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) - 1 - 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) - 2 - 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) - 1 - 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) - 1 - 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 - 2 - 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 - 3 - 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 - 1 - Section 4 Current legislation read for the 2nd time today - 2 -