republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-58.md

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Bill	Aviation; adoption of local ordinances, resolution, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to aviation, so as to authorize the adoption of local ordinances, resolutions, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 58	Georgia HB 58 (2025_26)	bill	AVIATION	enacted	Brad Thomas Clint Crowe Gary Richardson Mark Newton Rob Clifton Rob Leverett	8	17	5	2025-01-14	2025-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/72079cfa-2bd9-438b-b17d-437d0419a466	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	49be77ca40bfaddb533aa2252bb6d77cd8533a0d03f7c4f23d2b9ad08db0ab73	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 58 (2025_26) — Aviation; adoption of local ordinances, resolution, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to aviation, so as to authorize the adoption of local ordinances, resolutions, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Floor Amendment AM 39 0466 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 58/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 4420/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 4575S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 39 4575S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee sub LC 39 4747S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 39 0468 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 1A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #361 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 12–41 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #60 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 153–4 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #362 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #267 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–2 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #328 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 162–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brad Thomas — primary (person)
• Clint Crowe — primary (person)
• Gary Richardson — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Rob Clifton — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-14 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-13 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-27 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2025-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-01 Act 4 executive-signature
• 2025-04-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72079cfa-2bd9-438b-b17d-437d0419a466. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).