ga-legislation

Georgia legislative data for the 2025–2026 General Assembly session, published by VoteGA.org.

Files are updated automatically whenever the source data changes in the votega.org repository.

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Files

File	Description
ga-bills.json	All bills and resolutions introduced in the 2025–2026 session
ga-bills-subjects.json	Manual subject-tag overrides applied during processing

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ga-bills.json

Top-level structure

{
  "metadata": {
    "generatedAt": "2026-05-01T12:00:00+00:00",
    "session": "2025_26",
    "sessionName": "2025-2026 Regular Session",
    "source": "Open States (bulk export — May 2026)",
    "totalBills": 4200
  },
  "bills": [ ... ]
}

Bill object

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Open States bill ID (e.g. ocd-bill/...)
identifier	string	Bill number (e.g. HB 123, SB 45)
billType	string	"bill", "resolution", "joint resolution", etc.
chamber	string	"lower" (House) or "upper" (Senate)
title	string	Full bill title
abstract	string	Short description, capped at 500 characters (empty string if none)
status	string	Description of the last recorded action
statusDate	string	ISO date of the last recorded action
subjects	string[]	Subject tags (from Open States or inferred from title)
sponsors	object[]	See below
billUrl	string	Link to the bill on legis.ga.gov (falls back to first source URL)
textUrl	string	Direct link to bill text (may be empty)
passageVotes	object[]	Passage vote tallies per chamber — see below

sponsors[]

{ "name": "Jane Smith", "primary": true }

passageVotes[]

{
  "chamber": "lower",
  "date": "2025-03-15",
  "result": "pass",
  "motionText": "Passage",
  "yea": 105,
  "nay": 62,
  "other": 3
}

chamber is "lower" or "upper". result is "pass" or "fail".

Subject tags

Subject tags come from Open States. Bills with no Open States tags may receive an inferred "Local / Municipal" tag if the title identifies a specific Georgia locality (e.g. "City of Marietta; ..."). Additional tags are applied via ga-bills-subjects.json.

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ga-bills-subjects.json

A maintainer-controlled file that overrides or adds subject tags for specific bills. Keys are bill identifiers ("HB 123"); values are subject-tag arrays. Keys beginning with _ are metadata comments and are ignored during processing.

{
  "_note": "Manual subject overrides ...",
  "SB 30": ["Health"],
  "HB 741": ["Local / Municipal"]
}

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How data is updated

Files in this repo are pushed automatically from Votega/votega.org via a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/publish-ga-bills-to-ga-legislation.yml). The workflow runs whenever ga-bills.json or ga-bills-subjects.json changes on the main branch, and can also be triggered manually.

Source data comes from Open States and is processed by scripts/process_ga_bills.py in the votega.org repo.

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Data notes

• actions are omitted. The full action history is not included to keep the file size manageable. status and statusDate reflect the last action only.
• Individual voter arrays are omitted. passageVotes contains only aggregate yea/nay/other counts. Per-member vote records are in ga-member-votes.json in the votega.org repo, keyed by OCD person ID.
• abstract may be empty. Not all bills have an abstract in the Open States data.
• This dataset covers the 2025–2026 Regular Session only.