Proposed Senate first readers, 2022 March 3

PROPOSED SENATE FIRST READERS THURSDAY, MARCH 03, 2022
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATIVE DAY

SB 574. SB 575. SB 576.
SB 577.

By Senator Mullis of the 53rd:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-75.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to proceeds of sale of hospital held in trust to fund indigent health care, so as to authorize use of proceeds for public health care; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senator Tippins of the 37th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide that local boards of education shall review the financial status of the local school system at least quarterly rather than monthly, subject to an exception; to make conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senator Strickland of the 17th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-7-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to actions by grandparents or other family members for visitation rights or intervention, revocation or amendment of visitation rights, appointment of guardian ad litem, mediation, hearing, and notification to family members of child's participation in events, so as to revise provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; to provide for a rebuttable presumption; to provide for a response to Patten v. Ardis, 304 Ga. 140 (2018); to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senator Strickland of the 17th:
A BILL to be entitled an O.C.G.A., relating to serious traffic offenses, so as to add aggressive driving to the underlying offenses for the offense of homicide by vehicle; to add overtaking a school bus, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, and aggressive driving to the underlying offenses for the offense of serious injury by vehicle; to provide for the offense of serious injury by vehicle when a habitual violator causes an accident resulting in bodily harm; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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SB 578. SB 579. SB 581. SB 582.

By Senators Walker III of the 20th, Burns of the 23rd, Anderson of the 24th, Burke of the 11th and Summers of the 13th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and adulteration of food, so as to authorize the operation, licensure, inspection, labeling requirements, enforcement, and regulation of home kitchen operations; to provide for definitions; to authorize collection of license fees; to provide for conforming changes; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to prohibit county and municipality prohibition and regulation of home kitchen operations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Mullis of the 53rd, Hatchett of the 50th, Harbison of the 15th, Dixon of the 45th, Albers of the 56th and others:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to schedules, offenses, and penalties under the regulation of controlled substances, so as to provide that minimum sentences imposed for the manufacture, delivery, distribution, dispensing, administering, selling, or possessing with intent to distribute certain controlled substances shall not be suspended, stayed, probated, deferred, or withheld by the sentencing court; to provide for an exception; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Walker III of the 20th, Ginn of the 47th, Gooch of the 51st, Dugan of the 30th and Miller of the 49th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 44 of the O.C.G.A., relating to determination of boundaries, so as to designate the most recent systems of plane coordinates for defining and stating geographic positions within this state as the Georgia State Plane Coordinate System; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senator Tate of the 38th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975," so as to require certain language on unsolicited written inquiries or mailings relating to the sale of real estate; to provide for class action suits and for damages for violating the requirements for such written inquiries or mailings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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SB 583. SB 584. SB 585. SB 586.

By Senators Anavitarte of the 31st, Robertson of the 29th, Summers of the 13th, Hufstetler of the 52nd and Butler of the 55th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to generation and distribution of electricity generally, so as to change certain provisions relating to "The Georgia Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act of 2001" and the "Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015"; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Robertson of the 29th and Hufstetler of the 52nd:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to compensation for county tax officials and administration, so as to require the state revenue commissioner to contract with the board of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia to offer certain county tax commissioners the option to participate in a state administered deferred compensation plan; to provide for a limited state match of contributions; to provide for terms and conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senator Tate of the 38th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to telephone service, so as to provide that telephone solicitations shall include calls relating to the sale of real property and other property, goods, or services; to provide for class action suits and for damages against certain persons for violating provisions relating to telephone solicitations; to provide for legislative findings; to revise a definition; to provide for actions and damages against persons and entities on whose behalf such provisions were violated; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Gooch of the 51st, Dugan of the 30th, Watson of the 1st, Anavitarte of the 31st, Ginn of the 47th and others:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exercise by counties of power to contract for road projects generally, so as to authorize the use of the design-build contracting method by counties; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations upon such contracting method; to provide for an exception to contract limitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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SB 587. SB 588.
SR 596. SR 598. SR 599. SR 600.

By Senators Miller of the 49th, Dixon of the 45th and Harbin of the 16th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of promise scholarship accounts to be funded by the state in the amount of $6,000.00 per school year for each participating student, subject to appropriations; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Miller of the 49th, Albers of the 56th, Anavitarte of the 31st, Dixon of the 45th and Harbin of the 16th:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local boards of education, so as to provide that all meetings of local boards of education shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law; to provide that members of the public shall not be removed from such public meetings except for actual disruption and in accordance with rules adopted and published by the local board of education; to provide that visual and sound recording shall be permitted at such public meetings; to provide for the authority of superior courts to enforce compliance and award relief; to provide for attorneys' fees; to provide for construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
By Senators Ginn of the 47th, Dugan of the 30th, Cowsert of the 46th, Miller of the 49th, Gooch of the 51st and others:
A RESOLUTION honoring the life and memory of Mr. Isaiah Berry and dedicating an intersection in his memory; and for other purposes.
By Senators Mullis of the 53rd, Miller of the 49th, Dugan of the 30th, Burke of the 11th, Albers of the 56th and others:
A RESOLUTION commending The Silver Skillet; and for other purposes.
By Senators Thompson of the 14th, Miller of the 49th, Summers of the 13th, Mullis of the 53rd, Hickman of the 4th and others:
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Nancy Rinn; and for other purposes.
By Senators Thompson of the 14th, Miller of the 49th, Albers of the 56th, Mullis of the 53rd, Hickman of the 4th and others:
A RESOLUTION commending Dr. Robert "Bob" Jones IV; and for other purposes.

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SR 601. SR 602. SR 603. SR 604. SR 605. SR 606.

By Senators Thompson of the 14th, Miller of the 49th, Kirkpatrick of the 32nd, Mullis of the 53rd, Hickman of the 4th and others:
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Alicia Adams; and for other purposes.
By Senators Miller of the 49th, Mullis of the 53rd, Ginn of the 47th, Gooch of the 51st, Goodman of the 8th and others:
A RESOLUTION commending Georgia's railroaders and recognizing March 1, 2022, as Georgia Railroaders Day at the capitol; and for other purposes.
By Senators Butler of the 55th, Parent of the 42nd, Au of the 48th, Jackson of the 41st, Jordan of the 6th and others:
A RESOLUTION condemning the Russian government for illegally and immorally invading Ukraine; and for other purposes.
By Senators Jackson of the 41st, Watson of the 1st and Au of the 48th:
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 3, 2022, as Electric Vehicle Day at the state capitol; and for other purposes.
By Senators Anavitarte of the 31st, Miller of the 49th, Goodman of the 8th, Anderson of the 24th, Ginn of the 47th and others:
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Georgia's truckers; and for other purposes.
By Senator Harbison of the 15th:
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Kamiya Archie, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Chattahoochee Valley's 2022 Youth of the Year; and for other purposes.

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