Regina Lewis-Ward

Voted to pass House Bill 1164. A state audit committee must review high- and moderate-risk school systems, with wider risk tests, yearly audit and payment certifications, responses to budget problems, and more public financial notices. The state may change or end some charter contracts by itself, and superintendent contract extensions are limited while a system is high risk. The Georgia House passed it 103-68, and it became law.

February 26, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted no as the Georgia House agreed 104-71 to the Senate's rewrite of House Bill 463. The Senate had replaced the bill's entire text. House Bill 463 started as a property tax break for senior citizens who volunteer for local governments. The version voted on here was a state income tax package instead, titled the Georgia Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2026. It cut the personal income tax rate from 5.19 percent to 4.99 percent starting in 2026. Later yearly cuts rose from 0.10 to 0.125 points and now run down to 3.99 percent. It also cut corporate and partnership income tax rates. The exemption for each dependent rose from $4,000 to $5,000, and the standard deduction for a single filer from $12,000 to $15,000. Up to $1,750 of overtime pay and $1,750 of cash tips became free of state income tax. People 65 and older may leave out more retirement income. The law repealed tax breaks for alternative-fuel and zero-emission vehicles, data center equipment, and high-technology computer equipment. It became law as Act 465, effective May 11, 2026.

April 2, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to pass House Bill 111. It cuts the individual income-tax rate from 5.39 percent to 5.19 percent starting January 1, 2025. The Georgia House passed it 110-60, and it became law.

March 6, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to pass SB 351. It bars social media companies from letting a child under 16 hold an account without a parent's clear consent. It also makes public schools adopt social media policies and use internet filters, and it lets the state hold back school money when those filters fall short. The Georgia House passed it 120-45, and it became law.

March 28, 2024Supports Data Privacy

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Sponsored Georgia HB262 establishing an Office of Equity in Agriculture; the House first-read calendar referred the bill to Agriculture and Consumer Affairs.

February 1, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Voted no, 97-65, as the House accepted the Senate's changes to House Bill 1185 and sent it to the governor. This vote sided with keeping shareholders' current power to sue companies and inspect their records. The new law routes internal lawsuits against public companies to Georgia's State-wide Business Court. It also lets companies require that court in their bylaws or charter. It sets a share-ownership minimum, up to 1 percent, for investors suing on a listed company's behalf. It bars legal-fee awards when a shareholder case produces only extra disclosures. It became Act 460 and took effect July 1, 2026.

March 31, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Introduced Georgia House Bill 1222 as its lead sponsor. The bill proposes that a homeowners association issue a statement of account within ten business days of a written request from an owner, a lender, or their agent. The statement would list dues owed, charges coming due, any open rule violations, and insurance details, and would stay good for 30 days. If the association understates what is owed, the buyer would not have to pay the missing amount. An agent could charge the association up to $250 to prepare one. A House committee backed a revised version on February 18, 2026.

February 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's change to Senate Bill 69 and send it to the governor. This was the Georgia House's last vote on the bill. The House agreed 120-42, and it became law as Act 10. The law makes companies that pay for other people's lawsuits register with the state banking department. People with certain foreign or sovereign wealth fund ties may not be such funders. Funders may not steer the cases they pay for, pay or take referral fees, or advertise falsely. They may not collect more than the plaintiffs' share of the winnings after legal fees and costs. Funding deals must be written, must disclose terms, and must let the customer cancel. Deals of $25,000 or more can be demanded as evidence in a lawsuit. Such a funder can also be made to help pay costs and penalties in a groundless case. The Senate's change added a separate seat belt rule, so this vote covered it. Courts may now hear that a crash victim wore no seat belt, which can cut their damages.

March 31, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Sponsored Georgia HB261 concerning employer pay-stub documentation; the House first-read calendar referred the bill to Industry and Labor.

February 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against Senate Bill 3EX as rewritten in the House. It sets up a nine-member committee to design a new statewide voting system that uses hand-marked paper ballots, and it bars the current Secretary of State from helping choose or buy that system. It also orders a hand recount when a close statewide race is decided by half a point or less, and the state pays counties back. The Georgia House passed it 94-79, and it became law.

June 23, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate's final version of HB 1247, the 'Georgia Bureaucratic Deference Elimination Act.' The Georgia House agreed 98-70 anyway and the bill became law as Act 718. The law bars courts from deferring to a state agency's own reading of laws and rules. Its 'Red Tape Rollback Act of 2026' sets new steps for writing rules. It also makes each agency send the Office of Planning and Budget a review of its own rules. The law opens to the public any settlement of an unlawful employment practice claim against a member of the General Assembly. The claimant's name is removed, but the member is named. A separate part requires some privately funded groups that shelter or serve homeless people to take part in Georgia's Homeless Management Information System. That duty is narrow. It reaches only groups within 1,000 feet of a school, college, child care center, public park, or playground. It applies in one metro area, not statewide, and skips groups that served fewer than ten people in the past year. A group that does not take part gets a non-criminal citation.

April 2, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 552, the True Patriotism and Universal Student Access (TPUSA) Act. The law lets public school students organize political clubs and meetings on the same terms as other non-class clubs. Schools that allow those clubs must give them equal use of rooms and equal chances to announce meetings. Schools may not discriminate based on the political content of student speech. Political clothing gets the same treatment as other messages under the dress code. The Georgia House passed it 95-68 and it became law as Act 497, effective July 1, 2026.

March 31, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 443. The bill raised blocking a highway or street to a high and aggravated misdemeanor, a more serious grade of minor crime. Blocking a sidewalk or other public passage stayed a plain misdemeanor. The offense applies only when a person refuses to clear the way after an officer's order. It also let people harmed sue the blocker for damages. The Georgia House passed it 96-69 anyway, and it became law as Act 512.

March 23, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 244. Counties pay reasonable defense costs when prosecutor misconduct causes removal and dismissal; wrongfully imprisoned people may file an innocence claim after a reversal, vacatur, or innocence pardon and must prove it more likely than not. A state fund pays $75,000 per year in prison, $25,000 more per year awaiting a death sentence, legal fees, and repayment of fines, costs, and restitution, adjusted yearly for inflation. The Georgia House passed it 103-61, and it became law.

April 2, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate's change to Georgia's scrap metal bill, Senate Bill 40. The House agreed anyway, 91-63, at its last vote on the bill, and it became law as Act 278. The Senate's change did one thing. It added nonmetal waste from shredding cars and appliances to a $1 per ton fee. Host local governments must charge that fee at privately run landfills and keep the money. The rest of the bill, written and passed by the House earlier, targets metal theft. It brings used, detached catalytic converters under the scrap metal recycler law. Those are car exhaust parts that hold valuable metals. It keeps a $100 limit on cash paid to a seller per deal, and two deals per seller a day. It bans cash entirely for catalytic converters, coils, used utility wire, communications copper, copper wire, and batteries. Recyclers pay the sheriff $200 to register and $200 a year to renew. The bill deleted the old rule that split each $200 fee between the Georgia Sheriffs' Association and the county. A sheriff may instead pay a county or city to handle registrations and log them in a Sheriffs' Association registry.

April 2, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 212. Georgia schools cannot give student directory information to candidates, campaign committees, political action committees, or political groups. Disclosing confidential voter registration information to an unauthorized person becomes a felony punishable by one to ten years, a fine up to $100,000, or both. Candidates and committees also cannot ask minors to fraudulently organize campaign events on school property. Anyone who both tells public school students about voter or Selective Service military-draft registration and helps them register must attest in writing not to share student directory information with political groups. School staff on official duty and people attending public events are exempt. The Georgia House passed it 98-66, and it became law.

March 31, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 68. It limits arguments valuing pain-and-suffering damages, requires dismissal rulings within 90 days, allows voluntary dismissal only before day 60 after an answer, and prevents double recovery of legal fees. It allows seat-belt evidence, requires strong proof of similar past conduct for unsafe-property claims, limits medical awards to necessary care's fair value, and allows some trials to split issues into stages. The Georgia House passed it 91-82, and it became law.

March 20, 2025

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Voted against the final version of HB 1105. It requires jails to check the immigration status of the people they book and to honor federal immigration detainer requests. It requires local police agencies to seek working agreements with federal immigration officers, and it adds penalties for local governments that adopt sanctuary policies. The Georgia House agreed it 99-75, and it became law.

March 28, 2024

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Voted against SB 362. To keep state economic development incentives, an employer may no longer accept a union based on signed cards alone, and may not hand over workers' home addresses or personal phone numbers. An employer that does either must pay back every incentive it got for the project. The Georgia House passed it 96-78, and it became law.

March 20, 2024

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Voted against the compromise version of HB 557. It lets doctors pass to nurse practitioners and physician assistants the power to prescribe some Schedule II drugs, and approves nurse protocol agreements on their own when set conditions are met. It also lets those providers sign the form a person needs for a disabled parking decal. The Georgia House adopted it 132-35, and it became law.

February 8, 2024

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Voted against the compromise version of SB 63. It requires money bail for a longer list of offenses and limits release without money. It also caps at three a year the number of cash bonds any person, charity or group may post, and makes groups that raise money to bail people out meet the same rules as professional bail companies. The Georgia House adopted it 97-69, and it became law.

February 6, 2024

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Voted against Senate Bill 3EX, a new map of Georgia's congressional districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting members of Congress keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 98-71, and it became law.

December 7, 2023

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Voted against Senate Bill 1EX, a new map of Georgia's state Senate districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting senators keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 98-71, and it became law.

December 5, 2023

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Voted against House Bill 1EX, a new map of Georgia's state House districts. It replaced the map drawn in 2021, which a federal court ruled broke federal voting rights law, and it applies only if the 2021 map cannot lawfully be used. Sitting representatives keep their seats until the next regular election. The Georgia House passed it 101-77, and it became law.

December 1, 2023

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Voted against SB 159. It raises the penalties for inmates caught with banned items such as cell phones, and sets stiffer penalties when a prison employee or contractor is the one who brings them in. It also raises the penalty for flying a drone over a prison to take photographs or video. The Georgia House passed it 103-72, and it became law.

March 27, 2023

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Voted against SB 222. It bars county and city governments and election officials from taking donations, grants or gifts to help run elections, so election costs come only from public money. It also makes the State Election Board its own state agency with its own director, no longer run through the Secretary of State's office. The Georgia House passed it 100-69, and it became law.

March 27, 2023

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Voted against SB 44. It sets a prison term of at least five years, and up to 20, for recruiting someone into a criminal street gang. The term must be served on top of any other sentence and cannot be probated, and prosecutors may appeal when a judge goes below it. The Georgia House passed it 99-74, and it became law.

March 20, 2023

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Voted against SB 140. It bans hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery for minors being treated for gender dysphoria, both in licensed hospitals and by doctors, with limited exceptions. A facility that breaks the ban can lose its permit. The Georgia House passed it 96-75, and it became law.

March 16, 2023

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Voted against HB 500. It creates the crime of arson of a law enforcement vehicle, for knowingly damaging one with fire or explosives or helping someone else do so. The penalty is five to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $100,000, or both, and the offense is added to the state bail schedule. The Georgia House passed it 100-69, and it became law.

March 1, 2023

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