A dozen bourgeois freedom, workforce and apartment calculations that can see how the crossover day emerges

The legislative session in Georgia approaches the crossover day, the deadline on March 6, when invoices remain in the game by passing in their origin chamber and “crossed” in the other chamber.

Atlanta Civic Circle has pursued invoices that would influence the freedom of speech, bourgeois freedoms and access to the ballot papers as well as others who would regulate the workplace conditions and the large landlords. Here they are and which could make it beyond the crossover day.

Language and bourgeois freedoms

Senate Bill 57: Freedom of speech and faith act

Summary This legislation would prohibit financial services providers and pension companies to refuse customers based on certain activities. These activities include the selection so as not to help employees receive access to abortions or services for the new allocation of gender, as well as dealing with firearms, ammunition, oil and gas.

Status: Affairs on Republican priorities to protect freedom of speech and has strong GOP support.

Senate Bill 74: Criminalizes librarians for the distribution of “harmful materials” to minors

Summary: This legislation would remedy the current exemption, which will protect the libraries and librarians from criminal punishments according to a state law of 2024 against the distribution of harmful materials to minors. It would make any violation of a “high and intensified offense” that contains a fine of 5,000 US dollars and a prison sentence of up to one year. It also offers a legal defense for librarians who strive to remove such materials.

Status: Said committee, however, looks like a strong opposition and unsafe support from the house.

Senate Bill 1: Prohibitions of transgender women from female sports teams, limit the access of the bathroom

Summary: This legislation prohibits transgender students (middle school through college) in sports teams that match their gender -specific orientation. For example, transgender students could not be able to play in female sports teams. Schools and sports fabrics for sports facilities must also be based on gender based on the gender based on the toilets. Democratic legislators have expressed that there are no recorded instance of transgender women who participate in sports teams in Georgia, which questions the need for the law.

Status: Said committee and has strong GOP support.

Choose

House bill 397: Allows you to vote on Saturday for local elections

Summary: In this legislative template, the municipalities in Georgia are enabled to choose the advance payments on Saturdays for local elections. The aim is to improve the access of the voter, which could

Increase the participation.

Status: Has non -partisan support.

House bill 215: Voter List Integrity Act

Summary: This legislation would prohibit Georgia secretary for state and local elections, in participating in the maintenance organizations with multi-state voters lists that check the voters in the states to ensure that the participating states have current, precise voters. For example, a registered Georgia voter who moved to Maine and registered for coordination would be deleted by the Georgia role. President Donald Trump asked Georgia to pull himself out of the electronic registration information center (ERIC) in March 2023.

This legislation is important because it directly influences how exactly the voters are in Georgia and possibly influence the elections in Georgia and how the state interacts with the federal election systems.

Status: Set in the committee with cross -party opposition.

House bill 502: No waiting for older voters or those with small children

Summary: The voters who are over 75 or have a disability can vote immediately without waiting according to the applicable law. This legislation would expand this accommodation to voters accompanied by a child under the age of two. The aim is to increase access to surveys for parents with young children.

Status: Not yet planned for a hearing.

Labor rights

House bill 16: Warehouse Workplace Protection Act

Summary: This invoice would create more comprehensive occupational safety for employees who work in warehouse sales centers. The most important provisions include: limitation of work speed rates, regulations for paid breaks and the guarantee of adequate health and security protection such as water stations and proper air conditioning. It could improve working conditions and reduce injuries to the workplace.

Status: Stall in the committee

Housing

House bill 305: Protect the dream act

Summary: This cross-party invoice would prohibit investment funds with a fortune of $ 6.25 million or more or have at least 25 single-family houses in a single district if more houses bought more houses. Hausbauer and non -profit organizations would be liberated. The legislative template aims to reduce the excessive price influence and have institutional investors on the Georgia's housing markets.

Status: Stall in the committee

House bill 399: Large landlords must have employees in the state

Summary: This accompanying legislation for HB 305 would require large landlords outside the state to employ employees of the state in order to react to the communication of tenants about maintenance issues. This would apply to a landlord outside the state who owns or operates 25 or more single-family houses or duplex rental houses in Georgia.

Status: Stall in the committee

House bill 374: Enables landlord registration

Summary: This legislation would enable local governments to establish rent registers – databases to pursue the landlord, owner and/or real estate manager information – to improve transparency and obligation in the rental apartment markets. It would also impose fines for companies that do not provide this information.

The aim is to enable local administrations in the Georgia's housing markets in Georgia in Georgia's housing markets in Georgia and the enforcement of real estate codices and landlord rental laws. It would also show which rental objects “have part or directly or indirectly from a foreign opponent, including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, although there are no indications that these countries are significant investors in residential properties in Georgia.

Status: Stall in the committee

House bill 170: Nationwide Interagency Council for the homeless

Summary: This legislation would create a Georgia Interagency Council for homeless people in order to coordinate a nationwide approach to combating homelessness. The 21-person group, all of which were appointed by the governor, would carry out a nationwide overview of current resources for unrestrained people, identify gaps in services and coordinate the services nationwide. It would also coordinate nationwide efforts to combat criminalization of homelessness.

The Council would be led by the Community Affairs Commissioner with 13 officials from the Ministry of Public Health and other state authorities as well as a member of the Continuum of Care Network, three members who have experienced personality and three members of the service provider.

Status: In the committee.

House bill TBD: To provide a legal definition of “habitability” for rental apartments

Summary: MP Terry Cummings (D-Mableton) plans to submit laws to change the house bill 404 of the last year, the “Safe at Home Act”, according to which the landlords have to provide rental apartments that “are suitable for human dwellings”. HB 404 does not define “habitability”, so Cummings aim to determine a legal definition of the term because it is the rental apartment conditions.

Status: Not yet submitted