Bill
HR 512
Georgia creates a temporary House Study Committee on the Addiction Epidemic and Solutions for Recovery to study needs across sectors and propose legislation, sunset Dec 1, 2025.
Status: Introduced Jan 16, 2025; committee activity and adoption actions through Oct–Nov 2025; Chief Co‑Sponsor added Rep. Carol Ammons (Oct 28, 2025). Classification: Resolution. Related/companion: HR 4547.
Note: The legislative text provided contains two distinct resolutions combined in the bill packet:
- A Georgia House substitute creating a House Study Committee on the Addiction Epidemic and Solutions for Recovery (uses Official Code of Georgia Annotated citations).
- An Illinois House congratulatory resolution honoring Major Cameron Jones on selection as a NASA astronaut candidate.
Below are separate, concise summaries of each component and the procedural status information that accompanies the bill.
Purpose
- Establish a temporary House study committee to examine the addiction epidemic in Georgia (substance and behavioral addictions) and recommend actions or legislation to support recovery and related prevention, treatment, education, and interagency collaboration.
Key provisions
- Creates the “House Study Committee on the Addiction Epidemic and Solutions for Recovery.”
- Membership: either 12 or 13 members depending on version:
- Eight legislative members appointed by the Speaker (Speaker selects the chair).
- Four or five nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Speaker, specifically including representatives such as:
- A member of the Georgia Council for Recovery
- An independent physician who treats addiction (one version specifies dual‑diagnosis specialty)
- A family member who lost someone to overdose
- A staff member of a Georgia recovery community organization
- (In one substitute) a peer certified specialist
- Duties: study conditions, needs, problems related to addiction and recovery across healthcare, law enforcement, education, faith communities, business, and local government; recommend actions or draft legislation as appropriate.
- Meetings: called by the chair; flexible scheduling and locations.
- Reporting: committee must file any approved reports or recommendations (including proposed legislation) before abolishment; minutes can be filed if no report is approved.
- Expenses and funding: legislative members receive statutory allowances; nonlegislative members receive daily expense allowance and mileage per state rules; expenses paid from House appropriations (state officials reimbursed from their agencies).
- Sunset: committee is abolished on December 1, 2025.
Who is affected / potential impact
- Policymakers, state agencies, healthcare and recovery providers, law enforcement, schools, faith and business communities, and Georgians affected by addiction. The committee’s recommendations could inform subsequent legislation, program design, funding priorities, and interagency protocols to address addiction and recovery services.
Purpose
- Officially congratulate Major Cameron Jones (U.S. Air Force) on being selected as one of NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates.
Key content
- Notes his background: Savanna, Illinois native; BS and MS in aerospace engineering from UIUC; >1,600 flight hours (including ~150 combat hours); experience in >30 aircraft types including the F‑22; attendance at USAF Test Pilot School and Weapons School.
- States he was one of 10 candidates selected from ~8,000 applicants; selection announced at Johnson Space Center (Sept. 22, 2025).
- Describes expected training (near‑two years) and historical context (test pilots among historic astronaut classes).
- Resolution extends congratulations, best wishes for training and future missions, and directs that copies be presented to Major Jones and NASA.
Who is affected / impact
- Symbolic recognition for Major Jones, the local community (Savanna, IL), and Illinois’ connection to the NASA astronaut program. No regulatory or budgetary effects.
If you want, I can:
- Extract a clean, stand‑alone text of only the Georgia study committee resolution or only the Illinois congratulatory resolution;
- Produce a brief briefing memo outlining likely legislative outcomes if the Georgia committee issues specific policy recommendations.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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