Randal Mangham

Voted yes, 38-14, when the Georgia Senate accepted the House rewrite of Senate Bill 220, the Putting Georgia's Patients First Act. The law renamed low THC oil as medical cannabis and let registered patients get the plant itself, oils, and extracts. It dropped the old 5 percent limit on THC, the drug's main active ingredient. Patients may instead hold products totaling 12,000 milligrams of THC, with no package over 1,200 milligrams. Smoking or burning it stays illegal, but patients over 21 may now vaporize it, except in public places. Any cancer except non-spreading skin cancer now qualifies, and inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, and lupus were added. A patient may name any adult as a caregiver, or a health care institution treating them. Sellers still may not advertise to the public, but may now give patients safe-use information. Patient cards last five years. The House agreed to the Senate's changes and it became law as Act 712.

March 18, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Lead sponsor of a bill directing Georgia's State Board of Education to set up statewide support for summer reading programs run by public schools, and to send lawmakers a plan for putting it in place (Senate Bill 596).

February 26, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Co-sponsored a Georgia state voting rights bill. It proposed banning voter suppression and vote dilution (election rules or district lines that weaken a group's voting power), creating a Georgia Voting Rights Commission, requiring advance state review of some local voting changes, and adding help for voters with limited English or a disability. The Senate referred it to the Ethics Committee on February 20, 2026, and it advanced no further (Senate Bill 536).

February 20, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted no, 33-20, on the final version of House Bill 463, which the Senate approved and sent to the governor. House Bill 463 started as a property-tax break for senior volunteers before the Senate swapped in a tax-cut package. The law dropped the personal income tax rate from 5.19 percent to 4.99 percent, and the corporate rate with it. It sped up future yearly cuts, from 0.10 to 0.125 points, and let the rate fall as low as 3.99 percent. It raised the standard deduction for a single filer to $15,000 and the dependent deduction to $5,000. It left up to $1,750 of overtime pay and up to $1,750 of cash tips out of taxable income. It also ended credits for electric and other clean vehicles and sales-tax breaks for data centers. It became law as Act 465.

April 2, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to pass 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. The Senate version made anyone who told students about voter or Selective Service military-draft registration, or helped them register, attest in writing that they act for no political group and will share no student data. The House later narrowed that duty to people who both tell and help, and exempted people attending public events. The Georgia Senate passed it 33-19, and it became law.

March 6, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted no on accepting the House's version of Senate Bill 1, the Riley Gaines Act of 2025. The Georgia Senate agreed 34-20 anyway and it became law as Act 11. Schools, school systems, private schools that compete with them, and colleges must label each team male, female, or coed. Males may not play on a team labeled female. At school competitions, shared restrooms, changing areas, and sleeping quarters must be set aside by sex. Schools must offer another option to a student unwilling or unable to use the space for their sex. The law defines sex as biological sex. It does not let schools check a student's body to confirm sex, though medical records may be used.

March 31, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Co-sponsored a Georgia bill to change how the parole board handles denials, letting prisoners argue their case by video and requiring the board to put its reasons in writing (Senate Bill 25). It stalled in the Senate Public Safety Committee.

January 27, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted no on accepting the House's version of Senate Bill 68, Georgia's lawsuit overhaul. The Senate agreed 34-21 anyway, and it became law as Act 9. Lawyers may put a dollar figure on pain and suffering only after the evidence closes, and the figure must be tied to the evidence. A judge must decide a motion to dismiss within 90 days after written arguments end. A plaintiff may drop a case alone only before the 60th day after the other side answers. Juries may now hear whether an injured person wore a seat belt. Property owners face a tougher test before they can be blamed for a crime on their land. Payment for medical care is limited to the reasonable value of the care actually needed. Some trials may be split, with fault decided before damages.

March 21, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against the House rewrite of Senate Bill 3EX. 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 Senate agreed 36-16, and it became law.

June 23, 2026

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Voted against accepting the final version of HB 1247, the 'Georgia Bureaucratic Deference Elimination Act.' The Georgia Senate agreed 34-18 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 3, 2026

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Voted no, 29-17, when the Georgia Senate accepted the House rewrite of Senate Bill 472. The Senate accepted it anyway. The law lets the State Board of Education ask the governor to suspend local school board members, with pay. That follows state auditors putting a district under the highest level of monitoring, or finding financial mismanagement or misconduct. In districts labeled high risk, a superintendent's contract may be extended only 12 months at a time. Certain auditor findings become grounds for firing a superintendent for cause. The state may advance a district no more than half its prior year's funding outside the normal schedule. Every local school system and state charter school must get a yearly financial and compliance audit. The House rewrite also cut the voter petition needed to force an election on dissolving a city school system from one-fourth of voters to 10 percent. It became law as Act 722.

March 27, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 443. Purposely or recklessly blocking a highway or street so it cannot be passed, then refusing a peace officer's or other official's request to clear it, becomes a high and aggravated misdemeanor. The same conduct on a sidewalk or other public passage stays a plain misdemeanor. A violator may also be held liable in a civil suit for damages caused by the offense. The Georgia Senate passed it 35-17, and it became law.

March 3, 2026

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Voted no, 35-18, when the Georgia Senate accepted the House rewrite of Senate Bill 244. The Senate accepted it anyway. The House rewrite added the Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration Compensation Act, which the Senate's own earlier version did not contain. A person who served prison time for a felony they did not commit may file a claim with a state hearings office. Their conviction must first have been reversed, thrown out, or pardoned because they were innocent. They must show innocence is more likely true than not. The award is $75,000 for each year in prison, plus $25,000 for each year spent awaiting a death sentence. Awards also cover legal fees and repay fines and restitution, paid from a new state trust fund. The law also makes the prosecutor's office pay a defendant's legal fees when that prosecutor is removed for misconduct and the case is dropped. It became law as Act 361.

April 4, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 111. It cuts the individual income-tax rate from 5.39 percent to 5.19 percent starting January 1, 2025. The Georgia Senate passed it 30-23, and it became law.

March 20, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 144. A pesticide maker generally satisfies its health-warning duty by using a label approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or matching the federal health-risk review. That protection ends if the agency finds the maker knowingly hid, misstated, concealed, or destroyed important health-risk information to get or keep approval. The Georgia Senate passed it 42-12, and it became law.

March 4, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026