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Senate Rules Committee advances a broad package of bills, voting unanimously to send them on

Georgia Senate Rules Committee · March 20, 2026

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Summary

The Senate Rules Committee on March 19 advanced a bundled set of bills covering tax changes, public-safety measures, licensing reforms and other items, voting unanimously to pass a package and refer several measures to standing committees.

The Georgia Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously March 19 to advance a package of bills to standing committees after a rules-calendar hearing that included short presentations on more than a dozen measures.

Chair (speaking as chair) listed the measures included in the package and called for a motion to pass. Committee members approved a block motion to advance HB 61; HB 541; HB 907; HB 946; HB 987; HB 1086; HB 1097; HB 1181; HB 1182; HB 1192; HB 1261; HB 1268; HB 1329; HB 1374 and House resolutions 1050 and 1051. The chair announced, “Motion carries unanimous.”

Why it matters: the package spans tax and privacy proposals, public-safety measures and licensing reforms. Among the bills included are measures to adjust tax exemptions for utility inventory, a taxpayer-privacy proposal restricting disclosure of telephone numbers in property-tax records, amendments moving certain professional licensing responsibilities to the secretary of state’s office, and bills addressing firefighters’ safety signage.

What happened in committee: lawmakers each gave brief presentations on their bills before the chair moved the package. Under the adopted procedure, the committee used a single motion to advance the listed bills rather than separate roll calls for each measure. The committee also referred HB 328 to a standing committee by unanimous consent.

Next steps: The bills advanced by the Rules Committee are now scheduled for consideration in their respective standing committees. For each measure, committee proponents said further hearings and floor consideration will follow the usual committee-referral process.