House general calendar, 2012 March 5

HB 29 HB 74 HB 100 HB 109
HB 161 HB 166 HB 236
HB 242 HB 247
HB 268
HB 318 HB 319
HB 334 HB 379
HB 397 HB 450 HB 535
HB 594
HB 648
HB 658 HB 669 HB 673 HB 678 HB 681
HB 684
HB 705 HB 715 HB 717 HB 732
HB 743
HB 745
HB 792
HB 808 HB 816 HB 818 HB 821

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Tax Amnesty Program Act; additional amnesty periods; provisions Tuition grant assistance; Georgia Military College; provide Georgia Tax Court; create 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 Community Health, Department of; fingerprint and investigate emergency medical services personnel; require Zoning procedures; notice of rezoning hearings; sign posted on property; require 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 State government; open meetings and records; revise provisions Setoff debt collection; debts owed to public housing authorities; authorize War veterans homes; Veterans Service Board establish residency fee; authorize Limited liability companies; low-profit companies; change certain provisions Legal services for indigents; certain fees to fund accused; change 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 Mattresses; use of previously used material; provide regulation 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 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 Income tax credit; certain commercial geothermal heat pumps; include Elementary and secondary education; mandatory attendance; revise certain provisions

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HB 822 HB 825
HB 827
HB 828
HB 831
HB 836 HB 844 HB 846
HB 851
HB 853 HB 855
HB 857
HB 864
HB 868
HB 871
HB 896 HB 897 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 961 HB 965
HB 967
HB 972 HB 985

Georgia Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act; enact Education; time frame relative to hearings before administrative law judges; eliminate Traffic offenses; fleeing or attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle; modify 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 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 Sales and use tax; retailers under certain circumstances advertise to pay purchaser's tax on transaction; provide Income tax credits; business enterprises located in less developed areas designated by tiers; 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 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 Homeowners' Solar Bill of Rights; enact 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

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HB 986
HB 987
HB 988 HB 991 HB 994
HB 997
HB 1024
HB 1026
HB 1027
HB 1048 HB 1049
HB 1051
HB 1052
HB 1056
HB 1064
HB 1065
HB 1066 HB 1067
HB 1069 HB 1071 HB 1080
HB 1081
HB 1085
HB 1102
HB 1110
HB 1114
HB 1115
HB 1117
HB 1119 HB 1120 HB 1121 HB 1123 HB 1141 HB 1143

Insurance; dispute or complaint involving material not in English, the English version shall control the resolution; provide 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 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 Revenue and taxation; tax credit for film or video production in Georgia; change certain provisions Civil practice; who may serve process; change provisions Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of 1977; change applicability and requirements; change certain definitions Public transit authorities; suspension of restrictions on use of annual proceeds from sales and use taxes; repeal provisions Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965; reconstitute board of directors Ad valorem taxation; motor vehicles; clarify application to be consistent with federal provisions Conservation and Natural Resources; occupying live-aboards; repeal provisions Alcoholic beverages; tax payment and reporting by licensees; change certain provisions Alcoholic beverages; licenses; change certain provisions Portable electronics insurance; issuance and regulation of limited licenses to sell; provide for comprehensive revision of provisions Pharmacists and pharmacies; revise definition of security paper Excise tax; certain tobacco products; change certain provisions Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of 1977; eliminate Advisory Committee 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 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 Public utilities and public transportation; telecommunications; revise and update 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 Georgia Sheriffs' Cooperative Authority; create Persons licensed to practice orthotics or prosthetics; continuing education requirements; revise provisions

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HB 1160 HB 1165 HB 1166 HB 1175 HB 1186
HR 879 HR 977 HR 1150 HR 1177 HR 1237
SB 101 SB 117 SB 138 SB 236 SB 268 SB 300 SB 309 SB 343 SB 358 SB 413

Public Service Commission; term and manner of election of chairperson; change Taxation; unreturned property; eliminate population provisions; provide penalties Insurance; individual health insurance coverage to children through childonly health plans; provide 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
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 Veterans Memorial Highway; Oglethorpe County; dedicate 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 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 State Accounting Office; designate as the Comptroller General; transfer the office State Government; require this state to reciprocate the preferences granted by out-of-state local governments; resident vendors Probate Court of Glascock County; provide elections; office of judge

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