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Votes at a glance: key House floor actions Feb. 24, 2025
Summary
Summary of bills that received final votes on the Georgia House floor during the Feb. 24, 2025 legislative day, including outcomes and brief descriptions.
The Georgia House recorded final actions on a number of bills during the rules calendar on Feb. 24, 2025. Below are the items taken up on the floor, the outcomes reported by the clerk, and short descriptions drawn from the bill captions and floor presentations.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 307 (literacy updates; dyslexia definitions; Literacy Coach Coordination Committee): Passed; clerk announced yeas 166, nays 0.
- House Bill 423 (NextGen 9‑1‑1; assign procurement/oversight to GEMA/Homeland Security): Passed; clerk announced yeas 163, nays 0.
- House Bill 475 (amend Georgia film/digital production tax credit language; clarifications): Passed; clerk announced yeas 161, nays 2.
- House Bill 495 (transfer Georgia Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation to Department of Agriculture): Passed; clerk announced yeas 167, nays 0.
- House Bill 66 (amend TAVT definition of rental motor vehicle; titling/tax timing for certain vehicles): Passed; clerk announced yeas 164, nays 2.
- House Bill 377 (manufactured homes: limited exceptions converting manufactured home to real property to encourage credit availability): Passed; clerk announced yeas 166, nays 0.
- House Bill 422 (state employees’ insurance: high‑deductible/health savings account payroll pre‑tax contributions): Passed; clerk announced yeas 163, nays 0.
- House Bill 373 (major‑medical coverage for annual prostate cancer screening for certain high‑risk men): Passed; clerk announced yeas 164, nays 1.
- House Bill 240 (consumer protections for trigger leads / mortgage solicitation): Passed; clerk reading recorded the yeas as "160 165" in the transcript (tally not clearly specified in the floor text); committee and sponsor reported favorable passage.
- House Bill 303 (monument honoring the Original 33 Reconstruction‑era legislators): Passed; clerk announced yeas 167, nays 0.
Other floor actions
- House Bill 529 was recommitted to the Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee at the request of Representative Dickey; the chair ordered recommittal with no recorded objection.
Notes on vote tallies and transcript clarity: vote tallies are recorded verbatim from the clerk’s floor announcements. In one instance (House Bill 240) the transcript entry reads the tally as “the yeas are 160 165,” which is ambiguous in the floor record. Where the transcript contained a clear roll‑call announcement, that figure is reported above.
Why this matters: The items above include education, public safety, health‑care coverage, rural economic policy, taxation and housing‑related changes. House passage advances these bills to the Senate or, where applicable, to further implementation steps.
