In early 2025, Tabatadze, as the chairman of parliament's legal committee, was involved in submitting a bill that was a word-for-word translation of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for consideration in Georgia.[11][12] Tabatadze acknowledged that the copied law contained "certain legal and substantive inaccuracies" and included references to U.S. institutions like Congress that were incompatible with the Georgian context. This law was widely seen as a replacement for a previously proposed "foreign agent" law that had sparked massive protests in 2023 and was passed in 2024 despite continued public outcry. Critics and the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) have firmly rejected comparisons between the U.S. FARA and the Georgian law, stating that the Georgian version creates an "automatic, unevidenced, and irrebuttable presumption" that organizations receiving foreign funding are pursuing the interests of a foreign power.[11]
In 2025, Tabatadze co-sponsored a draft law that sought to significantly expand the surveillance powers of Georgian law enforcement and security services.[13] The proposed amendments would have allowed the state to surveil individuals suspected under a wide range of criminal charges for an unlimited time and without ever notifying them that they had been monitored. A coalition of 11 civil rights groups, including Transparency International Georgia, strongly criticized the bill, calling it a "step back" for human rights. They argued that if a person never learns they were under surveillance, they cannot dispute it in court, effectively stripping them of a constitutional right to a fair trial.[13]