House general calendar, 2012 March 7

HB 29 HB 74 HB 100 HB 109
HB 161 HB 166 HB 236
HB 242 HB 247
HB 268
HB 319
HB 379
HB 398
HB 450 HB 512 HB 534 HB 594
HB 651 HB 658 HB 665 HB 669 HB 673 HB 678 HB 681
HB 684
HB 685 HB 705 HB 715 HB 742 HB 748
HB 792
HB 797 HB 816 HB 818 HB 821
HB 822 HB 827

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 THIRTIETH 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; nonprofit health centers, clinics, and food banks; extend Sales and use tax exemptions; personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provide Fulton County; Board of Education pensions and retirement; correct typographical errors Setoff debt collection; debts owed to public housing authorities; authorize Tobacco related objects; blunt wrap regulation; provide definition Eligibility requirements; probate court clerks; modify provisions Limited liability companies; low-profit companies; change certain provisions Charter system earnings; full-time equivalent student; repeal Damages; reduction of earnings to present value; change provisions Clerk of superior court offices; modernize 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 Dogs; dangerous and vicious; extensively revise provisions Education; direct classroom expenditures; revise definition Municipal taxation; certain contracts to access taxes; provide limitations General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013 Adoption; issuance of copy of an original birth certificate to certain adult persons; provide Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990; operate by means of accreditation; provide authorization State chartered special schools; revise funding Georgia Buy American Act; enact Income tax credit; certain commercial geothermal heat pumps; include Elementary and secondary education; mandatory attendance; revise certain provisions Georgia Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act; enact Traffic offenses; fleeing or attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle; modify provisions

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HB 828
HB 831
HB 836 HB 844 HB 851
HB 853 HB 855
HB 857
HB 861
HB 864
HB 868
HB 872
HB 920 HB 940
HB 946
HB 949
HB 952 HB 953
HB 961 HB 965
HB 967
HB 985 HB 988 HB 994
HB 1027
HB 1048 HB 1051
HB 1052
HB 1064
HB 1066 HB 1067
HB 1071 HB 1080
HB 1081

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 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 Law enforcement officers; report drug related arrests to Department of Human Services; require 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 Commerce and trade; secondary metals recyclers; provide comprehensive revision of provisions Budget reports; tax expenditure review; require certain items Georgia Public Defender Standards Council; pay attorney in event of conflict of interest in capital cases; change certain provisions 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 Motor Vehicles; temporary license plates; modify provisions Holidays and observances; Kindness Week; provide Ad valorem taxation; preferential assessment of brownfield property; extend under certain circumstances Revenue and taxation; tax credit for film or video production in Georgia; change certain provisions Civil practice; who may serve process; change provisions 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 Conservation and Natural Resources; occupying live-aboards; repeal provisions Alcoholic beverages; licenses; change certain provisions Portable electronics insurance; issuance and regulation of limited licenses to sell; provide for comprehensive revision of provisions 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

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HB 1085 HB 1089 HB 1093 HB 1110 HB 1114 HB 1115 HB 1119 HB 1120 HB 1121 HB 1123 HB 1132 HB 1141 HB 1143 HB 1159 HB 1160 HB 1165 HB 1175 HB 1178
HB 1186 HB 1198
HR 879 HR 1160 HR 1161 HR 1237
SB 101 SB 117 SB 138 SB 236 SB 268 SB 300 SB 309 SB 343

Budget commission; counties having population of 300,000 or more according to census; repeal Act Local government; zoning proposal review procedures; repeal section and reserve Crimes and offenses; removal of shopping carts and required posting of Code section in stores and markets; change provisions 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 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 Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; oversight by administrator of certain telemarketing practices; provide 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 (Postponed) Taxation; unreturned property; eliminate population provisions; provide penalties Insurance; procedure relative to claimant's offers to settle tort claims involving liability policies; provide Education, Department of; ten-year projection of costs for bills to create a program or funding category having impact on revenues or expenditures; require Agricultural products dealers; applicability of general provisions to persons who buy for cash; provide Parent and child; grandparent visitation rights; modify provisions
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Transportation, Department of; prioritize certain projects; urge Word, Mr. Lathan Rydell; compensate Cauley, Mr. James A.; compensate and provide state income tax exclusion 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

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SB 358 SB 413

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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