JK

John Kennedy

State Senator · Georgia Senate District 18

Bills introduced (47)

GASB302Passed

Peach County; ad valorem taxes for county purposes; provide a homestead exemption

Effective Date 2025-05-14 · May 14, 2025

Yes 171No 0Other 9
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GASB345Passed

Magistrate Court of Crawford County; the assessment and collection of a technology fee; authorize

Effective Date 2025-04-30 · April 30, 2025

Yes 168No 0Other 12
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GASB344Passed

Probate Court of Crawford County; assessment and collection of a technology fee; authorize

Effective Date 2025-04-30 · April 30, 2025

Yes 168No 0Other 12
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GASB123Passed

Compulsory Attendance; provisions of the state's compulsory school attendance laws; update and revise

Effective Date 2025-07-01 · April 28, 2025

Yes 160No 1Other 19
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GASB68Passed

Civil Practice; substantive and comprehensive revision of provisions regarding civil practice, evidentiary matters, damages, and liability in tort actions; provide

Effective Date 2025-04-21 · April 21, 2025

Yes 34No 21Other 1
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GASB69Passed

"Georgia Courts Access and Consumer Protection Act"; enact

Effective Date 2026-01-01 · April 21, 2025

Yes 120No 42Other 18
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GASR536Passed

Boggs, Chief Justice Michael P.; recognize

Senate Read and Adopted · April 4, 2025

No recorded vote yet.

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GASB373Introduced

Notaries Public; notarial acts to be performed using electronic means when certain requirements are satisfied; provide

Senate Read and Referred · April 4, 2025

No recorded vote yet.

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GASR217Passed

Senate Study Committee on Combating Chronic Absenteeism in Schools; create

Senate Passed/Adopted · April 2, 2025

Yes 52No 0Other 4
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GASR486Passed

Colt's Manufacturing Company; commend

Senate Read and Adopted · March 28, 2025

No recorded vote yet.

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GASR414Introduced

Deputy Daryl Smallwood Memorial Bridge; Peach County; dedicate

Senate Read and Referred · March 20, 2025

No recorded vote yet.

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GASR413Introduced

Sgt. Patrick Sondron Memorial Bridge; Peach County; dedicate

Senate Read and Referred · March 20, 2025

No recorded vote yet.

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Showing the 12 most recently active.

Recent votes

BillVote onVote
SR5

Senate Special Committee on Investigations; reauthorizing

Senate · Adoption: Senate Vote #7

January 13, 2025

Yes
SB207

Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create

Senate · Agree To House Substitute As Amended: Senate Vote #488

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB491

Game and fish; remove an exception for use of air guns to hunt wildlife

Senate · Agree To House Amendment To Senate Amendment: Senate Vote #487

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB819

Jasper County; levy an excise tax

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB820

Jasper County; school district ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB709

Demorest, City of; Redevelopment Powers Law; provide for a referendum

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB298

Judgements and Rulings; certain appellate procedures regarding the denial of sovereign and any other immunity available to the state; provide

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #477

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB849

Randolph County Airport Authority Act; enact

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB296

Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions

Senate · Passage As Amended: Senate Vote #483

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB296

Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions

Senate · Adoption Of Amendment #2 By The Senator From The 46th: Senate Vote #482

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB296

Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions

Senate · Adoption Of Amendment #1 By The Senator From The 42nd: Senate Vote #481

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB399

Property; require certain residential landlords to have in-state staff to manage tenant communications

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #464

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB155

Local government; selection and objection to arbitrators; revise procedures

Senate · Agree To House Amendment To Senate Substitute As Amended By Am #2: Senate Vote #468

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB99

Crimes and Offenses; definition of law enforcement officer; provide

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #475

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB235

Georgia Supporting Living Donor Educators Act; enact

Senate · Passage: Senate Vote #459

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB20

Veterinarians; student loan repayment; who practice shelter medicine and in nonprofit pet sterilization clinics; provide; create the State Veterinary Education Board for Shelter Medicine and Pet Sterilization

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #450

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB201

Consumer Transactions; increased consumer protection for homeowners entering into contracts with contractors following natural disasters; provide

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #447

April 4, 2025

Yes
SR231

Officer Jeremy Labonte Memorial Interchange; Fulton County; dedicate

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #466

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB136

Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit

Senate · Agree To House Amendment To Senate Substitute: Senate Vote #449

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB5

Private Review Agents; health insurers to implement and maintain a program that allows for the selective application of reductions in prior authorization requirements; provide

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #478

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB291

Special License Plates; establish an "America First" specialty license plate

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #472

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB172

Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide

Senate · Passage: Senate Vote #457

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB422

State employees' health insurance; include high deductible health plans

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #461

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB860

Gordon County; school district ad valorem tax; increase homestead exemption for certain residents

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB838

Newnan, City of; change corporate limits

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
SR8

Deputy Brandon Cunningham Memorial Intersection; Paulding County; dedicate

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #465

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB101

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; require

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #489

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB222

Criminal procedure; inclusion of certain contact information on bonds and recognizances; require

Senate · Passage: Senate Vote #458

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB255

General Assembly; authorization of statutory investigatory powers to certain committees of the General Assembly; codify a process

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #451

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB225

Motor vehicles; enforcement of speeding violations in school zones through automated traffic enforcement safety devices; repeal all laws

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #455

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB651

Motor vehicles; use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; revise provisions

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #454

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB651

Motor vehicles; use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; revise provisions

Senate · Adoption Of Amendment #1 By The Senator From The 44th: Senate Vote #453

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB68

General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

Senate · Adopt Conference Committee Report: Senate Vote #456

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB360

Revenue and taxation; rehabilitation of historic structures; revise tax credit

Senate · Passage As Amended: Senate Vote #460

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB82

"Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; enact

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #479

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB63

"Quality Basic Education Act"; local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; require

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #448

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB238

Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; create and maintain an at-risk adult training course focusing on officer response to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or dementia

Senate · Passage: Senate Vote #463

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB652

Motor fuel tax; electricity delivered by certain electric vehicle charging stations; provide exception

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #485

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB331

City of Winder and the County of Barrow; creating and establishing a joint airport authority; repeal

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #473

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB836

Coweta County; School District ad valorem tax; raise homestead exemption amounts

Senate · Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #446

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB516

State government; authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #480

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB125

Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; decouple the sequential order of experience and examination requirements

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #470

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB193

State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; establish the adult workforce high school diploma program; authorize

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #474

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB85

Grants for Foster Children; a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; establish

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #452

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB352

Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #462

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB207

Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create

Senate · Agree To House Amendment To Senate Amendment: Senate Vote #487

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB443

Game and fish; fees for reef and migratory fish endorsements; provide

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #486

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB105

Veterinarians and Veterinary Technicians; licensed veterinarians and veterinary technicians to practice veterinary teleadvice; authorize

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #476

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB12

Inspection of Public Records; documents and records in the possession of private persons or entities; revise provisions

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #490

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB224

Highways, bridges, and ferries; construction or maintenance of roads upon military bases or installations paid for by the United States Department of Defense or other entities; authorize

Senate · Passage: Senate Vote #484

April 4, 2025

Yes
HR7

George C. Trulock, Jr. Memorial Highway; Grady County; dedicate

Senate · Agree To House Amendment To Senate Substitute: Senate Vote #467

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB244

Criminal Proceedings; the award of reasonable attorney's fees and costs in a criminal case to the defendant upon such defendant making a successful motion to disqualify the prosecuting attorney for misconduct in connection with the case; provide

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #471

April 4, 2025

Yes
SB132

Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require

Senate · Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #469

April 4, 2025

Yes
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Motion For Reconsideration: Senate Vote #443

April 3, 2025

No
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Passage By Substitute: Senate Vote #442

April 2, 2025

Yes
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Motion To Table: Senate Vote #441

April 2, 2025

No
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Motion To Reconsider The Motion To Resolve Debate: Senate Vote #440

April 2, 2025

No
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Shall The Ruling Of The Chair Be Sustained: Senate Vote #439

April 2, 2025

Yes
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Motion To Resolve Debate: Senate Vote #438

April 2, 2025

Yes
HB127

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

Senate · Shall The Ruling Of The Chair Be Sustained: Senate Vote #437

April 2, 2025

Yes