Bill
HR 473
Ceremonial H.R.473 commends the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant and congratulates the 2024 Peach Queens; non-binding, no funding or policy changes.
Status: Resolution Adopted
Introduced: March 6, 2025
Classification: House resolution (ceremonial)
NOTE ON SOURCE MATERIAL: The available text for H.R. 473 contains multiple, partly inconsistent inserts (a Georgia House resolution honoring the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant, a short citation line referring to a “SHOW UP Act of 2025,” and a separate Illinois House resolution congratulating IBEW Local 134). The operative Georgia resolution portion is a ceremonial commendation that was filed and adopted March 6, 2025. This summary focuses on the substantive, adopted Georgia resolution text and highlights the discrepancies in the document where relevant.
Purpose and intent
- To formally commend the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant for promoting Georgia’s peach industry and community service, and to congratulate the 2024 Miss Georgia Peach titleholders.
- To provide an official copy of the resolution to the Pageant’s Board of Directors.
Key provisions and content
- Recognizes the peach as a long‑standing emblem of Georgia and notes that Georgia ranks third nationally in annual peach production (as stated in the text).
- Summarizes the pageant’s origin (Peach County, 1982; organized by the Pilot Club of Fort Valley) and its statewide role in building self‑confidence among girls aged 4–24 and in acknowledging positive community contribution.
- Officially congratulates the five 2024 Peach Queens:
- Miss Georgia Peach: Charleigh Harper
- Teen Miss Georgia Peach: Mia Loyd
- Junior Miss Georgia Peach: Kendall Bella Gaines
- Little Miss Georgia Peach: Skye Harris
- Tiny Miss Georgia Peach: Ellie James Young
- Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make an appropriate copy of the resolution available for distribution to the Board of Directors of the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant.
Who is affected / impact
- Primarily honorary: the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant organization, its Board, participants, and the 2024 titleholders receive formal recognition.
- Symbolic recognition for the Georgia peach industry and associated communities (no regulatory, fiscal, or programmatic changes).
- No policy, funding, or legally binding effects — the resolution is ceremonial.
Procedural / timeline aspects
- Filed and introduced: March 6, 2025.
- Rules were suspended and the resolution was adopted the same day (record vote and journaled statements noted).
- The Clerk was authorized to prepare a copy for the Pageant’s Board.
- The legislative file includes later entries and cross‑jurisdictional text (e.g., references to Illinois IBEW Local 134 and a “SHOW UP Act” line) that appear to be clerical or formatting artifacts and are not part of the core Georgia commendation.
Sponsors
- State-level primary sponsors listed in the resolution include Representatives Robert Dickey (134th), Patty Marie Stinson (150th), Jaclyn Ford (170th), Shaw Blackmon (146th), Bethany Ballard (147th), and others named in the bill header. (A longer sponsor list in the filing contains names from other jurisdictions and federal offices; this likely reflects a filing/compilation inconsistency rather than additional state sponsors.)
Bottom line
- H.R. 473 is a non‑binding, ceremonial resolution formally commending the Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant and congratulating the 2024 Peach Queens; it does not create legal obligations or appropriations. The legislative file includes unrelated text fragments that should be treated as clerical anomalies.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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