House general calendar, 2024 February 15

HB 53
HB 282
HB 363 HB 409
HB 424 HB 447 HB 473
HB 546 HB 549 HB 575
HB 585 HB 617
HB 745 HB 793
HB 843
HB 872
HB 874 HB 904 HB 907
HB 912
HB 927 HB 933
HB 940

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2024 TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS State Board of Registration for Foresters; independent state agency; provisions Quality Basic Education Act; minimum course study in career readiness education for students in grades six through twelve; provide Health; eligibility to receive tax credits; revise a definition; provisions Local government; authorize local authorities to dispose of real property in the same manner as county governing authorities Courts; office of sheriff; revise qualification requirements Georgia Secure Automated Vehicle Enforcement (SAVE) Act; enact Crimes and offenses; local governments operate bingo based games to offset reduced tax collections resulting from state-owned forest lands; authorize Georgia Pharmacy Practice Act; pharmacy care; revise definition Georgia State-wide Music Office Act; enact Professions and businesses; licensee may request review of an occupational regulation; provide Georgia Development Impact Fee Act; enact Highways, bridges, and ferries; development and maintenance of a statewide freight and logistics implementation plan; provide Health; provide requirements for nurse staffing in hospitals; provisions Professional counselors; authorize applicants enrolled in a master's degree program to take the master's social work licensing exam; provisions Alcoholic beverages; Sunday sales for consumption on the premises in locally designated special entertainment districts; provide Medical professionals; rural assistance; expand service cancelable loan program for health care providers to include dental students Schools; automated external defibrillators; require Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions Motor vehicles; responsibilities for encountering funeral procession on twolane highway; revise Motor vehicles; define multipurpose off-highway vehicle; subclassify for ad valorem tax purposes Game and fish; fluorescent pink hunting outer garments; authorize Specialty license plates; supporting advocacy and promotion of strict interpretations of the United States Constitution; establish Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; require retail stores to accept cash for purchases

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HB 941
HB 946 HB 947 HB 974 HB 978 HB 987
HB 988 HB 995
HB 1010 HB 1018 HB 1020 HB 1031 HB 1039
HB 1041 HB 1049 HB 1054 HB 1058 HB 1072 HB 1077
HB 1078 HB 1150

Education; capital outlay funds may be used for educational facilities for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs provided by the school system; provide Special district mass transportation sales and use tax; intergovernmental agreements; revise requirements Courts; compensation received by superior court judges; modify provisions; create Judicial System Compensation Commission Secretary of State; establish and maintain a state-wide system for the posting of scanned paper ballots; require Uniform rules of the road; operators of bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs; authorize Education; grants; revise definition of qualified local school system school by reducing the minimum required millage rate or equivalent millage rate from 14 mills to 10 mills Georgia Technology Authority; annual inventory of artificial intelligence usage by state agencies; provide Education; administration of a nationally recognized multiple-aptitude battery assessment that predicts success in the military to certain public school students; require Public officers and employees; increase number of hours permitted for paid parental leave (Postponed) Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act; enact Income tax credit; military zones that qualify for designation as less developed areas; revise Ad valorem tax; property; provide mandatory reappraisal of parcels Elections; political committees shall require disclosures on content or postings made by social media personalities that are paid for by such candidate or committee; provide Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority; maximum amount of bonded indebtedness of the authority; increase Insurance Business Transfer Act; enact Motor vehicles; issuance of refusal to sign citation; provide Motor vehicles; federal regulations regarding safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; update reference date Health; drug repository program; revise definitions; provide for pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratios Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; grant program to provide funding to eligible institutions for additional behavioral health workforce training positions; create Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement Motor vehicles; fingerprints shall not be obtained for offenses relating window tinting; provide

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HB 1173
HR 303
HR 449 HR 473
SB 76 SB 203 SB 348 SB 353

Game and fish; authorize taking channel catfish and flathead catfish by bow and arrow state wide
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; authorize local boards of education to impose, levy, and collect development impact fees for educational facilities costs; provide CA Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day; fourth Wednesday in February; designate House Study Committee on Safety and Consumer Protection in the Tree Care Industry; create
SENATE BILLS State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; state health benefit plans to cover insulin medication at a reduced rate; provide "Trucking Opportunity Act of 2023"; enact Notification of Suspicious or Unusual Deaths; individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death; revise the period Highways, Bridges, and Ferries; duties when death results from an accident upon a highway in certain instances; allow for delegation

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