts-and-commerce","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6621652-e8f3d9ee0a8ca81ec22d2e22ebb5de42/orig.mp4?Expires=1771150886&Signature=EjcfnJ054pWIpiAC3I97a9VqYT9N2jWOsU3mgIWdbCla12tdQn5u2MsDrL5mSPXpIE5bNDiTrH~SmBdlgxKu7-Ak1oz1Oy9mPVdBSr1ub6F4BDOVf84~mXj-KlE-hvTkgJB-NzvOfsc4rlbo1oQydRC3wnpYsiNFuVYb75QV9oeaXNkeQDfyIOmb~q~BcqNpHAgqCHrKMJGdqaUkd0d4yT3Kl-IRxNdgjpfwnKAc2Gw8KS-VuTOnaDYD4GaFAQd~6IG54tsoTGYQg~X7XiwBddz3e5e9jdf8jTURqziJESsxeeTyXuVX77JO965ca0SYuiTsHzYlAJkZZXnKvH6OUQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Georgia House on Thursday passed a series of bills with largely brief floor consideration. Summaries and final House votes for key bills follow.

- Senate Bill 72 (\"Hope for Georgia Patients Act\") — adds provisions to the state Right to Try framework for terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and devices, with liability releases for physicians and manufacturers noted in the text. Passed the House 161–0.

- Senate Bill 63 — allows homeschooled students to take college-preparatory tests (PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP, etc.) at their locally zoned public schools; districts must publish registration information and homeschoolers pay any student fees; House passage 166–0.

- Senate Bill 69 — regulates third-party litigation financing: creates definitions, requires registration of financiers, disallows foreign adversary financiers, makes financing agreements discoverable in litigation, and exempts traditional contingency-fee arrangements. Passed 98–69.

- Senate Bill 105 — authorizes licensed Georgia veterinarians and veterinary technicians to provide veterinary tele-advice and clarifies teletriage versus diagnosis; also creates a pathway for foreign veterinary graduates to teach/practice under conditions. Passed 168–0.

- Senate Bill 56 — authorizes the Department of Administrative Services to purchase annuities for the Georgia State Indemnification Fund to pay claims and establishes a presumption of qualification for certain COVID-19 deaths for the fund; passed 165–0.

- Senate Bill 40 — updates requirements and removes a sunset on the secondary metals recycler statutes (targeting catalytic-converter and copper theft), clarifies registration fees and enforcement; passed 159–3.

- House Bill 53 — House agreed to Senate substitute to expand eligibility for burial in Georgia veteran cemeteries; House agreed 163–0.

- House Bill 58 — House agreed to Senate substitute (and adopted House amendment) clarifying local authority to restrict unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings with specified owner exceptions; House agreed 162–1.

- House Bill 92 — House agreed to Senate substitute (cleanup to prior property-tax relief measures) with local opt-out and school sales-tax rebate elements; agreed 165–0.

- House Bill 475 — Senate amendment clarifies that film tax credit application fees go to the state general fund; the House agreed to the amendment 159–2.

Votes recorded on the floor match the tallies recorded in the clerk's announcements. Where bills create new programs (for example, SB63 or SB105) implementation will require agency rules or appropriation as noted in each caption; several measures were described on the floor as subject to appropriations or implementation rules.

Several other resolutions and local bills were read and assigned to committees during the session; the House recessed until 4:00 p.m. and adjourned to reconvene on March 28, 2025.","Alongside debated measures, the House approved a package of bills on patient access to experimental treatments, homeschool testing access, litigation-finance regulation, veterinary telemedicine, state indemnification payments, recyclers rules and several house bills; vote counts and key provisions listed.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6621655,"House extends and expands Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission to include people with lived addiction experience",540,12963000,13503000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d&start=12963&end=13503","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d/thumbnail_12963000.jpg","/articles/6621655/Georgia/House-extends-and-expands-Behavioral-Health-Reform-and-Innovation-Commission-to-include-people-with-lived-addiction-experience","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6621655-e138a250a73784d8e82fdbf7037b09f7/orig.mp4?Expires=1771150886&Signature=kFJcY3~yyiNXR6~vtYsWI9j9-MbZHs9w6J4Z58NfynEopI8B6tQyPYJWdGPB6OVR6NzX1ZuLHBxWy0v3TuVfcMJ5ckY3Q8986rkaDX8aNuqZaxWJVLaJq6RQePM0ir5-xhQEsnypXkTgICWQPZxzZIz5b-gaNcJa5Ua-OVwn2jhmFj8IV~lebnbnZBj3l6FIG59Rp0g4VXZ5wknp~Nv-LCHiNrPXURmBOA162ztEMhIs1OrM-YafjoFn6u4aYArjw5hbrafZ9YYGMrHxb6mRj-pTwrRDNu4qZwXkH7JxLpTXgdlVuOOa82jRzoZRwMlALWHGh7OZgiHr~B5Bp2bAeA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Georgia House approved Senate Bill 233 on Thursday to extend the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission and add six members drawn from people with lived experience of substance use disorder or family members who lost an immediate relative to overdose. The vote was 164–2.

Representative Sharon Cooper presented the bill and said the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities requested the change to make the commission more representative; the commission previously centered clinical and professional expertise and the change adds people in or affected by recovery to subcommittees and the full commission.

Sponsor testimony indicated the commission currently had 24 members and the bill expands membership to 30. The added seats are specifically listed in the statutory language to include people who have survived addiction or who have lost immediate family members to drug overdose or fentanyl poisoning. Supporters said adding lived experience would strengthen policy recommendations. Representative Park Cannon and Representative Mary Margaret Oliver spoke in favor; Oliver described the commission's bipartisan record and said it had helped secure more than $500 million in new mental-health funding in recent years.

The House adopted the committee recommendations and passed the bill. The measure extends the commission for an additional year and preserves the commission's subcommittee structure while adding the specified lived-experience appointments. The bill now goes to the governor.","The House voted to extend the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission and add six seats specifically reserved for individuals with lived experience of addiction or those who lost immediate family to an overdose.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6621660,"House approves Georgia Foster Care Scholarship Act to fund college for former foster youth",461,7238000,7699000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d&start=7238&end=7699","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2800741-4f53131644b17a750af122ebaefc0b4d/thumbnail_7238000.jpg","/articles/6621660/Georgia/House-approves-Georgia-Foster-Care-Scholarship-Act-to-fund-college-for-former-foster-youth","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6621660-68e7c8a11a5dbf7b9ad2287545b94a0c/orig.mp4?Expires=1771150886&Signature=ZoyUu83Hr-XPzZDK4lxwd1xacQQIPl1jiJJYscPJRBbohvd89B9VZh9ZMZF4ZlSwtoul1XgM-PrMqf4q3zbOGMQg7FpgAfndxEKTQfKThKMRIOC9iGfk~0yklTgUm5Ub5uiUWAItiw66uFW78~SQUn0TI1TjrIcQQ9TNqwxx9Wrv98zYwLCXJYrjabJ9QOtDBK-eNb5cXxAe1UlP4X3UNGYkH~aiUNU29AvE5vhtqNTcR4bpj-mNju~5enqzD4sObOGw~KlFF5KeXPWCVvxxXCdd4R5gSP7~zXMgCzBwqaQrVBUFxAeCN-bsQYJJPiV3AgoaRgPFZN9k2IWYjsPCSg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Georgia House voted Thursday to approve Senate Bill 85, creating the Georgia Foster Care Scholarship Act to provide grants for undergraduate education to former foster youth. The measure passed 166–2.

The program makes grants available to students under age 26 who were in foster care for at least six months after reaching age 14, or otherwise meet the bill's eligibility rules. The scholarship can be used at any HOPE-eligible institution in Georgia and covers tuition, room, board and books, reduced by other federal and state grant aid; no grant may exceed $30,000 in a single year. Funding for the program is subject to annual appropriation.

Supporters, including Representative Butch Parish and Representative Park Cannon, described the measure as a targeted way to remove a major financial barrier for youth who aged out of foster care. \"These young individuals face many obstacles that can make educational attainment seem insurmountable,\" Representative Park Cannon told the House. Lawmakers who spoke in favor urged steady legislative commitment to fund the scholarships in future budgets.

Representative Moore, a member of the House, praised the bill as a measure that could change life trajectories for many Georgians. The floor debate included multiple supportive questions and confirmed the bill was limited to undergraduate grants and included an age cap and duration restrictions. The House adopted the committee substitute and passed the bill on the floor. The bill now goes to the governor.","The House passed Senate Bill 85 to create a grant program covering tuition, room, board and other costs for eligible former foster youth, subject to annual appropriation and a $30,000 per-year cap.","actionData","errors"]

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