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 29, 2012 FORTIETH 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 1186 HB 1209 HR 738 HR 879 HR 1611 HR 1644 HR 1722 HR 1873 SB 31 SB 34 SB 52 SB 62 SB 98 SB 107 SB 114 SB 138 SB 238 SB 257 SB 292 SB 312 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 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 Study Committee on Defensive Medicine and Patient Compensation; create SENATE BILLS Evidence; extend the attorney-client privilege to third persons under certain circumstances Education; authorize public school students in charter schools/virtual schools to participate in extracurricular activities at resident schools 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 Firearms; provide exemption from application of certain laws for persons possessing valid weapons carry licenses; exceptions 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 License Plates; require a sworn statement by an applicant for a tag renewal (Tabled) Handicapped Persons; motorized wheelchair/scooter operated on public ways after dark shall be equipped with reflectors Local Government; clarify development authorities are authorized to conduct redevelopment Social Responsibility and Accountability Act; enact; drug test; temporary assistance for needy families/Medicaid benefits; requirements Public Assistance; applicants for food stamps and temporary assistance; require personal growth activities - 2 - SB 321 SB 369 SB 373 SB 410 SB 424 SB 432 SB 447 SB 448 SB 458 SB 469 SB 470 SB 492 SB 493 SB 506 SR 673 Secondary Metal Recyclers; comprehensive revision of provisions Natural Resources; provide for an extension of the automatic repeal of Code Section 12-5-9 Counties; provide authority; operate vehicle for hire equipped to transport passengers in wheelchair throughout the state Education; provide annual indicators of the quality of learning by students, financial efficiency, and school climate for individual schools/school sys. (Tabled) Foundations of American Law and Government Displays; revise provisions Crimes and Offenses; define a certain term; political subdivision shall not enact any ordinance more restrictive of sale/possession of knife than general law Employment Security; unemployment compensation; prov.; change the amount of taxable wages; determination of weekly benefit amount; prov. 'Small Business Borrower Protection Act'; enact; provide recovery limits for debt obligations by successor creditors Government; modify provisions; verification requirements, procedures, and conditions for applicants for public benefits (Postponed) Labor; provide provisions prohibiting mass picketing shall apply to certain private residences (Postponed) Patient Self-Referral; revise the definition of "rural area" State Purchasing; require state contracts awards for heavy equipment follow certain specific procedures (Postponed) Firearms; authorize persons between the ages of 18 and 21 to carry firearms under certain circumstances State Government; provide state immunity extend to certain health care providers; engaged in graduate medical programs in Ga medical facilities SENATE RESOLUTIONS U.S. Congress; making renewed application to call for a convention; proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States (Postponed) - 3 -