Last week, House Speaker Jon Burns (R-Newington) announced appointments to the Georgia House of Representatives’ 2025 study committees. These committees will meet throughout the interim, hear from experts, stakeholders and the public and compile a report of specific findings or legislative recommendations ahead of the 2026 legislative session.

The Georgia House of Representatives commended the
City of Chattahoochee Hills on March 11th for its “steadfast dedication to sustainability, environmental preservation, and community development.”
City leaders and students were in attendance at the
State Capitol for the inaugural “Chattahoochee Hills Day at
the Capitol,” invited by Representative Robert Dawson who
serves District 65 in the State House of Representatives.

A rush of voting concludes final day of 2025 legislative session

A bill that would ban the use of speed cameras in school zones in Georgia cleared the House Tuesday and now heads to the Senate for consideration.

House Bill 225, sponsored by Representative Dale Washburn, was introduced earlier this year with a whopping 96 co-sponsors. The unmanned cameras have drawn the ire of Georgians and made headlines over their flawed calibration systems and the optics of policing for profit. In many communities, the cameras are generating tens of thousands of dollars in revenue every month. Opponents of the systems argue they do little to impact public safety since violation letters are mailed to the owner of a vehicle 30 days after an alleged violation occurs. Additionally, the violations are tied to the vehicle registration, not the person who was driving the vehicle at the time of alleged violation.

ATLANTA - In the debate over what to do with school zone speed cameras popping up all over Georgia, the state House of Representatives has approved two solutions to the same problem. On Tuesday, lawmakers approved one bill that outlaws the cameras – overturning the 2018 law that allowed automated ticketing systems near schools. The other bill would let them stay, but with a list of restrictions on when they can operate, how to warn oncoming traffic and what can be done with the proceeds. But the...

State Representative Robert Dawson (D-Atlanta) was sworn into office as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives on Monday, January 13, 2025, marking his first day of the 2025-2026 legislative term.

Lawmakers from across Georgia will reconvene under the capitol’s iconic gold dome in January for the start of a new biennium.

This year, 21 new legislators will be joining the veteran members of the Georgia General Assembly, as a spate of lawmakers announced their retirement at the end of the 2024 legislative session and others lost their seats in primary upsets.

When lawmakers reconvene at the state Capitol on Jan. 13, there’ll be a cadre of new faces in the 236-member Georgia General Assembly, one of the nation’s largest state legislatures.

Like many U.S. states and countries internationally, Japan is watching Georgia – and planning a visit to the Peach State in the first quarter of the new year.
Japan’s plans to visit follow a fall 2024 trip, by invitation, of a Georgia delegation of legislators and film professionals to Kyoto, Japan’s “City of Movies,” and its Uzumasa area to meet and set the stage for future collaboration. Uzumasa was the chosen locale for the meeting because it is consi...