# Georgia Commons

> Georgia's public government documents as source text: the Official Code of
> Georgia Annotated with the two constitutions, Georgia General Assembly bills and
> their amendments, Supreme Court of Georgia opinions, and machine transcripts of
> Georgia House and Senate meetings. An independent project of Georgia Civic
> Data. Not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the State of Georgia, its
> courts, or any agency. Not legal advice.

Every page has a Markdown twin at its address plus `.md` (frontmatter, then the
source text, then anything Georgia Commons wrote under a heading that says so), a
plain-text route at its address plus `/text`, and absolute links onward. Any page
also answers `Accept: text/markdown` with its twin. Both forms are served as
text/plain; charset=utf-8, a type every fetch tool reads. Every document has a
typed id (bill:2025-2026/hb136, opinion:S26A0060, code:44-7-34,
ga-const:art-i-sec-i-para-i, meeting:2026-02-05/house-rules), and its page address
is the id without its prefix. Search ranks passages with Voyage AI's embedding and
reranking models; no model writes any text the API or the MCP tools return. The
Code and the constitutions carry no summaries. A meeting's transcript is a machine
transcript of the General Assembly's video, not an official record, and names no
speaker.

Plain-language questions work: search ranks passages by meaning as well as by words, so you need not guess the documents' vocabulary. Filters narrow it (document type, level of government, body, place, dates, session, status). mode: all lists every match it found, a page at a time with a total; it reports what it found, which may not be everything.

## Site

- Site map for machines: https://georgiacommons.org/index.md
- Search every collection: https://georgiacommons.org/search?q=your+words (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/search.md?q=)
- Connector steps and the URL grammar: https://georgiacommons.org/for-assistants (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/for-assistants.md)
- MCP server (streamable HTTP, no key, five tools: search, fetch, get_coverage, describe_site, verify_quote; serves every collection: bills and their amendments, Supreme Court opinions, the Code and the two constitutions, and House and Senate meetings, through five tools): https://mcp.georgiacommons.org/mcp
- Public JSON API: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?q= (search), https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/documents/{id} (any document, with /markdown, /text, /versions, /links, /parts/{part}), https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/coverage (what is held), https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/describe (the id grammar and filter values), POST https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/verify (check a quotation)
- API documentation: https://georgiacommons.org/api (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/api.md); every route: https://georgiacommons.org/api/endpoints (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/api/endpoints.md)
- Connecting an assistant, for people: https://georgiacommons.org/mcp (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/mcp.md)
- Privacy policy: https://georgiacommons.org/privacy (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/privacy.md)
- Terms of service: https://georgiacommons.org/terms (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/terms.md)
- Help and contact: https://georgiacommons.org/support (twin: https://georgiacommons.org/support.md)

## Georgia General Assembly bills

Bills and resolutions of the Georgia General Assembly, from the General Assembly's website, with every stored version of the text, the floor and committee amendments, and summaries written by Georgia Commons.

Coverage: Georgia General Assembly bills and resolutions from the 2026 Special Session, 2025-2026 Regular Session: 5,656 measures, 5,652 with stored text, with actions through 2026-07-11. Floor or committee amendments from Georgia State Senate, 2025-02-06 through 2026-06-23: 315. Floor or committee amendments from Georgia House of Representatives, 2025-03-27 through 2026-04-03: 35.
- Only these sessions: 2026 Special Session, 2025-2026 Regular Session. Earlier sessions are not loaded.
- 4 measures have no stored text, because the General Assembly's website publishes none for them (HB 67, HB 68, HB 973, HB 974).
- Every version of a measure's text that the General Assembly's website lists is stored (8,133 versions in all), as are the floor and committee amendments it posts. Where a bill amends current law, the words it strikes out are marked <del> and the words it adds <ins>.

- Page: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb136
- Markdown twin: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb136.md
- Plain text: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb136/text
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md)
- Map: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md
- Search: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/search?q=cell+phones+school (twin https://georgiacommons.org/bills/search.md?q=)
- About and provenance: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/about.md
- JSON API search: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?doc_type=bill&doc_type=amendment&q= (public, no key)
- MCP: https://mcp.georgiacommons.org/mcp

## Georgia House and Senate meetings

Machine transcripts of Georgia House and Senate floor sessions, standing committee meetings, and Rules Committee meetings from the chambers' Vimeo channels, each line timed to the video, with the summaries Georgia Commons wrote and the bills each meeting took up. Not official records; speakers are not identified.

Coverage: Machine transcripts of 623 Georgia House and Senate meetings from 2026 (946.7 hours of video): floor sessions, full standing committee meetings, and Rules Committee meetings with a video on the chamber's Vimeo channel.
- The transcripts are machine transcripts made by Georgia Commons; they are not official records and may contain errors.
- Speakers are not named or labeled.
- Only meetings from 2026 on are published.

- Page: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-05/house-rules
- Markdown twin: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-05/house-rules.md
- Plain text: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-05/house-rules/text
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026.md)
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-05 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-02-05.md)
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/house-rules (twin https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/house-rules.md)
- Map: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/index.md
- Search: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/search?q=school+safety (twin https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/search.md?q=)
- About and provenance: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/about.md
- JSON API search: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?doc_type=meeting_transcript&q= (public, no key)
- MCP: https://mcp.georgiacommons.org/mcp
- The meetings that took up a bill: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?doc_type=meeting_transcript&linked_to=bill:2025-2026/hb1009 (the bill's page lists them too)
- A meeting by the General Assembly's Vimeo id: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/documents/meeting:{vimeo id} redirects to the meeting

## Georgia Supreme Court opinions

Opinions of the Supreme Court of Georgia filed since 2020, from CourtListener and, for decisions it has not yet published, from the court's own website, with the opinion text and summaries written by Georgia Commons.

Coverage: Opinions of the Supreme Court of Georgia filed from 2020-01-13 through 2026-11-03: 1,792 opinions.
- Opinions come from CourtListener and, for decisions it has not yet published, from the Supreme Court of Georgia's own website (36 opinions at present). When CourtListener publishes one of those decisions, its record becomes the current version and the court's copy is kept as an earlier version.
- The court's website index was last compared on 2026-11-09: every decision it listed through 2026-11-03 is here.
- Records whose text is shorter than 200 characters are not included.
- Each decision is counted once: where two records hold one decision (CourtListener's slip opinion and its Georgia Reports copy, or a court-website record and CourtListener's), the better copy is kept and the other record's id redirects to it (158 so far).
- The filing date is the decision date the court printed in the opinion for 38 opinions (every court-website record, and CourtListener records whose date disagreed with the caption); every other date is CourtListener's. For 1 court-website records whose PDF prints no date, the date is the day the court posted it.
- Spanish translations of the summaries exist for 1,792 of the 1,792 opinions with summaries (`lang=es`); the text of an opinion, and every quote from it, stays in English.

- Page: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/S23A0421
- Markdown twin: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/S23A0421.md
- Plain text: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/S23A0421/text
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/2023 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/2023.md)
- Map: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/index.md
- Search: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/search?q=open+records+act (twin https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/search.md?q=)
- About and provenance: https://georgiacommons.org/opinions/about.md
- JSON API search: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?doc_type=opinion&q= (public, no key)
- MCP: https://mcp.georgiacommons.org/mcp

## Official Code of Georgia Annotated

The Official Code of Georgia Annotated (statutes) and the Georgia and United States constitutions, as printed in the state's volumes. Source text only; no stored summaries.

Coverage: The Official Code of Georgia Annotated, current through the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly. The Constitution of the State of Georgia and the Constitution of the United States, as printed in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.
- The volumes reissued in 2025 (Titles 20 in part, 31, 35, 36, and 46) state their currency in their own words as the 2025 Session of the General Assembly.
- Sections with delayed effective dates appear as versions dated 2026 and later, as printed.
- Tables and forms inside statute text are shown as their lines, not as tables.
- Eleven of the 100 source files carry variances printed in the state's own pages; they are recorded, not corrected.
- The Title 9, Chapters 12 to 16 volume comes from the Internet Archive's copy of the set the Office of Legislative Counsel produced in 2024, not from the state's page.
- Georgia's constitution is current through the same 2025 supplement; the United States constitution volume is the 2025 edition; the appendices of local constitutional amendments are not included.
- Annotations (case notes) are not included for the Code sections. The two constitution volumes' notes, as extracted, include the case notes printed under each provision; they are shown apart from the text, and nothing on the site summarizes or interprets them.
- A constitution provision shown as in force is in force as printed in the volume. A court decision can make a printed provision unenforceable without changing the volume, and the volume does not record that.

- Page: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-7-34
- Markdown twin: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-7-34.md
- Plain text: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-7-34/text
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/code/44.md)
- Listing: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-7 (twin https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-7.md)
- Map: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
- Search: https://georgiacommons.org/code/search?q=security+deposit (twin https://georgiacommons.org/code/search.md?q=)
- About and provenance: https://georgiacommons.org/code/about.md
- JSON API search: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/search?doc_type=code_section&doc_type=constitution_provision&q= (public, no key)
- MCP: https://mcp.georgiacommons.org/mcp
- Constitution maps: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/index.md and https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/index.md
- Constitution provision: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-i-sec-i-para-i (twin https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-i-sec-i-para-i.md)
- A title or chapter as JSON, with its children: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/documents/code:t44 and https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/documents/code:t44/c7
- Bulk download with SHA256SUMS: https://api.georgiacommons.org/api/bulk