House general calendar [Feb. 24, 2016]

HB 6
HB 54
HB 126
HB 166 HB 171
HB 205
HB 216 HB 290
HB 381 HB 405
HB 497
HB 499
HB 508 HB 538
HB 542
HB 593
HB 605
HB 614 HB 684
HB 736 HB 741 HB 749
HB 766 HB 770
HB 773 HB 790 HB 802
HB 806
HB 825 HB 838

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016 TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Georgia Student Finance Commission; provide weighted grade point averages in excess of 4.0 for purposes of determining eligibility for HOPE; authorize Tuition grants; children of officers killed in line of duty who attend University System institutions and meet certain requirements; provide Motor vehicles; use of global positioning or navigation system mounts on windshields under certain circumstances; allow Motorcycle Mobility Safety Act; enact Laws and statutes; revise provisions relating to effect and enforcement of foreign laws; provisions Drivers' licenses; require driver who refused blood alcohol concentration testing to install and maintain ignition interlock devices on vehicle; provisions Occupational diseases; define certain terms; provisions Motor vehicles; securing or containing of live animals in the back of vehicles operated on certain roads; require Revised Georgia Law on Notarial Acts of 2015; enact Contracts and marriage; change provisions relating to agreements required to be in writing; provisions Surplus state property; offer property to charitable institutions at no charge prior to disposition by other means in certain instances; provide Motor vehicles; nonrenewal and nonissuance of driver's licenses for certain reasons; provide Appellate court judges; age of eligibility for certain benefits; decrease Medical records; confidentiality of veterinarian records necessary for medical treatment of an individual; provide an exception Higher education savings plan; matching contributions by the state for certain low-income contributors; provide Low-voltage Contractors, Division of; require continuing education; authorize (Reconsidered) Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a fulltime position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide Landon Dunson Act; enact Dental hygienists; delegable services and procedures that may be performed by hygienists; provide Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide Supreme Court; terms of court; change provisions State government; councils to meet by teleconference or similar means; authorize Property tax exemptions; definition to include any spouse; revise Crimes and offenses; trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude; provisions Georgia Housing and Finance Authority; outstanding bond limit; increase Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false public alarm; change provisions Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise Drivers' licenses; expiration of certain licenses and identification cards; provisions "Protecting Military Children Act"; enact Insurance; certain health plans sold through an agent shall compensate such agent a minimum of 5 percent of collected premiums; provide

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HB 845 HB 849 HB 860 HB 862 HB 868 HB 874 HB 887 HB 893 HB 897
HB 899 HB 905 HB 911 HB 913 HB 916 HB 919 HB 922 HB 929 HB 934 HB 935 HB 936 HB 937 HB 939 HB 943
HB 948
HB 949 HB 959 HB 962 HB 979
HB 980 HB 981

Crimes and offenses; immunity from criminal liability for possession of certain materials or images under certain circumstances; provide "Georgia Civil Rights in Public Accommodations Act"; enact Public officers and employees; persons pardoned for previous convictions are qualified to serve as coroners; provide Ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; clarify definition of disabled veteran State government; Georgia State Games Commission; eliminate Courts; ability to prosecute street gang terrorism; improve Courts; parental rights; prioritize placement of a child with an adult or fictive kin qualified to care for such child Revenue and taxation; forms of payment; change certain provisions Health; care and protection of indigent and elderly patients; provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs Commerce and trade; tobacco product manufacturers; revise and add certain definitions Courts; child abuse; change provisions Sales and use tax; agricultural machinery and equipment; provide exemption Veterans Service, Department of; women veterans' program; require maintenance "The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights"; certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; remove exception; provisions Health; rural health care organizations which provide health care services to underserved areas; approve Income tax credit; creating quality jobs; add definition of taxpayer Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote; enact Human Services, Department of; website providing kinship caregivers with information and access to apply for public assistance benefits; provide Ad valorem tax; properties eligible for a freeport exemption; add certain fulfillment centers Income tax; wages to qualify for a job tax credit; clarify certain terms Sales and use tax; exemption for projects of regional significance; change sunset provision Revenue and taxation; setoff debt collections by the Administrative Office of the Courts; revise terms and procedures Contracts; additional limitations on indemnification and duty to defeat clauses which are void and enforceable in contracts for engineering or architectural services; provide Penal institutions; application fee paid to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles by nonindigent adult offenders applying to transfer supervision; revise Crimes and offenses; illegal use of financial transaction cards; revise provisions Education; K-12; update and clarify certain provisions Human Services, Department of; creation, appointment, removal, and duties of a kinship care enforcement administrator; provide Crimes and offenses; assault and battery; increase the punishment committed upon hospital emergency department and medical services personnel Municipal elections; reopening of qualifications under certain conditions; provide Taxation; certain for profit corporations to participate in the indirect ownership of a home for the mentally disabled for primarily financing purpose; allow

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HB 987 HB 991 HB 1072
HR 502
HR 768 HR 900 HR 978 HR 979 HR 1135 HR 1341 HR 1363
SB 208 SB 243 SB 283

Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Education; service cancelable loan fund; remove ineligibility for such loans for members of the Georgia National Guard also receiving HOPE
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS General Assembly; provide for dedication of revenues derived from fees or other assessments to the public purpose for which such fees or other assessments were imposed; authorize - CA House Study Committee on Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse; create Assembly of State Legislatures; delegates from General Assembly; provide House Study Committee on Historic Site Preservation; create House Study Committee on Programs That Provide Services for the Reading to the Blind and the Visually Impaired; create House Study Committee on Base Realignment and Closure; create House Study Committee on Professional Employer Organizations; create House Special Study Committee on Judicial Qualifications Commission Reform; create (Postponed)
SENATE BILLS Stonecrest, City of; provide for a charter Georgia Judicial Retirement System; preservation of rights by certain persons; change certain provisions Accounting for Public Funds; provide multibank pooling of depositories for acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies

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