SB 190 Georgia Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation; certain fee waivers for active duty members of the military, veterans, and family members; provide

Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of parks, historic areas, memorials, and recreation, so as to provide certain fee waivers for active duty members of the military, veterans, and family members; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Issues: ✓ Veterans

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

Mar 2026

House Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Last action Mar 10, 2026

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What changed between versions

As introduced LC 46 1109 → As Passed Senate · 5 edits

MODERATE

This bill was amended to remove references to active duty military members from fee waiver eligibility, narrowing the program to disabled veterans and Gold Star family members only. The changes also renumbered several definitions and corrected a grammatical error in the certification process language.

Scope change

The bill's scope was narrowed by removing active duty military members from the list of eligible recipients for fee waivers at state parks and recreational facilities.

ELIGIBILITY

Removed 'active duty member' from the list of eligible individuals for fee waivers, limiting benefits to disabled veterans and Gold Star family members only.

Updated subsection (c) to remove 'active duty member' from the list of eligible persons and corrected the phrasing to 'Any disabled veteran or Gold Star family member'.

Revised subsection (d)(1) to remove 'active duty member' from the list of eligible occupants for overnight accommodation fee waivers.

DEFINITION

Renumbered definition paragraphs from (2) and (3) to (1) and (2) respectively, reorganizing the structure of defined terms.

Changed the reference in subsection (b) from paragraph (1)(4) to paragraph (1)(3) to align with the renumbered definitions.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 6, 2026

How they voted

44–0

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 48

Mar 6, 2026

D Democratic19

17 Yea 2

89% Yea

R Republican29

27 Yea 2

93% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Mar 6, 2026

Upper · Passed

Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute

upper

Mar 3, 2026

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Committee

Senate Read and Referred

upper

Feb 18, 2025

Introduced

Senate Hopper

upper

19 primary · 0 co-sponsors