House general calendar, 2010 March 16

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 16,2010
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Evidence; revise, supersede, and modernize provisions; provide definitions Motor vehicles; traffic-control signal monitoring devices; repeal provisions Georgia Bureau of Investigation; bingo games; Department of Revenue; provisions Cancelable educational loans; State Veterinary Education Board; provisions Warrants for arrest; persons who may issue warrants; provisions Georgia Virtual School Opportunity and Enrichment Act; enact Court reporters; notice requirements regarding access; provisions Safe Medications Practice Act; enact Income tax; withholding tax; seller subject to documentation requirements; provide Public Officers and Employees; condition of employment; prohibition requires residence; provide exception Family violence situations; protection for family pets; provide Municipal courts; judges to be attorneys; require Revenue and taxation; method of assessing real property; comprehensive revision Drivers' licenses; licensed defensive driving courses; provisions Sexual offenders; classification; change and enact provisions Surgical or medical treatment; additional persons authorized to consent to treatment; provisions Animal protection; methods of euthanasia; provisions Georgia Judicial Retirement System; juvenile judges; provide Agriculture; preempt certain local ordinances; protect right to grow food crops; provisions Physicians for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact General Assembly; salary reduction of members; provide Sexual offenses; assault against persons in custody; change certain provisions Public schools disciplinary tribunals; bullying; expand definition (Tabled) Student transportation; allowance to refurbish existing school buses; provide Food adulteration; Kosher foods; designate as reserved Alimony; determining amount; not consider certain events; provide Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; make lump suin payment upon death; change Bicycles; operation on sidewalks; authorize local governments Magistrate courts; jurisdictional limit in civil claims; increase Assault and battery; penalties for aggravated assault on explorer; provide Public officers and employees; school board inembers in bail bond business; modi@ provisions Revenue and taxation; administrative garnishment; coinprehensive revisions Driving; safe distance between vehicle and bicycle; provide Motor carriers; financial responsibility compatible with federal regulations; provisions Taxation; furnishings for accommodations; authorize Corninunity Health, Department of; regulatory authority; revise provisions Special license plates; Zoo Atlanta; provide Property; sales to political subdivisions; maximum amount exempt; increase

Gambling; cruise ships may engage in lawful gambling while in transit; provisions State government; replacement permits, licenses, and identification cards; provisions Sales and use tax; county tax for educational purposes; revise Dangerous drugs; Salvia divinorum A; include Jobs, Opportunity, and Business Success Act of 20 10; enact Corrections, Department of; amend various titles; provisions Tax digests; not approved by commissioner under certain conditions; eliminate Family Court Division; project duration determined by Fulton County Superior Court majority; provide Flow of traffic; minimum fine for impeding traffic flow; provide Conveyances; structures require certified termite and wood-destroying organism inspection; provide Public assistance; food stamp recipients may order food over Internet; provide (Postponed 3- 1 7- 10) Solid waste management; permits for handling, disposal, or treatment; change provisions Georgia Ports Authority; comprehensive revisions; provide Ad valorem tax exemptions; freeport exemptions; revise provisions Public records; teacher and school employee information; exempt from disclosure Parks; Georgia Agrirama Development Authority; abolish; provide successor Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Authority; reconstitute governance; provisions Occupation taxes; county provide electronic information to Department of Revenue; provisions Quality Basic Education Act; include growth model; assign ratings; provisions Education; Professional Standards Commission; criminal background checks; provisions Animal protection; shelters scan for microchips prior to euthanasia; provisions State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; executive director; provide Child Support Recovery Act; IV-D agency support orders; change provisions Georgia Arthritis Prevention and Control Act; enact Quality Basic Education Act; state assessments tampering a misdemeanor; provisions
Public property; writing off small amounts due to state; provisions Maximum class size; certain laws and requirements; temporarily suspend State and Local Public-Private Partnership Act of 20 10; enact Ad valorem tax; notice of changes in taxpayers' returns; change provisions Juvenile proceedings; detention; change provisions Retirement and pensions; Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; define terms Ad valorem tax exemption; certain public-private transportation pro-jects; provisions Revenue and taxation; appoint special agents of Department of Revenue; provide Encumbered property; recording, payment, and distribution of tax; change provisions Real estate transfer tax; property in more than one county; change provisions Natural Resources, Department of; authority to arrange volunteer services; change provisions

Drivers' licenses; defense for drivers; no vision condition restriction; provide Georgia Public Service Commission; certain costs charged to involved utility; provisions State Transportation Board; members term of office; limit Retirement; Title 47; correct errors and omissions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated Ethics; State Transportation Board members are public officers; provide State Financing and Investment Commission; powers to meet requirements; provide Service delivery regions; applicability of regions; revise a provision State government; budget units to review and modify user fees collected; provide Planning and Budget, Office of; record of user fees collected; provide for publication Teacher certification; learning requirements for renewal; temporarily suspend Public disclosure exemption; certain graphic image photographs; provisions
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
Real property; residential and nonresidential; freeze valuation - CA Counties; provide for re-creation; voter approval - CA Enforcement of contracts; restrict competition; provisions - CA
United States Constitution; religious organizations receive public aid; prevent discrimination - CA
Health care system; no law shall compel participation; provide - CA
Congress of the United States; Honor and Remember Flag designation; urge General Assembly; citizens not obligated to comply with appointed "czar"; declare
Sales and use tax; educational purposes; provide - CA
Congress; not transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees within Georgia or United States; request Coroner; shall be county officer; provide - CA State Transportation Board; members term of office; limit - CA Georgia Composite Medical Board; surgery and anesthesia; establish regulations; urge Professional Standards Commission; Certification and Professional Learning Task Force; create
SENATE BILLS Retirement; no person who becomes tax commissioner; on/after July 1, 20 10; membership in Employees' Retirement System of Georgia Education; definition of "textbook" include computer hardwarekechnical equipment to support use of nonprint or digital content Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; clarify the authority of the council to impose administrative fees HOPE; provide person shall be legal Georgia resident to be eligible for a HOPE GED voucher Legislative Economic Development Council; create
SENATE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; authorize to provide a general law for payment of rewards; first commercial oil and natural gas wzlls CA Liberty Tree of Georgia; designate tulip poplar adjacent to Dalton City Hall