Proposed Budget - Fiscal Year 2026
On January 16, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp released a $73.04 billion total funds budget proposal for fiscal 2026, a decrease of 2.6 percent from the amended fiscal 2025 budget. From state funds the budget proposes spending $37.7 billion, a decrease of 7.0 percent compared to the amended fiscal 2025 budget (which includes $2.7 billion in reserve funds for one-time, high priority investments). General fund appropriations total $32.5 billion in the fiscal 2026 proposed budget, a decrease of 8.4 percent from the amended fiscal 2025 budget and an increase of 3.4 percent from the original fiscal 2025 budget. State general fund receipts are projected at $35.9 billion in fiscal 2026, an increase of $160.6 million, or 0.5 percent, over the amended fiscal 2025 estimate, while total state treasury receipts are estimated at $37.7 billion, an increase of 0.7 percent from amended fiscal 2025. The Revenue Shortfall Reserve was $5.5 billion at the end of fiscal 2024, maintaining a “filled” status for the fourth consecutive year; current law provides that the reserve cannot exceed 15 percent of the previous fiscal year’s net revenue. Across state funds appropriated in the budget, the largest categories of spending are dedicated to Educated Georgia (52.6 percent), Healthy Georgia (23.2 percent), Safe Georgia (7.4 percent), and Mobile Georgia (7.1 percent).