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Georgia House clears slate of bills on rules calendar, including measures on taxes, education and campus Narcan
Summary
After opening with prayer and ceremonial recognitions, the Georgia House passed a batch of bills on Feb. 18, 2026, approving statutory corrections, tax parity for volunteer fire departments, expanded tuition grants for nursing education, a foster-child autism screening pilot, and a requirement for opioid antagonists on university campuses.
ATLANTA — The Georgia House of Representatives passed a series of bills on Thursday during a lengthy rules-calendar session that covered corrections to statutory references, taxation parity for volunteer fire services, new measures for student and public health, and other procedural motions.
Representative Corbett presented a narrow fix to a cross-reference in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated relating to the Georgia Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advisory Board and described the measure as "a simple bill" to correct a scrivener's error; the House approved the measure by recorded vote (yays 164, nays 0).
Representative Chaz Cannon urged the House to treat independently contracted volunteer fire departments the same as municipal departments for ad valorem taxation. "Both are performing the same service for the public," Cannon said, introducing House Bill 964, which passed after debate on fiscal impact (yays 164, nays 4).
The chamber approved several public-health and…
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