House general calendar, 2019 March 1

HB 22 HB 24 HB 39 HB 42 HB 56 HB 66 HB 69 HB 76
HB 79 HB 84 HB 91
HB 93
HB 101 HB 109 HB 113
HB 123
HB 126 HB 131 HB 132 HB 168 HB 174 HB 177 HB 180 HB 182 HB 193
HB 196 HB 201

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2019
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Public utilities and public transportation; telephone cooperatives and their affiliates to provide broadband services; specifically authorize Public officers; members of state and local boards, authorities, commissions shall be appointed by an elected official or officials; require Physical Therapy Licensure Compact Act; enter into an interstate compact Professional licensing boards; refuse to issue a license of a person who is a borrower in default under an educational loan; prohibit State highway system; alternative fueled vehicles; provide logo for manufacturer's license plates to allow travel in exclusive lanes Special license plates; certain special plates for motorcycles; provide Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program; qualifications; revise prior year school requirement Alcoholic beverages; counties and municipalities may regulate alcohol licenses as to certain distances in a manner that is less but not more restrictive than those distances specified by the state; provisions Blind persons; child custody matters; provisions Insurance; provide for consumer protections regarding health insurance Hospitals and health care facilities; Federal Bureau of Investigation to retain fingerprints when an agency or entity is participating in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's program; allow Water pollution and surface-water use; notice to local governing authorities prior to the dewatering of coal combustion residual surface impoundments; provide Ad valorem tax; all-terrain vehicles; revise definitions Teachers Retirement System; individuals who first became members on or after July 1, 2019; modify conditions Motor vehicles; prohibit license and instruction permit holders from using a stand-alone electronic device or wireless telecommunications device while driving Labor, Department of; designate as the administrator of all programs pursuant to Public Law 105-220 and the policies and methods by the State Workforce Development Board; provide Labor, Department of; establishment of the GeorgiaBest program and an employability skills training curriculum; provide Special license plates; Georgia Aquarium; provide for disbursement of proceeds from the sale of plates Income tax; permit affiliated entities to apply certain transferable tax credits against payroll withholding Sales and use tax; tangible personal property to certain non-profit health centers; extend exemption for five additional years Motor vehicles; proper display of license plates; provide Civil practice; certain actions arising from burial of construction waste or materials; change when statute of limitations shall accrue Official Code of Georgia Annotated; amend various titles; repeal provisions Sales and use tax; lower threshold amount for certain dealers Banking and finance; banks and credit unions to offer savings promotion raffle accounts in which deposits to a savings account enter a depositor in a raffle; allow Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require Board of Natural Resources; promulgate rules and regulations regarding anchoring certain vessels within estuarine areas; authorize

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HB 202 HB 212
HB 223 HB 227 HB 233 HB 234 HB 239 HB 242 HB 244
HB 253 HB 257 HB 258
HB 266 HB 279 HB 281 HB 287 HB 290 HB 300 HB 302
HB 307 HB 314 HB 323 HB 328 HB 339 HB 342 HB 345 HB 352 HB 365 HB 367 HB 368

Penal institutions; commissioner of corrections to report certain information; require Banking and finance; retail brokers of manufactured homes or mobile homes and residential contractors from the requirement to obtain a license as a mortgage loan originator, broker, or lender under certain circumstances; exempt Conservation and natural resources; provide for an exception to notification of spills or releases; provide for definitions Insurance; discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; expand prohibitions Pharmacy Anti-Steering and Transparency Act; enact Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act; enact Georgia Business Court; establish Professions and businesses; regulation of massage therapy educational programs; provide Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require Professions and businesses; occupational therapists; update and revise various provisions Council of Magistrate Court Judges; organization and provide for officers; increase authority (Postponed) Criminal procedure; add aggravated sexual battery to the list of offenses for which the statute of limitations is tolled if the victim is younger than 16 years of age Revenue and taxation; income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise deduction Revenue and taxation; certain law enforcement officers may use department vehicles relative to certain approved off-duty jobs; provide Crimes and offenses; pimping and pandering; increase penalty provisions Income tax; certain physicians serving as community based faculty physicians; delete deduction Health; pilot program to provide preexposure assistance to persons at risk of HIV infection; establish Health; redesignate continuing care retirement communities as life plan communities Local government; adopting or enforcing ordinances or regulations relating to or regulating building design elements as applied to one or two-family dwellings; prohibit Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act; enact Georgia Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act; enact Insurance; administration of claims by pharmacy benefit managers; revise provisions Health; regulation and permittance of body artists and body art studios; provide Special license plates; Alabama A&M University; establish Motor vehicles; issuance of a traffic citation to a vehicle owner in lieu of the individual operating the motor vehicle in certain instances; provide Penal institutions; pregnant female inmates or a female inmate who is in the immediate postpartum period; provide prohibited practices Sales and use tax; exemption for competitive projects of regional significance; change sunset provision Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; lower tax rate imposed Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act; enact Insurance; division of a domestic insurer into two or more resulting domestic insurers; provide

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HB 373 HB 374 HB 376 HB 382 HB 396
HB 419
HB 426 HB 445 HB 447 HB 455 HB 456 HB 472 HB 491
HR 72 HR 135
HR 261
SB 52

Labor, Department of; employment security; change certain provisions Health; administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; authorize certified medication aides State holidays; September 1 of each year as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Ga.; provide Outdoor stewardship; eligible applicants for and recipients of the grants; redefine Crimes and offenses; unlawful for a person with intent to defraud a creditor's rights to deed or otherwise transfer title to real property to another person without the knowledge or consent of such other person; provide Revenue and taxation; Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Code of 1986; define terms and incorporate certain provisions of federal law into Georgia law Criminal procedure; imposition of punishment for crimes involving bias or prejudice; revise criteria Conservation and natural resources; shore protection; revise various provisions Sales and use tax; jet fuel; exempt for a period of time and levy an excise tax during such period Georgia Agricultural Marketing Authority Act; enact Local government; elect an annual report in lieu of a biennial audit; increase expenditure amount Juvenile Code; procedures concerning removal considerations; revise Insurance; regulation of insurance company holding systems; update
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Georgia; host world's largest startup pitch competition; encourage Congress; eliminate five-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits for individuals living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); urge Joint Study Committee on Evaluating and Simplifying Physician Oversight of Midlevel Providers; create
SENATE BILLS Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in and reenact

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