HB 1 HB 12 HB 16 HB 22 HB 24 HB 42 HB 56 HB 66 HB 69 HB 79 HB 83 HB 86 HB 89 HB 91 HB 93 HB 101 HB 109 HB 113 HB 118 HB 123 HB 126 HB 131 HB 168 HB 174 HB 177 HB 180 HB 196 HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 05, 2019 TWENTY-SEVENTH 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 Blind persons; child custody matters; provisions Quality Basic Education Act; recess for students in kindergarten and grades one through five; provide 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 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 Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense 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 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 Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require - 1 - HB 198 HB 202 HB 215 HB 218 HB 223 HB 227 HB 230 HB 239 HB 244 HB 247 HB 253 HB 258 HB 282 HB 287 HB 288 HB 296 HB 307 HB 311 HB 314 HB 317 HB 324 HB 328 HB 332 HB 337 HB 338 HB 339 HB 342 HB 345 HB 346 HB 353 HB 365 Health; eliminate certificate of need requirements for all health care facilities except certain long-term care facilities and services Penal institutions; commissioner of corrections to report certain information; require 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 Insurance; discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; expand prohibitions Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations Georgia Business Court; establish 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 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 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 Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act; enact State government; waiver of sovereign immunity as to actions ex contractu and state tort claims; provisions Georgia Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act; enact Collection receptacles; transfer jurisdiction of removal petition from superior court to city or municipal court 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 Georgia Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Program Act; enact Georgia State Firefighter Association and the Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs; establish appointment procedures 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 Property; prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for taking certain actions Insurance; create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; lower tax rate imposed - 2 - HB 367 HB 368 HB 373 HB 376 HB 379 HB 381 HB 387 HB 394 HB 406 HB 417 HB 424 HB 426 HB 444 HB 445 HB 446 HB 447 HB 452 HB 454 HB 455 HB 456 HB 459 HB 464 HB 469 HB 470 HB 471 HB 472 HB 478 HB 483 HB 486 HB 490 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 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 Property; liens in favor of private, nonprofit, volunteer fire departments for instances of fire services that are requested by property owners; provide 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 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 Law enforcement officers and agencies; comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; provide 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 Dual Enrollment Act; enact Conservation and natural resources; shore protection; revise various provisions 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 Motor vehicles; operation of motorized mobility devices; provide Georgia Agricultural Marketing Authority Act; enact Local government; elect an annual report in lieu of a biennial audit; increase expenditure amount Education; driver's license verification system for school bus drivers; provide Education; local boards of education to have a public comment period at every meeting; require Property; vehicle immobilization devices or boots to be applied to motor vehicles on private property under certain circumstances; allow Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide 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 Professions and businesses; power and duties of the Division of Electrical Contractors as to the approval of continuing education courses; change Banking and finance; payment of large deposits of deceased intestate depositors and the deposit of sums held for deceased intestate residents; make changes - 3 - HB 491 HB 492 HB 493 HB 499 HB 501 HB 502 HB 507 HB 512 HB 516 HB 527 HB 535 HB 541 HB 543 HB 545 HR 72 HR 135 HR 261 HR 327 HR 346 HR 368 HR 403 SB 72 SB 99 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 Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act; enact 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 Professions and businesses; profession of professional structural engineer; provide Quality Basic Education Formula; change program weights for funding purposes 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 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 Georgia Southern Nursing Angels Memorial Bridge; Bryan County; dedicate Interstate 14; construction; urge Owners and operators of convenience stores; easy access to disabled customers desiring to refuel their vehicles; urge SENATE BILLS 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 - 4 -