Senate general calendar 2012 February 29

Section 1 Legislation available for immediate consideration
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

SENATE GENERAL CALENDAR TO SET THE RULES CALENDAR FOR THE
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY

SB 257 SB 284 SB 288 SB 350 SB 355 SB 373 SB 386 SB 407 SB 410 SB 414 SB 416 SB 428 SB 431 SB 458

Local Government; clarify development authorities are authorized to conduct redevelopment (ECD-51st)
Georgia Land Bank Act; governing creation/operation of land banks; provisions (Substitute) (FIN-8th)
Physicians; authorize the administration of vaccines by pharmacists/nurses; vaccine protocol agreements with physicians (Substitute) (H&HS-54th)
Crimes and Offenses; disposition of firearms used in burglaries or armed robberies (Substitute) (JUDY-9th)
Domestic Relations; child abuse; expand mandatory reporting requirements; provide for procedure; exception (Substitute) (JUDY-45th)
Counties; provide authority; operate vehicle for hire equipped to transport passengers in wheelchair throughout the state (Substitute) (TRANS-53rd)
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; delegation of authority to order radiographic imaging tests; revise prov. (H&HS-25th)
Health; repeal creation of the Health Strategies Council, Clinical Laboratory, Blood Bank, and Tissue Bank Committee (H&HS-45th)
Education; provide annual indicators of the quality of learning by students, financial efficiency, and school climate for individual schools/school sys. (Substitute) (ED&Y-19th)
Music Therapists; require licensure by the Secretary of State; establishment of Music Therapy Advisory Group (Substitute) (H&HS-45th)
Insurance Dept; authorize to develop exchange standards regarding electronic prior authorization drug requests with health care providers (Substitute) (H&HS-1st)
Administrative Procedure; provide for agency reports regarding federal government mandates and duplicate state/federal regulation (Substitute) (ECD-20th)
Forgery and Fraudulent Practices; add medical identity fraud to the provisions relating to identity fraud; definitions (JUDY-32nd)
Government; modify provisions; verification requirements, procedures, and conditions for applicants for public benefits (Substitute) (JUDY-52nd)

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SB 464
SB 470 SB 483

Section 1 Legislation available for immediate consideration
Fish and Fishing; limit the number of commercial crabbing licenses issued (NR&E-3rd)
Patient Self-Referral; revise the definition of "rural area" (H&HS-7th)
Public Service Commission; chairperson; change the term/manner of election (Substitute) (RI&U-53rd)

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Section 2 Legislation left on current day's Rules Calendar/Calendar and legislation on which final
passage was suspended pursuant to Senate Rule 7-1.6 (b)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

SENATE GENERAL CALENDAR TO SET THE RULES CALENDAR FOR THE
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY

SB 348 SB 384 SB 406

Civil Practice; personal service of a summons on a corporation; provisions (Substitute) (S JUDY-10th)
Conservation/Natural Resources; commercial lawn/landscape companies shall not deposit grass trimmings; within 50 meters of storm drain (Substitute) (NR&E-43rd)
'Jace Hester Law'; emergency closure of an early care and education program upon death of a minor (ED&Y-12th)

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Section 3 Legislations left in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of General Calendar and defeated legislation that
will be reconsidered pursuant to Senate Rule 6-7.4
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

SENATE GENERAL CALENDAR TO SET THE RULES CALENDAR FOR THE
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY

SB 13 SB 49 SB 77
SB 87
SB 127 SB 137 SB 229 SB 269 SB 290 SB 299
SB 322 SB 328
SB 329 SB 340

Rules of the Road; driving under influence with a child in a motor vehicle is a felony (Substitute) (S JUDY-2nd)
Education; raise age of mandatory education; adult literacy for purposes of conformity; revise provisions (ED&Y-56th)
Administrative Services; specified preference; qualified business enterprises; disabled veterans; certain types of state contracts (VM&HS-15th)
Education; rename to Georgia Educational Freedom Act; expand eligibility for the program; revise requirements relating to qualifications for scholarship (Substitute) (ED&Y-21st)
Juvenile Proceedings; revise provisions (Substitute) (JUDY-30th)
Retirement; update certain cross-references to Chapter 11 of Title 15; provide for conditions (Substitute) (JUDY-30th)
Searches with warrants; issuance of search warrants by judicial officers; provisions (JUDY-39th)
Water Resources; cooperative efforts for abatement of pollution, order of director, request for hearing; provisions (Substitute) (NR&E-17th)
Georgia Innocence Inquiry Commission; create; provide a purpose; define certain terms; membership and appointment (S JUDY-43rd)
Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act; define certain terms; provide charitable contribution made to a charitable contribution; good faith (Substitute) (JUDY-22nd)
'Georgia Taxpayer Receipt Act of 2012'; website; with an itemized receipt showing how taxes they pay are utilized (Substitute) (GvtO-6th)
University System of Georgia; Board of Regents establish process; granting veterans academic credit; previous instruction while in military (Substitute) (VM&HS-15th)
Returning Veterans Task Force; membership; provide duties; recommendations (Substitute) (VM&HS-2nd)
Property; covenants; provisions; adopted prior to the adoption of zoning laws (SLGO(G)-51st)

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Section 3 Legislations left in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of General Calendar and defeated legislation that
will be reconsidered pursuant to Senate Rule 6-7.4

SB 356

Superior Courts; provide additional judge of the Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit; initial appointment; election and term of office (Substitute) (JUDY-27th)

SB 411

Georgia Sheriffs' Cooperative Authority; create (Substitute) (PUB SAF-25th)

SB 421

Motor Vehicles; add certain persons; authorized to receive motor vehicle registration records (RI&U-52nd)

SB 468

Rules of the Road; bicycles; single file on roadways not specially designated for the use of bicycles (Substitute) (TRANS-49th)

SR 28

Senate State Fair Tax Study Committee; create (Substitute) (FIN-32nd)

SR 322

Daylight Saving Time; commend (40th)

SR 480

Local Board of Education; urged to adopt policies requiring vending machines in schools be stocked with only healthy options (Substitute) (ED&Y-41st)

SR 673

U.S. Congress; making renewed application to call for a convention; proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States (GvtO-46th)

SR 766

U.S. Congress; urged to adopt/submit to states a balanced budget amendment to U.S. Constitution and balance current budget (Substitute) (GvtO-32nd)

SR 769

Fulton Science Academy Charter High School; recognize (ED&Y-56th)

SR 848

Congress; urge to prohibit Environmental Protection Agency from further regulating greenhouse gas emissions; without comprehensive economic and environmental study (Substitute) (NR&E-20th)

SR 873

Public Property; authorizing the granting of restrictive easements for facilities, utilities 14 counties (Substitute) (SI&P-51st)

SR 994

Senate Broadband Availability Study Committee; create (Substitute) (RI&U-29th)

HB 39

Education; unexcused absence notices made by United States mail; provide (Substitute) (ED&Y-52nd) Benton-31st

HB 93

Code enforcement boards; code enforcement officers; change definition (SLGO(G)-56th) Taylor-79th

HB 110

Mortgages and liens; vacant property registry; provisions (Substitute) (B&FI-23rd) Jacobs-80th

HB 130

Career and Technical Education Advisory Commission; meetings; change certain provisions (ED&Y-12th) Maxwell-17th

HB 173

Teachers; expungement of records; revise provisions (ED&Y-40th) Coleman-97th

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Section 3 Legislations left in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of General Calendar and defeated legislation that
will be reconsidered pursuant to Senate Rule 6-7.4

HB 175 Online Clearinghouse Act; enact (Substitute) (ED&Y-21st) Casas-103rd

HB 181

Special needs scholarship program; waiver one requirement; provide (Substitute) (ED&Y-40th) Golick-34th

HB 237

Residential mortgage fraud; mortgage lending process; revise definition (Substitute) (JUDY-30th) Golick-34th

HB 293 Retirement bills; define a certain term (RET-8th) Benton-31st

HB 295

Georgia State Employees Pension and Savings Plan; transfer of accrued benefit; provide (RET-31st) Maxwell-17th

HB 297

Retirement and pensions; public systems prohibited from expending fund for certain purposes; provide (RET-54th) Maxwell-17th

HB 308

Public retirement systems; duties of boards of trustees; provide (RET-54th) Maxwell-17th

HB 371

Insurable interest; state entity; not fund life insurance on public officers or employees; provide (Substitute) (I&L-27th) Maxwell-17th

HB 642

Georgia Services Administration; create; revise several Titles (GvtO-16th) Collins-27th

HB 706

Elementary and secondary education; delete and clarify provisions (Substitute) (ED&Y-37th) Dudgeon-24th

HB 713

Quality Basic Education Act; career and college readiness initiatives; delay implementation (Substitute) (ED&Y-40th) Nix-69th

HB 725

Elections; selection and qualification of candidates and presidential electors; provisions (ETHICS-49th) Hamilton-23rd

HB 760

Elementary and secondary education; capital outlay funds replace exceptional growth program (APPROP-37th) Coleman-97th

HB 805

State Personnel Administration; abolition; make conforming amendments and correct references (GvtO-16th) Collins-27th

HB 832

Vidalia onion trademark; royalty and license fee not exceed a certain amount; eliminate requirement (AG&CA-11th) McCall-30th

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Section 4 Current legislation read for the 2nd time today
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

SENATE GENERAL CALENDAR TO SET THE RULES CALENDAR FOR THE
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY

SB 292
SB 341
SB 374 SB 379 SB 453
SB 459
SB 485 SR 719 HB 48 HB 514 HB 729 HB 886

Social Responsibility and Accountability Act; enact; drug test; temporary assistance for needy families/Medicaid benefits; requirements (Substitute) (H&HS-56th)
Juvenile Proceedings; clarify the definition of the term "designated felony"; increase the max. detention period for children adjudicated for delinquent acts (Substitute) (JUDY-2nd)
Water Resources; exempt water withdrawals; Tennessee River basin restrictions on transfers of water (NR&E-53rd)
Pawnbrokers; provide limitations regarding certain fees or taxes; transactions (Amendment) (ECD-16th)
Georgia Composite Medical Board; provide for additional powers; enact the "Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act"; require licensure (Substitute) (RI&U-1st)
Electric Utilities; consumers may elect not to use smart meters; Public Service Commission may create/regulate a surcharge for consumers who elect not to use smart meters (RI&U-48th)
Patient Right to Know; administrative remedies; prior to inmate filing a complaint; Georgia Composite Medical Board (Substitute) (SI&P-25th)
Tourism Promotion Joint Study Commission; create (Substitute) (ECD-56th)
Ad valorem tax; freeport exemptions; revise and change certain provisions (Substitute) (FIN-21st) Powell-171st
Distilled spirits; free tastings on premises; authorize (ECD) Kidd-141st
Revenue and taxation; Internal Revenue and Internal Revenue Code of 1986; define terms (Substitute) (FIN-9th) Knight-126th
Banking and finance; credit exposure as a counterparty in derivative transactions; limit certain obligations (B&FI-7th) Williamson-111th

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Section 4 Current legislation read for the 2nd time today
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