House general calendar, 2025 February 21

HB 14 HB 34
HB 52 HB 58
HB 77 HB 78 HB 79 HB 91
HB 94
HB 107
HB 108 HB 110 HB 111 HB 112 HB 113 HB 115 HB 123

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025 TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS State symbols; cornbread as official state bread; designate Professional licensing boards; continuing education tracking solution to monitor compliance of licenses with applicable continuing education requirements; establish Ad valorem tax; qualified disabled veterans; extend homestead exemption to unremarried surviving spouses or minor children Aviation; adoption of local ordinances, resolution, regulations, or policies that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft systems over mass public gatherings; authorize Motor vehicles; encountering funeral procession on two-lane highway; revise responsibilities Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; total percentage of funds invested in alternative investments; raise limit Firearm Safe Handling and Secure Storage Tax Credit Act; enact Professions and businesses; licensure for graduates of foreign colleges or schools of veterinary medicine who are board certified in a specialty; provide Insurance; medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medically necessary treatment for cancer, sickle cell disease, or lupus may directly or indirectly cause an impairment of fertility; require coverage Professions and businesses; issuance of digitally verifiable licenses for certain military spouses and transitioning military service members; provide Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act or SAVE Act; enact Pawnbrokers; certain protections for current military members and related persons; provide Income tax; reduce rate of tax Income tax; one-time tax credit for taxpayers who filed returns for both 2023 and 2024 taxable years; provide State government; prohibit the state or its agencies from purchasing goods from certain foreign countries or related entities Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide Criminal procedure; pretrial proceedings in capital offense cases where the death penalty is sought when the accused has an intellectual disability; provide

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HB 124
HB 131
HB 134 HB 136
HB 140 HB 141
HB 143
HB 150 HB 153
HB 154
HB 156 HB 158
HB 163
HB 167 HB 169
HB 171 HB 172 HB 173
HB 176
HB 180 HB 181
HB 182
HB 185
HB 187 HB 192 HB 196

Insurance; require coverage for healthcare services for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders; provisions Self-service storage facilities; revise advertisement requirements before an owner can enforce an owner's lien Sales and use tax; manufactured homes; revise and expand exemption Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit End Local Taxation by Citation Act; enact Revenue and taxation; allow businesses and practitioners to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns Water resources; water-measuring devices for farm use of surface and ground water; revise provisions Combating Threats from China Act of 2025 - Higher Education; enact Sales and use tax; maintenance and replacement parts for certain machinery used to mix or transport concrete; extend exemption sunset date Emergency medical services; designate ambulance services as an essential service Transportation, Department of; authority over vertiports; provide Commerce and trade; filing of registration statements with the office of the Secretary of State; provide Food service establishments; certain food products be disclosed as containing cell cultured meat and plant based meat alternatives; require Game and fish; authorize fluorescent pink hunting outer garments Ad valorem tax; breach of a covenant for bona fide conservation use related to solar generation of energy; limit exceptions Crimes and offenses; obscenity; repeal and replace Code Section 16-12-80 Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide Education, Department of; provide parents and guardians of students entering sixth grade information regarding adolescent vaccinations in print and electronic form Appeal and error; judgments deemed directly appealable; change a provision Probate courts; modify certain requirements for probate judges Vital records; issuance of a Certificate of Foreign Birth by the state registrar without a judicial order if certain criteria is satisfied; provide Life insurance; excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; prohibit Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions Top State for Talent Act; enact State employees' health insurance plan; drugs dispensed for selfadministration; provisions

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HB 197 HB 205 HB 218 HB 222 HB 225 HB 227 HB 232 HB 233 HB 240 HB 241 HB 242 HB 246 HB 247 HB 249 HB 254 HB 262 HB 283 HB 287 HB 295 HB 296 HB 309
HB 315 HB 318 HB 320

Insurance; health care provider to respond to a private review agent or utility review entity's attempt to discuss the patient's care; detail the effort Board of Homeland Security; development of a list of approved unmanned aircraft systems; provide Health; lower the age from 50 to 18 years old at which hospitals shall offer inpatient vaccinations for the influenza virus prior to discharge Criminal procedure; inclusion of certain contact information on bonds and recognizances; require Motor vehicles; enforcement of speeding violations in school zones through automated traffic enforcement safety devices; repeal all laws Putting Georgia's Patients First Act; enact Interstate Massage Compact Act; enact State symbols; Brunswick stew as the official state stew; designate Mortgage lenders and brokers; prohibit unfair or deceptive practices in consumer transactions related to mortgage trigger leads Contracts; convenience fees for payment by electronic means; revise provisions Crimes and offenses; disorderly or disruptive conduct at any funeral or memorial service; include religious worship and observance Courts; office of sheriff and training of peace officers; revise qualification requirements Motor vehicles; restoration of licenses; authorize written consent for release of certain information to be obtained and transferred electronically Public utilities; solar power facility agreements; revise provisions State government; provide placement of Revolutionary War Patriots marker on state capitol building grounds and state archives building grounds Community Health, Department of; grant program for purpose of acquiring and installing backup generators; provide (Postponed) Motor vehicles; issuance of a refusal to sign citation; provide Environmental Protection Division; Environmental Advisory Council; update reference date to standards, rules, and regulations Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions Local government; require adoption of a resolution or ordinance and voter approval prior to abolishment of a police force that was created by such method Law Enforcement Partners Act; enact Appeal and error; appeal of superior court decisions on zoning decisions of counties and municipal corporations; provide Waste management; require recycling of solar panels

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HB 322
HB 329 HB 348 HB 350 HB 352 HB 353 HB 377 HB 398 HB 410 HB 414 HB 420 HB 423 HB 424
HB 435 HB 444 HB 460
HR 32 HR 69 HR 121 HR 132
SB 16 SB 35

Ga. Board of Dentistry; issuance of a dental or dental hygiene license for the sole purpose of teaching in an accredited dental, dental hygiene school, or academic medical center; revise provisions Professional and businesses; authorize certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform artificial insemination Insurance; expand lines of insurance or reinsurance in which a limited purpose subsidiary and captive insurance company may engage Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact Georgia Music Office and Music Ready Communities Act; enact Buildings and housing; manufactured homes; provisions Food, drugs, and cosmetics; authorize production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures Insurance, Department of; efficiency in the practices; provide Elections; "person" to include certain nonresidents; revise definition Insurance; require certain health benefit policies to cover genetic testing for an inherited mutation and cancer imaging under certain conditions Emergency telephone number 9-1-1 system; Next Generation 9-1-1 systems and services; provide Agriculture; clarify that a manufacturer cannot be held liable for failing to warn consumers of health risks above those required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency Crimes and offenses; sexual exploitation of children; expand limitations to include Division of Family and Children Services Holidays; April of each year as Georgia Native Plant Month; designate Evidence; exclude certain communications made between attorney and client when client is in a penal institution
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property - CA (Postponed) Biomedical Research Day; every third Thursday in April; recognize John W. Mixon Georgia Forestry Building; Dry Branch Community; dedicate Joint Georgia-North Carolina and Georgia-Tennessee Boundary Line Commission; create
SENATE BILLS Public Officials; bail bond business; modify provisions Property Insurance Policies; notice required to be given a policyholder before the nonrenewal of his or her homeowners' insurance policy; increase the number of days

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