Austin Scott
Representative Republican representing GA-8
Member profile
- Role
- Representative Republican representing GA-8
- Current member
- Yes
- Birth year
- 1969
- Official website
- https://austinscott.house.gov/
Terms
- House · GA-8 · Republican · 2011-present
- House · GA-8 · R · 2023-2025
- House · GA-8 · R · 2021-2023
- House · GA-8 · R · 2019-2021
- House · GA-8 · R · 2017-2019
- House · GA-8 · R · 2015-2017
- House · GA-8 · R · 2013-2015
- House · GA-8 · R · 2011-2013
Committee assignments
- Committee on Agriculture · Vice Chair
- Subcommittee: General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit · Chair
- Subcommittee: Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
- Subcommittee: Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- Committee on Armed Services
- Subcommittee: Intelligence and Special Operations
- Subcommittee: Readiness
- Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- Subcommittee: National Intelligence Enterprise · Chairman
- Subcommittee: National Security Agency and Cyber
- Subcommittee: Central Intelligence Agency
- Committee on Rules
- Subcommittee: Rules and Organization of the House
Sponsored bills
- HR 8884: Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- HRES 1398: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8595) making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8884) to amend title II of the Social Security Act to reauthorize demonstration authority for the disability insurance program; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1383) commemorating the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the Working Families Tax Cuts; and for other purposes.: VACATING PROCEEDINGS - Mr. Steil asked unanimous consent that the ordering of a recorded vote on the question of reconsideration of the vote on adoption on H. Res. 1398 be vacated to the end that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. Agreed to without objection.
- HR 8863: To amend title 5, United States Code, to add certain employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the definition of employees in fire protection activities for the purpose of compensation for certain illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities.: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- HRES 1224: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7567) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2031, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2616) to require public elementary and middle schools that receive funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to obtain parental consent before changing a minor’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form or sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms; providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 33) setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1318) to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1346) to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- HR 8322: To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through April 30, 2026, and for other purposes.: Became Public Law No: 119-84.
Cosponsored bills
- HR 309: National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act.: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- HR 6610: Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 2.
- HR 5267: American Franchise Act: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15.
- HR 5362: To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- HR 1181: Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.