"Transactional Gold and Silver Act"; enact
Summary
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5A of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of State Treasurer, so as to provide for gold and silver specie as legal tender; to provide for a bullion depository; to provide for an electronic payment system; to provide for guidelines, rules and regulations; to provide for insured deposits; to prohibit social credit scoring systems; to provide for annual reports; to prohibit taxation of transactions involving gold and silver specie and legal tender; to provide for an implementation date; to provide for construction; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Feb 2026
Senate Passage
Mar 2026
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 27, 2026
Last action Mar 10, 2026
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Floor votes · Senate Mar 6, 2026
How they voted
27–17
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 48
Mar 6, 2026
D
Democratic19
47% Nay
R
Republican29
62% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
10
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Mar 6, 2026
Upper · Passed
Senate Passed/Adopted
upper
Feb 25, 2026
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee Favorably Reported
upper
Jan 28, 2026
Committee
Senate Read and Referred
upper
Jan 27, 2026
Introduced
Senate Hopper
upper
17 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Billy Hickman
RRepublican
P
Blake Tillery
RRepublican
P
Brian Strickland
RRepublican
P
Carden Summers
RRepublican
P
Clint Dixon
RRepublican
P
Derek Mallow
DDemocratic
P
Ed Setzler
RRepublican
P
Jason Anavitarte
RRepublican
P
Kay Kirkpatrick
RRepublican
P
Marty Harbin
RRepublican
P
Matt Brass
RRepublican
P
Max Burns
RRepublican
P
Randy Robertson
RRepublican
P
Rick Williams
RRepublican
P
Russ Goodman
RRepublican
P
Shawn Still
RRepublican
P
Sonya Halpern
DDemocratic
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