House general calendar, 2024 February 16

HB 149
HB 363 HB 424 HB 447 HB 472
HB 473
HB 546 HB 549 HB 575 HB 617 HB 628 HB 643 HB 745 HB 793 HB 825
HB 843 HB 872 HB 874 HB 896 HB 904 HB 933

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2024 TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; require cash overpayments to be remitted by merchants in the form of store credit under certain circumstances Health; eligibility to receive tax credits; revise a definition; provisions Courts; office of sheriff; revise qualification requirements (Postponed) Georgia Secure Automated Vehicle Enforcement (SAVE) Act; enact Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions 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 Highways, bridges, and ferries; development and maintenance of a statewide freight and logistics implementation plan; provide Property; revise exemption for a debtor's aggregate interest in real property or personal property; provisions Georgia Judicial Retirement System; certain state court judges of Fulton County participating in other retirement systems; repeal prohibitions 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 Judicial Retirement System; require certain counties to supplement retirement benefits paid to the circuit's superior court judges and district attorneys; require 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 Domestic relations; process by which individuals may change their married surname to previous surname following divorce; provide Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions Specialty license plates; supporting advocacy and promotion of strict interpretations of the United States Constitution; establish

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HB 940 HB 941
HB 946 HB 974 HB 978 HB 987
HB 988 HB 994 HB 995
HB 1018 HB 1020 HB 1031 HB 1039
HB 1041 HB 1049 HB 1054 HB 1058 HB 1072 HB 1077
HB 1078 HB 1093 HB 1114

Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; require retail stores to accept cash for purchases 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 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 Torts; negligent operations of a vessel; revise liability Education; administration of a nationally recognized multiple-aptitude battery assessment that predicts success in the military to certain public school students; require 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 Agriculture; prohibit acquisition of possessory interest in certain land by certain foreign persons and entities Data Analysis for Tort Reform Act; enact

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HB 1117 HB 1124 HB 1150 HB 1188 HB 1203
HR 303
HR 473
SB 76 SB 203 SB 348 SB 353

Law enforcement officers; expand eligibility to serve as a peace officer to United States nationals Education; needs based financial aid program; provide for a definition Motor vehicles; fingerprints shall not be obtained for offenses relating window tinting; provide Peace officers; extend time frame for which reimbursement of total training expenses by a subsequent employer may be sought Dispossessory proceedings; authorize landlords to use certain off-duty sheriffs, constables, or marshals to execute writs of possession; provisions
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; authorize local boards of education to impose, levy, and collect development impact fees for educational facilities costs; provide CA 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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