House general calendar, 2019 February 21

HB 22 HB 24 HB 26 HB 35 HB 39 HB 42 HB 56 HB 59 HB 64
HB 66 HB 69 HB 70 HB 85 HB 91
HB 99 HB 123
HB 126 HB 130
HB 131 HB 160 HB 167
HB 182 HB 183 HB 185 HB 186 HB 187 HB 193

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 NINETEENTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Public utilities and public transportation; telephone cooperatives and their affiliates to provide broadband services; specifically authorize Public officers; members of state and local boards, authorities, commissions shall be appointed by an elected official or officials; require Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; enter into an interstate compact Sales and use tax; certain poultry diagnostic and disease monitoring services; create exemption (Postponed) Physical Therapy Licensure Compact Act; enter into an interstate compact Professional licensing boards; refuse to issue a license of a person who is a borrower in default under an educational loan; prohibit State highway system; alternative fueled vehicles; provide logo for manufacturer's license plates to allow travel in exclusive lanes Education; military students enroll in public school based on official military orders prior to physically establishing residency; allow Parent and child; require child welfare agencies to make efforts to determine whether a parent or guardian of a child who is the subject of abuse allegations is on active duty in the military Special license plates; certain special plates for motorcycles; provide Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program; qualifications; revise prior year school requirement Guardian and ward; guardian and conservators of minors and adults; revise provisions Sales and use tax; organ procurement organizations; exempt sales Hospitals and health care facilities; Federal Bureau of Investigation to retain fingerprints when an agency or entity is participating in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's program; allow Insurance; provide for modernization and updates Labor, Department of; designate as the administrator of all programs pursuant to Public Law 105-220 and the policies and methods by the State Workforce Development Board; provide Labor, Department of; establishment of the GeorgiaBest program and an employability skills training curriculum; provide State Board of Education; authorize the Georgia Foundation for Public Education to establish a nonprofit corporation to qualify as a public foundation; authorize Special license plates; Georgia Aquarium; provide for disbursement of proceeds from the sale of plates Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for bariatric surgical procedures; reinstate Insurance; employees of licensed property and casualty insurers to adjust residential property insurance claims of $1,000.00 or less without obtaining an adjuster license; allow Sales and use tax; lower threshold amount for certain dealers Ad valorem tax; right to appeal for any taxpayer that fails to file a property tax return or whose property tax return was deemed returned; provide Financial institutions; change certain definitions Health; sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise provisions Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for the treatment and management of obesity and related conditions; provide Banking and finance; banks and credit unions to offer savings promotion raffle accounts in which deposits to a savings account enter a depositor in a raffle; allow

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HB 196 HB 197 HB 208 HB 213 HB 217
HB 225 HB 226 HB 228 HB 234 HB 246 HB 258
HB 277 HB 290 HB 298
HB 302
HB 310 HB 319
HB 321
HR 37 HR 72 HR 135

Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require Office of Planning and Budget; provide for the establishment of the Strategic Integrated Data System Local government; contracts for utility services; change the terms Georgia Hemp Farming Act; enact Crimes and offenses; employees and agents of syringe services programs are not subject to certain offenses relating to hypodermic syringes and needles; provide Motor vehicles; reference date to federal regulations regarding the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and carriers; update Courts; additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances under Joshua's Law; extend sunset Marriage; change minimum age from 16 to 17 and require any person who is 17 to have been emancipated Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act; enact Evidence; revise manner by which depositions taken at the instance of state are paid Criminal procedure; add aggravated sexual battery to the list of offenses for which the statute of limitations is tolled if the victim is younger than 16 years of age Insurance; allow good will from insurer acquisitions to be treated as an asset Health; pilot program to provide preexposure assistance to persons at risk of HIV infection; establish Retirement and pensions; deduction or cessation of payments owed by a public employee as a result of public employment related crimes; modify manner and timing Local government; adopting or enforcing ordinances or regulations relating to or regulating building design elements as applied to one or two-family dwellings; prohibit Insurance, Department of; must submit an autism coverage report to General Assembly; move annual due date to June 15 Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; member's benefits payable after death shall be paid to his or her estate when such member failed to designate a beneficiary or his or her designated beneficiaries are deceased; provide Health; hospital Medicaid financing program; extend sunset provision
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Georgia Commission on Freight and Logistics; create Georgia; host world's largest startup pitch competition; encourage Congress; eliminate five-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits for individuals living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); urge

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