House general calendar, 2020 February 27

HB 1 HB 61
HB 67 HB 93
HB 113
HB 244
HB 245
HB 378
HB 390
HB 448 HB 463 HB 486 HB 523 HB 555 HB 578
HB 593 HB 652 HB 659 HB 719 HB 721
HB 752
HB 757

HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 TWENTIETH LEGISLATIVE DAY
HOUSE BILLS Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act; enact 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 Motor vehicles; prohibit license and instruction permit holders from using a stand-alone electronic device or wireless telecommunications device while driving 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 Excise tax; rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; revise definition of innkeeper to include lodging facilitators Motor vehicles; issuance of a Class C driver's license to operators of certain three-wheeled motor vehicles; provide Professions and businesses; power and duties of the Division of Electrical Contractors as to the approval of continuing education courses; change 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 Human Services, Department of; review of certain law enforcement conviction data with regard to persons seeking to become volunteers, interns, students, or employees; 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 Crimes and offenses; modernization of HIV related laws; provide Retirement and pensions; transfer of credible service from the Legislative Retirement System to the Employees' Retirement System for certain members of the Georgia State Employees' Pension and Savings Plan; provide Professions And businesses; national background checks by FBI through Georgia Crime Information Center for licensing to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; provide Elections; determination of qualifying periods for special elections; provide

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HB 761
HB 784
HB 787 HB 789
HB 807 HB 808 HB 816 HB 818 HB 821 HB 823
HB 830 HB 838 HB 842 HB 846 HB 847 HB 859 HB 861 HB 870 HB 894 HB 897 HB 899 HB 900 HB 928 HB 932 HB 937 HB 966 HB 968 HB 969

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 Open and public meetings; discussions of school safety plans by members of a local board of education may be conducted in executive session; provide Crimes and offenses; weapons carry license reciprocity in this state; expand 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 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 Professions and businesses; chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; provide Compact for a Balanced Budget; extend sunset provision 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 Law enforcement officers and agencies; Office of Public Safety Officer Support; change the name 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; tinting of windows or windshields; provide maximum monetary penalty Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions Motor vehicles; prohibit installation of tires upon passenger vehicles which do not meet certain standards Seed Development Commission; stagger terms of members State Forestry Commission; create a standing timber notification website; require Public utilities and public transportation; civil penalty for making certain prohibited telephone solicitations; increase Special license plates; logo design issued to support breast cancer related programs; amend Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; requirements for solicitations of services for filings required by the Secretary of State; provide Georgia Podiatry Practice Act; podiatric medicine and surgery; change certain provisions Local government; regulate certain building products and construction practices for single-family dwellings; provide Conservation and natural resources; regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries Civil practice; clarify actions that may be brought pursuant to Code Section 9-3-51 regarding deficiencies in connection with improvements to realty Housing; certain provisions pertaining to unlawful practices in selling or renting dwellings and the procedures, remedies, and judicial review related thereto; change

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HB 972
HB 987 HB 1003
HR 929 HR 933
HR 1093 HR 1094 HR 1167 HR 1240
SB 26 SB 43 SB 47 SB 144 SB 176 SB 262

Public utilities and public transportation; penalties for violations of pipeline safety standards and regulations prescribed and enforced by the Public Service Commission; provide Health; additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; provide Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; provide additional judge of the superior courts
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS State of Georgia; establish Georgia Gullah Geechee Heritage Society; encourage House Study Committee on Homeowners' Associations, Condominium Owners' Associations, and Property Owners in Community Associations; create Joint Study Committee on Cybersecurity; create Property; granting of non-exclusive easements; authorize Property; conveyance of certain state owned real property; authorize Federal government; allow states to switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time; urge
SENATE BILLS Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; prior service as a member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; creditable service; provide Revenue Bonds; definition of the term "undertaking" as it relates to electric systems; revise Retirement Benefits; creditable service for certain military service; provide Taxes on Tobacco Products; issuance of special event tobacco permits; authorizing off-premise sales of certain tobacco products; provide Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; certain public employers; make employer and employee contribution on behalf of retired members; require Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; eligibility of beneficiary to make new retirement election; provide

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