House general calendar, 2012 February 28

HB 74 HB 161 HB 166 HB 208 HB 236
HB 242 HB 247
HB 268
HB 289 HB 319
HB 456 HB 513
HB 520
HB 535
HB 541
HB 548
HB 594
HB 641 HB 648 HB 673 HB 681
HB 684
HB 692
HB 705 HB 717 HB 732
HB 745
HB 746
HB 748
HB 751 HB 766
HB 792
HB 808

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Tuition grant assistance; Georgia Military College; provide Motorcycles; certain traffic regulations; provide Engineers and land surveyors; certification eligibility; change requirements Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; define a certain term Judges and court employees; new employees not Retirement System of Georgia members; provide American Laws for Georgia Courts Act; enact Community Health, Department of; fingerprint and investigate emergency medical services personnel; require Zoning procedures; notice of rezoning hearings; sign posted on property; require Ad valorem tax exemptions; revise a definition Sales and use tax exemptions; nonprofit health centers, clinics, and food banks; extend Georgia Government Accountability Act; enact Life insurance; group life insurance policy to approved groups; allow issuance Energy purchase; amount of energy provider required to purchase from generator; change War veterans homes; Veterans Service Board establish residency fee; authorize Obstruction of public administration; threaten or intimidate officer or official; provide for offense Workers' compensation; parties to franchise agreement not considered employees; provide Limited liability companies; low-profit companies; change certain provisions Courts; juvenile proceedings; substantially revise provisions Legal services; indigents; certain fees to fund accused; change provisions Georgia's Return to Play Act of 2012; enact Food sales and service establishments; revise definitions; exempt certain activities Natural Resources, Department of; transfer certain responsibilities for state parks to local governing authorities; authorize Educational professionals; reduce salary if test scores were falsified; provide Education; direct classroom expenditures; revise definition Dogs; criminal penalties for certain owners failing to secure; provide Special license plates; Purple Hearts; include persons serving in armed services Public Health, Department of; study pulse oximetry screening for newborns to detect congenital heart defects; require Commissioner of Agriculture; final decision and reconsideration; clarify timing Adoption; issuance of copy of an original birth certificate to certain adult persons; provide Jasper County; Probate Court judge; provide nonpartisan elections Archives and History, Division of; law regarding Foundation of American Law and Government displays; revise provisions Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990; operate by means of accreditation; provide authorization Taxation; exclusion to certain income of certain disabled veterans; provide

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HB 816 HB 817 HB 821
HB 825
HB 828
HB 831
HB 836 HB 844 HB 845 HB 853 HB 855
HB 857
HB 863
HB 871
HB 896 HB 897 HB 898 HB 900
HB 920 HB 928
HB 931
HB 932
HB 933
HB 934
HB 942 HB 944
HB 945
HB 946
HB 949
HB 953
HB 954 HB 965
HB 967
HB 986

Georgia Buy American Act; enact Transportation, Department of; power to contract; amend limitations Elementary and secondary education; mandatory attendance; revise certain provisions Education; time frame relative to hearings before administrative law judges; eliminate Traffic offenses; fleeing or attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle; modify provisions Human Services, Department of; include Division of Rehabilitation Services High School Athletics Overview Committee; create Bonds; certain validation hearing appearance provisions; provide Early care and education programs; influenza vaccine; provide information Georgia Right to Grow Act; enact Universal Access Fund; duration and amount of certain distributions made; establish limitations Day-care centers; install safety alarms in vehicles used to transport children; permit State purchasing; purchases without competitive bidding; change certain provisions Violations of traffic laws; additional penalty to be assessed for driver education purposes; extend expiration date Sales tax; distribution for educational purposes; change certain provisions Georgia Workforce Investment Board; revise provisions Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank Act; enact Motor vehicles; cancellation of a certificate of title for scrap metal, dismantled or demolished trailers; provide Budget reports; tax expenditure review; require certain items Peace Officer's Annuity and Benefit Fund; board of trustees authorized to employ a hearing officer; provide Insurance; state domestic farmers' mutual fire insurance companies; update provisions Taxation; nonresident subcontractor withholding payments; change required percentage Preneed escrow accounts; release funds when a monument is placed into a bonded memorial storage program; provide State agencies; guaranteed energy savings performance contracts; change certain provisions Official Code of Georgia; revise, modernize and correct errors or omissions Official Code of Georgia; retirement and pensions; revise, modernize, and correct errors or omissions Banks and trust companies; issuance of non-cash valued shares with approval; provide Mortgage lenders and brokers; certain mortgage activities without a license; prohibit Primaries and elections; number of signatures for certain petitions shall be based on the turnout in last presidential election; provide Funeral directors and cemeterians; allow electronic signatures for funeral services and related preneed contracts; modify provisions Abortion; criminal abortion; change certain provisions Income tax; allow certain fiduciaries an exception to the requirement of paying estimated taxes Income tax; withholding tax on taxable income of nonresident members of certain associations; change certain provisions Insurance; dispute or complaint involving material not in English, the English version shall control the resolution; provide

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HB 987
HB 988 HB 990
HB 997
HB 1024
HB 1026
HB 1049
HB 1056
HB 1065
HB 1066 HB 1082
HB 1085
HB 1102
HB 1117
HB 1119 HB 1120 HB 1121 HB 1146
HR 879 HR 977 HR 1150
HR 1237 HR 1376
SB 101
SB 117 SB 138 SB 236
SB 268
SB 300
SB 309
SB 339
SB 343 SB 413

Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; member who ceases to be employed shall notify the retirement fund immediately; provide Holidays and observances; Kindness Week; provide Municipal corporations; control over parks and fire stations; change certain provisions Crimes and offenses; new crime of false lien statements against public officers; provide Budget commission; certain counties; population and census application; revise and change Municipalities; law enforcement contracts; population brackets and census; change provisions Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of 1977; change applicability and requirements; change certain definitions Ad valorem taxation; motor vehicles; clarify application to be consistent with federal provisions Alcoholic beverages; tax payment and reporting by licensees; change certain provisions Alcoholic beverages; licenses; change certain provisions Cook County Magistrate Court; future elections for chief magistrate shall be nonpartisan elections; provide Budget commission; counties having population of 300,000 or more according to census; repeal Act Georgia hazardous site reuse and redevelopment; 30 day grace period for buyers of qualifying property to seek limitation of liability; provide Local government; approval of bonded debt by election; population brackets and the census; change certain provisions Atkinson County; Probate Court judge; provide nonpartisan elections Atkinson County; chief magistrate judge; provide nonpartisan elections Coffee County; chief magistrate judge; provide nonpartisan elections Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Services Board; create
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Transportation, Department of; prioritize certain projects; urge Legal services for indigent; dedicate existing fees; provide - CA Sales and use tax; educational purposes; only distributed on basis of fulltime equivalent student counts - CA Federal government; cease collection of motor fuel taxes in Georgia; urge Conveyance of certain property; Baldwin, Carroll, Clinch, Coffee, and other counties; authorize
SENATE BILLS Elections; poll officers; provide for the Student Teen Election Participant program Levy/Sale of Property; increase the amount of certain exemptions License Plates; require a sworn statement by an applicant for a tag renewal Drivers' Licenses; persons convicted under the influence; allow certain drivers with suspended licenses; limited driving permits Board of Education of Jones County; provide that future elections for members shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis Food Standards; to require proper labeling of bottles containing sugar cane or sorghum syrup Taylor's Law; authorize issuance of special hunting privileges to persons with a terminal illness Georgia Aviation Authority; provide transfer of certain personnel, aircraft to Dept. of Natural Resources and State Forestry Commission State Accounting Office; designate Comptroller General; transfer the office Probate Court of Glascock County; provide elections; office of judge

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