House general calendar, 2019 March 4

HB 1 HB 12 HB 16 HB 22 HB 24 HB 42 HB 56 HB 66 HB 69 HB 76
HB 79 HB 84 HB 89 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

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 04, 2019
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act; enact Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school 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 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 State health planning and development; integrated ambulatory surgery centers; provide exemption from certificate of need requirements 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

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HB 196 HB 198 HB 201 HB 202 HB 212
HB 215 HB 218 HB 223 HB 224
HB 227 HB 230 HB 233 HB 234 HB 239 HB 242 HB 244
HB 247 HB 253 HB 257 HB 258
HB 266 HB 276 HB 282 HB 287 HB 288
HB 296 HB 300

Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require Health; eliminate certificate of need requirements for all health care facilities except certain long-term care facilities and services Board of Natural Resources; promulgate rules and regulations regarding anchoring certain vessels within estuarine areas; authorize 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 Georgia Scenic Trails System; electric assisted bicycles; provide for permitted operation Education; eligibility requirements to receive the HOPE Scholarship as a Zell Miller Scholarship Scholar; provide Conservation and natural resources; provide for an exception to notification of spills or releases; provide for definitions Income tax; credit for new purchases and acquisitions of qualified investment property shall be earnable for mining and mining facilities and allowed against a taxpayer's payroll withholding; provide Insurance; discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; expand prohibitions Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations 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 Crimes and offenses; battery against a person 65 years of age or older; repeal an enhanced penalty 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 Sales and use tax; certain persons that facilitate certain retail sales; require collection of tax Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault Income tax; certain physicians serving as community based faculty physicians; delete deduction Superior courts; revise the sums that the clerks are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property Superior Court of Hall County in the Northeastern Circuit; revise term of court Health; redesignate continuing care retirement communities as life plan communities

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HB 302
HB 307 HB 314 HB 317 HB 323 HB 324 HB 328 HB 332
HB 339 HB 342 HB 344
HB 345 HB 346 HB 352 HB 365 HB 367 HB 368 HB 373 HB 374 HB 376 HB 379 HB 381 HB 382 HB 387 HB 406
HB 419
HB 424 HB 426 HB 445

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 Collection receptacles; transfer jurisdiction of removal petition from superior court to city or municipal court Insurance; administration of claims by pharmacy benefit managers; revise provisions Georgia's Hope Act; enact Health; regulation and permittance of body artists and body art studios; provide Agriculture; service of the Commissioner of Agriculture and the president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation as ex officio members; revise provisions 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 Sales and use tax; mission to advance arts shall not be required to be an organization's primary mission in order to obtain an exemption for certain sales of tickets for admission to fine arts performances; provide Penal institutions; pregnant female inmates or a female inmate who is in the immediate postpartum period; provide prohibited practices Property; prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for taking certain actions 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 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 Revenue and taxation; projects and purposes using SPLOST funds; revise annual reporting requirements Child support; defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; revise and correct Outdoor stewardship; eligible applicants for and recipients of the grants; redefine Property; liens in favor of private, nonprofit, volunteer fire departments for instances of fire services that are requested by property owners; provide Local government; joint authorities to furnish certain information necessary for the state auditor to determine the net impact of their activities on associated tax digests; require Revenue and taxation; Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Code of 1986; define terms and incorporate certain provisions of federal law into Georgia law Crimes and offenses; include certain sex crimes into the definition of criminal gang activity Criminal procedure; imposition of punishment for crimes involving bias or prejudice; revise criteria Conservation and natural resources; shore protection; revise various provisions

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HB 446
HB 447 HB 452 HB 455 HB 456 HB 471 HB 472 HB 478 HB 483 HB 491 HB 492
HB 499 HB 501 HB 502 HB 507 HB 512 HB 543 HB 545
HR 72 HR 135
HR 261 HR 327
HR 368
SB 52 SB 72 SB 99

Revenue and taxation; timber producers incurring losses from Hurricane Michael; clarify that certain credits that have been transferred shall not be refundable Sales and use tax; jet fuel; exempt for a period of time and levy an excise tax during such period Revenue, Department of; access Bank Match Registry for certain purposes; allow Georgia Agricultural Marketing Authority Act; enact Local government; elect an annual report in lieu of a biennial audit; increase expenditure amount Motor vehicles; implied consent notices; revise Juvenile Code; procedures concerning removal considerations; revise Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide Controlled substances; Schedules I, IV, and V; change certain provisions Insurance; regulation of insurance company holding systems; update Property; dispossessory proceedings; require applications for execution of a writ of possession be made within 30 days of issuance of the writ unless good cause is shown Public utilities and public transportation; use of electric easements for broadband services; permit Game and fish; provide for mariculture development Civil practice; continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; revise Ad valorem tax; criteria used by tax assessors to determine the fair market value of real property; revise Agricultural Commodity Commission for Propane; provide Domestic relations; equitable caregivers; provide Nuisances; treatment of agricultural facilities and operations and forest land; provisions
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 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 Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in and reenact Game and Fish; hunting on wildlife management areas; prohibition; remove Department of Natural Resources' Online Licensing System; allow applicants to make an anatomical gift; provide

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