GA HB 679 End Rental Price Fixing Act (2025-2026, expired)
Georgia HB 679 — End Rental Price-Fixing Act; Prohibiting Algorithmic Rent Coordination (Expired 2026 Session)
GA · GA HB 679, 125th GA General Assembly (2025-2026 Regular Session); O.C.G.A. Title 10 amendment
- Status
- Expired
- Applies to
- Residential landlords and property managers using algorithmic pricing software in Georgia; software vendors
- Enforced by
- Georgia Attorney General (if enacted); private plaintiffs
Georgia House Bill 679, introduced February 27, 2025, would have amended the 'Fair Business Practices Act of 1975' (O.C.G.A. Title 10, Chapter 1, Article 15, Part 2) to prohibit the use of AI, software, or algorithmic devices to coordinate rental prices among landlords. The bill would have made such algorithmic price-coordination agreements unenforceable as contracts in restraint of trade, and criminalized them with penalties of 1–5 years imprisonment and fines of $1,000–$5,000. The Georgia 2025–2026 regular session (first year) adjourned sine die on April 2, 2026 without the bill passing. A companion Senate bill, SB 559, was also introduced but similarly expired without passage. Georgia is one of the most active states for data center moratoriums but has not yet enacted state-level algorithmic rent regulation.
Who is protected: Georgia residential renters from algorithmically coordinated rent inflation
Legal detail
Georgia HB 679 (125th General Assembly, 2025-2026, introduced Feb. 27, 2025 — O.C.G.A. Title 10, Article 15, Part 2 amendment). Would prohibit: (1) any person from facilitating agreements between residential rental property owners or managers that constitute noncompete agreements, including by use of algorithmic coordinating functions; (2) rental property owners or managers from setting or adjusting rental prices, lease renewal terms, occupancy levels, or lease terms based on recommendations from software, data analytics services, or algorithmic devices. Enforcement: deem such agreements unenforceable contracts in restraint of trade; criminal penalties (felony) of 1–5 years and fines $1,000–$5,000. Identical in policy scope to SB 559 (Senate companion, same session, also expired without passage; tracked under id: legiscan-active-ga-sb559). Session adjourned April 2, 2026 without passage. The End Rent Fixing Act counterpart at the federal level (US Senate S. 3207) is tracked separately.
Key facts
| Jurisdiction | GA |
|---|---|
| Level | State |
| Citation | GA HB 679, 125th GA General Assembly (2025-2026 Regular Session); O.C.G.A. Title 10 amendment |
| Penalties | Would have imposed criminal penalties: 1–5 years imprisonment and $1,000–$5,000 fines for prohibited price-fixing agreements; civil unenforceability |
| Topics | housing and credit decisions · automated decision-making |
| Bill text | End Rental Price Fixing Act HB 679 — Digital Policy Alert |
More AI rules in GA
- SB436 · Expired
- Walters v. OpenAI · In effect
Related housing and credit decisions rules elsewhere
- Connecticut algorithmic rent ban — HB 8002 (eff. Jan 1, 2026) · In effect
- San Diego algorithmic rent price-fixing ban (Ord. O-21955, May 2025) · In effect
- Minneapolis algorithmic rent ban (Ord. 2025-010, eff. Mar 1, 2026) · In effect
- Seattle algorithmic rent-fixing ban (Ord. 127241 / SMC 7.34, July 2025) · In effect
- NJ Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act · Enacted (not yet in effect)
- Hoboken Algorithmic Rent-Fixing Ban · In effect
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