House general calendar, 2015 March 11

HB 3
HB 16
HB 17 HB 21
HB 34 HB 48
HB 50
HB 69 HB 72
HB 81 HB 89
HB 93
HB 94
HB 98
HB 103 HB 114
HB 115 HB 120 HB 123
HB 126
HB 131 HB 154 HB 169
HB 174 HB 180
HB 182 HB 194 HB 196
HB 201 HB 204

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2015 TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Education; programs; person solicit transaction with student-athlete; provide sanctions Education; no high school which receives funding from Quality Basic Education Act shall participate in or sponsor interscholastic sports events unless students enrolled in magnet schools can participate under certain conditions; provide (Postponed) Hidden Predator Act; enact Transit authority; creation of; metropolitan areas; repeal a population provision Georgia Right to Try Act; enact Special license plates; include surviving spouse of a sibling of service member killed in action; extend eligibility State property; statues, monuments, plaques, banners, and other commemorative symbols; provide additional protection Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder Act; enact Crimes and offenses; protection of disabled adults and elder persons; expand and clarify Taxation; property; require confirmation of certain redemptions Drug-free commercial zones; date of incorporation of local ordinances by reference; change (Postponed) Motor vehicles; law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems for certain periods; prohibit Ad valorem tax; certain members of armed forces from penalties for failure to timely pay tax; exempt Appellate courts; provide direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals pertaining to courts-martial; provisions Kelsey's Law; enact Drivers' licenses; provide for use of paper eye charts for testing of noncommercial driver's vision; provisions Foreclosure Cure Act; enact Local option sales tax; provide for an additional purpose for tax Motor vehicles; use of safety chain or cable when operating a motor vehicle drawing a trailer; provide Motor vehicles; use of global positioning or navigation system mounts on windshields under certain circumstances; allow The End to Cyberbullying Act; enact Magistrate courts; fine amount for contempt of court; increase Motor vehicles; temporary operating permit when vehicle fails to pass federal emissions standards and certain conditions have been satisfied; provide Urban Redevelopment Law; include blighted areas; provisions War Veterans' Home; residency requirements to qualify for admission; revise Motor vehicles; acquisition of evidence; clarify provisions Elections; advance voting times and dates; revise Criminal procedure; reversal on appeal when a judge expresses an opinion regarding proof in a criminal case or as to accused's guilt; change provisions Public utilities; telephone system for the physically impaired; provisions Civil Practice Act; opposing affidavits shall be served in motions for summary judgment; change provisions

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HB 209 HB 221 HB 225 HB 228 HB 231 HB 232 HB 237 HB 238
HB 240 HB 243 HB 245 HB 259 HB 263 HB 264 HB 267 HB 268 HB 271 HB 278 HB 279
HB 280 HB 288 HB 289 HB 295 HB 297 HB 299 HB 303
HB 304 HB 308 HB 310
HB 313

Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; prior school year attendance requirement to prior semester; revise Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Local government; all for-hire drivers obtain a for-hire license endorsement before driving for hire; provide Sheriffs; collect and deposit certain fees; provide Property; state revenue commissioner to deduct certain funds from deposits to the state treasury; authorize State Board of Hearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers; change certain provisions State income tax; angel investor tax credit; extend Sales and use tax; tangible personal property used for or in renovation or expansion of an aquarium owned or operated by an organization which is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of Internal Revenue Code; provide exemption Community Health, Department of; provide that at least two members of board shall also be members of state health plan; provisions Education Savings Account Act; enact Condominiums; amount permissible as a special assessment fee; change Georgia Business Act; enact Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; advisory board to the council for juvenile justice issues; provide Juvenile Code; voluntary acknowledgements of legitimation; repeal Property; witnessing requisites of deeds, mortgages, and bills of sale; change and clarify provisions Child abuse; mandatory reporters; change provisions Education; charter-schools-in-the-workplace; provide Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Rights to Know Act of 1988; transfer responsibility to Safety Fire Commissioner; provisions Public officers and employees; annual salaries of Supreme Court Justices, Court of Appeals, superior court judges and district attorneys; repeal provisions State Sexual Offender Registry; individual convicted of trafficking a person for sexual servitude; require registration Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; two additional members to serve on council; provide Motor fuel tax; exemption for a limited period of time for certain public mass transit vehicles; extend Corporations, partnerships, and associations; change certain provisions relating to definitions; provisions Professional licensing boards; make designations for the receipt and processing of applications for examination; provide Contracts; provide for definitions; provisions Uninsured motorist coverage; recovery when an insurer refuses to pay for a loss within 60 days after a demand has been made by the insured and a finding has been made that such refusal was made in bad faith; change provisions Criminal procedure; fixing of sentence; clarify service of consecutive sentences Income tax; revise tax credit for rehabilitation of historic structures; provisions Penal institutions; create Board of Community Supervision, Department of Community Supervision, and Governor's Office of Transition, Support, and Reentry; provisions Public employees; limited paid leave for purpose of promoting education; authorize

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HB 314 HB 319 HB 322 HB 338 HB 341 HB 342 HB 343 HB 347 HB 352 HB 358 HB 361 HB 364 HB 367 HB 369 HB 374 HB 375 HB 377 HB 393 HB 396 HB 401
HB 405 HB 408 HB 411
HB 414 HB 416 HB 417 HB 426
HB 428 HB 436 HB 437 HB 439

Professions and businesses; State Board of Barbers and State Board of Cosmetology; combine Taxes; provide for legislative findings concerning gasoline and aviation fuel; provisions Foreclosure; provide for recording of deeds under power within a certain time after sale; provisions Courts; collection of a fee to defray costs associated with electronic citations; provisions Buildings and housing; certain qualified inspectors may be certified by Building Officials' Association of Georgia; provide Nursing homes; violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; provide Lamar County; Board of Education; members elected on nonpartisan basis; provide Interest and usury; interest on certain domestic relations cases; clarify provisions Criminal procedure; change provisions relating to discovery in misdemeanor cases; provisions Legislative Oversight Committee for State Contracts; establish Juvenile Code; enact reforms as recommended by Georgia Council on Criminal Justice reforms; provisions Real estate transfer tax; change certain provisions Superior courts; fourth judge of Western Judicial Circuit; provide Sales and use tax; distribution for educational purposes; change certain provisions Ad valorem tax; certain farm equipment held for sale in dealer inventory; exempt Motor vehicles; driving with suspended, canceled, or revoked registration; change provisions relating to plea of nolo contendre Courts; collection of delinquent fees and statutory surcharges; provide Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception Revenue and taxation; clarify penalty for failure to file return or pay revenue held in trust for the state; provisions Early care and learning; revise terminology relating to restrictions on persons with criminal records with regard to child, family or group-care facilities; provisions Contracts and marriage; change provisions relating to agreements required to be in writing; provisions Excise tax; rooms, lodging and accommodations; clarify application of certain provisions to certain municipalities Highways; provide maximum total gross weight for vehicles hauling unfinished wood products when traveling on noninterstate highways; provisions Education; collection and disclosure of student data; establish and implement policies and requirements Consumer Information and Awareness Act; enact Motor vehicles; require drivers to stop at crosswalks with pedestrianactivated rectangular rapid flash beacons; provisions Sales and use tax; provide new exemption only for limited period of time regarding tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provisions Sales and use tax; materials to be used in certain construction projects of zoological institutions; extend exemption Georgia HIV/Syphilis Pregnancy Screening Act of 2015; enact Brunswick-Glynn County Water and Sewer Commission Act; enact Georgia New Markets Jobs Act; enact

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HB 443 HB 450 HB 455
HB 457 HB 461 HB 464 HB 474 HB 476 HB 494
HB 496
HB 500
HB 502 HB 505 HB 510 HB 511 HB 512 HB 514 HB 515 HB 517 HB 520 HB 524 HB 527 HB 535 HB 540 HB 541 HB 566
HR 4 HR 36 HR 106 HR 215

Voluntary Veterans' Preference Employment Policy Act; enact Food products; in-person sales of meat from certain requirements; exempt Motor vehicles and traffic; parking vehicle in manner preventing emergency vehicles from accessing private property without an identifiable driveway; prohibit Ad valorem tax; watercraft held in inventory; exempt Secondary metals recyclers; buying and selling regulated metal property; change certain provisions Income tax; water conservation facilities and a shift from ground-water usage; sunset tax credit Charter schools; enrollment priorities for educationally disadvantaged students and military students; provide Fulton County Industrial District; repeal amendment; provisions (Postponed) Peace officers; retired officers shall not pay any fees or costs for any permit or card evidencing his or her registration or certification with Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Council; provide Ad valorem tax; the use of certain property for collection and conversion of solar energy shall not constitute a breach of conservation use covenants; provide Employment security; services performed by individual for wages shall be deemed to be employment unless Department of Labor makes a contrary determination based on evidence submitted; provide Elementary and secondary education; update and clarify provisions and repeal obsolete provisions Physical therapists; licensure and regulations of therapists and therapy assistants; revise various provisions Georgia Sports Commission Fund; create; provisions Pharmacists and pharmacies; technicians to fill remote automated medication systems in skilled nursing facilities and hospices; authorize Mental health; governing and regulation; change certain terminology and provisions South Fulton, City of; Fulton County; incorporate (Postponed) Tucker, City of; DeKalb County; incorporate (Postponed) Echols County; board of education; provide nonpartisan elections LaVista Hills, City of; DeKalb County; incorporate (Postponed) Trade names; require registration with clerk of superior court; provisions Counties; provide budget for population of two hundred thousand or more; repeal Act Alcoholic beverages; local authorization of sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises is lawful during a certain time on Sunday; provide Interstate cooperation; Senate Interstate Cooperation Committee and House Committee on Interstate Cooperation; clarify number of members Eminent domain; telephone companies; actual recurring local service revenues; specify accounts or portions thereof considered to be included State house districts; boundaries of certain districts; revise
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Municipalities; establish by local law an independent school system; authorize - CA Staff Sergeant Shaun J. Whitehead Memorial Bridge; Jackson County; dedicate United States Congress; convey title and jurisdiction of Federal Public Lands to the States; encourage Judge Ronald L. Newton Memorial Highway; Fannin County; dedicate

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HR 281
HR 302
HR 303 HR 394
HR 397 HR 473 HR 474 HR 519
SB 2 SB 93 SB 139

Republic of Turkey and the Turkic American Federation of Southeast; recognize contributions; encourage creation of Georgian-Turkish Friendship Task Force Congress of the United States; enact significant reforms to nation's federally financed graduate medical education programs and to provide states with additional resources to meet the health workforce needs of the future; urge State Board of Education; develop and implement comprehensive civics education curricula; urge Sales and use tax; distribution of net proceeds for educational purposes between a county school system and one or more independent school systems; provide - CA United States Congress; support equity and sales tax fairness; encourage Joint Study Committee on Cyber Security; create House Study Committee on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Kinship Care; create Mixon, Mr. Harry; Mr. Brad Dorminy; name building in their honor; recognize
SENATE BILLS Education; student who completes certain requirements relating to postsecondary coursework awarded a high school diploma Seminole County; office of probate judge; nonpartisan elections Selling and Other Trade Practices; provide regulation; auxiliary containers shall be done by general law

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