HB 1 HB 16 HB 61 HB 66 HB 67 HB 93 HB 113 HB 153 HB 216 HB 244 HB 245 HB 336 HB 378 HB 390 HB 448 HB 465 HB 474 HB 488 HB 517 HB 523 HB 556 HB 593 HB 630 HB 641 HOUSE GENERAL CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 09, 2020 TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATIVE DAY HOUSE BILLS Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act; enact Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth 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 Special license plates; certain special plates for motorcycles; provide 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 Sales and use tax; change certain definitions Special license plates; Georgia Tennis Foundation; establish 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 Retirement and pensions; require certain public employers to make employer and employee contributions to the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia for beneficiaries employed by such certain public employers 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 (Postponed until 3/9/20) 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 Georgia Water Customer Bill of Rights Act; enact Labor and industrial relations; certain procedures prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rules of the State Board of Workers' Compensation; require Commerce and trade; prevent organized retail crime Georgia State Indemnification Fund; replace the term National Guard with the term organized militia in the definition of law enforcement officer Local government; regulating the use of certain real estate as short-term rental property; prohibit Public utilities and public transportation; limitations on fees that may be charged for installation of telephone facilities; provide Tax Commissioners Retirement Fund of Georgia; create State government; observe daylight savings time year round; provide Georgia Bureau of Investigation; grant powers and duties to identify and investigate violations of the Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act and other computer crimes (Postponed) - 1 - HB 652 HB 659 HB 674 HB 719 HB 720 HB 721 HB 736 HB 757 HB 761 HB 784 HB 787 HB 791 HB 807 HB 814 HB 818 HB 821 HB 833 HB 848 HB 853 HB 854 HB 857 HB 864 HB 865 HB 867 HB 870 HB 877 HB 879 HB 881 HB 890 HB 894 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 Alcoholic beverages; Department of Revenue to develop and implement a state-wide centralized application process for retailers for initial applications and renewals of license and permits; provide Crimes and offenses; modernization of HIV related laws; provide Criminal procedure; term of probation shall follow the mandatory term of imprisonment for persons convicted of a sexual offense; clarify 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 Education; loan forgiveness program for teachers who agree to teach in a turnaround school in a high demand subject area; establish 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 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 Pharmacists; dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; authorize Revenue and taxation; allow businesses to provide affidavits of certified public accountants in lieu of tax returns State-wide Business Court; remove administrative attachment from the Court of Appeals Compact for a Balanced Budget; extend sunset provision Retirement and pensions; granting postretirement benefit adjustments to certain individuals; provisions Waters, ports, and watercraft; promulgate rules and regulations regarding long-term anchoring; authorize State government; provide the Department of Administrative Services additional options when disposing of surplus property in the best interest of the state; change certain definitions Special license plates; county tax commissioners; provide Local government; battery charged fences; provisions Conservation and natural resources; burning of certain chemically treated wood products for purposes of commercial energy generation; prohibit Excise tax; sale of vapor devices and consumable vapor products; provide Wills, trusts, and administration of estates; Revised Probate Code of 1998; revise and update provisions Local government; county operated airport property; provisions Motor vehicles; prohibit installation of tires upon passenger vehicles which do not meet certain standards Motor vehicles; standards for issuance of a Georgia certificate of title for certain motor vehicles; provide Alcoholic beverages; legislative intent of the General Assembly to exercise strict regulatory control over the three-tier system; provide Domestic relations; provisions relating to safe places for newborns; revise Drivers' licenses; notices of revocation and suspension by regular mail; provide Seed Development Commission; stagger terms of members - 2 - HB 895 HB 898 HB 899 HB 901 HB 903 HB 905 HB 906 HB 911 HB 912 HB 913 HB 926 HB 927 HB 928 HB 929 HB 936 HB 937 HB 941 HB 952 HB 953 HB 954 HB 956 HB 959 HB 983 HB 984 HB 991 HB 994 HB 996 HB 998 HB 999 HB 1008 Motor vehicles; assessment of no points and maximum fine for the offense of failure to obey a traffic control device in certain instances; provide Local government; counties and municipalities to consider the effect of a proposed zoning action on local school systems; allow Public utilities and public transportation; civil penalty for making certain prohibited telephone solicitations; increase Georgia Environmental Finance Authority; power to make loan commitments and loans to local governments and nongovernment agencies for projects that permanently protect land and water; provide Motor vehicles; issuance of a traffic citation to a vehicle owner in lieu of the individual operating the motor vehicle in certain instances; provide Motor vehicles; commissioner of driver services to enter into certain reciprocal agreements with foreign jurisdictions; provide authority Heritage Trust Program; condition the method utilized for conveyance of heritage preserve property on the property's amount of acreage Crimes and offenses; offenses of improper sexual conduct by a foster parent in the first and second degrees; provide Social services; authorize foster parents to arrange for short-term babysitting Domestic relations; protection of children; strengthen, clarify, and update provisions Solid waste management; increase certain solid waste disposal surcharges Air quality; reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; provide Fair Business Practices Act of 1975; requirements for solicitations of services for filings required by the Secretary of State; provide Solid waste management; post-closure ground-water monitoring at closed coal combustion residual impoundments; provide Motor vehicles; issuance, use, and display of drivers' licenses and identification cards in electronic format; provide Local government; regulate certain building products and construction practices for single-family dwellings; provide Attorney General; investigate and prosecute certain crimes and offenses; provide for the authority Pharmacies; prohibit corporations that own and operate multiple pharmacies from implementing policies and procedures that restrict the quantity of controlled substances dispensed or restrict the prescriber Administrative Services, Department of; certain terms in particular types of state contracts shall be void and unenforceable and should not be included in such agreements; provide Crimes and offenses; provide for the crime of theft by possession of stolen mail Speech-language pathologists and audiologists; revise licensing provisions Solid waste management; surcharges imposed by local governments regarding municipal solid waste facilities operated by private enterprise; increase Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; revise Criminal procedure; sentencing; change provisions Healthcare Transparency and Accountability Act; enact Courts; provisions relating to addressing criminal gang activities; revise Georgia Cosmetic Laser Services Act; revise a definition Game and fish; effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; change State holidays and observances; Pure Bred Dog Day in Georgia; designate Buildings and housing; residential industrial building; revise the definition - 3 - HB 1014 HB 1015 HB 1017 HB 1018 HB 1021 HB 1029 HB 1030 HB 1039 HB 1040 HB 1045 HB 1049 HB 1050 HB 1070 HB 1071 HB 1082 HB 1086 HB 1090 HB 1092 HB 1093 HB 1094 HR 18 HR 929 HR 933 HR 1008 HR 1038 HR 1039 HR 1041 HR 1093 Local government; downtown development authorities; remove provision providing perpetual existence to such authorities Georgia Carbon Sequestration Registry; inclusion of building products in construction on the registry; provide Public officers and employees; revise when dependents qualify for a payment of indemnification for death under the Georgia State Indemnification Fund Special license plates; Support Our Troops, Inc.; establish Georgia Driver's Education Commission; increase the additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinance under "Joshua's Law" Twiggs County; office of probate judge; provide nonpartisan elections Twiggs County; office of chief judge of the Magistrate Court; provide nonpartisan elections Contracts; additional protections for consumers who enter into service contracts that contain lengthy automatic renewal provisions; provide Penal institutions; total maximum fee that shall be collected when pay-only probation is imposed; revise Insurance; include flood risk reduction in the enumerated list of county purposes for which certain proceeds from county taxes shall be used State government; facilitate sharing of information and reporting of cyber attacks; provisions Georgia Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; certain persons receiving insurance coverage from health maintenance organization subscriber contracts or health care corporation plans; extend association protections Condominiums; new insurance policy disclosure requirements for condominium associations and unit owners in the event of potential or actual claims filed against such policies; provide Public utilities; text messages as a method of making unwanted telephone solicitations; prohibit Motor vehicles; notification letter for retrieving a motor vehicle held by a towing and storage firm, repair facility, or salvage dealer; provide Civil practice; conclusion of criminal proceedings prior to civil forfeiture proceedings; require Labor and industrial relations; provisions regarding employer's obligation to provide break time for an employee to express breast milk; revise Professions and businesses; authorize delegation by a physician to an advanced practice registered nurse to order radiographic imaging tests in non-life threatening situations Agriculture; provide for an Agricultural Commodity Commission for Wine and Grapes Public officers and employees; paid parental leave for state employees; provide HOUSE RESOLUTIONS Robinson, Mr. Jakeith Bendray, Sr.; compensate 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 State Board of Pardons and Paroles; issue posthumous pardon for Susan Eberhart; urge Gardiner, Kenneth Eric; compensate Lucci, Dominic Brian; compensate Jones, Mark Jason; compensate Joint Study Committee on Cybersecurity; create - 4 - HR 1160 HR 1164 HR 1215 HR 1217 HR 1240 HR 1280 HR 1300 SB 26 SB 43 SB 47 SB 104 SB 134 SB 144 SB 176 SB 262 SB 295 SB 340 SB 345 House Study Committee on Motor Carrier Inspections; create Georgia Department of Public Safety; be attentive to the needs of livestock in transport while enforcing transportation laws; encourage Judge Willie J. Lovett, Jr., Juvenile Justice Center; City of Savannah; dedicate Marvin L. Curtis, Jr., State Transition Center; City of Savannah; dedicate Federal government; allow states to switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time; urge Joint Study Committee on Childhood Lead Exposure; create Glynn County; Murray County; change of use of certain property; authorize 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 Resuscitation; parental requirement for consent; revise Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; commission for administrative purposes; reassign 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 Courts and Revenue and Taxation; cost-of-living and general performance based increases; revise Childhood Cancer Awareness Day; September 1 of each year; provide Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food; nonprofit organizations to prepare in accordance with Department of Public Health requirements; provide - 5 -