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Steven Meeks

Representative Steven Meeks

House District 178 · Republican

Agriculture & Consumer Affairs, Appropriations (Chairman of Subcommittee), Budget and Fiscal Affairs Oversight, Creative Arts & Entertainment, Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications, Game, Fish & Parks, Small Business Development

The Record

10 of 14 tracked bills voted GPS’s position
0 GPS-tracked reform bills sponsored
33 advocacy contacts directed at them
0 responses recorded

Georgia Prisoners’ Speak publishes the record, not a grade. Every line below is a roll-call vote or a bill filing you can verify against the General Assembly’s own records.

Voting Record on GPS-Tracked Bills

Voted GPS’s position on 10 of 14 tracked bills where the chamber was divided.

BillDescriptionGPS PositionVoteAligned?
HB 162
(2025)		Georgia Bureau of Investigation; restriction and seal of First Offender Act sentences until such status is revoked; providesupportYEA✓
SB 185
(2025)		Inmate Gender Treatment Ban — Transgender Prisoner HealthcareopposeYEA✗
SB 159
(2024)		Cell Phone Ban in PrisonsopposeYEA✗
SB 63
(2024)		Bail Reform — Expanded Cash Bail RequirementsopposeYEA✗
HB 1255
(2023)		The Terry Act; enactsupportYEA✓
HB 462
(2023)		Raise the Age Act; enactsupportYEA✓
HB 497
(2023)		Health; use of certified medication aides in penal institutions; authorizesupportYEA✓
SB 533
(2023)		Proceedings; jail-based competency restoration programs; providesupportYEA✓
HB 272
(2022)		Raise Juvenile Court Jurisdiction to 18supportNAY✗
SB 174
(2022)		Unsecured Judicial ReleasesupportYEA✓
SB 441
(2022)		Reducing Barriers to Reentry ActsupportYEA✓
HB 1354
(2021)		Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act; enactsupportYEA✓
HB 194
(2021)		Criminal procedure; term of probation shall follow mandatory term of imprisonment for persons convicted of a sexual offense; clarifysupportYEA✓
SB 565
(2021)		Sentence and Punishment; any time after conviction; defendant convicted of an offense and sentenced as a direct result of being a victim of trafficking for labor or sexual servitude may petition the ssupportYEA✓

Also On The Record

Reform bills that passed without opposition. These are not scored — they do not distinguish one legislator from another — but they are part of the record.

BillDescriptionVoteChamber margin
HB 176
(2025)		Appeal and error; judgments deemed directly appealable; change a provisionYEAHouse 168-0 · Senate 51-0
HB 582
(2025)		Georgia Survivor Justice Act; enactYEAHouse 166-2 · Senate 53-1 · House 164-0
HB535
(2025)		Penal institutions; credit for time served regarding probation revocation sentencing; provideYEAH 178-0; S 53-0; H 160-0
SB 147
(2025)		Correctional Institutions of State and Counties; consent for the release of certain criminal history, vocational, and educational information for inmates upon release; provideABSENTSenate 55-0 · House 163-0 · Senate 51-0
SB 244
(2025)		Criminal Proceedings; the award of reasonable attorney's fees and costs in a criminal case to the defendant upon such defendant making a successful motion to disqualify the prosecuting attorney for mYEASenate 55-0 · House 103-61 · Senate 35-18
HB1201
(2024)		Criminal procedure; vacating of sentences of victims of trafficking; provisionsYEAH 167-0; S 51-0; H 169-0
HB909
(2024)		Georgia Bureau of Investigation; restriction and seal of First Offenders Act; provideYEAH 155-0
HB 996
(2023)		Penal institutions; provide jailers with arrest powersYEAHouse 166-0
HB 168
(2021)		Penal institutions; certain information within inmate files of the Department of Corrections shall not be classified as confidential state secrets when requested by the district attorney; provideYEAHouse 99-66 · Senate 40-11
HB 916
(2021)		Superior and State Court Appellate Practice Act; enactYEAHouse 167-0 · Senate 51-0
SB 105
(2021)		State-Wide Probation System; conditions and procedures under which probation may be terminated early; reviseYEASenate 53-0 · House 169-2

Advocacy Directed at This Legislator

📧 27 advocacy emails via GPS
📬 3 postcards mailed via GPS Campaigns
📜 3 Tell My Story postcards
📊 33 total advocacy contacts
📅 Aug 25, 2026 last contact date

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