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Votes at a glance: Georgia House actions on March 28, 2025
Summary
A roundup of final actions and notable floor motions taken by the Georgia House on March 28, 2025, including passage of several bills, unanimous local calendar passage, and the House disagreeing to a Senate amendment on judicial pay.
The Georgia House took final action on multiple bills and resolutions on March 28, 2025. Below is a concise summary of motions, votes and outcomes recorded on the floor.
Key floor outcomes
- House Bill 428 (in vitro fertilization language): House agreed to the Senate substitute to House Bill 428 (codifying access language related to in‑vitro fertilization and related legal language changes). Vote recorded on the floor: yeas 160, nays 0. (Presenter: Representative Franklin.)
- Senate Bill 180 (high‑demand apprenticeship): Passed on third reading after floor explanation. Vote: yeas 158, nays 0. The bill expands who may apply under the high‑demand apprenticeship program to include apprenticeship sponsors and trade associations, according to the floor presentation. (Presenter: Representative Matt Dubnick.)
- Local calendar (multiple local bills relating largely to homestead exemptions and local charters): The House passed the local calendar as a whole on a recorded vote; the yays were 160, nays 0. These were uncontested local bills that require a two‑thirds roll call for passage.
- Senate Bill 245 (grandparents visitation): Passed on the floor by recorded vote; the yeas were 160, nays 1. Sponsors described the measure as allowing grandparents who already have visitation rights to request revisions under certain circumstances (incarceration, death, disability of a parent) at most once every two years and requiring clear and convincing evidence that visitation is in the child’s best interest. (Presenter: Representative Townsend.)
- Senate Bill 147 (reentry documents and support for inmates exiting custody): Passed 163-0. The bill directs coordination for providing state‑issued identification, birth certificate copies and records to support employment for persons exiting incarceration, among other items, according to the chairman presenting the bill. (Presenter: Chairman Werkheiser.)
- House Bill 584 (Senate substitute): The House agreed to the Senate substitute to House Bill 584 (transferring regulation and mandatory reporting for certain behavioral health facilities from the Department of Community Health to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities). Vote: yeas 163, nays 0. (Presenter: Chairman Petrie.)
- House Bill 86 (judicial pay): The House disagreed to the Senate amendment to House Bill 86 and immediately transmitted the House position back to the Senate following the disagreement. The chair stated the disagreement is meant to preserve the House’s original approach to judicial pay and to allow more study of a late amendment that touched executive branch pay provisions. (Mover: Chairman Leverett.)
Other notes
- Several ceremonial resolutions and recognitions were adopted by unanimous consent or voice vote; these included recognitions for community groups, athletic teams and visiting delegations.
- Multiple members used morning and afternoon orders to recognize constituents, nonprofits and local achievements; those ceremonial remarks do not change policy but were recorded on the floor.
For the floor record: the local calendar passage and multiple unanimous recorded votes show the House passed several noncontroversial items quickly, while contested, higher‑impact policy items such as Senate Bill 79 (fentanyl trafficking penalties) drew extended debate and separate coverage.
Votes below list each formal action and the vote tally noted on the House floor.
