HB 29 HB 74 HB 109 HB 161 HB 166 HB 236 HB 242 HB 268 HB 319 HB 379 HB 432 HB 512 HB 594 HB 658 HB 669 HB 673 HB 705 HB 715 HB 717 HB 748 HB 816 HB 821 HB 828 HB 831 HB 836 HB 853 HB 855 HB 857 HB 864 HB 920 HB 949 HB 952 HB 953 HB 988 HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 THIRTY-SEVENTH 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 Judges and court employees; new employees not Retirement System of Georgia members; provide American Laws for Georgia Courts Act; enact Zoning procedures; notice of rezoning hearings; sign posted on property; require Sales and use tax exemptions; nonprofit health centers, clinics, and food banks; extend Sales and use tax exemptions; personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provide Labor and industrial relations; employees use sick leave for immediate family care; allow Tobacco related objects; blunt wrap regulation; provide definition Limited liability companies; low-profit companies; change certain provisions Damages; reduction of earnings to present value; change provisions State Agencies; require reporting of federal funds received; provisions Georgia's Return to Play Act of 2012; enact 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 (Reconsidered) Adoption; issuance of copy of an original birth certificate to certain adult persons; provide Georgia Buy American Act; enact Elementary and secondary education; mandatory attendance; revise certain provisions 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 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 Sales and use tax; retailers under certain circumstances advertise to pay purchaser's tax on transaction; provide Budget reports; tax expenditure review; require certain items 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 Holidays and observances; Kindness Week; provide - 1 - HB 1064 HB 1081 HB 1085 HB 1141 HB 1143 HB 1159 HB 1160 HB 1175 HB 1176 HB 1186 HB 1209 HR 738 HR 879 HR 1611 HR 1644 HR 1722 HR 1731 SB 50 SB 52 SB 62 SB 107 SB 114 SB 117 SB 138 SB 143 SB 153 SB 225 SB 227 Conservation and Natural Resources; occupying live-aboards; repeal provisions Georgia Emergency Management Agency; licensing of nongovernmental rescue organizations, groups, teams, search and rescue dog teams; eliminate Budget commission; counties having population of 300,000 or more according to census; repeal Act Georgia Sheriffs' Cooperative Authority; create Persons licensed to practice orthotics or prosthetics; continuing education requirements; revise provisions Joint Study Commission on Education for Parents with Newborn Children; create Public Service Commission; term and manner of election of chairperson; change Insurance; procedure relative to claimant's offers to settle tort claims involving liability policies; provide 2011 Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform for Georgians; enact recommended provisions Agricultural products dealers; applicability of general provisions to persons who buy for cash; provide Tax commissioner; present tax returns of the county; repeal population exception HOUSE RESOLUTIONS United States Congress; propose Parental Rights Amendment; urge Transportation, Department of; prioritize certain projects; urge Baldwin County; preserve the sovereignty of a federal corporation to engage in certain commercial activities; recognize the need House Study Committee on Subsidiary Corporation Condemnation for Electric Transmission Lines; create House Study Committee on Alternative Living Services Reimbursement Rates; create House Comprehensive Motor Vehicle and Traffic Reform Study Committee; create SENATE BILLS Courts; add certain fees for funding of local victim assistance programs Courts; require marshals to notify protected persons upon the service of certain protective orders State; no private property shall be alienated to any other state; exercise of state sovereignty/jurisdiction without consent of General Assembly Superior Courts; increase penalties that can be imposed for contempt of court Distilled Spirits; provide for issuance of a manufacturer's/distiller's license to a fruit grower; certain circumstances Levy/Sale of Property; increase the amount of certain exemptions License Plates; require a sworn statement by an applicant for a tag renewal (Tabled) Massage Therapy Practice; provide that an applicant for a license by endorsement shall provide certain information Education; professional development plans for personnel who have deficiencies; provide certain requirements and rights Criminal Offenses; provide for new offense of transmitting a false report; penalties Education; declarations of intent/attendance records for home study programs; submitted to Dept. of Education rather than local school superintendents - 2 - SB 236 SB 238 SB 246 SB 268 SB 286 SB 289 SB 293 SB 302 SB 319 SB 321 SB 324 SB 333 SB 337 SB 350 SB 351 SB 352 SB 356 SB 357 SB 362 SB 365 SB 367 SB 368 SB 369 SB 371 SB 382 SB 383 SB 385 SB 396 SB 402 SB 403 SB 404 Drivers' Licenses; persons convicted under the influence; allow certain drivers with suspended licenses; limited driving permits Handicapped Persons; motorized wheelchair/scooter operated on public ways after dark shall be equipped with reflectors Retirement; provide an increase in the employee contribution; retirement benefit; conditions Board of Education of Jones County; provide that future elections for members shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis Retirement; tax commissioner or an employee of any such officer; membership; Employees' Retirement System of Georgia Education; require students; one course containing online learning License Plates; require the nation's motto, "In God We Trust" printed on license plates; county name decal (PF) Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority; increase the amount of bonding authority State Parks; use of boats; revise certain provisions Secondary Metal Recyclers; comprehensive revision of provisions Veterinary Medicine; clarify a certain definition Property; notices of sales made on foreclosure under power of sale shall be provided to all debtors Insurance; limitations on licensure requirements for certain health care providers Crimes and Offenses; disposition of firearms used in burglaries or armed robberies Municipal Courts; require same training for all judges of courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction Prosecuting Attorneys; provide; probate courts, municipal courts, and courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction; process of such employment Superior Courts; provide additional judge of the Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit; initial appointment; election and term of office Agriculture; repeal the "Georgia Treated Timber Products Act of 1973" Submerged Cultural Resources; permits; authorization to contract for investigation, survey; change certain provisions Property; collected funds; change prov.; residential real property; provide form Acknowledgment and Waiver of Borrower's Rights Agriculture Commissioner; authorized to require persons incurring civil penalties to obtain a surety bond Nurses; provide for continuing competency requirements; renewal of licenses Natural Resources; provide for an extension of the automatic repeal of Code Section 12-5-9 Aviation; provide for local governments' ability to accept community improvement district funds Public Service Commission; change description of the election districts; manner of election and term of office 'Georgia International Commercial Arbitration Code'; repeal Part 2, relating to international arbitration Insurance Commissioner; provide for confidentiality of certain records; exceptions; premium taxes and rate; manner of collection Herty Advanced Materials Development Center; change prov.; rename and transfer governance to Board of Regents "Employees' Retirement System of Georgia Enhanced Investment Authority Act"; define certain terms relating to certain types of investments Education; school health nurse programs; revise provisions Education; provide for development of category -level expenditure controls for staff development funds - 3 - SB 405 SB 407 SB 410 SB 412 SB 414 SB 424 SB 427 SB 428 SB 432 SB 441 SB 446 SB 458 SB 464 SB 473 SB 483 SB 489 SB 492 Student Achievement Office of; private college submit confidential student data to Dept. of Education shall not be liable for breach Health; repeal creation of the Health Strategies Council, Clinical Laboratory, Blood Bank, and Tissue Bank Committee Education; provide annual indicators of the quality of learning by students, financial efficiency, and school climate for individual schools/school sys. County Boards of Education; homestead option sales and use tax; county sales and use tax for educational purposes; delay effective date of Code section Music Therapists; require licensure by the Secretary of State; establishment of Music Therapy Advisory Group Foundations of American Law and Government Displays; revise provisions Administrative Procedure; require agency procedures for timely processing; applications for issuance/renewal of licenses Administrative Procedure; provide for agency reports regarding federal government mandates and duplicate state/federal regulation Crimes and Offenses; define a certain term; political subdivision shall not enact any ordinance more restrictive of sale/possession of knife than general law Obstruction of Public Administration; establish the offense of unlawful pointing of a laser device at a law enforcement officer; penalties Fire Protection and Safety; buildings; transfer certain functions; Dept. of Labor and Commissioner of Labor to the Office of Safety Fire Commissioner and Safety Fire Commissioner Government; modify provisions; verification requirements, procedures, and conditions for applicants for public benefits Fish and Fishing; limit the number of commercial crabbing licenses issued License Plates; veterans awarded Purple Hearts; include persons still serving in the armed services Public Service Commission; chairperson; change the term/manner of election Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; report annually; House/Senate Committees on Health and Human Services; outcomes State Purchasing; require state contracts awards for heavy equipment follow certain specific procedures (Postponed) - 4 -