House general calendar, 2019 March 7

HB 1 HB 10 HB 16 HB 22 HB 24 HB 32 HB 34 HB 38 HB 42 HB 56 HB 66 HB 69 HB 83 HB 86 HB 89
HB 91
HB 93
HB 109 HB 113
HB 118 HB 123
HB 126 HB 131 HB 168 HB 174 HB 177

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, MARCH 07, 2019 TWENTY-EIGHTH 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 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 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 (Postponed) 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 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

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HB 180 HB 198 HB 202 HB 214 HB 215 HB 220 HB 244
HB 247 HB 258
HB 264
HB 282 HB 288
HB 296 HB 307 HB 311 HB 315
HB 325
HB 328 HB 332
HB 337 HB 338 HB 339 HB 349 HB 353 HB 370
HB 373 HB 376

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 Penal institutions; commissioner of corrections to report certain information; require Vaccine protocol agreements; geographic limitation on pharmacists; remove Georgia Scenic Trails System; electric assisted bicycles; provide for permitted operation Solid waste management; certain solid waste disposal surcharges; extend sunset date 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 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 Public officials' conduct and lobbyist disclosure; persons promoting or opposing any matter regarding the EMSC Program are subject to transparency and lobbyist disclosure laws; provide Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault 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 Local government; certain agreements from consultants who enter into contracts or arrangements to prepare or develop requirements for bids; provide Law enforcement officers and agencies; records of investigation of an officer by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be retained for 30 years; provide 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 Local government; counties to exercise powers in incorporated areas; authorize Insurance; create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision 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 Labor, Department of; employment security; change certain provisions State holidays; September 1 of each year as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Ga.; provide

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HB 378
HB 379 HB 381 HB 382 HB 388
HB 392 HB 394
HB 405 HB 417 HB 424 HB 426 HB 444 HB 448 HB 452 HB 454 HB 458
HB 459 HB 463 HB 464 HB 466 HB 467 HB 468 HB 469 HB 470
HB 478 HB 483 HB 486

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 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 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 Board of Public Safety; expense allowance and travel cost reimbursement for members in like fashion as other state boards and commissions; 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 Revenue and taxation; Level 1 Freeport Exemption; modify provisions 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 (Postponed) Dual Enrollment Act; enact 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; operation of motorized mobility devices; provide Fire protection and safety; use of class B fire-fighting foam for testing purposes if such foam contains a certain class of fluorinated organic chemicals; prohibit Education; driver's license verification system for school bus drivers; provide 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 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 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

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HB 487
HB 490
HB 493 HB 502 HB 507 HB 511
HB 512 HB 516 HB 525 HB 527 HB 535 HB 541
HB 543 HB 545 HB 553 HB 554
HR 72 HR 135
HR 261 HR 327
HR 368 HR 403
SB 72 SB 99

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 Banking and finance; payment of large deposits of deceased intestate depositors and the deposit of sums held for deceased intestate residents; make changes Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act; enact 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 Highways, bridges, and ferries; funding sources and a consolidated state entity for the planning and implementation of mobility and transit services; provisions Agricultural Commodity Commission for Propane; provide Professions and businesses; profession of professional structural engineer; provide Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center; rename to Savannah Convention Center 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 State Victim Services Commission; bill of rights for foster parents; delete references to an obsolete entity Motor vehicles; filing of certificates of titles by dealers; provide
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 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

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