Legislation Made Simple

The 2025 legislative session ends at midnight on Friday, April 4. Activity in committees and on the floor of the House and Senate has been intense, and it will ramp up further during the last week of the session. This week’s show updates the bills we’ve been following that implicate the teachings of the Church: bills about religious freedom, obscenity in school libraries, “school safety” vs. student and family privacy, marijuana, and more. 

Check the chart on our website, https://thequestatlanta.com/legislation-made-simple/, to follow the bills’ status. The chart will tell you which committee has which bill. Then go to the legislative website, https://www.legis.ga.gov/, click on “Committees,” then “House Committees” or “Senate Committees,” as the case may be. Click on that committee name to see members’ names and contact information. Phone calls and emails can be very effective! [If you’re interested in a bill that doesn’t appear on our chart, click “All Legislation” at the top left of the legislative homepage, and then plug in HB or SB and the bill number. A search will tell you which committee has the bill.] 

If the chart tells you the bill has passed committee and is now in Rules, that means it’s in either the House Rules Committee or the Senate Rules Committee, depending on which chamber the bill is now in. The Rules Committee is the last stop before the bill is voted on by the full chamber. Rules is very powerful – it can send a bill to the floor quickly, or kill it by never taking it up. So calls to chairmen and members of the Rules Committees are also important.