House general calendar, 2024 February 20

HB 127 HB 149
HB 174
HB 267 HB 363 HB 424 HB 447 HB 472
HB 473
HB 549 HB 579 HB 617 HB 628 HB 643 HB 738 HB 745 HB 793 HB 825
HB 843

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024 TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS State Board of Education; establish rules and regulations for local school system outreach efforts regarding ESOL program; require Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; require cash overpayments to be remitted by merchants in the form of store credit under certain circumstances Education, Department of; provide parents and guardians of students entering sixth grade information regarding adolescent vaccinations in print and electronic form Income tax; failure of employers to comply with revenue provisions regarding employees; authorize private causes of action for equitable relief 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 State-wide Music Office Act; enact Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; revise prior school year requirement 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 Task Force on Workforce and Safety Net Integration; create 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

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HB 896 HB 904 HB 907 HB 924
HB 934 HB 940 HB 941
HB 946 HB 971 HB 974 HB 978 HB 986 HB 987
HB 993 HB 994 HB 995
HB 1001
HB 1018 HB 1020 HB 1031 HB 1039

Domestic relations; process by which individuals may change their married surname to previous surname following divorce; provide Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions Motor vehicles; responsibilities for encountering funeral procession on twolane highway; revise Insurance; discriminating against certain healthcare facilities and providers in connection with the administration of provider administered drugs; prohibit insurers Self-service storage facilities; enforcement of unsigned rental agreements under certain circumstances; provide 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 Firearm Safe Handling and Secure Storage Tax Credit Act; enact 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 Elections; election interference with a deep fake; establish criminal offense 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 Crimes and offenses; grooming a minor for indecent purposes; provide for offense 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 Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format satisfies the requirement to possess a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle; provide 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

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HB 1041 HB 1049 HB 1054 HB 1069 HB 1072 HB 1073
HB 1077
HB 1078 HB 1081 HB 1093 HB 1100 HB 1104 HB 1112 HB 1114 HB 1124 HB 1125 HB 1150 HB 1170
HB 1172 HB 1183
HB 1188 HB 1193

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 Ad valorem tax; assessment of standing timber; authorize disclosure of records to State Forestry Commission Health; drug repository program; revise definitions; provide for pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratios Local government; zoning; repeal additional hearing and notice provisions regarding halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers, or other facilities for treatment of drug dependency 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 Health; provide mandatory preeclampsia biomarker testing for pregnant women during their first prenatal visit Agriculture; prohibit acquisition of possessory interest in certain land by certain foreign persons and entities Revenue, Department of; authorize use of electronic notifications and communications to motor vehicle owners; provisions Quality Basic Education Act; address mental health risks for student athletes Elections; remove Secretary of State from State Election Board; attach to State Accounting Office Data Analysis for Tort Reform Act; enact Education; needs based financial aid program; provide for a definition Labor and industrial relations; phase out payment of subminimum wage to persons with disabilities Motor vehicles; fingerprints shall not be obtained for offenses relating to window tinting; provide Public Health, Department of; require certain state government buildings, courthouses, and university buildings maintain and make accessible opioid antagonists Water rights; public trust doctrine; remove references Education; local school systems to provide certain information to parents and guardians of students in grades six through 12 on Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes; require Peace officers; extend time frame for which reimbursement of total training expenses by a subsequent employer may be sought Motor vehicles; require operation of flashing or revolving amber lights upon certain vehicles

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HB 1199 HB 1203 HB 1204
HB 1207 HB 1235
HR 303
HR 473 HR 780 HR 918 HR 1066
SB 19 SB 76 SB 110 SB 203 SB 348 SB 362
SB 369 SB 377

State government; auditor produce certain monthly and annual reports ; replace requirement Dispossessory proceedings; authorize landlords to use certain off-duty sheriffs, constables, or marshals to execute writs of possession; provisions 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 iatrogenic infertility; require coverage Elections; proofing of ballots by local superintendents in certain races; provide Motor vehicles; vehicle registration of special mobile equipment that are self-propelled cranes in order to authorize operation of such upon public highways; provide
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 Only citizens of the United States have right to vote in elections in Georgia; clarify - CA Golden Isle Greenway; official corridor in Georgia; designate Iranian people; desire for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear Republic of Iran; express support
SENATE BILLS Courts; collection of passport application and processing fees by clerks of superior courts and probate court judges; provide State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; state health benefit plans to cover insulin medication at a reduced rate; provide 'Back the Blue Act'; enact "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 State Government; employee representation by a labor organization for employers to receive certain economic development incentives from the state; provide requirements Motor Vehicles; issuance of license plates commemorating the United States of America's semiquincentennial; provide Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide

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