HB 479

Department of Workforce; workforce talent recruitment grant program established, eligibility provided for, and fund established

Catastrophe savings accounts, required to be held in Alabama banks, credit unions, or veterans financial institutions and approved by the Commissioner of Insurance

Biological and neural data of individuals; certain disclosures, transfers, and use by a health and fitness app prohibited without express consent, Attorney General authorized to enforce, civil penalties provided

Decedents' estates, will contests, removal to circuit court authorized

Abatements; local governments, power to abate revised

Consumer protection; access by minors to certain platform portions restricted; hours for sending notifications to covered minors limited; default platform settings on certain platforms required; mechanism for more stringent optional settings required; annual disclosure of certain data by covered operators required; violations a deceptive trade practice

State employees, cost-of-living increase for fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026

Homestead Exemptions; removing the annual verification requirement for qualifying permanently and totally disabled veterans

Supplemental appropriations from the Education Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

Education Trust Fund Advancement and Technology Fund, appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

FY27 2% Teacher Pay Raise and Retiree Longevity Bonus

Individual income taxes, to allow an exclusion from gross income for contributions to Trump Accounts and to make permanent the exclusion for amounts paid by an employer on any qualified education loan.

Reckless Stunt Driving; a motor vehicle involved in a second offense of reckless stunt driving; replace the forfeiture penalty

Relating to sales tax on construction materials

Sales tax: exemptions; sunset date on exemption for firearm safety devices; extend

An Act relating to the Multistate Tax Compact; relating to apportionment of income to the state, including the apportionment of income of broadcasters, financial institutions, and telecommunications service providers; and providing for an effective date.

Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Retirement Income

License Plates; specialty license plate benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; establish