HB 6 HB 54 HB 126 HB 171 HB 205 HB 216 HB 229 HB 290 HB 364 HB 381 HB 405 HB 471 HB 497 HB 498 HB 499 HB 508 HB 538 HB 542 HB 593 HB 605 HB 654 HB 684 HB 713 HB 725 HB 727 HB 734 HB 736 HB 741 HB 749 HB 766 HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016 TWENTY-EIGHTH 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 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 Domestic relations; grandparent rights to visitation and intervention to great-grandparents and siblings of parents; expand Motor vehicles; securing or containing of live animals in the back of vehicles operated on certain roads; require Real estate transfer tax; change certain provisions Revised Georgia Law on Notarial Acts of 2015; enact Contracts and marriage; change provisions relating to agreements required to be in writing; provisions Ad valorem tax; heavy-duty vehicles; add a definition of certain vehicles Surplus state property; offer property to charitable institutions at no charge prior to disposition by other means in certain instances; provide Professions and businesses; professional counseling; revise definition 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 Tattoo studios; post notification that certain tattoos could disqualify wearer from military service; require Dental hygienists; delegable services and procedures that may be performed by hygienists; provide Juvenile Code; domestic relations; terminating parental rights; provisions "Child Abuse Records Protection Act"; enact Fireworks; certain further regulations by counties and municipal corporations; provide "Georgia Space Flight Act"; enact 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 - 1 - HB 770 HB 781 HB 790 HB 793 HB 802 HB 825 HB 828 HB 845 HB 849 HB 860 HB 862 HB 864 HB 868 HB 887 HB 889 HB 893 HB 895 HB 897 HB 899 HB 905 HB 911 HB 913 HB 919 HB 922 HB 926 HB 929 HB 934 HB 935 HB 936 HB 937 HB 939 Crimes and offenses; trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude; provisions Local government; individuals appointed to authorities and boards be United States citizens; require Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false public alarm; change provisions Revenue and taxation; fraternal benefit association; revise definition Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise "Protecting Military Children Act"; enact Income tax credit; employers who hire certain qualified parolees for fulltime jobs; create 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 Education; "Move on When Ready Act"; revise definition of eligible postsecondary education State government; Georgia State Games Commission; eliminate Courts; parental rights; prioritize placement of a child with an adult or fictive kin qualified to care for such child Professions and businesses; funeral establishments and crematories; authorize certain advertisements related to crematories and cremation services Revenue and taxation; forms of payment; change certain provisions Elementary and secondary education; finance directors of charter schools participate in initial and annual training; require 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 Health; rural health care organizations which provide health care services to underserved areas; approve Income tax credit; creating quality jobs; add definition of taxpayer Pharmacists and pharmacies; regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; provide 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 necessary 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 - 2 - HB 943 HB 951 HB 954 HB 959 HB 960 HB 962 HB 973 HB 976 HB 979 HB 981 HB 982 HB 987 HB 990 HB 991 HB 1014 HB 1025 HB 1027 HB 1031 HB 1037 HB 1043 HB 1053 HB 1058 HB 1060 HB 1064 HB 1066 HB 1072 HB 1073 HB 1084 HB 1085 HR 502 Contracts; additional limitations on indemnification and duty to defeat clauses which are void and enforceable in contracts for engineering or architectural services; provide Sales and use tax; admissions to major sporting events; create exemption "Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act"; enact Education; K-12; update and clarify certain provisions Tax and revenue; confidentiality of certain tax information; provisions Human Services, Department of; creation, appointment, removal, and duties of a kinship care enforcement administrator; provide Public Safety, Department of; regulation of towing service providers operating on interstate highways; provisions State records management; minimum retention periods for video recordings from law enforcement devices on or inside a vehicle; provide Crimes and offenses; assault and battery; increase the punishment committed upon hospital emergency department and medical services personnel Taxation; certain for profit corporations to participate in the indirect ownership of a home for the mentally disabled for primarily financing purpose; allow Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; change certain definitions Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions Income tax; exemption for donation of real property for conservation use; extend sunset date Courts; service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; change provisions Courts; filing of documents in superior and state courts by electronic means; provide Elections; candidate who receives votes within not more than 1 percent of total votes shall be qualified to request a recount; provide Community Health, Department of; certified nurse aide registry to nurse aides who provide services in private residences; expand Vaccine protocol agreements; influenza; exempt activities conducted by a hospital or health system from certain requirements Grady County; board of education; provide that members shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis Health; HIV and AIDS; revise various statutes Crimes and offenses; carrying and possession of firearms; confirm that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed Public Safety, Department of; off-duty use of motor vehicles; revise provisions Penal institutions; additional duties of commissioner of corrections; authorize chief of staff to issue warrants of an offender who has escaped Education; service cancelable loan fund; remove ineligibility for such loans for members of the Georgia National Guard also receiving HOPE Juvenile Code; procedure in juvenile courts; change provisions State Soil and Water Conservation Commission; measuring farm and agriculture uses of water; eliminate certain powers and duties Social services; aging; transfer oversight of such services to the Department of Community Health 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 - 3 - HR 768 HR 900 HR 978 HR 979 HR 1135 HR 1341 SB 208 SB 243 SB 283 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 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 - 4 -