Keisha Lance Bottoms

Her campaign website says she would expand Medicaid and end the Georgia Pathways program, replacing it with coverage she says would work better for families.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would fight to restore a woman's right to choose, and her health plan says she would repeal Georgia's 2022 abortion ban and restore the standard that applied under Roe v. Wade.^18,19

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

Her campaign website says she would fully fund Georgia's schools and update the state's education funding formula to reflect students' current needs.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would create a path to free technical and community college for high school graduates and workers learning new skills.¹⁸

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

Her campaign website says she supports universal child care and has a plan to guarantee universal pre-kindergarten, which would offer pre-K to every 4-year-old whose family wants it, paid for in part with casino gaming revenue that voters would be asked to approve.^18,20

Her campaign website says she would eliminate the state income tax for teachers to help recruit and keep them.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would let cities and counties eliminate or temporarily suspend local sales taxes on groceries and other essentials, and her grocery plan would set up a $250 million fund to help, for one budget cycle, communities whose revenue loss would exceed 5% of their local sales tax collections.^18,21

Her campaign's property tax plan says she would fully fund the state's Homeowner Tax Relief Grant every year and seek a constitutional amendment raising it to $25,000 of assessed value, raise the statewide homestead exemption from $2,000 to $5,000, and raise the income limit for senior property tax exemptions to $100,000, indexed to inflation.²²

1. Eliminate property taxes on primary homes
2. Cap yearly increases or expand homeowner exemptions
3. No new state caps or exemptions; leave property taxes to local governments

Her campaign website says she supports universal background checks.¹⁸

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

Her campaign website says she supports a red flag law.¹⁸

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

Her campaign website says she would increase state support for local law enforcement, including more state investigative and forensic resources for smaller jurisdictions, and lists offering Atlanta police officers and firefighters the largest pay raise in the city's history, and pledging to add officers, among her accomplishments as mayor.^18,23

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

Her campaign website says she supports protecting absentee voting, expanding early voting and making Election Day a state holiday.¹⁸

Her campaign's voting plan says she would expand the forms of identification voters can use, including student IDs, utility bills and bank statements.²⁴

1. Require a government-issued photo ID, with free IDs for people who need one
2. Require ID but accept other documents, such as a utility bill or bank statement
3. Don't require ID at the polls; confirm identity through registration records and signatures

Her campaign's voting plan says she would veto any district map that dilutes minority voting power, and would seek stronger state protections against discriminatory redistricting, clearer standards for fair maps and public notice before maps are changed.²⁴

Her campaign website says Georgia needs to slow down and reassess the rapid expansion of data centers so families are not left with higher utility bills and strained water supplies.¹⁸

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her campaign website says she would expand down payment and renter assistance.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would create a Georgia Housing Fast Track initiative to streamline permitting and improve coordination, and set up an affordable housing trust fund for affordable and workforce housing.¹⁸

Her campaign's health plan says she would pursue targeted state premium support to help keep coverage affordable for Georgians who rely on the Affordable Care Act after the larger federal premium subsidies were not extended.¹⁹

Her campaign's health plan says she would invest in broadband, telehealth and mobile care so rural families do not have to drive hours for routine care.¹⁹