The first regular session of the 146th General Assembly of the U.S. state of Georgia met from Monday, January 8, 2001 at 10:00 am, to Friday, March 21 at 11:57pm, at which time both houses adjourned sine die. 298 House bills and 97 Senate bills passed.

The second regular session of the Georgia General Assembly opened at 10:00 am on Monday, January 14, 2002, and adjourned sine die at 3:44pm on Friday, April 11, 2002.

Presiding Officer

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	Position	Name	Party	District
President Lieutenant Governor of Georgia The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the state, elected to a 4-year term by popular vote. Unlike some states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the state Governor....	Mark Taylor Mark Taylor (politician) Mark Fletcher Taylor is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He served two terms between 1999 to 2007 as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Georgia...	Democrat	n/a
President Pro Tempore	Terrell Starr	Democrat	44

Majority leadership

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	Position	Name	District
Senate Majority Leader Majority leader In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...	Charles W. Walker	22
Majority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...

Minority leadership

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	Position	Name	District
Senate Minority Leader Minority leader In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position...	Eric Johnson	1
Minority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...

Presiding Officer

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	Position	Name	Party	District
Speaker of the House	Tom Murphy	Democrat
Speaker Pro Tempore	Jack Connell	Democrat

Majority leadership

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	Position	Name	District
House Majority Leader Majority leader In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...	Larry Walker	141
Majority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...	Jimmy Skipper	137
Majority Caucus Chairman	Calvin Smyre Calvin Smyre Calvin Smyre is a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 132nd district since 1974.From Columbus, Georgia, Smyre became the youngest member of the Georgia House of Representatives when he was elected to it at the age of 26 in 1974...	136
Majority Caucus Secretary	LaNett Stanley-Turner	50

Minority Leadership

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	Position	Name	District
House Minority Leader Minority leader In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position...	Lynn Westmoreland	104
Minority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...	Earl Ehrhart	36
Minority Caucus Chairman	Mike Evans
Minority Caucus Vice Chairman	Garland Pinholster	15
Minority Caucus Secretary	Anne Mueller	152

Legislation considered

• Created Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
  Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
  The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District is a water district that covers all of metro Atlanta, and the nearby part of its headwaters in north Georgia...
  
  in 2001