House general calendar, 2024 February 22

HB 17 HB 127 HB 149
HB 174
HB 267 HB 363 HB 403 HB 425 HB 441 HB 447 HB 451
HB 464 HB 473
HB 481 HB 549 HB 579 HB 598 HB 617 HB 628

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024 TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Elections; sealing of ballots in secure containers; provide 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 Revenue and taxation; tax credit for certain geothermal machinery installations at residential dwellings; provide Penal institutions; state sexual offender registry; revise certain risk assessment classifications Professions; authorize and regulate teledentistry by licensed dentists pursuant to permits issued by Georgia Board of Dentistry Georgia Secure Automated Vehicle Enforcement (SAVE) Act; enact Public officers and employees; supplemental, illness-specific insurance for certain first responders with occupational post-traumatic stress disorder; require provision Income tax; revise rates of taxation on income Crimes and offenses; local governments operate bingo based games to offset reduced tax collections resulting from state-owned forest lands; authorize Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law; provide for a fiduciary duty Georgia State-wide Music Office Act; enact Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; revise prior school year requirement Professions and businesses; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial art associations and federations; change certain provisions 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

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HB 643 HB 738 HB 745 HB 808 HB 820 HB 825
HB 827 HB 843 HB 880 HB 910
HB 924
HB 927 HB 934 HB 940 HB 941
HB 957 HB 971 HB 974 HB 978 HB 986 HB 993 HB 996 HB 1018

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 Ad valorem tax; increase a statewide exemption for tangible personal property Board of Natural Resources; repeal a minimum and maximum allowable fee for motor vehicle emissions inspections Judicial Retirement System; require certain counties to supplement retirement benefits paid to the circuit's superior court judges and district attorneys; require Crimes and offenses; livestock theft; increased penalties; provide Alcoholic beverages; Sunday sales for consumption on the premises in locally designated special entertainment districts; provide Professions and businesses; military spouses to use an existing license in good standing from another state; allow Minors; civil remedy for damages against commercial entities that distribute material harmful to minors without performing age verification; create Insurance; discriminating against certain healthcare facilities and providers in connection with the administration of provider administered drugs; prohibit insurers Game and fish; fluorescent pink hunting outer garments; authorize 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 Water, ports and watercraft; penalties for failing to remove abandoned vessel; revise 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 Crimes and offenses; grooming a minor for indecent purposes; provide for offense Penal institutions; provide jailers with arrest powers Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act; enact

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HB 1028 HB 1031 HB 1039
HB 1040 HB 1049 HB 1050 HB 1053 HB 1073
HB 1078 HB 1081 HB 1090 HB 1093 HB 1096
HB 1100 HB 1104 HB 1112 HB 1114 HB 1115 HB 1116 HB 1124 HB 1125 HB 1126

Education; repeal requirement of screening of public school children for scoliosis; provisions 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 Mortgage lenders and brokers; prohibit unfair or deceptive practices in consumer transactions related to mortgage trigger leads Insurance Business Transfer Act; enact Professions and businesses; licensure as a professional counselor or associate professional counselor; change certain education requirements State government; prohibit governmental agencies from using central bank digital currency as payment Local government; zoning; repeal additional hearing and notice provisions regarding halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers, or other facilities for treatment of drug dependency 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 Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit Agriculture; prohibit acquisition of possessory interest in certain land by certain foreign persons and entities Professional licensing boards; continuing education tracking solution to monitor compliance of licensees with applicable continuing education requirements; establish 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 Sales and use tax; revise provisions for maximum allowable tax rate; remove prohibition of simultaneously levying a LOST and a HOST Income tax credit; rehabilitation of historic structures; home portion; extend sunset date 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; enforcement of speeding in school zones through automated traffic enforcement safety devices; repeal all law

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HB 1127 HB 1151 HB 1165
HB 1167
HB 1170
HB 1172 HB 1175 HB 1180 HB 1181 HB 1182 HB 1185 HB 1188 HB 1192 HB 1195 HB 1199 HB 1203 HB 1204
HB 1207 HB 1218 HB 1220 HB 1224 HB 1237 HB 1240

Agriculture, Department of; enforce certain criminal laws; authorize Special license plates; Southern University Alumni; establish Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; replace chairperson of the Governor's Office of Children and Families with the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Georgia Foundation for Public Education; prioritizing low-performing schools applicable to the award of grants to public schools by a nonprofit corporation; remove a provision 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 Physical therapists; granting licenses and disciplining licensees; revise provisions Income tax credit; film, gaming, video, or digital production; revise a definition Income tax; limit carry-forward periods of certain income tax credits Income tax; low-income housing tax credits; revise Revenue and taxation; statewide homestead exemption from ad valorem taxes when current year assessed value exceeds the inflation rate; provide Peace officers; extend time frame for which reimbursement of total training expenses by a subsequent employer may be sought Sales and use tax; certain high-technology data center equipment; prohibit issuance of new certificates of exemption Income tax; workforce-ready graduates employed in high-tech full-time jobs in rural counties; provide tax credit 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 Wills, trusts and administration of estates; notice to beneficiaries of a testate estate; provide Public Service Commission; subject certain companies providing water service to regulation by the commission Postsecondary education; revise definition of approved school; provisions Agriculture; agricultural commodity commissions; revise a definition Uniform Commercial Code Modernization Act of 2024; enact

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HB 1247 HB 1251 HB 1264
HB 1266 HB 1267 HB 1303
HR 303
HR 473 HR 598 HR 780 HR 918 HR 1022
HR 1042 HR 1113 HR 1116 HR 1133
SB 19 SB 76 SB 110 SB 144
SB 203 SB 254 SB 334

Property; provide for transfer-on-death deeds The Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia; duties related to review and approval for travel expenses; transfer from state auditor Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize Community Housing Options Increase Cost Efficiency Act; enact Georgia Tax Court Act of 2025; enact Special license plates; Shepherd Center; establish
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 Georgia Tax Tribunal; vest judicial power; provide for venue and jurisdiction - CA Only citizens of the United States have right to vote in elections in Georgia; clarify - CA Golden Isle Greenway; official corridor in Georgia; designate Local government; option to offer a state-wide homestead exemption from ad valorem taxes when current year assessed value exceeds the inflation rate; provide - CA Joint Study Committee on Judicial System Compensation; create Property; granting of nonexclusive easements; authorize Property; conveyance of certain state owned property; authorize Congress; pass Kidney PATIENT Act of 2023; urge
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 Adjutant General; include a roster of all commissioned officers in the organized militia in the annual report to the Governor; remove the requirement "Trucking Opportunity Act of 2023"; enact Selling and other Trade Practices; requirements for earned wage access services; provide "Helping Firefighters Beat Cancer Act"; enact

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SB 348 SB 352 SB 362
SB 369 SB 377 SB 389 SB 410

Notification of Suspicious or Unusual Deaths; individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death; revise the period Motor Vehicle Equipment and Inspection; standards for the alteration and operation of motor vehicles with modified suspension systems; provide 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 Georgia National Guard; adjutant general to be the official sponsor of the state sponsored life insurance program; provide Licensing of Veterinarians; certain sterilization services performed by outof-state veterinarians from licensing requirements; exempt

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