2025

Priorities

Please review this page for the latest updates on Lt. Governor Jones’ priorities for the 2025 Legislative Session. This page will be updated as legislation is introduced and moves through the process.

Protect Women's Sports 

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 1 - "Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act" - which would ban biological males from participating in women’s sports across Georgia.

Georgia Does DOGE - Red Tape Rollback 

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 28 - "Red Tape Rollback Act of 2025" - builds on the work done during the 2024 session to cut government regulation, boost small businesses, and expand economic opportunities throughout Georgia.

Expanding School Choice to Foster Care Families

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 152 - expands eligibility for the Georgia Promise Scholarship to biological and adoptive children of foster care parents.

Supporting Foster Children into Adulthood

  • Legislation: Senate Resolution 310 - creates the Senate Study Committee on Additional Services and Resources for Transition Age Youth in Foster Care.

Reducing State Income Tax

  • Legislation: House Bill 111 - accelerates the reduction in the state income tax rate contemplated by current law. For tax year 2025, the income tax rate will be 5.19% (rather than 5.29%, as provided in current law). 
  • Legislation: House Bill 112 - provides a tax rebate to qualified taxpayers, individual taxpayers who filed an income tax return for both 2023 and 2024. 

Increasing School Safety Across Georgia

  • Support Governor Brian Kemp's allocation of $50 million in the amended fiscal year 2025 budget for one-time additions to school safety grants. 
  • Legislation: Senate Bill 17 - "Ricky and Alyssa's Law" - would require all Georgia schools to install mobile panic alarm systems directly linked to emergency responders and state and local law enforcement.
  • Legislation: Senate Bill 61 - would strengthen Georgia’s law so that attempted homicides and terroristic threats and acts directed toward schools will be offenses for which juveniles will be tried as adults. 
  • Legislation: Senate Bill 179 – would require a transferring student’s academic and disciplinary records to be transferred to the new school administration within 10 days and requires the parent or guardian to be notified of the transfer within five days.

Public Safety

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 79 - “Fentanyl Eradication and Removal Act” - would establish stiffer criminal penalties for fentanyl offenses.

Child Tax Credit and Childcare Tax Programs

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 89 - would create a child tax credit and expand existing childcare tax programs.

Immigration Enforcement

  • Legislation: Senate Bill 21 - would waive sovereign immunity for local governments that adopt and implement “sanctuary” policies.