House general calendar, 2024 February 26

HB 17 HB 56 HB 98 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 486 HB 499 HB 549 HB 565

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024 TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Elections; sealing of ballots in secure containers; provide Education; grants to children of law enforcement officers, firefighters, and prison guards killed in the line of duty; provisions Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions 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 Burial Purchaser Protection Act; enact Domestic relations; authorize child support and insurance policies for certain disabled children; provisions Georgia State-wide Music Office Act; enact Social services; temporary assistance for needy families; increase access to benefits

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HB 590 HB 598 HB 617 HB 628 HB 643 HB 738 HB 745 HB 808 HB 820 HB 822 HB 825
HB 827 HB 844 HB 846
HB 880 HB 910
HB 924
HB 927 HB 940 HB 941
HB 957 HB 971

Crimes and offenses; online menacing of a peace officer; provide for offense 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 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 Quality Basic Education Act; prescribed course of study in sex education and HIV prevention is age appropriate and medically accurate; provide 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 Practice of Nutrition and Dietetics Act; enact Education; require local school systems to annually notify employees whether social security taxes will be withheld from their pay and eligibility of certain benefits 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 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

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HB 974 HB 978 HB 996 HB 1018 HB 1023 HB 1028 HB 1031 HB 1039
HB 1040 HB 1050 HB 1052 HB 1053 HB 1078 HB 1081 HB 1090 HB 1093 HB 1096
HB 1099
HB 1100 HB 1104 HB 1112 HB 1113

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 Penal institutions; provide jailers with arrest powers Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act; enact Income tax; match tax rate imposed on corporations to that imposed on individual taxpayers 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 Professions and businesses; licensure as a professional counselor or associate professional counselor; change certain education requirements Revenue and taxation; limitation on leased property as to certain entities; remove State government; prohibit governmental agencies from using central bank digital currency as payment 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 Crimes and offenses; knowing entry upon land or premises of another that has been marked with purple paint; provide for the crime of criminal trespass 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 Personal Privacy Protection Act; enact

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HB 1115 HB 1116 HB 1122 HB 1123 HB 1125 HB 1126 HB 1127 HB 1138 HB 1146
HB 1149 HB 1151 HB 1165
HB 1167
HB 1172 HB 1175 HB 1180 HB 1181 HB 1182 HB 1185 HB 1186 HB 1188 HB 1192

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; provide for funding requirements to apply to local agencies; charter schools; provisions Handicapped persons; require establishment of an Adult Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Multidisciplinary Team in each judicial circuit 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 Agriculture, Department of; enforce certain criminal laws; authorize Invest Georgia Fund; provide additional factor that the fund administrator shall consider in the selection of venture capital funds Natural Resources, Department of; EPD to issue water permits to private companies in areas where no public service can be provided within a period of 12 months; require Local government; require local constitutional officers to annually report audits of discretionary funds to the General Assembly 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 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 Education Coordinating Council; school and school system ratings; provisions 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

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HB 1195
HB 1197
HB 1201
HB 1204
HB 1218
HB 1220
HB 1221
HB 1223 HB 1224 HB 1231
HB 1237 HB 1240 HB 1247 HB 1251
HB 1253
HB 1257
HB 1264
HB 1266 HB 1267 HB 1274 HB 1283 HB 1286 HB 1294
HB 1303 HB 1335

Income tax; workforce-ready graduates employed in high-tech full-time jobs in rural counties; provide tax credit Income tax; expand revitalization zone tax credits to include rehabilitation of historic residential structures Criminal procedure; vacating of sentences of victims of trafficking; 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 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 State Board of Education; procedures for student transfers between local school systems; provide Georgia Soil Amendment Act of 1976; provide for a new prohibited act Postsecondary education; revise definition of approved school; provisions Postsecondary education; allow academically successful students to use the full number of hours of HOPE scholarship eligibility Agriculture; agricultural commodity commissions; revise a definition Uniform Commercial Code Modernization Act of 2024; enact 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 Community Affairs, Department of; revise composition of governing council for regional commissions Seed-Capital Fund; businesses in which state may invest fund moneys; revise 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 State veterinary education; student loan forgiveness program; provide limits Juvenile code; use of deadly weapon; revise provisions Georgia Hemp Farming Act; regulate hemp products Georgia Environmental Finance Authority; finance and perform certain duties for projects relating to natural gas facilities; authorize Special license plates; Shepherd Center; establish Health; personal care homes, assisted living communities, and memory care centers; revise staffing requirements

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HB 1338 HB 1344
HR 303
HR 473 HR 598 HR 780 HR 901 HR 902 HR 1022
HR 1042 HR 1113 HR 1116 HR 1133
SB 19 SB 76 SB 110 SB 144
SB 203 SB 254 SB 334 SB 348 SB 352

Georgia Surface Mining Act of 1968; three-year moratorium on acceptance of applications for new permits; provisions Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; allow for certain officials on to be represented by a delegate or agent
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 Clark, Mr. Darrell Lee; compensate Watkins, Mr. Joseph Samuel; compensate 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 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

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SB 362
SB 369 SB 377 SB 389 SB 410 SB 443

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 Abatement of Nuisances; inclusion of claims against promoters and organizers for costs incurred by local governments due to unpermitted events: provide

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