House general calendar, 2020 February 24

HB 61
HB 67 HB 93
HB 244
HB 245
HB 378
HB 390
HB 417 HB 448 HB 521 HB 523 HB 555 HB 583 HB 593 HB 652 HB 659 HB 664
HB 715
HB 757 HB 761
HB 779

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 SEVENTEENTH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Motor vehicle insurance companies; offer qualified active duty military service members between the ages of 18 and 24 motor vehicle insurance policies underwritten at rates for such service members 25 years of age or older; require Georgia Legislative Retirement System; employee contributions; change certain provisions Water pollution and surface-water use; notice to local governing authorities prior to the dewatering of coal combustion residual surface impoundments; provide Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require Peace Officers' Annuity Fund; require certain benefits payable to a surviving spouse to terminate if such surviving spouse remarries; remove a provision 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 Teachers Retirement System; certain members shall be eligible to obtain creditable service for international teaching services by paying the full actuarial cost of obtaining such creditable service; provide 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 Professions and businesses; temporary licenses for dentists licensed in other states to provide dental care to indigent populations in this state; authorize Local government; regulating the use of certain real estate as short-term rental property; prohibit Criminal procedure; add public child welfare case manager to the people for whom arrest warrants may be issued only by certain judicial officers Insurance; framework for regulating the offering or issuance of travel insurance in this state; provide Tax Commissioners Retirement Fund of Georgia; create Sheriffs' Retirement Fund of Georgia; payments to the fund from fees collected in civil actions; increase Retirement and pensions; age of eligibility for retirement benefits for appellate court judges; decrease Georgia Judicial Retirement System; membership for certain persons employed in certain full time positions requiring admission to the State Bar of Georgia as a condition of employment; require Revenue and taxation; gross receipts as a criterion for classifying businesses and practitioners for purposes of calculating the occupation tax levied by local governments; eliminate Elections; determination of qualifying periods for special elections; provide Public utilities and public transportation; eliminate percentage limitation as to the amount of the investments an electric membership corporation may make and maintain in a gas affiliate Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; revise distribution of the proceeds of such taxes among local governments

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HB 784
HB 789
HB 799
HB 807 HB 808 HB 818 HB 819
HB 820 HB 821 HB 823
HB 830 HB 842 HB 846 HB 847 HB 861 HB 893 HB 949

Open and public meetings; discussions of school safety plans by members of a local board of education may be conducted in executive session; provide Insurance; creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; provide Motor vehicles; prohibition regarding eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; repeal Revenue and taxation; allow businesses to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; revise a definition Compact for a Balanced Budget; extend sunset provision Motor vehicles; veterans' license to any person who is a United States citizen and resident of this state who served in the military for an ally of the United States during a time of war or other conflict; authorize issuance Transportation, Department of; state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; provide Retirement and pensions; granting postretirement benefit adjustments to certain individuals; provisions Crimes and offenses; lifetime disqualification from operating a commercial motor vehicle by persons convicted of trafficking other persons for labor or sexual servitude; provide Retirement and pensions; increase percentage of eligible large retirement system's assets that may be invested in alternative investments Gracie's Law; enact Revenue and taxation; interest paid on refunds of overpayments of taxes and past due taxes shall be equal to the bank prime loan rate; provide Hemp farming; definitions, penalties and criminal background checks; provide Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions Special Insurance Fraud Fund; frequency of assessments; reduce Revenue and taxation; define "Internal Revenue Code" and "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" and thereby incorporate certain provisions of the federal law into Georgia law; define the terms

SB 43 SB 144

SENATE BILLS Revenue Bonds; definition of the term "undertaking" as it relates to electric systems; revise Taxes on Tobacco Products; issuance of special event tobacco permits; authorizing off-premise sales of certain tobacco products; provide

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