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The bill proposed a private cause of action against municipalities with “sanctuary” policies, withdrawing state funds, suspending officials, and waiving sovereign immunity for violations of immigration enforcement bans.
The Act bans cash payouts for COAMs, formalizes a noncash gift card redemption program, and subjects the Georgia Lottery’s COAM division to the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act for regulatory clarity.
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The Peach Sheets The Act titled the “Safe at Home Act” mandates habitable rental housing, caps security deposits, and grants tenants three extra days to address late payments before eviction proceedings.
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The Peach Sheets The Act allows human trafficking victims to vacate convictions under Georgia’s first offender statute and enhances their privacy by limiting access to related criminal history records.
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The Peach Sheets The Act empowers state law enforcement to verify immigration statuses, mandates local cooperation with federal authorities, requires reporting on non-citizen inmates, and aligns state immigration laws with federal standards.
The Act raises the liability standard for mental health and foster care providers to gross negligence, limits punitive damages, and mandates specific jury instructions in mental health care liability cases.
The Act adds thirty offenses requiring bail, mandates bail for repeat offenders, and limits individuals or groups to bailing three people annually unless registered as bonding agencies.
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The Peach Sheets The Act eases third-party ballot access, updates homeless voter rules, modifies vote challenges, mandates timely absentee ballot counts, and ensures tabulation uses voter-marked text, not QR codes storing voter choice.
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The Peach Sheets The Act creates $6,500 grants for students in low-ranked Georgia schools, funds homeschooling and private tuition, establishes GESA for oversight, reweights QBE funding, and expands education tax credits.
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The Peach Sheets The Act eliminates Georgia Supreme Court oversight of Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission rules, following the Court’s November 2023 decision asserting it lacked authority to approve the Commission’s standards.
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The Peach Sheets New legislation mandates age verification and parental consent for minors’ social media use, bans social media in schools, promotes digital citizenship programs, and grants parents access to children’s usage data.