Georgia Labor & Employment Bills

Santos Taqueria Express; recognize

World OKTA Global Startup Month; September 2026; recognize

Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals

Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create

Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide

Revenue and taxation; amount of federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit; provide

Public Health, Department of; provide that if certain employees of a county board of health become employees of such department such employees will retain accrued annual and sick leave

Preston Fant and Brant Chesney Firefighter Safety Act; enact

Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions

Cobb County; State Court; chief deputy clerk and clerk; change salary

Local government; designation of enterprise zones; provisions

Professional Counselors; applicants for a license in social work enrolled in a master's degree program to take the master's social work licensing examination in their final semester of the program; authorize

Georgia Judicial Retirement System; membership in the system for individuals employed as the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission; provide

Revenue and taxation; allow businesses and practitioners to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns

Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act; enact

Education and Workforce Strategy Act; enact

Professions and Businesses; repeal Chapter 14, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low voltage contractors, and utility contractors and enact a new Chapter 14

Retirement and Pension; maximum employer contribution to a 401(k) for certain state law enforcement officers; increase

State Board of Workers' Compensation; notice of eligibility for compensation to an injured employee to his or her legal guardian; provide

Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize