Georgia House adopts property easements, moves bills and passes measures on rules calendar

The Georgia House of Representatives on Feb. 10 adopted a pair of rules-calendar resolutions authorizing state property conveyances and easements, passed two bills and approved committee reassignments before adjourning.

Representative Gerald Green presented House Resolution 10 50, a State Properties Committee-backed measure authorizing conveyance and lease of specified state-owned parcels in multiple counties. The House adopted the resolution unanimously; the clerk recorded 165 yeas and 0 nays.

Green next presented House Resolution 10 51, authorizing 22 nonexclusive easements for construction, operation and maintenance of utilities, roads and ingress/egress over state-owned property across several counties. The resolution passed unanimously (yeas 166, nays 0).

On the rules calendar the House considered and passed House Bill 9 44, a measure to amend code provisions governing safe operation of motor carriers and hazardous materials. Representative Lauren McDonald, who presented the bill, described the change as procedural: "All we're doing here is changing the date, the annual date from 2025 to 2026." A point of inquiry was raised about an agency acronym (MCCD); the Speaker said the Senate would review that discrepancy. The bill passed (yeas 162, nays 4).

Also on the rules calendar, Representative Werkheiser presented House Bill 10 15 to revise funded-level thresholds for the Self-Insurers Guaranty Trust Fund, overseen by the state workers' compensation board. Werkheiser said the update responds to inflation since the levels were last set decades ago, explaining: "So we're raising the floor from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 and raising the ceiling from 15,000,000 to 25,000,000." The House passed the bill (yeas 165, nays 3).

Floor motions moving two bills to different committees were approved by voice without objection. Representative Lumsden moved that House Bill 8 68 be withdrawn from the Insurance Committee and recommitted to Governmental Affairs; both committee chairs agreed. Representative Douglas moved that House Bill 11 22 be withdrawn from the Insurance Committee and recommitted to the Health Committee; that motion also was ordered without objection.

Clerk actions recorded numerous first- and second-reading captions earlier in the morning; standing committee chairs reported recommendations on multiple bills. The House adopted a long slate of privileged resolutions recognizing people and observance days and honored the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation with a special resolution and remarks from Farm Bureau president Tom McCall.

The House stood adjourned on a motion from the majority leader until 10 a.m. Feb. 11.

What happens next: Bills that passed will proceed to the next step specified in the legislative process; Representative McDonald noted an outstanding item (the MCCD acronym) that the Senate will examine.

Sources: Feb. 10, 2026 session of the Georgia House of Representatives, floor proceedings and vote announcements.