Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
1 instrument in Georgia. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲▼Expands and restrictsOpens state veterans cemeteries to reserve members and Hmong and Laotian veterans, but adds the federal criminal-offense bars.
Revised Code section 38-4-70 from July 1, 2026: reserve component eligibility by reference to the federal Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021, a route for a Hmong or Laotian special guerrilla unit veteran of 1961 to 1975 who was a Georgia resident at death, on affidavits and naturalization records, a Veterans Service Board discretion for substantial compliance, and the 38 U.S.C. 2411 criminal-offense bars. The department keeps authority to charge a per-person burial fee. Signed May 11, 2026.
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