HB 29 HB 74 HB 109 HB 161 HB 166 HB 208 HB 236 HB 242 HB 247 HB 268 HB 289 HB 318 HB 319 HB 334 HB 379 HB 450 HB 513 HB 520 HB 535 HB 594 HB 641 HB 648 HB 669 HB 673 HB 681 HB 684 HB 705 HB 715 HB 717 HB 732 HB 743 HB 745 HB 746 HB 751 HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATIVE DAY HOUSE BILLS Tax Amnesty Program Act; additional amnesty periods; provisions Tuition grant assistance; Georgia Military College; provide Public employees; not use government owned devices to promote or oppose legislation; 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; donated food for hunger relief; extend Sales and use tax exemptions; nonprofit health centers, clinics, and food banks; extend Sales and use tax exemptions; food and beverages to food bank; extend Sales and use tax exemptions; personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provide Setoff debt collection; debts owed to public housing authorities; authorize Life insurance; group life insurance policy to approved groups; allow issuance Energy purchase; amount of energy provider is required to purchase from generator; change War veterans homes; Veterans Service Board establish residency fee; authorize Limited liability companies; low-profit companies; change certain provisions Courts; juvenile proceedings; substantially revise provisions Legal services for indigents; certain fees to fund accused; change provisions State Agencies; require reporting of federal funds received; 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 Education; direct classroom expenditures; revise definition Municipal taxation; certain contracts to access taxes; provide limitations Dogs; criminal penalties for certain owners failing to secure; provide Special license plates; Purple Hearts; include persons serving in armed services Motor fuel tax; expiration date for exemption for certain public transit and public campus transportation systems; extend 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 Jasper County; Probate Court judge; provide nonpartisan elections - 1 - HB 792 HB 808 HB 816 HB 817 HB 818 HB 821 HB 825 HB 828 HB 831 HB 836 HB 844 HB 846 HB 851 HB 853 HB 855 HB 857 HB 863 HB 864 HB 871 HB 896 HB 897 HB 898 HB 899 HB 916 HB 920 HB 928 HB 931 HB 934 HB 940 HB 945 HB 946 HB 949 HB 952 HB 953 HB 954 Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990; operate by means of accreditation; provide authorization Taxation; exclusion to certain income of certain disabled veterans; provide Georgia Buy American Act; enact Transportation, Department of; power to contract; amend limitations Income tax credit; certain commercial geothermal heat pumps; include 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 Revenue, Department of; various administrative and procedural requirements; change Taxation of intangibles; rates charged by collecting officers; change certain requirements 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 Sales and use tax; retailers under certain circumstances advertise to pay purchaser's tax on transaction; provide 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 Primaries and elections; dates of nonpartisan elections; provide Bona fide conservation use property; covenants; change certain qualifications and restrictions 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 State agencies; guaranteed energy savings performance contracts; change certain provisions Georgia Public Defender Standards Council; pay attorney in event of conflict of interest in capital cases; change certain provisions 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 Pharmacists and pharmacies; definitions of certain opioid drugs; provide Funeral directors and cemeterians; allow electronic signatures for funeral services and related preneed contracts; modify provisions Abortion; criminal abortion; change certain provisions - 2 - HB 965 HB 967 HB 972 HB 985 HB 987 HB 988 HB 990 HB 991 HB 994 HB 997 HB 1024 HB 1026 HB 1049 HB 1056 HB 1065 HB 1066 HB 1069 HB 1071 HB 1085 HB 1102 HB 1110 HB 1114 HB 1117 HB 1119 HB 1120 HB 1121 HB 1123 HB 1143 HR 879 HR 977 HR 1150 HR 1237 SB 101 SB 117 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 Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act; enact Motor Vehicles; temporary license plates; modify provisions 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 Sheriffs; how vacancies are filled; change provisions Ad valorem taxation; preferential assessment of brownfield property; extend under certain circumstances 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 Pharmacists and pharmacies; revise definition of security paper Excise tax; certain tobacco products; change certain provisions 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 Health; penalties relative to owning or operating of unlicensed personal care homes; revise provisions Homicide; offering to assist in commission of suicide; repeal certain provisions 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 Annexation; unincorporated islands; repeal Article 6 Persons licensed to practice orthotics or prosthetics; continuing education requirements; revise provisions 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 SENATE BILLS Elections; poll officers; provide for the Student Teen Election Participant program Levy/Sale of Property; increase the amount of certain exemptions - 3 - SB 138 SB 236 SB 268 SB 300 SB 309 SB 339 SB 343 SB 413 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 as the Comptroller General; transfer the office Probate Court of Glascock County; provide elections; office of judge - 4 -