House general calendar, 2019 March 21

HB 1 HB 10 HB 16 HB 22 HB 24 HB 32 HB 34 HB 38 HB 42 HB 43 HB 66 HB 69 HB 86 HB 89 HB 93
HB 110 HB 113
HB 123
HB 126 HB 131 HB 174 HB 177 HB 180 HB 198
HB 202 HB 214

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act; enact Education; instruction on the best practices for and risks associated with the use of tampons; provide Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act; enact 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 Education; duties of the Chief Turnaround Officer; revise and clarify certain provisions Local government; taxpaying business owners to be appointed to development authorities; provide Crimes and offenses; theft; define a term Professional licensing boards; refuse to issue a license of a person who is a borrower in default under an educational loan; prohibit Sexual offenses; persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority; revise crime of sexual assault Special license plates; certain special plates for motorcycles; provide Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program; qualifications; revise prior year school requirement Education; complaints policy for teachers and other school personnel; provisions State health planning and development; integrated ambulatory surgery centers; provide exemption from certificate of need requirements Water pollution and surface-water use; notice to local governing authorities prior to the dewatering of coal combustion residual surface impoundments; provide Labor and industrial relations; payment of wages by check upon the discretion of the employer; provide 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 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 Health; eliminate certificate of need requirements for all health care facilities except certain long-term care facilities and services (Reconsidered) Penal institutions; commissioner of corrections to report certain information; require Vaccine protocol agreements; geographic limitation on pharmacists; remove

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HB 215 HB 244
HB 258
HB 260 HB 302
HB 317 HB 328 HB 338 HB 370
HB 371 HB 376 HB 378
HB 388
HB 394
HB 417 HB 448 HB 452 HB 463 HB 464 HB 466 HB 467 HB 468 HB 469 HB 486

Georgia Scenic Trails System; electric assisted bicycles; provide for permitted operation Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require 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 Crimes and offenses; home invasion in the first degree to incorporate family violence battery; revise offense Local government; adopting or enforcing ordinances or regulations relating to or regulating building design elements as applied to one or two-family dwellings; prohibit Collection receptacles; transfer jurisdiction of removal petition from superior court to city or municipal court Health; regulation and permittance of body artists and body art studios; provide Georgia State Firefighter Association and the Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs; establish appointment procedures Professions and businesses; number of advanced practice registered nurses with which a delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement for nurses practicing in an emergency medical services system; revise exception Uniform rules of the road; securing or containing of live animals in the back of motor vehicles operated on certain highways; require State holidays; September 1 of each year as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Ga.; provide Revenue and taxation; collection and remittance of excise taxes on rental motor vehicles by marketplace facilitators that are dealers that facilitate the rental or lease of five or more rental motor vehicles; require Local government; funding a development project's proportionate share of system improvement when such development project is exempt from development impact fees and such project creates affordable housing; exempt counties and municipalities Uniform rules of the road; certain personnel employed by or volunteering for law enforcement agencies or fire departments to assist in directing and regulating the flow of traffic; authorize Law enforcement officers and agencies; comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; provide Excise tax; rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; revise definition of innkeeper to include lodging facilitators Revenue, Department of; access Bank Match Registry for certain purposes; allow Motor vehicles; issuance of a Class C driver's license to operators of certain three-wheeled motor vehicles; provide Education; local boards of education to have a public comment period at every meeting; require Elections; clerks of state courts and clerks of superior courts; provide nonpartisan elections Cobb County; clerk of the Superior Court; provide nonpartisan elections Cobb County; clerk of the State Court; provide nonpartisan elections Property; vehicle immobilization devices or boots to be applied to motor vehicles on private property under certain circumstances; allow Professions and businesses; power and duties of the Division of Electrical Contractors as to the approval of continuing education courses; change

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HB 487
HB 535 HB 541
HB 554 HB 578
HR 72 HR 261 HR 327
HR 368
SB 1 SB 17 SB 55 SB 66 SB 77 SB 97 SB 118 SB 121 SB 132 SB 133 SB 171 SB 184
SR 19 SR 264

Disaster Volunteer Relief Act; certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; authorize Health; regulation and permittance of body artists and body art studios; provide Public utilities and public transportation; wireless service provider shall make call location information of its subscribers available to law enforcement agencies upon request; provide Motor vehicles; filing of certificates of titles by dealers; provide Human Services, Department of; review of certain law enforcement conviction data with regard to persons seeking to become volunteers, interns, students, or employees; provide
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Georgia; host world's largest startup pitch competition; encourage Joint Study Committee on Evaluating and Simplifying Physician Oversight of Midlevel Providers; create General Assembly; provide by law for local authorization of a limited number of licensed destination resort facilities casino resorts within the state; authorize - CA Interstate 14; construction; urge
SENATE BILLS "C.J.'s Law"; penalty for hit and run accidents that result in serious injury; provide Public Utilities and Public Transportation; authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates; provide broadband services Retirement; method and manner by which a member of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia may purchase an annuity; revise "Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act" State Flag, Seal, and other Symbols; additional protections for government statues; provide Self-Service Storage Facilities; limit fees charged and collected by selfservice storage facilities for the late payment of rent; provide Insurance; Georgia Telemedicine Act; modernize; Telemedicine Act the Telehealth Act; rename Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base; length of time prescription information is retained from two years to five years; increase Insurance; modernization and updates; provide; Commission on the Georgia Health Insurance Risk Pool; repeal Article 2 of Chapter 29A Insurance; modernization and updates; provide Courts, Primaries and Elections, and Ad Valorem Taxation; compensation of various local government officials; modify State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; services covered and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum; provide
SENATE RESOLUTIONS Georgia Commission on Freight and Logistics; create Joint Emergency Medical Services Study Committee; create

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