Compiler's Note The Journal of the House of Representatives regular session of 1968 is bound in two separate volumes. The large number of pages made it impractical to bind into one volume. Volume I contains January 8, 1968 through February 27, 1968. Volume II contains February 28, 1968 through March 8, 1968, the committee reports, and the complete index. JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA AT THE REGULAR SESSION Commenced at Atlanta, Monday, January 8, 1968 and adjourned Friday, March 8, 1968 1968 ATLANTA, GA. OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1967-1968 GEO. L. SMITH II_______________._______._____________Speaker 54th DISTRICT, EMANUEL COUNTY MADDOX J. HALE-------------------------- .Speaker Pro Tern 1st DISTRICT, DADE COUNTY GLENN W. ELIARD...______________________________ Clerk HABERSHAM COUNTY JACK GREEN __--------------__------.._..__--_ -Assistant Clerk FULTON COUNTY JANETTE HIRSCH ______,,,,___________ ...Assistant Clerk FULTON COUNTY AMELIA SMITH.-.--....--.----------------------------Assistant Clerk FULTON COUNTY ELMORE C. THRASH----___________________Messenger LOWNDES COUNTY MARION TOMS-------------------------------Doorkeeper QUITMAN COUNTY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1568 2069 Representative Hall, Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday, February 28, 1968 The House met pursuant to adjournment at 10:00 o'clock, A.M., this day and was called to order by the Speaker. The following prayer was offered by Rev. Carl F. Hall, Oostanaula Methodist Church, Rome, Georgia: Father, as we come to you this morning we are mindful that in You we live, move and have our being. We bow our hearts before you acknowledging that You are our Creator, the true and Living God. God, we are thankful that You are not a God of just one day, Sun day, but a God of every day. We are thankful that You are not restricted by church walls, but that You are present this morning in this cham ber. We are thankful that You have called each of us to serve You and our fellow men. Father, we ask You to forgive us when we live our lives only for selfish reasons. Forgive us when we fail to do that which is right be cause we fear for our personal well being. Forgive us when our petty and stingy lives keep us from doing Thy will. Forgive us when we take the whole weight of the world on our own shoulders and forget that You are our strength. God, help us to be aware of the needs that surround us in home town, our state, this country and the world. Help us to be concerned about the whole man in our society, both his physical and spiritual needs. Help us to love those who are unlovable. Give us the Spirit that prays for those who oppose us. God, keep ever before the fact that you require us to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly before You. Teach us to number our days that we may live righteously before You. Bless each person here this morning. Touch each heart where the need is greatest. God grant that each one of us will walk with You throughout this day. We ask all these things in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with. Mr. Black of the 56th, Chairman of the Committee on Auditing, Enrolling, Engrossing and Journals reported that the Journal of the previous legislative day had been read and found to be correct. By unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. The Journal was confirmed. 2070 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, By unanimous consent, the following was established as the order of business during the first part of the period of unanimous consents: 1. Introduction of Bills and Resolutions. 2. First reading and reference of House Bills and Resolutions. 3. Second reading of Bills and Resolutions. 4. Reports of Standing Committees. 5. Third Reading and passage of local uncontested Bills. 6. First reading and reference of Senate Bills and Resolutions. The following report of the Committee on Rules was read and adopted: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules met and fixed the calendar for today's business, Wednesday, February 28, 1968, and submits the following: HB 862. Grants to municipalities (Reconsidered). HB 869. Counties, grants, State disburse (Reconsidered). HB 930. Judge or Clerk, grant order of service. HB 948. Alcoholic beverages, fixtures, contraband. HB 974. State Highway Department, transfer duties. HB 975. Motor vehicles, certain weight. HB 978. Highway Department, obligations and claims. HB 990. Highway Board, report to Governor. HB 1015. Retirement System, allowances. HB 1071. City and county sales tax, public conveyances. HB 1121. Prison Industries Administration. HB 1165. Non-resident, doing business in State. HB 1300. Person wilfully making false report, crimes. HB 1302. Wildlife, ownership control. HB 1340. Superior and City Courts, microfilm matters. HB 1341. Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966, amend. HB 1355. Solicitors-General, expense allowance. HB 1375. State Board of Education, persons enter contracts. HB 1405. Minors, insane persons, legal guardians. HB 1438. Firearms and Weapons Act, possession of. HB 1511. Mortgage and security deeds, telephone and electric service. HB 1512. Security Interest, telephone and electric service. HR 399- 912. Development Authorities, create. HR 414- 923. Create Committee, Urban and Municipal Affairs. HR 524-1104. Ad valorem taxes, public utilities' property. HR 537-1179. Ad valorem taxes, persons exempt. HR 600-1247. Governor, Executive Center, official residence. HR 608-1295. Teachers' Retirement, retirement allowances. HR 658-1406. Appropriations, annually. SB 186. Accountants, non-resident. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2071 The Speaker shall have the right to call the above Bills and Resolutions in any order which he may desire. Respectfully submitted, Busbee of the 79th, Vice-Chairman. By unanimous consent, the following Bills and Resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees: HB 1590. By Mr. Mason of the 22nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, so as to redefine the City Limits of the City of Lawrenceville, in the County of Gwinnett; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1591. By Mr. Kirksey of the 87th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Iron City in the County of Seminole, so as to change the date for election of the mayor and aldermen; and for other pur poses. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1592. By Mrs. Hamilton of the 137th, Messrs. Daugherty of the 134th, Bond of the 136th, Turner of the 123rd, Hill of the 121st and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta relating to wards; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1593. By Mr. DeLong of the 106th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act which comprehensively and exhaustively revised, superseded and consolidated the laws relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public works camps and prisoners, so as to provide for an oath of office for wardens, guards and other custodial officers; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on State Institutions & Property. HB 1594. By Mr. Wamble of the 90th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Cairo in Grady County, so as to provide for fixing and pub lishing the salaries of the judge, solicitor and clerk of said court; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1595. By Mr. Wamble of the 90th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act abolishing the mode of compensating the sheriff of Grady County, so as to change the salary schedule of the chief deputy and the clerk; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. 2072 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1596. By Mr. Tucker of the 36th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that the owner of any real prop erty or his agent may challenge the assessment value fixed for his property by the county tax assessors; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. HB 1597. By Messrs. Rush of the 75th, Shuman of the 65th and Floyd of the 7th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Chapter 47-5, relating to appropriations, so as to provide that neither House of the General Assembly shall take any action on any general appropriation bill or supplemental appropriation bill after the same shall be reported out of committee for consideration by the entire House or Committee of the Whole until 48 hours shall have elapsed from the printing of any sub stitute to such a bill and the placing of the printed substitute on each member's desk; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. HE 732-1597. By Messrs. Vaughan of the 14th and Harris of the 14th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to change the provisions relating to the powers of county government; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HR 733-1597. By Mr. Colwell of the 5th: A Resolution designating a certain highway in Union and White Coun ties, Georgia as the Richard B. Russell Scenic Highway; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Highways. HB 1598. By Mr. Mason of the 22nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit and providing for its powers, duties and jurisdiction and the officers thereof, so as to supplement the salary of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit from the funds of Gwinnett County; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1599. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Stephens County, so as to provide that the salary of the Judge of the City Court shall be $3,600.00 per annum; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1600. By Mr. Clarke of the 45th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the election of members of the board of education of Butts County; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2073 HR 734-1600. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Stephens County Development Authority; and for other pur poses. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1601. By Mr. Kirksey of the 87th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Miller County, so as to change from the warrant system to the check system; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1602. By Mr. Kirksey of the 87th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the method of selecting the mem bers of the Board of Education of Miller County; and for other pur poses. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1603. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act abolishing the present mode of compensating the clerk of the superior court, the ordinary, the tax commissioner, and the coroner of Madison County, so as to change the provisions relating to the allowances provided for the clerk of the superior court; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1604. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Com missioners of Roads and Revenues of Madison County, so as to provide for the compensation of the clerk of the Board of Commissioners; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1605. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act abolishing the present mode of compensating the Sheriff of Madison County, so as to change the additional funds such officer shall receive to compensate deputies; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1606. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Com missioners of Roads and Revenues for Banks County, so as to change the provisions relating to the election of the members of said board; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. 2074 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1607. By Messrs. Gary of the 35th, Lee of the 35th and Longino of the 122nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act classifying property for taxation, so as to provide that any grant or conveyance by any city, county or other tax-exempt owner to use or possess real property shall be classified as real property and shall be subject to taxation; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. HB 1608. By Messrs. Carnes of the 129th, Lambros of the 130th, McClatchey of the 138th, Townsend of the 140th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide tenure for teachers and other professional personnel of the public school systems of each city of this state having a population of more than 300,000; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Education. HR 735-1608. By Mr. Moate of the 39th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Putnam County Development Authority; and for other pur poses. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1609. By Messrs. Cook of the 123rd, Townsend of the 140th, Carnes of the 129th, Lambros of the 130th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta, so as to extend the corporate limits of said city; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1610. By Messrs. McDaniell of the 101st, Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd and Cooper of the 103rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating Chattahoochee Plantation, so as to change the corporate limits of said munici pality; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1611. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to create the Brunswick-Glynn County Commission; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HR 736-1611. By Mr. Dean of the 20th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that each person who is 70 years of age or over at the beginning of any calendar year is hereby granted an exemption from all ad valorem taxes levied for educational or school purposes including ad valorem taxes levied to pay interest on and retire bonded indebted- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2075 ness, for educational or school purposes, by the State, any county, any municipality or any other political subdivision; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. HB 1613. By Messrs. Dean and Moore of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to reincorporate the City of Rockmart in the County of Polk; to create a new charter for said city; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1614. By Messrs. Maxwell and Fleming of the 106th, Sherman and DeLong of the 105th, Cheeks and Dent of the 104th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act regulating public instruc tion in the County of Richmond, so as to change the method of filling vacancies on said Board; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1615. By Messrs. Lee, Gary and Northcutt of the 35th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to create and incorporate the City of Morrow in the County of Clayton and grant a Charter to that municipality under that name and style; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1616. By Messrs. Bond of the 136th, Brown of the 135th, Alexander of the 133rd, Hill of the 121st and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta", so as to pro vide that of the two aldermen elected in each ward, one shall be elected by a majority of the qualified voters of the ward, and the second shall be elected by a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Atlanta; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HR 737-1616. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th and Chandler of the 47th: A Resolution authorizing the State Properties Control Commission to amend the present and existing lease of the Western & Atlantic Rail road, dated May 11, 1917, so as to postpone for six months, to June 27, 1969, the date by which the State, under Section 13, Subsection 1, of said lease, must give to the lessee of said railroad notice of the State's de sire to acquire any or all property or properties acquired by the lessee during the term of said lease and used for the convenient operation of said railroad; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on State Institutions and Property. HR 738-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Glascock County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. 2076 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HR 739-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Warren County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HR 740-1616. By Messrs. Vaughn and Malone of the 117th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that notwithstanding the Seven per cent debt limitation provided in Article VII, Sec. VII, Para. I, the debt incurred by the Rockdale County Board of Education for the Rockdale County School District may exceed Seven per cent of the assessed value of all the taxable property in said school district; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. HB 1617. By Messrs. Parrar, Harris, Levitas and Walling of the 118th and Vaughn of the 117th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the solicitor-general of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit on a salary basis in lieu of a fee basis, so as to change the provisions relative to the compensation of the solicitor-general of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Local Affairs. By unanimous consent, the rules were suspended in order that the following Bill of the House could be introduced, read the first time and referred to the committee: HB 1622. By Mr. Caldwell of the 51st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 92-5902, relating to the tax returns of public utilities, so as to provide that persons or com panies operating tugboats in not more than one county in this State shall not be required to make annual tax returns of their property to the State Revenue Commission; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on State of Republic. By unanimous consent, the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and Senate were read the second time: HB 1546. By Mr. Shuman of the 65th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Guyton, so as to change the qualifications for voters and time of holding elections; and for other purposes. HB 1547. By Messrs. Colwell of the 5th, Moore of the 12th, Steis of the 100th and Wells of the 30th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that the governing authorities of the various counties shall have the authority to employ personnel to assist the various county officers, officials and departments in discharg ing the responsibilities of their respective offices; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2077 HB 1548. By Mrs. Merritt of the 68th and Mr. Parker of the 68th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the City Court of Americus, so as to change the compensation of the Judge of the City Court of Americus; and for other purposes. HB 1549. By Mr. Conner of the 91st: A Bill to he entitled an Act to amend Code Section 56-1310 (2) relating to the power of municipal corporations to impose and collect a tax on gross direct premiums of life insurance companies, so as to provide that such tax shall be based solely upon such gross direct premiums as are received during the preceding calendar year from policies insuring per sons residing within the corporate limits of such municipal corporations; and for other purposes. HR 723-1549. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Mclntosh County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. HB 1551. By Messrs. Chandler and Harrington of the 47th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Milledgeville, so as to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Milledgeville to provide and furnish sewerage and sanitary services in any area of Baldwin County where like services are not being furnished by the governing authority of said county; and for other purposes. HB 1552. By Messrs. Snow, Crowe and Hale of the 1st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Walker County Rural Water and Sewer Authority, so as to change the provisions relat ing to the appointment of members of the Authority; and for other purposes. HB 1553. By Messrs. Matthews and Farmer of the 29th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act fixing the compensation of the judge of the Juvenile Court of Clarke County, so as to change the compensation of the judge; and for other purposes. HB 1554. By Mr. Bostick of the 93rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the "Unemploy ment Compensation Law", so as to provide for a reduction in the contri bution rates; and for other purposes. HB 1555. By Messrs. Barfield of the 95th, Odom and Lee of the 79th, Magoon of the 19th, Bostick of the 93rd, Bennett of the 95th and Mixon of the 81st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Chapter 84-4, relating to barbers and manicurists, barber shops, barber schools and barber colleges and creating a Georgia State Board of Barbers, so as to provide that no barber shop can train more than 2 apprentices at any one time; and for other purposes. 2078 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1556. By Messrs. Gary, Northcutt and Lee of the 35th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Riverdale, so as to delete provisions thereof prohibiting increases of the salaries and compensation of the mayor and council and other officers, agents and employees during their respective terms of office; and for other purposes. HR 726-1556. By Messrs. Chandler and Harrington of the 47th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide that the governing authority of Baldwin County shall be authorized to levy an annual registration tax on no more than two motor vehicles in the county owned by any individual or firm on the first day of January of each year; and for other purposes. HB 1557. By Mr. Hadaway of the 46th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a board of commis sioners of roads and revenues for Jones County, so as to provide for commissioner posts; and for other purposes. HB 1558. By Mr. Hadaway of the 46th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the sheriff of Jones County on an annual salary in lieu of the fee system of compensation, so as to provide for the appointment of two additional deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1559. By Mr. Hadaway of the 46th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the licensing of professional engineers and land surveyors and creating the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, so as to provide that certain persons shall be issued licenses by the Board; and for other purposes. HB 1560. By Mr. Hadaway of the 46th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Com missioners of Roads and Revenues for Jasper County, so as to provide for commission posts; and for other purposes. HR 727-1560. By Mr. Steis of the 100th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Town of Waverly Hall Development Authority; and for other purposes. HB 1561. By Messrs. Poss of the 17th and Ross of the 31st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the State Board of Registration for Foresters, so as to provide that certain persons shall be eligible for licenses as registered foresters under certain conditions; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2079 HB 1562. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the City Court of Statesboro, so as to change the name of the City Court of Statesboro to the "Civil and Criminal Court of Bulloch County"; and for other pur poses. HB 1563. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act fixing the compensation of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bulloch County, so as to change the compensation of said Clerk of the Superior Court; and for other purposes. HB 1564. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that the Ordinary of Bulloeh County be placed on a salary basis in lieu of a fee basis, so as to change the compensation of the ordinary; and for other purposes. HB 1565. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act changing the compensation of the Sheriff of Bulloch County from a fee system to a salary system, so as to change the compensation of the sheriff; and for other purposes. HB 1566. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a board of com missioners of roads and revenues for Bulloch County, so as to change the compensation of the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners; and for other purposes. HB 1567. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act consolidating the offices of tax receiver and tax collector of Bulloch County into the one office of tax commissioner, so as to change the provisions relating to the compen sation of the assistants for the tax commissioner; and for other purposes. HB 1568. By Messrs. Lane and Nessmith of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Statesboro, so as to provide that candidates for Mayor and Councilmen shall be required to qualify within a certain length of time before elections; and for other purposes. HB 1569. By Messrs. Lane and Nessmith of the 64th, Parker of the 55th, Shuman of the 65th, Newton of the 50th and Lewis of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the terms of Superior Courts of the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. 2080 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1570. By Messrs. Nessmith and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the town of Brooklet in Bulloch ounty, so as to change the provisions relating to fines for violations of ordinances, charter provisions and by laws; and for other purposes. HR 728-1570. By Mr. Clarke of the 45th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend a resolution authorizing the dis posal of that tract of land which is presently located the Governor's Mansion in Ansley Park, Atlanta, Georgia, so as to name the grantee; to specify the sale price; and for other purposes. HB 1571. By Mr. Dean of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to require the board of commissioners of roads and revenues of Polk County, to conduct an annual audit of finances, financial records and books of Polk County; and for other purposes. HB 1572. By Mr. Dean of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing certain officers of Polk County on a salary basis, so as to change the salary of the sheriff; and for other purposes. HB 1573. By Mr. Dean of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Com missioners of Roads and Revenues in and for the County of Polk, so as to authorize the Board to employ and fix the compensation of additional employees for other county offices under certain conditions; and for other purposes. HB 1574. By Mr. Dean of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that in certain counties the gov erning authorities thereof shall adopt a uniform central accounting and bookkeeping system; and for other purposes. HB 1577. By Messrs. Jenkins of the 119th, Walling, Harris, Levitas, Farrar of the 118th and Vaughn of the 117th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that the salary of the judges of the Superior Court of the Stone Mountain Circuit shall be supplemented by payments to be made from the county treasuries of the various counties composing the Circuit; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2081 HB 1578. By Messrs. Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd, McDaniell of the 101st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Marietta, so as to change the corporate limits of said city; and for other purposes. HB 1579. By Messrs. Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd, Cooper of the 103rd, and McDaniell of the 101st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Cobb CountyMarietta Water Authority, so as to change the rate of interest payable and maturity date of revenue bonds; and for other purposes. HB 1580. By Messrs. Harris and Scarlett of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the sheriff of Glynn County on a salary basis in lieu of a fee basis, so as to authorize the sheriff to employ additional deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1581. By Messrs Scarlett and Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the City Court of Brunswick, so as to authorize the sheriff to employ additional deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1582. By Mr. Conner of the 41st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to consolidate the offices of tax receiver and tax collector of Bacon County into the office of Tax Commissioner; and for other purposes. HR 729-1582. By Messrs. Johnson of the 40th and Anderson of the 71st: A Resolution creating the Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; and for other purposes. HB 1583. By Messrs. Steis of the 110th, Sherman of the 105th and Miller of the 108th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as "An Act to pro mote temperance and prosperity for Georgia people; to foster and en courage the growing of grapes, fruits and berries on Georgia farms;" so as to authorize the sale, storage and distribution of wines within the boundaries of airports owned or operated, or both, by counties or munici palities, and to authorize the regulation and taxation thereof; and for other purposes. HB 1584. By Messrs. Steis of the 100th, Sherman of the 105th and Miller of the 108th. A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as "An Act to pro vide for license and excise taxes upon the business of dealing in malt 2082 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, beverages", so as to authorize the sale, storage and distribution of malt beverages as that term is defined, within the boundaries of airports owned or operated, or both, by counties or municipalities; and for other purposes. HB 1585. By Messrs. Steis of the 100th, Sherman of the 105th and Miller of the 108th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the "Revenue Tax Act to Legalize and Control Alcoholic Beverages and Liquors", so as to authorize the sale, storage and distribution of alcoholic beverages, includ ing spirituous liquors, distilled spirits and alcohol as those terms are defined, within the boundaries of airports owned or operated, or both, by counties or municipalities; and for other purposes. HR 730-1585. By Messrs. Dixon and Sweat of the 83rd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide by law for the modification or for the abolishment and consolidation into a single countywide gov ernment of the existing governments of Ware County and the City of Waycross and for all matters relative thereto, provided any law enacted pursuant to such authority is submitted to the people for approval or rejection; and for other purposes. HB 1586. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and Caldwell of the 51st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Chapter 88-13, relating to radiation control, so as to authorize the Department of Public Health to purchase, lease, accept or acquire a suitable site or sites for the concen tration and storage of radioactive wastes; and for other purposes. HB 1587. By Mrs. Hamilton of the 137th, Messrs. Egan of the 141st, Brown of the 135th, Townsend of the 140th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta, relating to the governing authority vested in mayor and board of aldermen; and for other purposes. HB 1588. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the office of Com missioner of Roads and Revenues in the County of Atkinson, so as to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues composed of three members, each to be elected from one of the 3 militia districts in Atkinson County; and for other purposes. HB 1589. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act abolishing the fee system of compensation for the sheriff of Clinch County and providing a salary WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2083 system in lieu thereof, so as to change the compensation of the sheriff; and for other purposes. HE 731-1589. By Messrs. McCatchey of the 138th, Daugherty of the 134th, Townsend of the 140th, Lambros of the 130th, Winkles of the 120th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide that after the ratification of the amendment the fiscal authorities of Fulton County shall be prohibited from continuing to levy, make, assess or collect any tax from the inhabitants of any subdivision whether located wholly or partly within Fulton County; and for other purposes. HB 1612. By Messrs. Douglas of the 60th and Rowland of the 48th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Uniform Commercial Code, so as to amend Code Section 109A-9-307 relating to the protection of buyers of goods so as to provide that a commission merchant, auctioneer or other agent, who, without actual knowledge, shall sell goods for another for a fee or commission, shall not be liable to the holder of a security interest created by the seller of the goods where the sale is made in the ordinary course of business; and for other purposes. SB 241. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act approved December 23, 1953 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 3000) for the protection of pen sion rights of county employees; and for other purposes. SB 243. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that cities having a population of more than 150,000 shall furnish pensions to officers and employees; and for other purposes. SB 274. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to establish the Criminal Court of Atlanta, pertaining to the offices of Judge and Solicitor Gen eral of the Criminal Court of Fulton County; and for other purposes. SB 277. By Senators Johnson of the 38th, Sells of the 37th, Ward of the 39th, and others. A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta the provisions of the amendment to Paragraph 1, Section 7, of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, pertaining to the office of Judge of the Civil Court of Fulton County; and for other purposes. 2084 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, SB 242. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a system of pen sions and other benefits for members of paid fire departments in cities having a population of more than 150,000; and for other purposes. SB 246. By Senators Webb of the llth, Smith of the 18th, and Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing retirement bene fits for the clerks of the superior courts of Georgia; and for other purposes. SB 364. By Senators McGill of the 24th, Pincher of the 51st, Carter of the 14th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide a salary payable from State funds for each solicitor general effective at the beginning of the next term of office of each solicitor general; and for other purposes. SB 366. By Senator Stephens of the 36th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that no person, firm, or corpora tion shall employ or use juveniles for the purposes of soliciting money or objects of value without first filing letters containing certain informa tion; and for other purposes. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 274. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Revenue Bond Law", so as to eliminate the provision limiting the interest rates of revenue bonds to 6% per annum; and for other purposes. HB 841. By Messrs. Williams and Wood of the 16th, Johnson of the 40th, Lambros of the 130th and others: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways", so as to change the speed restrictions for vehicles traveling on four lane limited access highways; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2085 The Senate had adopted by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 387-884. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Chandler of the 47th and Murphy of the 26th: A Resolution accepting the bid of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to lease the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted the following Resolutions of the Senate; to-wit: SR 239. By Senators Chapman of the 32nd and Hensley of the 33rd: A Resolution commending Lockheed, Georgia; and for other purposes. SR 242. By Senator Abney of the 53rd: A Resolution requesting the Governor to designate one day in each year as the "Annual Old-Timers Day"; and for other purposes. SR 243. By Senators Bateman of the 27th, Hensley of the 33rd, Webb of the llth and Adams of the 26th: A Resolution urging all public authorities of this State to encourage the establishment of vending stands operated by the blind and seriously dis abled on the property of such authorities; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 871. By Messrs. Brown and Melton of the 34th, Parker of the 55th, Savage of the 58th and Holder of the 70th: A Bill to amend Code Section 32-911, relating to immunization of pupils of public schools, so as to provide for immunization of public and private school children as a condition precedent to admission; to make violation a misdemeanor; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the Senate and House, to-wit: SB 191. By Senator Maclntyre of the 40th: A Bill to provide for the settlement of disputes concerning wages and rate of pay and other terms and conditions of employment of employees of fire departments; and for other purposes. 2086 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, SB 208. By Senator Minish of the 48th: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the State Employees Retirement System, as amended, so as to provide for the suspension of benefits under certain conditions; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 349. By Senators Knight of the 16th, Shea of the 3rd, Gardner of the 1st and Lee of the 47th: A Bill to amend an Act known as the Revenue Tax Act to Legalize and Control Alcoholic Beverages and Liquors, so as to delete the provision which prohibits females from working in liquor stores; to repeal con flicting laws; and for other purposes. HB 1022. By Messrs. Graves, Starnes and Lowrey of the 13th, Moore and Dean of the 20th and Levitas of the 118th: A Bill to authorize wrecking companies to dispose of motor vehicles worth $300 or less, the owner of which is unknown, after having custody for 6 months; and for other purposes. HB 1072. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Williams of the 16th, and Pickard of the 112th: A Bill to amend Georgia Code Section 68-633 in order to provide that motor common carriers engaged in interstate commerce in this State shall register with the Georgia Public Service Commission; and for other purposes. HB 1073. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Williams of the 16th and Pickard of the 112th: A Bill to amend Georgia Code Section 68-525(a), in order to provide that motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce in this State shall regis ter with the Georgia Public Service Commission; and for other purposes. By unanimous consent, the following Bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees: SB 191. By Senator Maclntyre of the 40th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the settlement of disputes concerning wages and rate of pay and other terms and conditions of employment of employees of fire departments; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Industrial Relations. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2087 SB 208. By Senator Minish of the 48th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the State Em ployees' Retirement System, so as to provide for the suspension of benefits under certain conditions; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on State of Republic. SB 349. By Senators Knight of the 16th, Shea of the 3rd, Gardner of the 1st and Lee of the 47th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the Revenue Tax Act to Legalize and Control Alcoholic Beverages and Liquors, so as to delete the provision which prohibits females from working in liquor stores; and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Temperance. Mr. Matthews of the 94th District, Chairman of the Committee on Agricul ture, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Agriculture has had under consideration the following Resolution of the Senate and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendation: SR 213. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Matthews of the 94th Chairman. Mr. Vaughn of the 117th District, Chairman of the Committee on Highways, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Highways has had under consideration the following Bill and Resolution of the House and Senate and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: SB 363. Do Pass. HR 733-1597. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Vaughn of the 117th Chairman. 2088 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Smith of the 3rd District, Chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation has had under consideration the following Bills of the House and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: HB 1496. Do Pass. HB 1477. Do Pass. HB 1104. Do Pass. HB 1492. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Smith of the 3rd Chairman. Mr. Caldwell of the 51st District, Chairman of the Committee on Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment has had under consideration the following Bill of the House and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommen dations: HB 1327. Do Pass by Substitute. Respectfully submitted, Caldwell of the 51st Chairman. Mr. Clarke of the 45th District, Chairman of the Committee on Local Affairs, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Local Affairs has had under consideration the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: HB 1543. Do Pass as Amended. HB 1546. Do Pass. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2089 HB 1548. Do Pass. HB 1551. Do Pass. HB 1552. Do Pass. HB 1553. Do Pass. HB 1556. Do Pass. HB 1557. Do Pass. HB 1558. Do Pass. HB 1560. Do Pass. HB 1569. Do Pass. HB 1570. Do Pass. HB 1576. Do Pass. HB 1578. Do Pass. HB 1479. Do Pass. HB 1580. Do Pass. HB 1581. Do Pass. HB 1588. Do Pass. HR 722-1544. Do Pass. HR 726-1556. Do Pass. HR 727-1560. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Clarke of the 45th Chairman. Mr. Busbee of the 79th District, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules has had under consideration the following Bill and Resolutions of the House and has instructed me as Vice-Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: HB 1462. Do Pass by Substitute. HR 725-1550. Do Pass. HR 716-1518. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Busbee of the 79th Vice-Chairman. 2090 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Steis of the 100th District, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judici ary, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Special Judiciary has had under consideration the follow ing Bills of the House and Senate and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: HB 1163. Do Not Pass. HB 1436. Do Pass. SB 364. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Steis of the 100th Chairman. Mr. Paris of the 23rd District, Chairman of the Committee on Temperance, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Temperance has had under consideration the following Bills of the House and has instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations: HB 1452. Do Pass as Amended. HB 1451. Do Pass. HB 1583. Do Pass. HB 1584. Do Pass. HB 1585. Do Pass. Respectfully submitted, Paris of the 23rd Chairman. By unanimous consent, the following Bills and Resolutions of the House were taken up for consideration and read the third time: HB 581. By Mr. Moate of the 39th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the offices of tax receiver and tax collector of Hancock County into the office of tax commissioner so as to provide an expense allowance for the tax commis sioner to hire clerical help; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2091 The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 835. By Messrs. Fleming and Maxwell of the 106th, Cheeks and Dent of the 104th and Sherman of the 105th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Charter of the City of Augusta, so as to provide that the rules of the police department shall designate the title of Chief of Detectives as Captain of Detectives and that said rules shall establish the grades of Corporal and Detective; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1258. By Mr. Paris of the 23rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the terms of the Superior Courts of the Piedmont Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1368. By Messrs. Wiggins and Threadgill of the 32nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the Town of Whitesburg, so as to change the date for electing the mayor and council; and for other purposes. 2092 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1475. By Messrs. Howard and McDaniell of the 101st, Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd and Cooper of the 103rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act amending, revising, consoli dating and superseding the several Acts incorporating the Town of Austell, so as to increase the corporate limits of said city; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1491. By Mr. Underwood of the 61st: A Bill to be entitled an Act creating a new charter for the City of Glenwood, so as to change the qualifications of the mayor and councilmen; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1493. By Mr. Underwood of the 61st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the office of Tax Commissioner of Montgomery County, so as to change the compensation of the tax commissioner; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2093 The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1494. By Mr. Underwood of the 61st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Mount Vernon in the County of Montgomery, so as to change the corporate limits of the City of Mount Vernon; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1495. By Mr. Kirksey of the 87th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Donalsonville, so as to change the compensation of the mayor and aldermen of said city; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1497. By Mr. Tucker of the 36th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to consolidate, amend, and codify the various Act incorporating the Town of McDonough, now the City of McDonough, so as to authorize the governing authority to sell, lease or dispose of public recreational facilities; and for other purposes. 2094 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1499. By Messrs. Ware and Mullinax of the 42nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Hogansville, so as to provide that no public utility owned by said city may be sold, unless such sale is approved by the majority of the registered and qualified voters; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1500. By Mr. Black of the 56th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the office of Com missioner of Roads and Revenues of the County of Stewart, so as to change the compensation paid to the Commissioner of Roads and Reve nues; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1501. By Messrs. Chandler and Harrington of the 47th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to abolish the present method of compensat ing the tax collector and tax receiver of Baldwin County, known as the fee system, and to provide in lieu thereof an annual salary for such officers; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2095 The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1502. By Mr. Collins of the 62nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Lyons, so as to change the corporate limits of said city; to provide for certain services to be rendered by the City of Lyons; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1503. By Messrs. Cole, Smith and Leonard of the 3rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the compensation of the Whitfield County Sheriff, Clerk and Ordinary; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1504. By Messrs. Cole and Smith of the 3rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the compensation of the Tax Com missioner of Whitfield County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. 2096 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1509. By Mr. Ballard of the 37th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act repealing an Act incorporat ing the City of Covington, and creating a new Charter to the City of Covington, so as to provide certain limitations on the conduct of the members of the council, the mayor, other city officials and employees; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1515. By Mr. Roland of the 48th: A Bill to amend an Act abolishing the fee system of compensation for the clerk of the superior court of Washington County and substituting in lieu thereof an annual salary, so as to change the compensation of the clerk of the superior court of Washington County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1517. By Mr. Williams of the 16th: A Bill to be entitled an Act incorporating the Town of Clermont in the County of Hall, so as to provide that beginning on the first Wednesday in December, 1968, that the election for Mayor and five Councilmen of said town shall be held each 4 years and that the Mayor and Councilmen so elected shall hold office for 4 years and until their successors are elected and qualified; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2097 The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1518. By Mr. Collins of the 62nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Vidalia in the County of Toombs; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1519. By Mr. Cole of the 3rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Conasauga Judicial Circuit, so as to change the salary of the judge of the Conasauga Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1520. By Mr. Anderson of the 71st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing and creating a new charter for the Town of Cochran, and incorporating said town under the corporate name and style "City of Cochran", so as to change the cor porate limits of said City; to provide for a referendum; and for other purposes. 2098 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1521. By Mr. Ross of the 31st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the sheriff, the ordinary and the clerk of the superior court of Wilkes County on an annual salary in lieu of the fee system of compensation, so as to change the compensation of the deputy clerk of the superior court; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1522. By Mr. Simmons of the 9th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to consolidate the offices of tax receiver and tax collector of Gilmer County into the office of the tax commissioner of Gilmer County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1523. By Mr. Newton of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a board of commissioners of roads and revenues for the county of Jenkins, so as to increase the number of members of said board; and for other purposes. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2099 The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1524. By Mr. Newton of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to create a new Board of Education of Jenkins County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1525. By Mr. Collins of the 88th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to abolish the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of Mitchell County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1526. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Echols County, so as to change the terms of office of the members of the Board; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. 2100 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1528. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the election of the members of the Board of Education of Echols County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1529. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the County Court of Echols County, so as to change the term of office of the Judge; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1532. By Mr. Collins of the 62nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the election of members of the Board of Education of Toombs County; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2101 The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1534. By Mr. Ward of the 2nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a board of utilities commissioners for Catoosa County, so as to provide for additional powers of said commissioners, including the right of eminent domain; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1535. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the Sheriff of Stephens County upon an annual salary, so as to change the compensa tion of the sheriff; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1537. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the Clerk of the Superior Court of Stephens County upon an annual salary, so as to increase the salary of the Clerk of the Superior Court and to increase the allotment of County funds for the purpose of compensating person nel within his office; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. 2102 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1538. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to authorize the Stephens County Develop ment Authority to issue revenue bonds; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1539. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the Ordinary of Stephens County upon an annual salary, so as to change the salary of the Ordinary; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1541. By Messrs. Scarlett and Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the charter of the City of Bruns wick, so as to provide a successful primary candidate shall not be re quired to file a nominating petition; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2103 HB 1544. By Mr. Lewis of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act abolishing the mode of com pensating the sheriff of Burke County, so as to change the compensation of the sheriff; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 1576. By Mr. Colwell of the 51st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act authorizing certain counties to establish and maintain law libraries to the use of judges, solicitors, ordinaries, and other officers of the Courts of said counties, so as to provide that the funds for the establishment and maintenance of said libraries be limited to the certain criminal and civil actions upon which the Court costs are actualy paid; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. HB 582. By Mr. Moate of the 39th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the sheriff, ordi nary, and the clerk of the superior court of Hancock County on an annual salary in lieu of the fee system of compensation, so as to change the com pensation of said officers; and for other purposes. The following Committee substitute was read and adopted: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend an Act placing the sheriff, ordinary, and the clerk of the superior court of Hancock County on an annual 2104 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, salary in lieu of the fee system of compensation, approved February 18, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 2088), so as to change the compensation of said officers; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1 An Act placing the sheriff, ordinary, and the clerk of the superior court of Hancock County on an annual salary in lieu of the fee system of compensation, approved February 18, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 2088), is hereby amended by striking from the first paragraph of Section 2 the figure "6,000.00" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "7,000.00" so that Section 2 when so amended shall read as follows: "Section 2. The sheriff of Hancock County shall receive an annual salary of $7,000.00 per annum, to be paid in twelve monthly installments on the last business day of each calendar month from the funds of Hancock County. The sheriff is hereby authorized to appoint a deputy and the sheriff shall be compensated for a deputy, whether appointed or not, in the amount of $500.00 per annum, to be paid in twelve equal monthly installments on the last business day of each calendar month from the funds of Hancock County. The sheriff shall be personally responsible for furnishing an automobile to be used by him in the performance of his duties and the sheriff shall be compensated for said automobile in the amount of $3,000.00 per annum, to be paid in twelve equal monthly install ments on the last business day of each calendar month from the funds of Hancock County. The governing authority of Hancock County, in its discretion, is hereby authorized to increase the compensation paid to the sheriff for an automobile in the amount of $1,000.00 per annum, if in its opinion, the sheriff is conscientiously, diligently, fairly, and impar tially performing the duties of his office." SECTION 2 Said Act is further amended by striking from Section 3 the figure "5,000.00" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "6,000.00" so that Section 3 when so amended shall read as follows: "Section 3. The ordinary of Hancock County shall receive an annual salary of $6,000.00 per annum payable in twelve equal monthly installments on the last business day of each calendar month from the funds of Hancock County. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 2105 SECTION 3 Said Act is further amended by striking from Section 4 the figure "6,000.00" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "7,000.00" so that Section 4 when so amended shall read as follows: "Section 4. The clerk of the superior court of Hancock County shall receive an annual salary of $7,000.00 per annum, payable in twelve equal monthly installments on the last business day of each calendar month from the funds of Hancock County." SECTION 4 The provisions of this Act shall become effective on January 1, 1969. SECTION 5 All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, by substitute, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, by substitute, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed, by substitute. HB 1543. By Messrs. Snow and Crowe of the 1st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the election of the members of the Board of Education of Walker County; and for other purposes. The following amendment was read and adopted : Local Affairs Committee moves to amend HB 1543 in the following particulars; to wit: (1) By striking in line 9 Section 4 "rate of ten cents (10:< 44. 26-1808 be stricken and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "26-1808. Theft by Conversion. "(a) A person commits theft by conversion when, having law fully obtained funds or other property of another under an agree ment or other known legal obligation to make a specified application of such funds or a specified disposition of such property, he know ingly converts the funds or property to his own use in violation of such agreement or legal obligation. This section applies whether the application or disposition is to be made from the funds or property of another, or from the accused's own funds or property in equi valent amount when the agreement contemplates that the accused may deal with the funds or property of another as his own. "(b) When, under subsection (a), an officer or employee of a government or of a financial institution fails to pay on account, upon lawful demand, from the funds or property of another held by him, he is presumed to have intended to convert such funds or property to his own use." 45. 26-1809(b)(2) change the word "ten" to "five". 46. In 26-1902, in the first sentence, place a period after the words "offensive weapon" and strike the remainder of that sentence. 47. In 26-2202, in the third sentence change "20" to "10". 47a. 26-2203 be stricken and the following be inserted in lieu there of: "26-2203. Inciting to Insurrection. A person commits inciting to insurrection when he incites others to join in any combined resistance to the sovereign authority of the State, or any political subdivision thereof. A person convicted of this offense shall be punished by im prisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years. Inciting to insurrection shall be bailable only in the discretion of a judge of the superior court. 48. In 26-2601, strike the words "by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years" and insert in lieu thereof "as for a misdemeanor'. 49. In 26-2602. strike the words "by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years" and insert in lieu thereof "as for a misdemeanor". 50. In 26-2604 in the clause identified as (a), after the words "peace officer' and before the word "before", change the word "or" to "and". 50a. In 26-2606 in the title, Refusal to Disburse, strike the word "Disburse" and insert in lieu thereof the word "Disperse". 3304 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 51. 26-2612 be stricken and another section 26-2612 inserted in lieu thereof as follows: "26-2612. Litter on Highway or on Land or Water of Another. A person, firm or corporation who willfully litters any public road or right of way with any trash, tin cans, garbage, rubbish, dead animals, discarded materials, sand, gravel, slag, or brickbats, or similarly litters the lands or waters of another, excluding tidal waters, without first having obtained his permission, is guilty of a misdemeanor." 52. 26-2613 be stricken and another section 26-2613 inserted in lieu thereof as follows: "26-2613. Criminal Interference with Government Property. (a) A person commits interference with government property when he destroys, damages or defaces government property and up on conviction therefor shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years. (b) A person commits interference with government property when he forcibly interferes with or obstructs the passage into or from government property and upon conviction therefor shall be punished as for a misdemeanor." 53. Strike in its entirety Section 26-2711; renumber 26-2712 as 26-2711 and 26-2713 as 26-2712. 54. 26-2803 be stricken and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "26-2803. Misuse of National or State Flag. A person who de liberately mutilates, defaces, or defiles the flag of the United States or of the State of Georgia, or who uses such flag or flags for com mercial advertising purposes, is guilty of a misdeanor." 55. 26-2903 be stricken and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "26-2903. Carrying Pistol without License. A person commits a misdemeanor when he has or carries on or about his person outside of his home, automobile or place of business any pistol or revolver, whether concealed or not, for which he has not obtained a license from the ordinary of the county in which he resides." 56. Strike in its entirety Section 26-2914. 57. In 26-3007, after the words "except to prove violations of this Chapter" place a period and strike the remainder of the section. 58. In 26-3102, strike the last sentence and insert in lieu thereof the following: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3305 "Unless the jury trying the case recommends the death sentence in its verdict, the court shall not sentence the defendant to death." Senator Brown of the 46th moves to amend HB 5, as follows: By adding in Section 1 at the end of Chapter 26-18 a new Code Sec tion to be designated Code Section 26-1820, to read as follows: "26-1813. Motor Vehicle Theft and Related Offenses. (a) First Offense. (1) Motor Vehicles.--The theft of any motor vehicle as defined by an Act regulating traffic upon the high ways, approved January 11, 1954 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 566), shall be a felony. Any person convicted thereof shall, on the first offense, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than three years nor more than seven years. Provided that the jury may recommend that same be punished as for a mis demeanor. (2) Motor Vehicle Parts and Components.--The theft of any motor vehicle part or component shall be a felony unless the part or compenent has a value of less than one hunderd ($100.00) dollars in which case the offense shall constitute a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of theft of a motor vehicle part or component shall, on the first offense, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than five years, if the value of the part or component is one hundred ($100.00) dollars or more and any person convicted of theft of a motor vehicle part or component with a value of less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. For the purposes of this subsection where a single act of theft involves the taking of more than one part or component the total value of all parts or components taken at the time shall be added together in determing whether the one hundred dollar limitation constituting a felony has occurred. If the total value of all such parts taken at the same time are one hundred ($100.00) dollars or more, then the crime shall be a felony as here inbefore mentioned. Provided that upon a recommendation of a jury same shall be treated as a misdemeanor and the court upon a plea of guilty shall have the power to punish as for a misdemeanor. "(b) Subsequent Offenses. Notwithstanding any other provi sions of this Chapter, whenever any person shall have been peviously convicted of the theft of any motor vehicle as defined in an Act regulating traffic upon the streets and highways of the State of Georgia, approved January 11, 1954 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556), as amended, or any part or component where the same constitutes a felony as provided in subsection (a) (2) above, such person shall, upon the second conviction for any of such offenses be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than five (5) nor more than ten (10) years, and such person shall, upon the third and any subsequent conviction for any of such offenses, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than ten (10) nor more than twenty (20) years. "(c) Procedure for Determining Sentence. (1) Indictment. The indictment charging any offense under this section shall contain the same allegations as prior to the adoption of this Act. 3306 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (2) Method for Establishing Sentence, (i) Jury Trials. The jury shall first make a determination as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Upon such a determination, the foreman of the jury shall so report the same to the judge. In the event such determination is that the defendant is guilty of the offense charged, then the judge shall recall the jury and the solicitor shall present evidence as to the sentence to be imposed. Such evidence shall consist of whether the defendant has been previously convicted of the larceny of any motor vehicle as provided in this Act and, in the event this be the case, whether the current offense is the second, third of subsequent of fense of the defendant. In the event the solicitor proves that the defendant has been previously convicted, then the judge shall charge the jury that in setting sentence if this be the defendant's second conviction they shall set a sentence for a determined number of years, not less than five nor more than ten years. In the event such conviction is the third or any subsequent conviction for the defend ant, then the judge shall charge the jury that in setting the sentence the jury shall set the sentence for a determinate number of years not less than ten nor more than twenty years. In the event the solicitor fails to prove that the defendant has been previously convicted as provided herein then the judge shall charge the jury that, in deter mining the sentence, the sentence shall be for a specific number of years not less than three nor more than seven years, provided that the jury may recommend that the same be punished as for a mis demeanor. The defendant shall have the right to challenge or impeach any evidence that the solicitor may present as provided in this subsection in the same manner as with other evidence on the principal issue of guilt. (ii) Non-Jury Trials. Upon the judge making a determination that the defendant is guilty then the solicitor shall present evidence as to any previous convictions for the same type crime as provided in jury trials and the defendant shall have the same right to chal lenge or impeach such evidence as in jury trials. Upon a determina tion by the judge that the defendant has been previously convicted in accordance with this subsection, then he shall impose sentence for a specific number of years in the same manner as provided for with jury trials. For a first offense the sentence shall be not less than three nor more than seven years, for a second offense not less than five nor more than ten years and for a third or subsequent offense not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Provided, however, that in the case of first offenders, the judge may punish the defendant as for a disdemeanor and in the case of jury trials where the jury recommends the defendant be punished as for a mis demeanor, the judge may ignore or accept such recommendation and, in the event he accepts such recommendation, he shall sentence the defendant accordingly. In the event he rejects such recommen dation, he shall set the sentence for a specific term of years, not less than three nor more than seven years." Senator Smalley of the 28th moves to amend HB 5 as follows: 59. Add a new Chapter to be designated as Chapter 26-32 as follows: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3307 "CHAPTER 26-32. CONSPIRACY. 26-3201. Conspiracy to commit a crime. A person commits conspiracy to commit a crime when he to gether with one or more persons conspires to commit any crime and any one or more of such persons does any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy. If the crime which was conspired to be committed is a felony, each person convicted of violating this sec tion shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years or the punishment provided for such felony, whichever is the lesser. If the crime which was conspired to be com mitted is a misdemeanor each person convicted of violating this section shall be punished the same as the punishment provided for such misdemeanor." 26-3202. Co-conspirators. A co-conspirator may be relieved from the effects of this Act if he can show that before the overt act occurred, he withdrew his agreement to commit a crime." Mr. Harris of the 118th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ments. On the motion, the ayes were 148, nays 0. The Senate amendments to HB 5 were agreed to. HB 881. By Messrs. Paris of the 23rd, Wamble of the 90th, Sims of the 131st and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to establish a violation point system for the assessment of points for all the various moving traffic violations occur ring within or without the State of Georgia which are committed by holders of Georgia driver's licenses; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendments were read: Senator Coggin of the 35th moves to amend House Bill No. 881 as follows: By striking Section 3 in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 3 to read as follows: 3308 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, "Section 3. The Director shall suspend the driver's license for a period of not more than one year of any person who has accumu lated a violation point count of 15 or more points in any consecutive 18 month period. Upon the reinstatement of the license, the violation point count of such person shall be reduced to six. If no additional violation points are accumulated by such person within the 12 months subsequent to the reinstatement, the violation point count shall be reduced to zero." Senator Andrew of the 49th moves to amend HB 881 as follows: By striking Section 11 in its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof a new Section 11 to read as follows: "Section 11. The provisions of this Act shall become effective on May 1, 1969." Mr. Paris of the 23rd moved that the House agree to the Senate amendments. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Blalock Bond Bostick Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Buck Caldwell Carnes Gates Cheeks Cole Collins, J. F. Conner Cook Cooper, J. R. Crowe, W. J. Daugherty Davis DeLong Dent Dillon Dixon Dodson Dorminy Doster Egan Fallin Farmer Farrar Funk Gary Gaynor Grahl Grier Hale Hamilton Harris, J. F. Harris, R. W. Harrison Higginbotham Hill Hood Howell Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Joiner Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Lambert Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lee, W. J. (Bill) Leggett Levitas Longino Lovell Lowrey Malone Mason Matthews, C. Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken Melton Merritt Miller Moore, J. H. Nash Nessmith Nimmer Northcutt Palmer Paris Parrish Peterson Phillips Potts Rainey Ross Rowland Rush FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Sims Smith, G. W. Stalnaker Steis Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Town send 3309 Tucker Turner Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Wells Westlake Williams Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Black Bo wen Branch Cato Collins, M. Colwell Cooper, B. Cox Dailey Dean Dollar Douglas Edwards Floyd Gay Graves Hadaway Hall Hargrett Henderson Holder Howard Leonard Matthews, D. R. Mixon Moore, Don C. Otwell Pafford Poss Reaves Richardson Roach Shuman Simmons Starnes Sullivan Threadgill Underwood Whaley Wiggins Wilson, J. M. Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Battle Bennett Brantley, H. H. Busbee Chandler Clarke Crowe, William Dickinson Fleming Gignilliat Gunter Harrington Harris, J. R. Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Laite Lane, W. J. Lee, W. S. Lewis Magoon McDaniell Moate Moreland Mullinax Murphy Newton Odom Oglesby Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Pickard Ragland Shields Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Snow Tye Ware Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 123, nays 41. The Senate amendments to HB 881 were agreed to. 3310 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Smith of the 114th stated that he had been called from the floor of the House when the roll was called on HB 881, but had he been present would have voted "Aye". HB 1492. By Mr. Brantley of the 63rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act relating to nursing homes and personal care homes; to provide for the licensing of nursing home administrators; to create the Georgia State Board of Nursing Homes, fixing its member ship, and prescribing its powers, duties and functions; to provide require ments for licensure as a Nursing Home Administrator; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Committee on Health and Welfare moves to amend House Bill No. 1492, as follows: By renumbering Section 11 as Section 12. By adding following Section 10 a new Section 11 to read as follows: "Section 11. No provision of this Act shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing a municipality or county from fixing, charging, assessing or collecting any license fee, registration fee, tax or gross receipt tax on any profession covered by this Act or upon any related profession or any one engaged in any related pro fession governed by the provisions of this Act." Mr. Brantley of the 63rd moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 151, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 1492 was agreed to. HB 671. By Messrs. Palmer and Vaughn of the 117th, Jenkins of the 119th and Barber of the 24th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing a retirement system for teachers in the State public schools, so as to change the pro visions relating to creditable service for prior teaching in other State or independent school systems; and for other purposes. The following Senate Committee amendment was read: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3311 Committee on Retirement moves to amend House Bill No. 671 as follows: By adding in the title before the words "to repeal conflicting laws;" the words "to provide that similar benefits received by a resident of this State from a similar retirement system of another State or political sub division, on a comity basis, may have similar exemptions;". By adding a new section to be known as Section 2 to read as follows: "Section 2. Said Act is further amended by designating the present language of Section 10 as subsection (a) and adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows: '(b) A resident of this State who receives a pension, annuity or retirement allowance from a teachers' retirement system of another State or political subdivision shall have the same exemption or exemptions with respect thereto as are prescribed in subsection (a) provided the law of such other State or political subdivision allows substantially the same treatment to a person residing there with respect to a pension, annuity or retirement allowance received from the Teachers' Retirement System of Georgia'." By renumbering present Section 2 of said bill as Section 3. Mr. Palmer of the 117th moved that the House agree to the Senate Committee amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 103, nays 0. The Senate Committee amendment to HB 671 was agreed to. The following Senate floor amendment was read: Senator Hall of the 52nd moves to amend HB 671 as follows: By adding at the end of quoted Section (5-A) of Section 1 the following: "Any other provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstand ing, any former member of the Teachers' Retirement System who has accumulated fifteen or more years of creditable service which has not been withdrawn may re-enter the Teachers' Retirement System and receive credit for prior teaching service in any inde pendent school system, up to a maximum of ten years, by paying into the Teachers' Retirement System the employee's contribution which would have been paid, plus interest at the rate of 3% compounded annually." 3312 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Palmer of the 117th moved that the House disagree to the Senate floor amendment. The motion prevailed, and the House disagreed to the Senate floor amend ment to HB 671. Under the general order of business established by the Committee on Rules, the following Resolution of the Senate was taken up for consideration and read the third time: SR 245. By Senator Kidd of the 25th: A Resolution requesting the State Department of Public Health to trans fer certain real property, buildings and other facilities to the State Properties Control Commission; and for other purposes. The following substitute, offered by Mr. Chandler of the 47th, was read and adopted: A RESOLUTION Authorizing and directing the State Department of Public Health to transfer certain property, equipment and facilities to the State Prop erties Control Commission and providing for the disposition thereof by said Commission; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, certain real property which has been utilized for farm ing operations at Central State Hospital, except the property needed by Central State Hospital, has become surplus and is no longer of any use to Central State Hospital; and WHEREAS, said real property should be transferred to the State Properties Control Commission so that said property may be utilized profitably; and WHEREAS, the equipment, the abattoir, the swine operation facili ties, swine parlor, buildings utilized in the swine projects, the broiler and egg houses and other facilities, which have been utilized for farming operations at Central State Hospital, are surplus and no longer of any use to Central State Hospital and such equipment, facilities and build ings should be transferred to the State Properties Control Commission to be leased by said Commission in the same manner in which other state property is leased by said Commission. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that this body does hereby authorize and direct the State Department of Public Health to declare the real property involved in its farming operation at Central State Hospital, except that FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3313 needed by Central State Hospital, to be surplus and to transfer said real property to the State Properties Control Commission. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that immediately upon receiving said real property, the State Properties Control Commission is hereby authorized and directed to contact the various agencies and departments of the State of Georgia and to determine the most profitable use of said real property among the various agencies and departments of the State and to transfer said real property accordingly. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this body does hereby author ize and direct the State Department of Public Health to declare the equipment, the abattoir, the swine operation facilities, swine parlor, buildings utilized in the swine projects, broiler and egg houses and other facilities utilized in the farming operation to be surplus and to transfer same to the State Properties Control Commission to be leased by said Commission in the manner in which other State property is leased by said Commission. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to forward an appropriate copy of this Resolution to the Governor, the Director of the State Department of Public Health and to the Chairman of the State Properties Control Commission. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the transfer of property and other facilities provided for herein shall become effective on July 1, 1968. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of the Reso lution, was agreed to, by substitute. On the adoption of the Resolution, by substitute, the ayes were 153, nays 0. The Resolution, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was adopted, by substitute. Mr. Moate of the 39th moved that the House recede from its position in amending the following Resolution of the Senate: SR 178. By Senator Kidd of the 25th: A Resolution creating a committee to monitor the progress of the Uni form Consumer Credit Code; and for other purposes. On the motion, the ayes were 113, nays 42. 3314 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The motion prevailed, and the House receded from its position. Due to mechanical failure, the roll call on the motion to recede on SR 178 could not be verified. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has adopted, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 723-1549. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Mclntosh County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. HR 665-1435. By Messrs. Smith of the 114th, Tye and Whaley of the 115th, Battle of the 116th, Berry and Gignilliat of the 113th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide the procedure whereby taxes other than ad valorem property taxes may be levied in the City of Savannah and to provide for a subsequent reduction of ad valorem taxes on real and personal property based upon the amount of funds received from such additional tax levies; and for other purposes. HR 738-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Glascock County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. HR 739-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Warren County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional major ity the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3315 HR 537-1179. By Mr. Ward of the 2nd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to pro vide an exemption of $4,000.00 from all State and County ad valorem taxes of the homestead of persons 65 years of age or older; and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its substitute to the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th, Paris of the 23rd, Lee of the 35th, McCracken of the 49th, and others. A Bill to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work on jobs which have comparable require ments relating to skill, effort and responsibility, so as to define "Com missioner", and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its substitute and has appointed a Committee of Con ference on the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 6-1. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Busbee of the 79th, Jones of the 76th, Lambert of the 38th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that when no person receives a majority of the votes in an election for Governor, a runoff election shall be held between the two persons receiv ing the highest number of votes; and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Gardner of the 1st, Broun of the 46th, and Johnson of the 42nd. The Senate has appointed a Second Committee of Conference on the following Bill of the Senate, to-wit: SB 374. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Rabun County; to provide for commissioner districts; to provide for elec tion, qualifications of said board; and filling of vacancies of members of said board; to provide for an oath; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. The President has appointed the following: Senators Maclntyre of the 40th, Chapman of the 32nd, and Kidd of the 25th. 3316 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Under the general order of business established by the Committee on Rules, the following Bill of the Senate was taken up for consideration and read the third time: SB 329. By Senators Pincher of the 54th, Noble of the 19th, McGill of the 24th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act fixing the compensation of the Director of the Department of State Parks, so as to change the com pensation of the Director; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Adams Alexander Barber Battle Black Bond Bostick Bo wen Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Brown, B. D. Busbee Caldwell Carnes Gates Cato Chandler Clarke Collins, J. F. Colwell Conner Cook Cooper, J. R. Cox Crowe, William Dailey Daugherty Davis Dean Dickinson Dillon Dixon Dollar Dorminy Doster Edwards Egan Farmer Farrar Funk Gay Grahl Graves Grier Gunter Hale Hall Hamilton Harrington Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Harrison Higginbotham Hill Holder Howell Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Joiner Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambert Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Levitas Lewis Longino Lovell Lowrey Magoon Malone Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin McClatchey Melton Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moore, J. H. Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Odom Oglesby Otwell Pafford Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Phillips FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Poss Ragland Rainey Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, V. T. 3317 Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Starnes Steis Sullivan Townsend Tucker Turner Underwood Walling Westlake Wiggins Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Anderson Ballard Berry, J. K. Blalock Branch Brown, C. Cheeks Cole Collins, M. Cooper, B. Douglas Fallin Gary Gaynor Hadaway Harris, J. F. Howard Jordan, G. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Tye Vaughan, D. N. Whaley Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Bray Buck Crowe, W. J. DeLong Dent Dodson Fleming Floyd Gignilliat Hargrett Henderson Hood Jordan, W. H. Maxwell McCracken McDaniell Moore, Don C. Moreland Mullinax Nimmer Northcutt Pickard Potts Russell Shields Smith, J. R. Snow Sweat Thompson, A..W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Vaughn, C. R. Wamble Ward Ware Wells Mr. Speaker On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 143, nays 22. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. 3318 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Magoon of the 19th stated that he had inadvertantly voted "aye" but intended to vote "nay" on the passage of SB 329. The following Bill and Resolution of the House were taken up for the pur pose of considering the Senate substitutes and amendment thereto: HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to certain municipalities, so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to cer tain municipalities, approved April 21, 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 889), so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a semi annual basis; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. An Act providing for grants to certain municipalities, approved April 21, 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 889), is hereby amended by inserting- between the first and second sentences of Section 6 the following: "The State Treasurer shall disburse such funds as provided for herein in two equal, or as nearly equal as possible, installments as allotted by the Budget Bureau, commencing with fiscal year 1970.", so that when so amended Section 6 shall read as follows: "Section 6. Funds distributed under this Act by the State Treas urer shall be paid to the municipality in the name of the municipal treasurer or other official or officials authorized to receive munici pal funds as listed in the certificate required by section 4 of this Act. The State Treasurer shall disburse such funds as provided for herein in two equal, or as nearly equal as possible, installments as alloted by the Budget Bureau, commencing with fiscal year 1970. Such funds shall be expended by the municipality only for the pur pose prescribed in section 1 of this Act.'" Section 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. The following Senate amendment was read: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3319 Senator Bateman of the 27th moves to amend Senate substitute to House Bill No. 862 as follows: By inserting in the title immediately before the phrase "to repeal conflicting laws;", the following: "to change the basis of distributing funds to certain munici palities;". By renumbering Section 2 as Section 3. By inserting following Section 1 a new Section 2 to read as follows: "Section 2. Said Act is further amended by adding after Sec tion 6 a new section to be known as Section 6A to read as follows: 'Section 6A. Whenever the basis of population is used in computing funds to be made available to any municipality under the provisions of this Act, and since the date of the latest United States census reflects a larger population for a munici pality, then the population as reflected in the later census as certified by the United States Census Bureau shall be used in computing the funds distributed to such a municipality.' " Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the House disagree to the Senate substi tute, as amended by the Senate, and the motion prevailed. The Senate substitute, as amended by the Senate, to HB 862 was disagreed to. HR 537-1179. By Mr. Ward of the 2nd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to pro vide an exemption of $4,000.00 from all State and County ad valorem taxes of the homesteads of persons 65 years of age or older; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to provide an exemption of $4,000.00 from all State and county ad valorem taxes on the homestead of persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older who have a net income as defined by Georgia law for income tax purposes, includ ing that of their spouse of less than $4,000.00 per annum; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes. 3320 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. Article VII, Section I, Paragraph IV of the Constitution is hereby amended by striking therefrom the following paragraph: "Each person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or over and who does not have an income from all sources exceeding $3,000.00 per annum is hereby granted an exemption of $4,000.00 on his home stead which he owns and which he actually occupies as a residence, such exemption being from all State and county ad valorem taxes. The value of the residence in excess of the above exempted amount shall remain subject to taxation. Any such owner shall not receive the benefits of such homestad exemption unless he files an affidavit with the tax commissioner or tax receiver of the county in which he resides, giving his age and the amount of income which he receives and such additional information relative to receiving the benefits of such exemption as will enable the tax commissioner or tax receiver to make a determination as to wherther such owner is entitled to such exemption. The tax commissioner or tax receiver shall provide affidavit forms for this purpose. The increased exemption provided for herein shall apply to all taxable years beginning after December 1, 1964.", and substituting in lieu thereof the following paragraph: "Each person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or over is hereby granted an exemption from all State and county ad valorem taxes in the amount of $4,000.00 on a homestead owned and occupied by him as a residence if his net income, together with the net income of his spouse who also occupies and resides at such homestead, as net income is defined by Georgia law, from all sources, including any federal old-age, survivor or disability insurance benefits or benefits received from any retirement or pension fund when such benefits are based on contributions made thereto by such person or his spouse, does not exceed $4,000.00 for the immediately preceding taxable year for income tax purposes. The value of the residence shall remain subject to taxation. Any such owner shall not receive the benefits of such homestead exemption unless he, or through his agent, files an affidavit with the tax commissioner or tax receiver of the county in which he resides, giving his age and the amount of income which he and his spouse received during the last taxable year for income tax purposes, and such additional information relative to receiving the benefits of such exemption as will enable the tax commissioner or tax receiver to make a determination as to whether such owner is entitled to such exemption. The tax commis sioner or tax receiver shall provide forms for this purpose. Such applications shall be processed in the same manner as other appli cations for homestead exemption, and the provisions of law appli cable to the processing of homestad exemptions, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, shall apply thereto. The General Assembly may provide by law for the proper administration of this exemption including penalties necessary therefor. The increased FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3321 exemption provided for herein shall apply to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 1968." Section 2. When the above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall have been agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two branches of the General Assembly, and the same has been entered on their journals with the "Ayes" and "Nays" taken thereon, such proposed amendment shall be published and submitted as provided in Article XIII, Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution of Georgia of 1945, as amended. The Ballot submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following: "YES ( ) Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for an exemption of $4,000.00 from all State and county ad valorem taxes on the homestad of owners sixty-five (65) year of age or older whose net income NO ( ) as defined by Georgia law for income tax purposes when added to that of his spouse does not exceed $4,000.00 for the immediately preceding taxable year?" All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes". All persons desiring to vote against ratify ing the proposed amendment shall vote "No". If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this State. The returns of the election shall be made in like manner as returns for elections for members of the General Assembly, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to ascertain the result and certify the result to the Governor, who shall issue his proclamation thereon. Mr. Ward of the 2nd moved that the House agree to the Senate substitute. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Battle Berry, J. K. Black, J. L. Blalock Bond Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Caldwell Carnes Gates Cato Chandler Cheeks Clarke Cole Collins, J. P. Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cook Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Cox Crowe, William 3322 Dailey Daugherty Da vis Dillon Dodson Dollar Doster Douglas Edwards Pallin Farmer Farrar Funk Gary Gay Gaynor Grahl Graves Gunter Hale Hall Hamilton Hargrett Harrington Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Harrison Henderson Holder Howell Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Joiner Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Jordan, G. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Lambert Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Levitas Lewis Longino Lowrey Malone Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin McClatchey McDaniell Melton Merritt Miller Mixon Moore, Don C. Moore, J. H. Nash Nessmith Newton Northcutt Odom Oglesby Otwell Pafford Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Poss Potts Ragland Rainey Reaves Richardson Ross Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shields Shuman Simmons Smith, G. W. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Starnes Steis Sullivan Threadgill Tucker Turner Tye LTnderwood Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Wells Westlake Whaley Wiggins Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Egan Harris, J. F. Hill Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Bostick Bowen Buck Busbee Crowe, W. J. Dean DeLong Dent Dickinson Dixon Dorminy Fleming Floyd Gignilliat Grier Hadaway Hood Howard Jordan, W. H. Laite FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Lambros Lovell Magoon Maxwell McCracken Moate Moreland Mullinax Murphy Nimmer Phillips 3323 Pickard Roach Sims Smith, J. R. Snow Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Townsend Ware Mr. Sneaker On the motion, the ayes were 157, nays 3. The Senate substitute to HR 537-1179 was agreed to. Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to give the requisite constitutional majority to the following Bill of the Senate: SB 385. By Senators Sells of the 37th, Hall of the 52nd and Smith of the 18th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that it shall be unlawful to make or cause to be made or duplicate master keys except under certain cir cumstances; and for other purposes. On the motion, the ayes were 71, nays 55. The motion prevailed, and SB 385 was reconsidered. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 933. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th and McClatchey cf the 138th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 100-103, so as to provide that industrial revenue bonds of development authorities duly validated and not in default may be given by state depositories as se curity in lieu of bonds; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee Conference was read: Mr. President: 3324 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Speaker: Your conference committee to study House Bill No. 933 has met and recommends that the Senate amendment to said bill be accepted. Respectfully submitted, Murphy of the 26th Odom of the 79th McClatchey of the 138th Holloway of the 12th Plunkett of the 30th Johnson of the 42nd Mr. Odom of the 79th moved that the House adopt the report of the Com mittee of Conference. On the motion, the ayes were 154, nays 0. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 933 was adopted. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate's insistence on their position in substituting the same: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th, Paris of the 23rd, Lee of the 35th, McCracken of the 49th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work on jobs which have comparable requirements relating to skill, effort and responsibility, so as to define "Commission"; and for other purposes. Mr. Barber of the 24th moved that the House insist on its position in dis agreeing to the Senate substitute and that a Committee of Conference be ap pointed to confer with a like Committee on the part of the Senate. The motion prevailed. The Speaker appointed as a Committee of Conference on the part of the House, the following members: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3325 Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Williams of the 16th and Farrar of the 118th: Under the general order of business established by the Committee on Rules, the following Bill and Resolution of the Senate were taken up for consideration and read the third time: SB 41. By Senators Hall of the 52nd and Broun of the 46th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that the State of Georgia shall be a party to the "Compact for Education"; to enact said compact into law; to provide for the appointment of the Georgia members of the Education Commission of the States; and for other purposes. The following Committee substitute was read and adopted: A BILL To be entitled an Act to provide that the State of Georgia shall be a party to the "Compact for Education"; to enact said Compact into law; to declare the purpose and policy of said Compact; to define the term "State"; to provide for the designation and appointment of the Georgia members of the Education Commission of the States; to provide for the operation of the Commission; to provide for the powers of the Commission; to provide for the cooperation of the Commission with the Federal Government; to provide for committees; to provide for eligible parties; to provide for entry into and withdrawal from the Commission; to provide for the construction and severability of this Compact; to provide for the establishment of the Compact Advisory Committee; to provide that funds appropriated to the executive branch of government may be used to carry out the provisions of this Act; to provide the procedures connected with the foregoing; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEOR GIA: Section 1. The Compact for Education is hereby entered into and enacted into law with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: COMPACT FOR EDUCATION "Article I. Purpose and Policy, (a) It is the purpose of this Compact to: (1) Establish and maintain close cooperation and understand ing among executive, legislative, professional educational and lay leadership on a nationwide basis at the State and local levels. 3326 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (2) Provide a forum for the discussion, development, crystal lization and recommendation of public policy alternatives in the field of education. (3) Provide a clearing house of information on matters relat ing to educational problems and how they are being met in differ ent places throughout the Nation, so that the executive and legis lative branches of State Government and of local communities may have ready access to the experience and record of the entire county, and so that both lay and professional groups in the field of educa tion may have additional avenues for the sharing of experience and the interchange of ideas in the formation of public policy in edu cation. (4) Facilitate, the improvement of State and local educational systems so that all of them will be able to meet adequate and desir able goals in a society which requires continuous qualitative and quantitative advance in educational opportunities, methods and facilities. "(b) It is the policy of this Compact to encourage and pro mote local and State initiative in the development, maintenance, improvement and administration of educational systems and institu tions in a manner which will accord with the needs and advantages of diversity among localities and States. "(c) The party States recognize that each of them has an in terest in the quality and quantity of education furnished in each of the other States, as well as in the excellence of its own educa tional systems and institutions, because of the highly mobile charac ter of individuals within the Nation, and because the products and services contributing to the health, welfare and economic advance ment of each State are supplied in significant part by persons edu cated in other States. "Article II. State Defined. As used in this Compact, 'State' means a State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "Article III. The Commission. (a) The Education Commission of the States, hereinafter called the 'Commission', is hereby established. The Commission shall consist of seven members representing each party State. One of such members shall be the Governor; one shall be elected by the Georgia Senate from its membership, and one shall be elected by the House of Representatives from its membership. Legislative members shall serve for a term of two years concurrently with their term of office; and four shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor, unless the laws of the State otherwise provide. If the laws of a State prevent legislators from serving on the Commission, six members shall be appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Governor, unless the laws of the State otherwise provide. In addition to any other principles or requirements which FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3327 a State may establish for the appointment and service of its mem bers of the Commission, the guiding principle for the composition of the membership on the Commission from each party State shall be that the members representing such State shall, by virtue of their training, experience, knowledge or affiliations be in a posi tion collectively to reflect broadly the interest of the State Govern ment, higher education, the State education system, local educa tion, lay and professional, public and non-public educational leader ship. Of those appointees, one shall be the head of a state agency or institution, designated by the Governor, having responsibility for one or more programs of public education. "(b) The members of the Commission shall be entitled to one vote each on the Commission. No action of the Commission shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which a majority of those Commissioners present cast their vote in favor thereof. Action of the Commission shall be only at a meeting at which a majority of the Commissioners are present. The Commission shall meet at least once a year. In its bylaws, and subject to such directions and limitations as may be contained therein, the Commission may dele gate the exercise of any of its powers to the steering committee or the Executive Director, except for the power to approve budgets or requests for appropriations, the power to make policy recom mendations pursuant to Article IV and adoption of the annual report pursuant to Article III (j). "(c) The Commission shall have a seal. "(d) The Commission shall elect annually, from among its members, a chairman, who shall be a Governor, a vice chairman and a treasurer. The Commission shall provide for the appointment of an executive director. Such executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the Commission, and together with the treasurer and such other personnel as the Commission may deem appropriate shall be bonded in such amount as the commission shall determine. The executive director shall be secretary. "(e) Irrespective of the civil service, personnel or other merit system laws of any of the party States, the executive director sub ject to the approval of the steering committee shall appoint, re move or discharge such personnel as may he necessary for the per formance of the functions of the Commission, and shall fix the duties and compensation of such personnel. The Commission in its bylaws shall provide for the personnel policies and programs of the Commission. " (f) The Commission may borrow, accept or contract for the services of personnel from any party jurisdiction, the United States, or any subdivision or agency of the aforementioned governments, or from any agency of two or more of the party jurisdictions or their subdivisions. "(g) The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this Compact any and all donations, and grants 3328 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services, conditional or otherwise, from any State, the United States, or any other governmental agency. The Commission may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this Compact any and all donations, grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services, con ditional or otherwise, from any person, firm, association, founda tion, or corporation, and may receive, utilize and dispose of the same, with the approval of the steering committee or the Execu tive Director, if the committee shall so delegate, or, if the commit tee shall not so delegate, with the approval of a majority of the Commissioners. Any donation or grant accepted by the Commis sion pursuant to this paragraph or services borrowed pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Article shall he reported in the annual re port of the Commission. Such report shall include the nature, amount and conditions, if any, of the donation, grant, or services borrowed, and the identity of the donor or lender. " (h) The Commission may establish and maintain such facili ties as may be necessary for the transacting of its business. The Commission may acquire, hold, and convey real and personal prop erty and any interest therein. "(i) The Commission shall adopt bylaws for the conduct of its business and shall have the power to amend and rescind these bylaws. The Commission shall publish its bylaws in convenient form and shall file a copy thereof and a copy of any amendment thereto, with the appropriate agency or officer in each of the party States. "(j) The Commission annually shall make to the Governor and legislature of each party State a report covering the activities of the Commission for the preceding year. The Commission may make such additional reports as it may deem desirable. "Article IV. Powers. In addition to authority conferred on the Commission by other provisions of the Compact, the Commission shall have authority to: (1) Collect, correlate, and analyze information and data con cerning educational needs and resources. (2) Encourage and foster research in all aspects of education, but with special reference to the desirable scope of instruction, organization, administration, and instructional methods and stand ards employed or suitable for employment in public educational systems. (3) Develop proposals for adequate financing of education as a whole and at each of its many levels. (4) Conduct or participate in research of the types referred to in this Article in any instance where the Commission finds that such research is necessary for the advancement of the purposes and policies of this Compact, utilizing fully the resources of national FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3329 associations, regional Compact organizations for higher education, and other agencies and institutions, both public and private. (5) Formulate suggested policies and plans for the improve ment of public education as a whole, or for any segment thereof, and make recommendations with respect thereto available to the appropriate governmental units, agencies and public officials. (6) Do such other things as may be necessary or incidental to the administration of any of its authority or functions pursuant to this Compact. "Article V. Cooperation With Federal Government. The Com mission may provide information and make recommendations to any executive or legislative agency or officer of the Federal Gov ernment concerning the common educational policies of the States, and may advise with any such agencies or officers concerning any matter of mutual interest. "Article VI. Committees. "(a) To assist in the expeditious conduct of its business when the full Commission is not meeting, the Commission shall elect a steering committee of thirty-two members, which, subject to the provisions of this Compact and consistent with the policies of the Commission, shall be constituted and function as provided in the bylaws of the Commission. One-fourth of the voting membership of the steering committee shall consist of Governors, one-fourth shall consist of legislators, and the remainder shall consist of other members of the Commission. A Federal representative on the Com mission may serve with the steering committee, but without vote. The voting members of the steering committee shall serve for terms of two years, except that members elected to the first steering committee of the Commission shall be elected as follows: sixteen for one year and sixteen for two years. The chairman, vice chair man, and treasurer of the Commission shall be members of the steering committee and, anything in this paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding, shall serve during their continuance in these of fices. Vacancies in the steering committee shall not affect its au thority to act, but the Commission at its next regularly ensuing meeting following the occurrence of any vacancy shall fill it for the unexpired term. No person shall serve more than two terms as a member of the steering committee; provided that service for a partial term of one year or less shall not be counted toward the two term limitation. "(b) The Commission may establish advisory and technical committees composed of State, local, and Federal officials, and private persons to advise it with respect to any one or more of its functions. Any advisory or technical committee may, on request of the States concerned, be established to consider any matter of spe cial concern to two or more of the party States. "(c) The Commission may establish such additional committees as its bylaws may provide. 3330 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, "Article VII. Finance. "(a) The Commission shall advise the Governor or designated officer or officers of each party State of its budget and estimated expenditures for such period as may be required by the laws of that party State. Each of the Commissioner's budgets of estimated expenditures shall contain specific recommendations of the amount or amounts to be appropriated by each of the party States. "(b) The total amount of appropriation requests under any budget shall be apportioned among the party States. In making such apportionment, the Commission shall devise and employ a formula which takes equitable account of the population and per capita income levels of the party States. "(c) The Commission shall not pledge the credit of any party States. The Commission may meet any of its obligations in whole or in part with funds available to it pursuant to Article III (g) of this Compact, provided that the Commission takes specific action setting aside such funds prior to incurring an obligation to be met in whole or in part in such manner. Except where the Commission makes use of funds available to its pursuant to Article III (g) thereof, the Commission shall not incur any obligation prior to the allotment of funds by the party States adequate to meet the same. "(d) The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all re ceipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the Commission shall be subject to the audit and accounting procedures established by its bylaws; However, all receipts and disbursement of funds handled by the Commission shall be audited yearly by a qualified public accountant, and the report of the audit shall be included in and become part of the annual reports of the Commis sion. "(e) The accounts of the Commission shall be open at any reasonable time for inspection by duly constituted officers of the party States and by any persons authorized by the Commission. " (f) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent Commission compliance with laws relating to audit or inspection of accounts by or on behalf of any government contributing to the support of the Commission. "Article VIII. Eligible Parties; Entry Into and Withdrawal. (a) This Compact shall have as eligible parties all States, Territories, and Possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In respect of any such jurisdiction not having a Governor, the term 'Governor', as used in this Compact, shall mean the closest equivalent official of such jurisdiction. "(b) Any State or other eligible jurisdiction may enter into this Compact and it shall become binding thereon when it has FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3331 adopted the same: Provided that in order to enter into initial effect, adoption by at least ten eligible party jurisdictions shall be re quired. "(c) Adoption of the Compact may be either by enactment thereof or by adherence thereto by the Governor. During any period when a State is participating in this Compact through gubernatorial action, the Governor shall appoint those persons who, in addition to himself, shall serve as the members of the Commis sion from his State, and shall provide to the Commission an equi table share of the financial support of the Commission from any source available to him. "(d) Any party State may withdraw from this Compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the Governor of the with drawing State has given notice in writing of the withdrawal to the Governors of all other party States. No withdrawal shall affect any liability already incurred by or chargeable to a party State prior to the time of such withdrawal. "Article IX. Construction and Severability. This Compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The Provisions of this Compact sahll be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this Compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any State or of the United States, or the application thereof to any Government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this Compact and the applicability thereof to any Government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this Com pact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any State par ticipating therein, the Compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the State affected as to all severable matters." Section 2. Pursuant to Article III (i) of the Compact, the Com mission shall file a copy of its bylaws and any amendment thereto with the Secretary of State. Section 3. There is hereby established the Compact Advisory Committee composed of the members of the Education Commission of the States representing this State and such other persons appointed by the Governor at his discretion to serve at his pleasure. Such other persons shall be selected so as to be broadly representative of pro fessional and lay interest within this State having the responsibilities for, knowledge with respect to, and interest in educational matters. The Chairman shall be designated by the Governor from among its mem bers. The Committee shall meet on the call of its chairman or at the request of a majority of its members, but in any event the Committee shall meet not less than three times in each year. The Committee may consider any and all matters relating to recommendations of the Edu cation Commission of the States and the activities of the members in representing this State thereon. Section 4. Funds appropriated or otherwise available to the execu tive branch of government of this State may be expended for the pur pose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. 3332 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Section 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, by substitute, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, by substitute, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Berry, C. E. Bond Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Busbee Gates Chandler Cheeks Cole Colwell Cook Daugherty Dent Dickinson Dixon Egan Farmer Farrar Graves Grier Hamilton Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Hutchinson Johnson, B. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Laite Lee, W. S. Le vitas Lowrey Matthews, C. Mauldin McClatchey McCracken Melton Miller Moore, J. H. Mullinax Newton Oglesby Paris Parker, H. W. Phillips Ross Sims Snow Starnes Steis Thompson, A. W. Townsend Walling Wamble Ward Wells Williams Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Adams Berry, J. K. Black Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Cato Clarke Collins, J. F. Collins, M. Conner Cooper, J. R. Dailey Da vis Dean DeLong Dodson Dollar Dorminy Doster Douglas Edwards Fallin Fleming Funk Gay Gaynor Grahl Gunter Hadaway Hall Harris, R. W. Henderson Higginbotham Hill Holder Hood Howard Howell Jenkins Joiner Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Leonard Lewis Malone Mason Matthews, D. R. Mixon Moate Moore, Don C. Murphy Nash Nessmith Odom Palmer Parker, C. A. Parrish Peterson FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Poss Potts Rainey Reaves Richardson Roach Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shuman Simmons Smith, G. W. Smith, J. R. 3333 Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Sullivan Sweat Threadgill Tucker Turner Tye Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Westlake Whaley Wiggins Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Battle Bennett Blalock Bostick Bowen Buck Caldwell Games Cooper, B. Cox Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dillon Ployd Gary Gignilliat Hale Hargrett Harrington Harris, R. W. Johnson, A. S. Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Lambert Lambros Leggett Longino Lovell Magoon Maxwell McDaniell Merritt Moreland Nimmer Northcutt Otwell Pafford Piekard Ragland Shields Smith, V. T. Thompson, R. Underwood Ware Wood Mr. Speaker On the passage of the Bill, by substitute, the ayes were 60, nays 98. The Bill, having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority, was lost. Mr. Harrison of the 98th stated that he had been called from the floor of the House when the roll was called on SB 41, by substitute, but had he been present would have voted "nay". SR 63. By Senators Johnson of the 38th, Wesberry of the 37th and Andrews of the 49th: A Resolution to change the name and designation of the office of solicitor-general to district attorney. 3334 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The following amendment was read and adopted: Mr. Harris of the 118th moves to amend SR 63 as follows: By inserting in Section 3, in quoted Paragraph I, the words "not less than" before the figure "$8,000" (which appears twice), before the figure "$6,000", and before the figure "250.00". The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of the Resolution, was agreed to, as amended. On the adoption of the Resolution, as amended, the ayes were 155, nays 0. The Resolution, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was adopted, as amended. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the followingBill of the House, to-wit: HB 1002. By Mr. Kirksey of the 87th: A Bill to change the method of selecting the members of the Board of Education of Miller County; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 957. By Messrs. Graves, Starnes and Lowrey of the 13th, Ross of the 31st, Shanahan of the 8th, Moore of the 20th and others: A Bill to amend Code Section 114-101, relating to the Workmen's Com pensation Law, so as to provide that all full-time county employees and employees of elected, salaried county officials are "Employees" within the meaning of this Act; and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its amendment and has appointed a Committee of Conference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3335 HB 1423. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Stalnaker of the 59th, Wells of the 30th, Lewis of the 50th, Newton of the 50th, Lovell of the 6th and others: A Bill to provide for tenure salary and compensation for those elective officers the election of which is provided for by Articles IV and V of the Georgia Constitution of 1945; and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Smith of the 18th, Gillis of the 20th, and Pennington of the 45th. The Senate has agreed to the House substitute to the Senate substitute to the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1467. By Messrs. Malone, Palmer, Smith and Vaughn of the 117th, Westlake, Higginbotharn, Davis and Jenkins of the 119th: A Bill to amend an Act supplementing the existing laws of this State which enable DeKalb County to exercise the powers of planning, zoning and rezoning, so as to improve, clarify and make more complete the methods and procedures for the regulation of zoning and rezoning and ways setting the use to which land and/or the improvements thereon may be lawfully put; and for other purposes. The following Bill and Resolution of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendments thereto: HB 939. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th and McClatchey of the 138th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Title 13 known as the "Banking Law" of Georgia so as to provide that common stock which is used to convert capital notes or debentures or to consummate the sale of stock pursuant to the exercise of stock options shall be common stock authorized by amendment to the charter of the bank but not issued and sold at the time of such amendment; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senate Banking and Finance Committee moves to amend HB 939 as follows: By striking from quoted Code Section 13-1002 of Section 3 the fol lowing: "Provided, however, if the application is to change the city, town, or village from the county in which its office is located to 3336 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, a location in another county, then the certified abstract from the minutes shall show that the amendment was authorized by the vote of 90 per cent of the outstanding capital stock of the bank at a meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose of acting thereon: Provided, however, if the move is from one location to another location in the same county, the consent of only two-thirds of the outstanding capital stock will be required.", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Provided, however, if the application is to change the loca tion of its office to a location in another county, then the certified abstract from the minutes shall show that the amendment was authorized by the vote of 90 percent of the outstanding capital stock of the bank at a meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose of acting thereon: Provided, however, if the move is from one location to another location in the same county, the consent of only two-thirds of the outstanding capital stock will be required." Mr. Conner of the 91st moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 149, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 939 was agreed to. HR 665-1435. By Messrs. Smith of the 114th, Tye of the 115th, Battle of the 116th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide the procedure whereby taxes other than ad valorem property taxes may be levied in the City of Savannah and to provide for a subsequent reduction of ad valorem taxes on real and personal property based upon the amount of funds received from such additional tax levies; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: County and Municipal Governments Committee offers to amend HR 665, as follows: By striking from the second quoted paragraph of Section 1, the following sentence: "Provided, however, the said authority shall not set a date for such election if on said date the Commissioners of Chatham County have proposed any tax affecting the residents of Chatham FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3337 County under authority granted to it in House Resolution 114-294.", and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "The Mayor and Aldermen shall not set the date for such an election for the same date on which there shall be submitted to the electors of Chatham County the question of whether they shall as sent to the levying of any tax by the governing authority of Chat ham County." Mr. Smith of the 114th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 137, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HR 665-1435 was agreed to. The following Bill of the Senate was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: SB 374. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Rabun County; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read and agreed to: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your conference committee on Senate Bill No. 374 has met and failed to agree. We request that a new conference committee be appointed. Respectfully submitted, FOR THE HOUSE A. B. C. DORMINY Representative, 72nd District MARVIN E. MOATE Representative, 39th District FULTON LOVELL Representative, 6th District FOR THE SENATE MAYLON K. LONDON Senator, 50th District ROBERT E. LEE, JR. Senator, 47th District ROBERT E. ANDREWS Senator, 49th District 3338 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Speaker appointed as a 2nd Committee of Conference on SB 374 on the part of the House, the following members: Messrs. Dorminy of the 72nd, Moate of the 39th and Lovell of the 6th. The Speaker introduced His Excellency, Governor Lester G. Maddox, who briefly addressed the members of the House, expressing his deep appreciation for the accomplishments of this session of the General Assembly. The following Bill of the Senate was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the 2nd Committee of Conference thereon: SB 374. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Rabun County; and for other purposes. The following report of the 2nd Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your conference committee on Senate Bill No. 374 has met and re commends that 45% be inserted instead of 51% where ever it may appear in committee substitute to Senate Bill No. 374. Respectfully submitted, FOR THE HOUSE A. B. C. Dorminy Representative, 72nd District Marvin E. Moate Representative, 39th District Fulton Lovell Representative, 6th District FOR THE SENATE Culver Kidd, Senator, District 25th Dan I. Maclntyre, III Senator, District 40th Cyrus M. Chapman Senator, 32nd Mr. Lovell of the 6th moved that the House adopt the report of the 2nd Com mittee of Conference. On the motion, the ayes were 103, nays 0. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3339 The report of the 2nd Committee of Conference on SB 374 was adopted. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 1423. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Stalnaker of the 59th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for tenure salary and compensation for those elective officers the election of which is provided for by Arti cles IV and V of the Georgia Constitution of 1945; and for other pur poses. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON HB 1423 The Conference Committee on HB 1423 recommends the following: (1) That the House recede from its position and that all Senate amendments be adopted with the exception of the effective date amendment. (2) That the Senate amendment providing an effective date be changed by striking "October 16, 1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "January 1, 1969". Respectfully submitted: FOR THE HOUSE WILLIAM J. LEE Representative, 35th District ALBERT SIDNEY NEWTON Representative, 50th District J. CRAWFORD WARE Representative, 42nd District FOR THE SENATE HUGH M. GILLIS Senator, 20th District BROOKS PENNINGTON, JR. Senator, 45th District STANLEY E. SMITH, JR. Senator, 18th District Mr. Ware of the 42nd moved that the House adopt the report of the Committee of Conference. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Barber Blalock Brantley, H. L. Bray Caldwell Carnes Gates Cato 3340 Chandler Clarke Collins, M. Colwell Conner Dillon Dodson Dollar Dorminy Gary Gay Harrison Henderson Holder Johnson, B. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Jones, C. M. Kaylor Laite Land Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lewis Longino Matthews, C. Mauldin McClatchey McCracken Miller Moate Newton Northcutt Parker, C. A. Phillips Poss Reaves Rowland Russell Scarlett Shuman Snow Steis Underwood Ware Wells Williams Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Anderson Battle Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Black Bostick Bowen Branch Brantley, H. H. Brown, C. Buck Cheeks Cole Collins, J. P. Cooper, J. R. Cox Crowe, William Dailey Daugherty Davis Dean DeLong Dickinson Doster Douglas Egan Farmer Farrar Fleming Floyd Funk Gaynor Grahl Graves Grier Hadaway Hall Hamilton Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Higginbotham Hill Howard Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Jones, M. Kirksey Knapp Lambert Lambros Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Le vitas Lovell Lowrey Malone Mason Maxwell McDaniell Merritt Mixon Moore, J. H. Moreland Mullinax Murphy Nash Nimmer Odom Oglesby Pafford Palmer Paris Parrish Potts Ragland Rainey Richardson Roach Ross Rush Savage Shanahan Sherman Shields Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, J. R. Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Starnes Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Townsend Tucker Turner Tye Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Westlake Whaley Wiggins FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3341 Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those not voting were Messrs.: Alexander Ballard Barfield Bennett Bond Brown, B. D. Busbee Cook Cooper, B. Crowe, W. J. Dent Dixon Edwards Fallin Gignilliat Gunter Hale Hargrett Hood Howell Joiner Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Magoon Matthews, D. R. Melton Moore, Don C. Nessmith Otwell Parker, H. W. Peterson Pickard Smith, V. T. Sullivan Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 53, nays 117. The Conference Committee Report on HB 1423 was rejected. Mr. Parker of the 55th requested that he be recorded as having voted against the adoption of the Conference Committee Report. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has returned as amended the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 968. By Mr. Moreland of the 28th: A Bill to change the method of choosing members of the Board of Education of Walton County; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted the report of the Committee of Conference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1159. By Messrs. Williams of the 16th, Johnson of the 40th, Nimmer of the 84th, Harris of the 14th, Cole of the 3rd, Anderson of the 71st, Vaughan of the 14th and Ward of the 2nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the chaining or cabling of loads of pulpwood, logs and lumber transported on the 3342 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, public highways of this State, so as to change the number of chains or cables which secure pulpwood to the vehicles on which it is being trans ported; to provide for the size of chains or cables which secure logs and lumber to the vehicle on which it is being transported; and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its substitute and has appointed a Committee of Con ference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th, Paris of the 23rd, Lee of the 35th, McCracken of the 49th, and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work on jobs which have comparable require ments relating to skill, effort and responsibility, so as to define "Com missioner", and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Smalley of 28th, Spinks of the 9th, and Webb of the llth. The Senate insists on its substitute to the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th, Wiggins and Threadgill of the 32nd and others: A Bill to amend an act providing for grants to certain municipalities so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted the report of the Committee of Conference on the following Bill of the Senate, to-wit: SB 374. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Rabun County; to provide for commissioner districts; to provide for election, qualifications of said board; and filling of vacancies of mem bers of said board; to provide for an oath; to repeal conflicting laws: and for other purposes. The following Bill and Resolutions of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendments thereto: HB 957. By Messrs. Graves, Starnes and Lowrey of the 13th, Ross of the 31st, Shanahan of the 8th, Moore of the 20th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 114-101, relating to the Workmen's Compensation Law, so as to provide that all full-time FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3343 county employees and employees of elected, salaried county officials are "Employees" within the meaning of this Act; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Hall of the 52nd moves to amend HB 957, as follows: By inserting in the title between the words "employees" and "and", the following: ", certain county officers". By adding at the end of the following sentence: "All full-time county employees and employees of elected, salar ied county officials are hereby specifically included herein.", wherever the same shall appear in Section 1, the following sentence: "There shall also be included within said term the various elected county officers of an individual county if the governing au thority of said county shall provide therefor by appropriate resolu tion." Mr. Graves of the 13th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Battle Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Black Blalock Bond Bostick Bowen Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Buck Caldwell Games Cato Chandler Cheeks Clarke Cole Collins, J. F. Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cooper, J. R. Cox Dailey Daugherty Davis Dean DeLong Dickinson Dillon Dixon Dodson Doster Douglas Farmer Floyd Funk Gary Gay Gaynor Grahl Graves Grier Gunter 8344 Hadaway Hale Hall Hamilton Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, R. W. Harrison Hill Holder Howell Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Jordan, G. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Levitas Lewis JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Longino Lovell Lowrey Malone Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Miller Mixon Moore, Don C. Moore, J. H. Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Nimmer Northcutt Odom Otwell Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Phillips Ragland Reaves Richardson Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shields Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Starnes Steis Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Turner Tye Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Whaley Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Mullinax Oglesby Potts Ware Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Busbee Cates Cook Cooper, B. Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dent Dollar Dorminy Edwards Egan Fallin Farrar Fleming Gignilliat Hargrett Harris, J. R. Henderson Higginbotham Hood Howard Joiner Jordan, W. H. Lambert Magoon Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Melton Merritt Moate Pafford Peterson Pickard Poss Rainey Roach Ross Smith, G. W. Snow Stalnaker Sullivan FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3345 Threadgill Townsend Tucker Underwood Wells Westlake Wiggins Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 149, nays 4. The Senate amendment to HB 957 was agreed to. HR 723-1549. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Mclntosh County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on County and Municipal Governments moves to amend HR 723-1549 as follows: By adding the following at the end of paragraph G of Section 1: "The exemption from taxation herein provided shall not include exemption from sales and use taxes on property purchased by the Authority or for use by the Authority." Mr. Jones of the 76th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 137, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HR 723-1549 was agreed to. HR 738-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Glascock County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read and adopted: 3346 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Committee on County and Municipal Governments moves to amend HR 738-1616 as follows: By adding the following at the conclusion of Paragraph G of Sec tion 1: "The exemption from taxation herein provided shall not include exemption from sales and use taxes on property purchased by the Authority or for use by the Authority." Mr. Johnson of the 40th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 137, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HR 738-1616 was agreed to. HR 739-1616. By Mr. Johnson of the 40th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Warren County Industrial Development Authority; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on County and Municipal Governments moves to amend HR 739-1616 as follows: By adding the following at the conclusion of Paragraph G of Sec tion 1: "The exemption from taxation herein provided shall not include exemption from sales and use taxes on property purchased by the Authority or for use by the Authority." Mr. Johnson of the 40th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 137, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HR 739-1616 was agreed to. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3347 HB 968. By Mr. Moreland of the 28th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to change the method of choosing members of the Board of Education of Walton County; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Pennington of the 45th moves to amend HB 968 by striking Section 2 in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Section 2. The members of the board shall be elected as follows: Candidates for posts one, two and three shall be elected by the voters residing in Education District No. 1. Candidates for posts number four, five, six and seven shall be elected by the voters residing in Education Districts number 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Candidates offering for elec tion to the board shall qualify by signifying the post for which they are offering. A candidate must reside in the education district from which he offers as a candidate. To be elected as a member of the board, a candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast by the voters of his education district. In the event no person receives a majority of the votes cast for each post on the Board of Education, then it shall be the duty of the ordinary of Walton County to hold and conduct a runoff election between the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each such post, such runoff election to be held two weeks after the initial vote for such board members. The expense of the special election shall be borne by Walton County. In the event of a vacancy on the board for any reason other than the expiration of the term of office, the re maining members of the board shall elect a person for the education post from the education district in which the vacancy occurs, who shall serve for the unexpired term. In the event a person who represents an education post from an education district moves his residence from such district, the vacancy shall exist from such district and shall be filled in the same manner as other vacancies. Mr. Moreland of the 28th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 103, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 968 was agreed to. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate's insistence on its position in substituting the same: HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th, Wiggins and Threadgill of the 32nd and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to certain municipalities, so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. 3348 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the House insist on its position in disagree ing to the Senate substitute and that a Committee of Conference be appointed to confer with a like Committee on the part of the Senate. The motion prevailed. The Speaker appointed as a Committee of Conference on the part of the House, the following members: Messrs. Parker of the 65th, Ragland of the 109th and Malone of the 117th. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate substitute thereto: HB 869. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Brown of the 34th and Mullinax of the 42nd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to counties, so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to counties, approved April 21,1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 888), so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a semiannual basis; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP GEORGIA: Section 1. An Act providing for grants to counties, approved April 21, 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 888), is hereby amended by adding between the first and second sentences of Section 3 the following: "The State Treasurer shall disburse such funds as provided for herein in two equal, or as nearly equal as possible, installments, as allotted by the Budget Bureau, commencing with fiscal year 1970.", so that when so amended Section 3 shall read as follows: "Section 3. Funds disbursed under this Act by the State Trea surer shall be paid to the counties in the name of the County Trea surer or other fiscal authority authorized to receive county funds. The State Treasurer shall disburse such funds as provided for here- FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3349 in in two equal, or as nearly equal as possible, installments, as al lotted by the Budget Bureau, commencing with fiscal year 1970. Such funds shall be expended by the counties only for the purposes prescribed in Section 1 of this Act." Section 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the House agree to the Senate substitute. On the motion, the ayes were 131, nays 0. The Senate substitute to HB 869 was agreed to. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 1118. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st, Paris of the 23rd and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to amend an Act relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public works camps and prisoners, so as to authoriEe the sale of certain goods created by inmates; and for other purposes. HB 1422. By Messrs. Lambert of the 38th, Lane of the 53rd, Chandler of the 47th, Hadaway of the 46th, Moate of the 39th and Harrington of the 47th: A Bill to provide for an additional Judge of the Superior Court of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 130. By Messrs. Dillon of the 128th, Steis of the 100th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the defense of indigents; and for other purposes. 3350 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your conference committee on HB 130 has met and submits the fol lowing recommendations: That the Senate and House recede from their respective poistions and that the attached Substitute be adopted. Respectfully submitted, FOR THE HOUSE: Lee of the 79th Douglas of the 60th Diilon of the 128th FOR THE SENATE: Webb of the llth Shea of the 3rd Johnson of the 42nd A BILL To be entitled an Act to provide for representation by counsel, serv ices and facilities for indigent persons in criminal proceedings; to provide for a short title; to provide definitions; to provide for defender plans for providing representation; to provide for compensation of assigned coun sel; to provide for compensation of legal aid agencies; to provide for public defenders; to provide for notice and provision of representation; to provide for competence of counsel; to provide for a substitute attorney; to provide for determination of indigency; to provide for financing by the county governing authorities; to provide for recovery or reimburse ment from certain defendants; to provide for records and reports; to provide for representation in State and Federal Courts; to provide for construction of this Act; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other pur poses. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. Short Title.--This Act shall be known and may be cited as "The Georgia Criminal Justice Act". Section 2. Definitions.-- (a) In purposes of this Act the following words and terms shall have the meaning indicated unless the context clearly indicates a contrary meaning. (1) County governing authority--The Ordinary, Commissioner of Roads and Revenues, Board of Commissioners of Roads and Rev enues, or other authority in a county which by law has the duty to FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3351 levy taxes, and provide funds for the operation of the courts in such county. (2) Court concerned.--A court having, or anticipated as having, with respect to crime, jurisdiction over a proceeding in which an indigent person is a party or over the detention of an indigent per son. When a superior court has prescribed an arrangement under Section 4(a)(l), it shall also be a court concerned. (3) Defending Attorney--An assigned attorney, an attorney attached to the staff of a non-profit legal aid agency, a public de fender, or an attorney attached to the staff of a public defender. (4) Indigent Person.--A person who is unable, without undue hardship, to employ the legal services of an attorney or defray the necessary expenses of legal representation, determined as herein after provided. (5) Superior court.--When there are more than two judges of the superior court in a county or circuit any action required hereunder in the form of a rule of the court must be taken by at least a majority of the judges of that court. Where there are only two judges such action must be concurred in by both judges. Section 3. Defender Plans for Providing Representation. (a) The superior court of each county shall, by rule of court, pro vide for the representation of indigent persons in criminal proceedings in the county. It shall provide this representation by: (1) An arrangement whereby a judge of the superior court will assign attorneys on an equitable basis through a systematic, co ordinated defender plan. The court may delegate to its clerk or deputy clerk the administration thereof, or may appoint an adminis trator for such purpose; or (2) An arrangement whereby a judge of the court concerned will assign attorneys on an equitable basis through a systematic, coordinated defender plan under delegation to and supervision of the clerk, or deputy clerk, of the superior court, or the clerk, or deputy clerk, of the court concerned, or of an administrator appointed by the superior court for such purpose; or (3) An arrangement whereby a non-profit legal aid agency or agencies will be assigned to provide the representation; or (4) An arrangement whereby a combination of the above ar rangements will provide the representation. (b) Until the superior court in a county has by rule prescribed an appropriate arrangment, any court concerned may assign attorneys to provide the representation. In this event any court concerned may, by its own rule, prescribe an arrangement whereby attorneys will be as signed on an equitable basis through a systematic, coordinated plan 3352 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, under delegation to and supervision of the clerk, or deputy clerk, of that court. (c) Any arrangement under subsection (a) may be made applicable to one, or more, or all counties within the same superior court circuit when promulgated by a rule of the superior court of the circuit. (d) If the superior court in a county for any reason does not provide for an arrangement prescribed in subsection (a) the county governingauthority may perform the functions ascribed to the superior court herein. Section 4. Compensation of Assigned Counsel. (a) When a superior court prescribes an arrangement under Section 3 which involves the assignment of attorneys, it shall prescribe the com pensation of the defending attorneys whom it assigns as hereinafter provided and approve the expenses necessarily incurred by them in the defense of indigents under this Act. The governing authority of the county shall recommend such attorney fee limits for the several courts in the county as may be prescribed by the courts for the defense of the indigent and such investigation expense as may be necessary and ap proved by the court. Notwithstanding the foregoing provision, however, in extraordinary circumstances the trial court may approve the payment of such additional compensation in excess of the limits stated herein as the trial court may determine-and find to be necessary to provide for compensation for protracted representation. (b) The county governing authority shall pay the attorney the amounts so determined from public funds available for the operation of the courts in such county. Section 5. Compensation of Legal Aid Agency. (a) When a non-profit legal aid agency is involved in providing legal services to an indigent person under this Act, the court concerned may allow to such legal aid agency an amount equivalent to the compensation and direct expenses otherwise allowable to an assigned attorney. In this event the county governing authority shall pay to the legal aid agency the amounts so determined from public funds available for the operation of the courts in such county. (b) The county governing authority may, in lieu of compensation allowable under subsection (a), contract with a non-profit legal aid agency on an annual basis for rendering all or part of the legal services contemplated under this Act. Section 6. Public Defender. (a) In addition to the arrangements authorized under Section 3 the superior court of a county, with the concurrence of the county governing authority of that county, may establish and maintain an office of public defender to provide the representation to indigent persons contemplated under this Act. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3353 (b) If an office of public defender is established for a county, the superior court of that county shall appoint the person to serve as public defender for a term of two years. The public defender must be licensed to practice law in this state and must be competent to counsel and defend a person charged with crime. During his incumbency the public defender may not engage in the practice of criminal law other than in the discharge of the duties of his office. The superior court, with the con currence of the county governing authority of the county, shall determine whether the public defender is to be employed on a full-time or a parttime basis and shall determine his compensation. (c) If an office of public defender is established, the public defender may employ, in the manner and at the compensation prescribed by the superior court, concurred in by the county governing authority, as many assistant public defenders, clerks, investigators, stenographers, and other persons as may be necessary for carrying out his responsibil ities under this Act. A person employed under this section serves at the pleasure of the public defender, unless his position is under a civil service system in which he may be removed only for cause. (d) If an office of public defender is established, the county gov erning authority shall provide appropriate facilities (including office space, furniture, equipment, books, postage, supplies, and interviewing facilities in the jail) necessary for carrying out the public defender's responsibilities under this Act; or grant the public defender an allow ance in place of such facilities. (e) If an office of public defender is established, his compensation, expenses and allowances and the expense necessary to establish, main tain and support his office shall be paid by the county governing author ity out of public funds available for the operation of the courts in such county. (f) The superior court of a circuit, with the concurrence of the county authority of two or more counties within the same circuit, may establish and maintain a joint office of public defender under the pro visions of this section; or the local governing authority of a county may contract with a public defender of another county within the same circuit for the services of his office to serve as if he were the public defender established in the former county, provided the superior court of the circuit and the local governing authority of the latter county con cur in the contract. Section 7. Competence to Defend. No person may be assigned the primary responsibility of representing an indigent person unless he is authorized to practice law in this state and is otherwise competent to counsel and defend a person charged with a crime. Competence shall be determined by the court concerned at the first court proceeding after the assignment of counsel. A person authorized to practice legal aid under The Law School Legal Aid Agency Act of 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 153), is competent to represent an indigent person provided that in any trial a person authorized to practice law in this state is also present. Section 8. Substitute Attorney. At any stage, including appeal or other post-conviction proceeding, the court concerned may for good cause 3354 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, assign a substitute attorney. The substitute attorney has the same func tions with respect to the indigent person as the attorney for whom he is substituted. If the substitute attorney is not in the office of the public defender nor in a non-profit legal aid agency serving under this Act, the court shall prescribe reasonable compensation for him and approve the expenses necessarily incurred by him in the defense of the indigent person as provided in Section 4. Section 9. Determination of Indigency. (a) When a superior court prescribes an arrangement for providing representation hereunder, it may also prescribe a standard of indigency to govern the determination of indigency by all courts concerned within the county. It may also prescribe the requirements for a proper showing of material factors relating to ability to pay for legal services and the proper form and authentication thereof. In establishing a standard of indigency the superior court shall consider such factors as income, prop erty owned, expenses, outstanding obligations, and the number and ages of dependents. Release on bail shall not necessarily preclude a person from being indigent nor shall it be necessary that a person be destitute or a pauper to be indigent. (b) If, in a proceeding to determine indigency under this section, any person makes a false statement, under oath, concerning any material factor related to his or another's ability to pay for legal services, it shall constitute the crime of perjury and be punishable as such. (c) To the extent that a person covered hereunder is able to provide for the employment of an attorney, the other necessary services and facilities of representation and court costs, the court concerned may order him to provide for this payment or reimbursement. Section 10. Financing. (a) For each fiscal year the county governing authority in each county will include in its annual budget for the operations of the courts in such county an additional amount to finance the costs and expenses necessary for the implementation of this Act. (b) The county governing authority in each county may accept private contributions for the support of the administration of this Act. Section 11. Recovery from Defendant. (a) The county may recover payment or reimbursement, as the case may be, from each person who has received legal assistance or another benefit under this Act. (1) to which he was not entitled; (2) with respect to which he was not an indigent person when he received it; or FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3355 (3) with respect to which he has failed to make payment or reimbursement ordered under Section 9(c) and for which he refuses to pay or reimburse. Suit must be brought within four years after the date on which the aid was received. (b) The county may recover payment or reimbursement, as the case may be, from each person, other than a person covered by subsection (a), who has received legal assistance under this Act and who, on the date on which suit is brought, is financially able to pay or reimburse the county for it according to the standards of ability to pay applicable hereunder, but refuses to do so. Suit must be brought within four years after the date on which the benefit was received. Section 12. Records and Reports. (a) A defending attorney shall keep appropriate records respecting each indigent person whom he represents under this Act. (b) The public defender, legal aid agency, or person administering a court prescribed defender plan, as the case may be, shall submit an an nual report to the county governing authority showing the number of persons represented under this Act, the crime involved, the outcome of each case, and the expenditures (totalled by kind) made in carrying out the responsibilities imposed by this Act. A copy of the report shall also be submitted to each court having criminal jurisdiction in the county or counties that the program serves. Section 13. Representation in State and Federal Courts. This Act applies only to representation in the courts of this state, except that it does not prohibit a defending attorney from representing an indigent person in a federal court of the United States, if: (1) the matter arises oi.it of or is related to an action pending or recently pending in a court of criminal jurisdiction of this state; or (2) representation is under an approved plan of the United States District Court as required by the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 (18 U.S.C. 3006A). Section 14. Protections Not Exclusive. The protections provided by this Act do not exclude any protection or sanction law otherwise provided for accused persons. Section 15. It is not intended that the Act approved January 5, 1954 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 478), relating to the appointment of attorneys to represent indigent defendants be repealed, but it is intended that its provisions shall be construed as permissive and not mandatory with respect to this Act and its reasonable implementation. Section 16. The effective date of this Act shall be January 1, 1969. Section 17. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. 3356 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Lee of the 79th moved that the House adopt the report of the Committee of Conference. On the motion, the ayes were 154, nays 0. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 130 was adopted. The following Bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of consider ing the Senate amendments thereto: HB 903. By Mr. Hill of the 121st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the issuance of special person alized prestige license plates; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Conway of the 41st moves to amend HB 903 by adding a new Section 3 and renumbering other Sections 3 through 6 as needed: Section 3. For the purposes of this Act a license plate with a low number or special number may also be considered as a prestige or per sonalized plate. Mr. Hill of the 121st moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 144, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 903 was agreed to. HB 1422. By Messrs. Lambert of the 38th, Lane of the 53rd, Chandler of the 47th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for an additional Judge of the Superior Court of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Smalley of the 28th moves to amend HB 1422 as follows: By striking from Section 2 the following words: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3357 "to take office on April 1, 1968", and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "to take office immediately upon the date this Act becomes law." Mr. Chandler of the 47th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 140, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 1422 was agreed to. HB 841. By Messrs. Williams and Wood of the 16th, Johnson of the 40th, Lambros of the 130th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways", so as to change the speed restrictions for vehicles traveling on four lane limited access highways; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendments were read: Senator Maclntyre of the 40th moves to amend HB 841 as follows: Add after access highways, "As approved by the Highway Depart ment Safety Director." Senator Holley of the 22nd moves to amend HB 841 as follows: By striking from the title the figure "332" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "322". By striking from Section 1 the figure "332" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "322". Mr. Williams of the 16th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ments. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: 3358 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Ballard Barber Battle Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Black Bostick Bowen Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, C. Buck Caldwell Chandler Cheeks Cole Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cook Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dailey Daugherty Dean DeLong Dillon Dixon Dodson Dorminy Douglas Edwards Fallin Farmer Fleming Funk Gary Gay Grahl Grier Hall Hamilton Harrington Harrison Henderson Hill Holder Hood Howard Howell Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Le vitas Lewis Magoon Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Nimmer Northcutt Odom Oglesby Paris Parker, C. A. Parrish Phillips Pickard Poss Ragland Rainey Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlet t Shanahan Shields Shuman Simmons Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Steis Sweat Thompson, R. Threadgill Tucker Turner Tye Underwood Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Whaley Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Games Cox FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Those not voting were Messrs.: Anderson Barfield Bennett Blalock Bond Brown, B. D. Busbee Gates Cato Clarke Collins, J. F. Davis Dent Dickinson Dollar Doster Egan Farrar Floyd Gaynor Gignilliat Graves Gunter Had away Hale Hargrett Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Higginbotham Hutchinson Johnson, B. Joiner Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Lambert Longino Lovell Lowrey Malone Maxwell Melton Moore, Don C. Moore, J. H. 3359 Mullinax Newton Otwell Pafford Palmer Parker, H. W. Peterson Potts Sherman Sims Smith, G. W. Snow Starnes Sullivan Thompson, A. W. Townsend Vaughan, D. N. Ware Wells Westlake Wiggins Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 137, nays 2. The Senate amendments to HB 841 were agreed to. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 940. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th and McClatchey of the 138th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Title 13 known as the Bank ing Law of Georgia, so as to remove the provisions relating to private banks and bankers; to change the distance between the location of a bank office or bank facility and a parent bank; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON HOUSE BILL NO. 940 The Conference Committee on House Bill No. 940 recommends the following: 1. That the Senate and the House of Representatives both recede from their positions. 3360 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 2. That the Senate Committee on Banking and Finance Substitute to said bill be adopted with the following changes: (a) That the title be changed to read as follows: "A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Code Title 13 known as the 'Banking Law' of Georgia, as amended, so as to remove the pro visions relating to private banks and bankers; to provide that the territorial boundaries and limits of a village shall not extend be yond three miles in any direction from the geographic center of the village or contain more than 15 square miles in total area; to provide that no village territory shall extend across county line boundaries; to change the distance between the location of a bank office or bank facility and a parent bank; to change the fee paid by applicants for a bank charter; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.". (b) That subsection (h) of Code Section 13-201.1 quoted in Section 2 of said bill be changed to read as follows: "(h)The term 'village' as used in this Title means an assem blage or aggregation of houses for dwellings or business, or both, reasonably contiguous to each other and identifiable and generally known as a village or community but unincorporated and not char tered as a municipal corporation under the laws of the State of Georgia. For the purpose of this Title, the territorial boundaries and limits of a village shall be fixed by the Superintendent of Banks immediately upon this section becoming effective and there after upon the grant of a charter to a bank situated in a village; Provided, however, the territorial boundaries and limits of a village shall not extend beyond three miles in any direction from the geographic center of the village and shall not contain more than 15 square miles in total area; and Provided, further, that a plat showing the boundary of such a village shall be filed in the office of the superintendent as a public record; and also, Provided, that such village shall not extend into the territory, or incorporated area, of any municipal corporation; nor shall any village territory extend across county line boundaries; and no bank office or bank facility of a parent bank located in a village shall be located more than three miles distant from the parent bank.". Respectfully submitted: FOR THE SENATE A. W. Holloway Senator, 12th District R. Eugene Holley Senator, 22nd District Sam P. Hensley Senator, 33rd District FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3361 FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thomas B. Murphy Representative, 26th District J. H. Henderson, Jr. Representative, 102nd District Preston B. Lewis Representative, 50th District Mr. Henderson of the 102nd moved that the House adopt the report of the Committee of Conference. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Anderson Black Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Busbee Caldwell Games Chandler Cheeks Cole Collins, J. F. Cook Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Crowe, William Davis DeLong Dillon Dodson Douglas Fleming Funk Grahl Graves Grier Gunter Hadaway Hale Hall Harrington Harris, J. F. Henderson Higginbotham Holder Howard Jenkins Johnson, B. Joiner Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Laite Lambert Land Lewis Lowrey Mason Mauldin Maxwell McCracken McDaniell Miller Murphy Nash Odom Pafford Phillips Potts Rainey Rowland Sherman Steis Sullivap Tucker Underwood Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Westlake Williams Wilson, J. M. Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Ballard Barber Battle Berry, J. K. Blalock Bostick Bowen Bray Brown, C. Buck Cato Clarke Collins, M. 3362 Colwell Conner Cox Dailey Dean Dickinson Dixon Dollar Dorminy Doster Edwards Egan Pallin Farmer Floyd Gary Gay Gaynor Harris, R. W. Harrison Hill Howell Knapp Lambros Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Leggett Leonard Levitas Longino Lovell Magoon Malone Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Merritt Mixon Moate Moore, J. H. Moreland Mullinax Nessmith Nimmer Northcutt Palmer Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Poss Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Shields Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Snow Stalnaker Thompson, R. Threadgill Towsend Turner Tye Wamble Ware Wells Whaley Wiggins Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Bond Branch Brown, B. D. Gates Crowe, W. J. Daugherty Dent Farrar Gignilliat Hamilton Hargrett Harris, J. R. Hood Hutchinson Johnson, A. S. Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. McClatchey Melton Moore, Don C. Newton Oglesby Otwell Paris Piekard Ragland Starnes Sweat Thompson, A. W. Ward Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 72, nays 99. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 840 was rejected. The following Bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of consider ing the Senate amendments thereto: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3363 HB 1118. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st, Paris of the 23rd and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public works camps and prisoners, so as to authorize the sale of certain goods created by inmates; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on Penal and Correctional Affairs moves to amend HB 1118 by adding at the end of Section 1, paragraph P the following words: "All goods, wares and merchandise created by such inmate must be sold within the prison or on the prison grounds during visiting hours or when on off duty assignments." Mr. Lane of the 64th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Ballard Barber Black Bond Bostick Bowen Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Buck Busbee Caldwell Carnes Cato Cheeks Clarke Cole Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cook Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Crowe, William Dailey Daugherty Dean DeLong Dillon Dixon Dodson Dollar Dorminy Douglas Edwards Pallin Farmer Fleming Funk Gay Gaynor Hadaway Hall Hamilton Hargrett Harrington Harris, R. W. Harrison Henderson Hill Holder Howard Howell Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Levitas 3364 Lewis Longino Lowrey Magoon Malone Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moore, Don C. Moore, J. H. Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Northcutt Pafford Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Phillips Pickard Poss Ragland Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shuman Simmons Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Steis Sweat Thompson, R. Threadgill Tucker Turner Tye Underwood Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Cox Gary Nimmer Those not voting were Messrs.: Anderson Barfield Battle Bennett Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Blalock Gates Chandler Collins, J. F. Crowe, W. J. Davis Dent Dickinson Doster Egan Farrar Floyd Gignilliat Grahl Graves Grier Gunter Hale Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Higginbotham Hood Hutchinson Johnson, B. Joiner Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Lambert Lovell Mauldin Maxwell Melton Mullinax Odom Oglesby Otwell Peterson Potts Rainey Shields Sims Smith, G. W. Snow Stalnaker Starnes Sullivan Thompson, A. W. Townsend Vaughan, D. N. Ward Ware Wells Westlake Whaley Wiggins Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 140, nays 3. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3365 The Senate amendment to HB 1118 was agreed to. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House to-wit: HB 1520. By Mr. Anderson of the 71st: A Bill to amend an Act providing and creating a new charter for the Town of Cochran, and incorporating said town under the corporate name and style "City of Cochran", so as to change the corporate limits of said City; to provide for a referendum; and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its substitute and has appointed a Committee of Con ference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 742. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively and exhaustively revising, superseding and consolidating the laws relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public work camps and prisoners; and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Chapman of the 32nd, Kennedy of the 14th, and Gillis of the 20th. The Senate insists on its amendment and has appointed a Committee of Conference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 743. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Georgia Prison Industries Act", so as to authorize the administration to compensate certain inmates employed in prison industries; and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Chapman of the 32nd, Kennedy of the 4th, and Gillis of the 20th. 3366 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Senate has passed as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 401. By Messrs. Harris of the 118th, Busbee of the 79th, and Alexander of the 133rd: A Bill to provide that persons accused of crime, who have not been pre viously convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, with their consent, be placed on probation after a finding but before an adjudication of guilt; and for other purposes. The Senate insists on its substitute and has appointed a Committee of Con ference on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th, Wiggins and Threadgill of the 32nd and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for grants to certain municipalities, so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Coggin of the 35th, Rowan of the 8th, and Bateman of the 27th. The Senate has adopted, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional ma jority the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 525-1114. By Mr. Harrison of the 98th: A Resolution designating Georgia State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95 through Folkston to the Florida line as the "Okefenokee Parkway"; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1176. By Messrs. Hale of the 1st and Jones of the 76th: A Bill to amend the Act of the General Assembly known as the "Geor gia Health Code", by deleting from Section 88-1809 of the Chapter referred to therein as "Hospital Authorities Law" the provision limit ing the interest rates of revenue certificates of hospital authorities to 6 per centum per annum; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3367 The following Bills and Resolution of the House were taken up for the pur pose of considering the Senate amendments or substitutes thereto: HB 401. By Messrs. Harris of the 118th, Busbee of the 79th and Alexander of the 133rd: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide that persons accused of crime, who have not been previously convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, with their consent, be placed on probation after a finding but before an adjudication of guilt; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on Penal and Correctional Affairs moves to amend HB 401 by striking the words "or misdemeanor" on the 2nd line of the Preamble and the words "or misdemeanor" on line 3 of Section 1. Mr. Harris of the 118th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the ayes were 110, nays 0. The Senate amendment to HB 401 was agreed to. HB 846. By Mr. Higginbotham of the 119th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the "Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act", so as to exempt the sale of food to be consumed on the premises of private elementary schools by pupils and employees from the tax imposed by said Act; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the "Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act", approved February 20, 1951 (Ga. Laws 1951, p. 360), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 7, 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 282), so as to exempt the sale of food to be consumed on the premises of certain private elemen tary and secondary schols by pupils and employees from the taxes im posed by said Act; to provide the procedure connected therewith; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. 3368 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP GEOR GIA: Section 1. An Act known as the "Georgia Retailers' and Con sumers' Sales and Use Tax Act", approved February 20, 1951 (Ga. Laws 1951, p. 360), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 7, 1967 (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 282), is hereby amended by striking subparagraph (u) of Section 3 (c) 2 in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new subparagraph (u) to read as follows: "(u) Sales of food to be consumed on the premises by pupils and employees of bona fide private elementary and secondary schools which have been approved by the State Revenue Commis sioner as organization eligible to receive tax deductible contribu tions, provided, application for this exemption is made to the Reve nue Department and proof of such exemption established." Section 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Mr. Vaughn of the 117th moved that the House agree with the Senate sub stitute. On the motion, the ayes were 109, nays 0. The Senate substitute to HB 846 was agreed to. HR 525-1114. By Mr. Harrison of the 98th: A Resolution designating Georgia State Routes 40, 23 and 121 from Interstate 95 through Folkston to the Florida line as the "Okefenokee Parkway"; and for other purposes. The following Senate Substitute was read: A RESOLUTION Designating U. S. Highway 1 from Waycross to Folkston and Geor gia State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95 through Polkston to the Florida line as the "Okefenokee Parkway"; and for other pur poses. WHEREAS, the main entrance in Charlton County to the Oke fenokee National Wildlife Refuge is located approximately seven miles south of Folkston, Georgia, on Georgia State Routes 23 and 121; and the main entrance in Ware County is approximately five miles south on U. S. Highway 1; and FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3369 WHEREAS, the federal government is expending approximately $2,000,000.00 to develop fishing, boating, picnicking and other recrea tional facilities at a site known as Camp Cornelia; and WHEREAS, the State Highway Department has expended $126,082.00 to construct a four-mile connecting highway from Georgia State Routes 23 and 121 to Camp Cornelia; and WHEREAS, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is the larg est scenic wildlife refuge in the Southeastern United States; and WHEREAS, this area of Georgia is fast becoming a large tourist attraction. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that U. S. Highway 1 from Waycross to Folkston and Georgia State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95 though Folkston to the Florida line are hereby designated as the "Okefenokee Parkway". BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Highway Depart ment is hereby authorized and directed to erect appropriate exit mark ings at the junction of Interstate 95 with State Highway 40 and along U. S. Highway 1 from Waycross to Folkston and along State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95 to the Florida line evidencing their designation as the "Okefenokee Parkway" and appropriate markings at the main entrance to Camp Cornelia and the Okefenokee Swamp Park at Waycross. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is hereby instructed to transmit an appropriate copy of this Resolution to the mayor and council of the City of Folkston and the City of Waycross. Mr. Harrison of the 98th moved that the House agree to the Senate sub stitute. On the motion, the ayes were 103, nays 0. The Senate substitute to HR 525-1114 was agreed to. HB 1176. By Messrs. Hale of the 1st and Jones of the 76th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Act of the General Assembly known as the "Georgia Health Code", by deleting from Section 88-1809 of the Chapter referred to therein as "Hospital Authorities Law" the provision limiting the interest rates of revenue certificates of hospital authorities to 6 per centum per annum; and for other purposes. 3370 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend the Act of the General Assembly known as the "Georgia Health Code", approved March 18, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 499), as amended, by amending Section 88-1809 of the Chapter referred to therein as "Hospital Authorities Law" by chang ing the provision limiting the maximum interest rate or rates which revenue certificates of hospital authorities may bear from six per centum per annum to seven per centum per annum; to repeal conflict ing laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP GEOR GIA AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY AUTHORITY OF SAME: SECTION 1 An Act of the General Assembly known as the "Georgia Health Code", approved March 18, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 499), as amended, is hereby amended by deleting from Section 88-1809 of the Chapter re ferred to therein as "Hospital Authorities Law" the provision which reads, "not exceeding six per centum" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "not exceeding seven per centum per annum" so that when so amended Section 88-1809 shall read as follows: "Section 88-1809. Same; authorization; series; maturity; in terest.--Certificates of an Authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates; mature at such time or times; bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding seven per centum per annum; be in such denomination or denominations; be in such form, either coupon or registered; carry such conversion or registration privi leges; have such rank or priority; be executed in such manner; be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places; and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution, its trust indenture, or mortgage may provide; and in case any of the members or officers of the Authority whose signatures appear on any certificates or coupons shall cease to be such members or officers before the delivery of such certificates, such signatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes." SECTION 2 All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Mr. Hale of the 1st moved that the House agree to the Senate substitute. On the motion, the ayes were 108, nays 0. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3371 The Senate substitute to HB 1176 was agreed to. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 952. By Mr. Moore of the 20th: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the Teachers' Retirement System, so as to provide that the term "earnable compensation paid to a member by a member institution of the University System of Georgia from agencies with the member institution; and for other purposes. The Senate has disagreed to the House substitute to the following Resolution of the Senate, to-wit: SR 245. By Senator Kidd of the 25th: A Resolution requesting the State Department of Public Health to transfer certain real property, buildings and other facilities to the State Properties Control Commission; and for other purposes. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: HB 952. By Mr. Moore of the 20th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the Teachers' Retirement System, so as to provide that the term "earnable compensa tion" shall include compensation paid to a member by a member insti tution of the University of Georgia from grants or contracts made by outside agencies with the member institution; and for other pur poses. The following Senate amendment was read: The Senate Retirement Committee moves to amend HB 952 as follows: By striking from the title the following: 3372 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, to provide for reduction in retirement age;" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "to provide for investments;" By striking in its entirety Section 4 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Section 4. Said Act is further amended by striking Subsec tion (1) of Section 7 in its entirety and substituting a new Sub section (1) to read as follows: '(1) The members of the Board of Trustees shall be the trustees of the retirement system, and shall have full power to invest and re-invest such assets, subject to all the terms, condi tions, limitations and restrictions imposed by the laws of Geor gia upon domestic life insurers in the making and disposing of their investments. Provided, however, no more than fifty (50) percent of retirement system assets may be invested in equities. Subject to like restrictions, the trustees shall have the power to hold, transfer and dispose of any investments in which re tirement system assets are invested, including proceeds of in vestments. The Board is authorized to employ agents, includ ing banks and trust companies, to act as investment advisors and make investments if the Board so authorizes.'" The following House amendment to the Senate amendment was read and adopted. Messrs. Moore of the 20th and Barber of the 24th move to amend the Senate amendment to HB 952 by adding at the end of Section 4, a new sentence to read as follows: "Provided that if such plan is adopted by said Board it shall first have prior approval of the General Assembly". Mr. Moore of the 20th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment, as amended, by the House. On the motion, the ayes were 106, nays 0. The Senate amendment, as amended by the House, to HB 952 was agreed to. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of consider ing the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3373 HB 742. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons and prisoners; and for other pur poses. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your Conference Committee on HB 742 has met and submits the following recommendation: That the House recede from its position. Respectfully submitted, FOR THE SENATE Chapman of the 32nd Gillis of the 20th Kennedy of the 4th FOR THE HOUSE Paris of the 23rd Dailey of the 66th Black of the 56th Mr. Paris of the 23rd moved that the House adopt the report of the Com mittee of Conference. On the motion, the ayes were 115, nays 0. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 742 was adopted. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 743. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Georgia Prison Industries Act, so as to authorize the administration to compensate certain inmates employed in prison industries; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: 3374 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Speaker: Your Conference Committee on HB 743 has met and submits the following recommendation: That the Senate recede from its position. Respectfully submitted: FOR THE HOUSE: Paris of the 23rd Dailey of the 66th Black of the 56th FOR THE SENATE: Chapman of the 32nd Gillis of the 20th Kennedy of the 4th Mr. Paris of the 23rd moved that the House adopt the report of the Committee of Conference. On the motion, the ayes were 113, nays 0. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 743 was adopted. The following Resolution of the House was read and adopted: HR 905. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th and Busbee of the 79th: A RESOLUTION Relative to adjournment; and for other purposes. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE SENATE CONCURRING, that the General Assembly do adjourn sine die on Friday, March 8, 1968, at 8:45 o'clock p.m.; and the House respectfully requests the Senate to adopt the same. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has adopted, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3375 HR 523-1104. By Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st, Paris of the 23rd, and Lane of the 64th: A Resolution to create a Constitution Revision Commission; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1044. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively revising appellate and other post-trial procedure, so as to redefine what judgments shall be subject to review; and for other purposes. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for grants to cer tain municipalities, so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall dis burse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your Conference Committee on HB 862 recommends that the House recede to the Senate position. Respectfully submitted, Oliver C. Bateman Senator 27th District Frank Coggin Senator 35th District Robert A. Rowan Senator 8th District Joe Ragland 109th District Representative The following file a minority report against the Conference Committee Report. Walstein Parker W. B. Malone 3376 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Floyd of the 7th asked unanimous consent that the Bill be withdrawn from futher consideration. Objection was heard, and further consideration of the Bill was continued. Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the report of the Committee on Conference be adopted. On the motion, the ayes were 22, nays 87. The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 862 was rejected. The following Resolution of the House was taken up for the purpose of con sidering the Senate amendment thereto: HR 523-1104. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Resolution to create a Constitution Revision Commission; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on Economy, Reorganization and Efficiency in State Government moves to amend HR 523-1104 as follows: By striking Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 and inserting new Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in lieu thereof as follows: 1. That there is hereby created a Constitution Revision Commission to be composed of six members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, six members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and six persons to be appointed by the Governor; 2. That the Commission shall be initially called together by the Gov ernor for the purpose of electing officers and perfecting its organization, and that thereafter it shall meet at such times and places and conduct its work in such manner as it shall deem appropriate; 3. That the Commission shall conduct a thorough study of the Con stitution and related matters with reference to a revision thereof, and shall recommend revision of the present Constitution by amendments to existing articles, in such manner as the Commission shall decide; FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3377 4. That the Commission shall be assigned suitable quarters in the State Capitol or elsewhere, that the Commission and committees thereof be authorized to hold hearings, that the Chairman of the Commission, acting upon the advice and consent of a majority of the members thereof, be authorized to employ clerical, professional, legal, and other personnel as shall be deemed necessary and to fix their compensation, and to pro cure materials, supplies, and equipment for carrying out the purposes of this Resolution; 5. That the Chairman of the Commission no sooner than October 1, 1969, is authorized from time to time thereafter to cause its recommen dations to be printed and copies thereof distributed to members of the General Assembly and made available to the press and to the public generally; and 6. That the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly, meeting either in regular session or in special session, the reports of the Com mission, and no proposed revision or amendment to the existing Constitu tion shall be submitted to a vote of the people for ratification or rejection until the same shall have been agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly; 7. That the members of the Commission appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive the allowances authorized for legislative members of interim legislative committees which shall be paid from funds appropriated to or otherwise available to the legislative branch of government. The remain ing members of the Commission shall be compensated in an amount equal to the allowances authorized by law for legislative members of interim legislative committees which shall be paid from funds appropriated to or otherwise available to the_ Executive Department and this provision shall apply to any of such remaining members who might be officials or em ployees of any branch of government, provided, however, that same shall be from said funds regardless of any other provisions of any other law to the contrary. All other funds, except as provided herein, which are necessary to effectuate and carry out the purposes of this Resolution shall come from funds appropirated to or otherwise available to the Legislative Department. Mr. Busbee of the 79th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 117, nays 11. The Senate amendment to HR 523-1104 was agreed to. Mr. Conner of the 91st moved that the following Bill of the Senate be taken from the table: 3378 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, SB 320. By Senators Lee of the 47th, Smalley of the 28th, McKenzie of the 17th, and Maclntyre of the 40th. A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 56-407A, so as to pro vide that the uninsured motor vehicle endorsement may contain provi sions excluding the insurer from liability for injury or destruction to property of the insured for which he has been compensated by other property or physical damage insurance; and for other purposes. Tho motion prevailed and SB 320 was taken from the table. Under the general order of business established by the Committee on Rules, the following Bill of the Senate was again taken up for consideration and read: SB 320. By Senators Lee of the 47th, Smalley of the 28th, McKenzie of the 17th, and Maclntyre of the 40th. A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 56-407A, so as to pro vide that the uninsured motor vehicle endorsement may contain provi sions excluding the insurer from liability; for injury or destruction to property of the insured for which he has been compensated by other property or physical damage insurance; and for other purposes. A substitute, offered by Mr. Jones of the 112th, was read and withdrawn. An amendment, offered by Mr. Mixon of the 152nd, was read and withdrawn. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the Bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the Bill, the ayes were 106, nays 3. The Bill, having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed. The following Resolution of the House was taken up for the purpose of con sidering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HE 6-1. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Busbee of the 79th and others. A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that when no person receives a majority of the votes in an election for FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3379 Governor, a runoff election shall be held between the two persons receiv ing the highest number of votes; and for other purposes. The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: Mr. President: Mr. Speaker: Your conference committee on House Resolution No. 6 has met and recom mends the following: (1) That the House and Senate recede from their respective positions. (2) That the attached Substitute be adopted. Respectfully submitted, FOR THE HOUSE: McCracken of the 49th Lambert of the 38th Wiggins of the 32nd FOR THE SENATE: Broun of the 46th Johnson of the 42nd Gardner of the 1st A RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to provide for run-off election for Governor in the event no candidate receives a major ity of the votes cast in the general election; to provide the procedure connected therewith; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. The Constitution is hereby amended by striking in their entirety Paragraphs III, IV and V of Article V and substituting in lieu thereof Paragraphs III, IV and V to read as follows: "Paragraph III. Transmission, Canvassing and Publishing Election Returns. The returns of each election district in a guberna torial election shall be sealed up by the superintendent thereof separately from other returns and shall be transmitted to the Secre tary of State. On the Tuesday next following the general election, unless the date therefor shall be changed by law, the Secretary of State shall transmit said returns to a Constitutional Officers Elec tion Board which shall be composed of the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore and the Sec retary of the Senate, and the chairman of all standing committees of the General Assembly. Such Board shall open and publish the 3380 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, returns, and the person having the majority of the whole number of votes shall be declared duly elected Governor of this State. Each candidate for Governor shall be entitled to designate one person to be present at the opening of the returns. "Paragraph IV. Run-off Election. In the event no gubernatorial candidate receives a majority of the whole number of votes cast in the general election, the Constitutional Officers Election Board shall continue the gubernatorial election by immediately calling a run-off election and designate as candidates therein the two persons who received the highest number of votes, who continue in life and have not declined to continue as a gubernatorial candidate. This run-off election shall be held on the third Tuesday immediately following the general election unless the date thereof shall be changed by the General Assembly. The run-off election shall be a continuation of the general election and only the electors who were entitled to vote in the general election shall be entitled to vote therein; and only those votes cast for the two persons designated shall be counted in the tabulation and canvass of the votes cast. The provisions relating to the transmission of the returns in the general election, the open ing of the returns, their tabulation, canvassing and publication shall apply to the run-off election. On the Tuesday next following the run-off election, the Constitutional Officers Election Board shall convene, open, canvass, tabulate and publish the returns of the run off election. The person having the highest number of votes entitled to be counted in the run-off election shall be declared the duly elected Governor of this State. "Paragraph V. General Assembly may Provide Additional Pro cedures. The General Assembly may provide by law for any addi tional procedures or requirements connected with any subject matter embraced within Paragraphs III and IV and in connection with any contested election, provided such laws are not inconsistent with the provisions therein." Section 2. When the above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall have been agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two branches of the General Assembly, and the same has been entered on their journals with the "Ayes" and "Nays" taken thereon, such proposed amendment shall be published and submitted as provided in Article XIII, Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution of Georgia of 1945, as amended. The ballot submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following: "YES ( ) Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for a run-off election for Governor in the event no candi- NO ( ) date received a majority of the votes cast in the general election?" All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes". All persons desiring to vote against ratify ing the proposed amendment shall vote "No". FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3381 If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this State. The returns of the election shall be made in like manner as returns for elections for members of the General Assembly, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to ascertain the result and certify the result to the Governor, who shall issue his proclamation thereon. Mr. McCracken of the 49th moved that the House adopt the report of the Committee of Conference. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Battle Berry, C. E. Berry, J. K. Black Blalock Bond Bostick Bo wen Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L, Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Caldwell Gates Cato Chandler Cheeks Clarke Cole Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cooper, B. Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dailey Daugherty Davis Dean DeLong Dent Dixon Dodson Dollar Dorminy Doster Douglas Edwards Fallin Farmer Fleming Floyd Funk Gary Gay Gaynor Grahl Graves Gunter Hadaway Hall Hamilton Hargrett Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Harrison Henderson Higginbotham Hill Holder Howard Howell Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Joiner Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Jordan, G. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambert Land Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Leonard Levitas Lewis Lowrey Malone Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moore, J. H. Moreland Mullinax Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Nimmer Northcutt Odom Oglesby Pafford Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. 3382 Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Phillips Poss Potts Ragland Eainey Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Russell Savage JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shields Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, V. T. Stalnaker Starnes Steis Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Townsend Turner Tye Underwood Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Walling Wamble Ward Ware Wells Westlake Whaley Wiggins Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Those not voting were Messrs.: Adams Barfield Bennett Buck Busbee Games Collins, J. P. Cook Cooper, J. R. Cox Dickinson Dillon Egan Parrar Gignilliat Grier Hale Hood Jordan, W. H. Lambros Lane, Dick Longino Lovell Magoon Melton Moore, Don C. Otwell Pickard Smith, J. R. Smith, W. L. Snow Sullivan Tucker Williams Winkles Wood Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 168, nays 0. The report of the Committee of Conference on HR 6-1 was adopted. Mr. Williams of the 16th asked unanimous consent that the Speaker discharge the Committee of Conference appointed to confer on the following Bill of the House, and that a second Committee of Conference be appointed: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work, so as to define "Commis sioner"; and for other purposes. The consent was granted, and the Speaker appointed as a second Committee of Conference on the part of the House the following members: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3383 Messrs. Williams of the 16th, Barber of the 24th and Steis of the 100th. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: HB 1044. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising appellate and other post-trial procedure, so as to redefine what judgments shall be subject to review; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Smalley of the 28th moves to amend HB 1044 by striking Section 9 in its entirety and renumbering Section 10 as Section 9. Mr. Harris of the 86th asked unanimous consent that further consideration of HB 1044 be withdrawn. The consent was granted, and further consideration of HB 1044 was with drawn. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has adopted, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional major ity the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 524-1104. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lane of the 64th, Farrar of the 118th, Lewis of the 50th, Barber of the 24th and others. A Resolution directing the State Revenue Commissioner to undertake a complete, exhaustive examination of properties owned by public utilities in order to ascertain their true fair market value and for other purposes. The Senate has dissolved its Committee of Conference and has appointed a second committee on the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th, Paris of the 23rd, Lee of the 35th, McCracken of the 49th, and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work on jobs which have comparable require ments relating to skill, effort and responsibility, so as to define "Com missioner"; and for other purposes. 3384 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The President has appointed on the part of the Senate the following: Senators Plunkett of the 30th, Andrews of the 49th, and Webb of the llth. The Senate has adopted, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 422-932. By Messrs. Rainey of the 69th, Hall of the 67th, and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to create a new Game and Fish Commission; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 1230. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively and exhaustively revising, superseding and modernizing pretrial, and certain post trial procedures in civil cases, so as to provide for service by publication when so ordered by the court; to provide that a party may amend his pleadings at any time before the entry of a pretrial order; and for other purposes. HB 432. By Mr. Carnes of the 129th: A Bill to provide for interest on uniliquidated damages under certain conditions; to provide for notice by the claimant; to provide that evi dence or discussion of interest on unliquidated damages shall not be sub mitted to the jury; and for other purposes. The following Bill and Resolutions of the House were taken up for the pur pose of considering the Senate amendments and substitutes thereto: HR 422-932. By Messrs. Rainey of the 69th, Hall of the 67th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to create a new Game and Pish Commission; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Committee on Economy, Reorganization and Efficiency In Govern ment moves to amend HR 422-932 as follows: By striking from Article V, Section IV, Paragraph IV the word "four" where it appears between the word "appoint" and the word "members" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "two". FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3385 Mr. Grahl of the 52nd moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Battle Berry, J. K. Black Bond Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Busbee Caldwell Carnes Gates Chandler Cheeks Clarke Cole Collins, J. F. Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cook Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Dailey Daugherty Davis DeLong Dickinson Dillon Dixon Dodson Dorminy Doster Douglas Edwards Fallin Farmer Fleming Funk Gay Gaynor Grahl Graves Gunter Hadaway Hamilton Hargrett Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harrison Henderson Higginbotham Hill Howard Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Lambert Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Leggett Leonard Levitas Lewis Longino Lowrey Magoon Mason Matthews, C. Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moore, J. H. Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Nimmer Northcutt Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Poss Potts Rainey Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, J. R. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Steis Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Tucker Turner Tye Underwood Walling Wamble Ward Ware Wells Westlake Whaley Wiggins Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Wood 3386 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Dean Egan Ployd Gary Hutchinson Lee, W. S. Odom Townsend Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Blalock Bostick Bowen Buck Cato Cox Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dent Dollar Farrar Gignilliat Grier Hale Hall Harris, R. W. Holder Hood Howell Joiner Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Laite Lambros Land Lane, Dick Lovell Malone Matthews, D. R. Melton Moore, Don C. Mullinax Oglesby Otwell Pafford Palmer Phillips Pickard Ragland Shields Snow Starnes Sullivan Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Winkles Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 147, nays 8. The Senate amendment to HR 422-932 was agreed to. HR 524-1104. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lane of the 64th, Parrar of the 118th and others: A Resolution directing the State Revenue Commissioner to undertake a complete exhaustive examination of properties owned by Public utilities in order to ascertain their true fair market value for ad valorem taxa tion purposes; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A RESOLUTION Directing the State Revenue Commissioner to undertake an examina tion of properties owned by public utilities in order to ascertain their true fair market values for ad valorem taxation purposes, and to assign said true fair market values to said properties; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, the State Government, in order to efficiently and effec tively carry out its constitutional responsibilities to the citizenry of Georgia must adhere to sound financial principles and policies; and FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3387 WHEREAS, over the past few years, practically all of the counties have undertaken to redetermine the valuation of properties owned by private interests in order to assign realistic values for ad valorem taxa tion purposes; and WHEREAS, the returns of public utilities are made to the State Revenue Commissioner, and not to the county governments, and a reevaluation of property owned by public utilities has not been undertaken in recent years; and WHEREAS, financial responsibility requires that the State Revenue Commissioner utilize the procedures provided by law to assign proper values to properties owned by public utilities doing business in the State of Georgia. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that the State Revenue Commissioner is hereby directed to undertake an examination of properties owned by public utilities, and, to the best of his ability, to assign the true fair market value to all properties returned to him for ad valorem taxation by public utilities. The following Senate amendment to the Senate substitute was read: Senator Holley of the 22nd moves to amend the Senate substitute to HR 524-1104 by striking the following language, wherever it appears: "and a revaluation of property owned by public utilities has not been undertaken in recent years". Mr. Parker of the 55th moved that the House agree to the Senate substitute, as amended by the Senate. On the motion, the ayes were 116, nays 0. The Senate substitute, as amended by the Senate, to HR 524-1104 was agreed to. HB 432. By Mr. Carnes of the 129th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for interest on unliquidated dam ages under certain conditions; to provide for notice by the claimant; to provide that evidence or discussion of interest on unliquidated damages shall not be submitted to the jury; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: 3388 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Senate Judiciary Committee moves to amend HB 432 by adding after the word "sum" where it first appears in Section 1 (a) the words and numbers "not exceeding $5,000.00". Mr. Games of the 129th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Adams Alexander Anderson Ballard Barber Battle Berry, J. K. Black Bond Bostick Bowen Branch Brantley, H .H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown C. Busbee Caldwell Carnes Gates Cato Cheeks Clarke Collins, J. P. Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cooper, B. Cooper, J. R. Cox Crowe, William Dailey Daugherty Davis Dean DeLong Dillon Dixon Dodson Dollar Dorminy Doster Douglas Edwards Egan Pallin Farmer Fleming Floyd Funk Gay Grahl Graves Grier Hadaway Hall Hargrett Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. Harrison Henderson Higginbotham Holder Hood Howard Hutchinson Jenkins Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Laite Lambert Lambros Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Levitas Lewis Longino Lowrey Magoon M alone Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken McDaniell Merritt Miller Mixon Moate Moore, J. H. Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Nimmer Northcutt Odom Palmer Paris Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Parrish Peterson Phillips Poss Potts Rainey Reaves Richardson Roach Ross Rowland Rush Russell Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Simmons Sims FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Snow Stalnaker Steis Sweat Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Townsend Tucker Turner Tye 3389 Underwood Walling Wamble Ward Wells Westlake Whaley Wiggins Williams Wilson, J. M. Winkles Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs.: Cole Gaynor Leonard Shuman Wilson, R. W. Those not voting were Messrs.: Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Blalock Buck Chandler Cook Crowe, W. J. Dent Dickinson Parrar Gary Gignilliat Gunter Hale Hamilton Hill Howell Joiner Jordan, G. Jordan, W. H. Land Leggett Lovell Melton Moore, Don C. Mullinax Oglesby Otwell Pafford Pickard Ragland Savage Shields Smith, G. W. Smith, J. R. Starnes Sullivan Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Ware Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 158, nays 5. The Senate amendment to HB 432 was agreed to. Mr. Floyd of the 7th arose to a point of personal privilege and addressed the House. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee of Conference thereon: HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work, so as to define "Commis sioner"; and for other purposes. 3390 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The following report of the Committee of Conference was read: CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON HB NO. 1198 The Conference Committee on HB No. 1198 recommends the fol lowing : (1) That the Senate and the House of Representatives both recede from their positions. (2) That the substitute by the Senate Committee on Business, Trade and Commerce be adopted with the following changes. (a) By striking quoted Section 3A (a) (4) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(4) The Commissioner shall have the authority to issue such rules and regulations appropriate to the carrying out of the pro visions of this Act.", in its entirety. (b) By striking quoted Section 3A (b) in Section 2 of said bill and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(b) The Commissioner of Labor is hereby authorized to re quest witnesses to appear and to procure pertinent records for examination by the Commissioner or his authorized representative in the county of the place of business of the employer, and such witnesses shall be paid the same fees as are allowed witnesses attend ing the superior courts of this State. In the event of failure of a person to attend, testify or produce records voluntarily, the Com missioner may make application to the superior court of the county in which the business is located, and after notice and hearing the court, in its discretion, upon proper cause shown, may issue an order requiring the person to appear before the Commissioner or his authorized representative and testify or produce records as requested by the Commissioner." Respectfully submitted, FOR THE HOUSE: Williams of the 16th Barber of the 24th Steis of the 100th FOR THE SENATE Andrews of the 49th Plunkett of the 30th Webb of the llth Mr. Williams of the 16th moved that the House adopt the report of the Com mittee of Conferecne. On the motion, the ayes were 158, nays 0. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3391 The report of the Committee of Conference on HB 1198 was adopted. Mr. Ployd of the 7th moved that the House do now adjourn. On the motion, the ayes were 19, nays 85. The motion to adjourn was lost. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: HB 1230. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising trial procedures in civil cases, so as to provide for service by publication when so ordered by the court; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Andrews of the 49th moves to amend House Bill 1230 as follows: By adding after the phrase "so as to provide for service by publica tion when so ordered by the court" the following: "to provide that service may be effective in cases involving less than $200.00 by leaving a copy of the summons and complaint at the most notorious place of abode;". By renumbering Sections 2 through 12 as Sections 3 through 13, respectively. By adding a new Section 2 to read as follows: "Section 2. Said Act is further amended by renumbering para graph (6) of subsection (d) of Section 4 as paragraph (7), and by adding a new paragraph (6) of subsection (d) of Section 4 to read as follows: '(6) If the principal sum involved is less than two hundred ($200.00) dollars, by leaving a copy at the most notorious place of abode.'" The following House amendment to the Senate amendment was read and adopted: 3392 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Harris of the 85th moves to amend the Senate amendment to HB 1230 by adding after the first two words "By adding" the words "in the caption", so that when so amended said first phrase of said Senate amendment shall read: "By adding in the caption after the phrase 'so as to provide for service by publication when so ordered by the court' the following:'. Mr. Harris of the 85th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment, as amended by the House. On the motion, the ayes were 104, nays 5. The Senate amendment to HB 1230, as amended by the House, was agreed to. Mr. Williams of the 16th arose to a point of personal privilege and addressed the House. Mr. Levitas of the 118th arose to a point of personal privilege and addressed the House. Mr. Levitas of the 118th asked unanimous consent that the House reconsider its action in withdrawing the following Bill of the House from further con sideration : HB 1044. By Mr. Harris of the 85th. A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising appellate and other post-trial procedure, so as to redefine what judgments shall be subject to review; and for other purposes. Objection was heard, and Mr. Levitas of the 118th moved that the House reconsider its action. On the motion, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows: Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs.: Adams Alexander Anderson Battle Berry, J. K. Black Bond Bostick Branch Brantley, H. H. Brantley, H. L. Bray Brown, B. D. Brown, C. Busbee Caldwell Carnes Gates Cato Cole Collins, J. P. Collins, M. Colwell Conner Cooper, J. R. Cox Dailey Daugherty Davis Dillon Dodson Dollar Dorminy Douglas Edwards Egan Farmer Gary Gay Gaynor Grahl Graves Grier Hamilton Hargrett Harrington Harris, J. F. Harris, J. R. Harris, R. W. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 Harrison Henderson Higginbotham Holder Hood Hutchinson Johnson, A. S. Johnson, B. Jones, C. M. Jones, M. Kaylor Kirksey Knapp Lambert Lane, Dick Lane, W. J. Lee, W. J. (Bill) Lee, W. S. Leggett Levitas Lewis Lowrey Magoon Mason Matthews, C. Matthews, D. R. Mauldin Maxwell McClatchey McCracken Merritt Miller Mixon Moreland Murphy Nash Nessmith Newton Odom Palmer 3393 Parker, C. A. Parker, H. W. Peterson Poss Potts Rainey Reaves Richardson Ross Rowland Russell Savage Scarlett Shanahan Sherman Shuman Simmons Sims Smith, G. W. Smith, V. T. Smith, W. L. Stalnaker Steis Thompson, A. W. Thompson, R. Threadgill Townsend Tucker Turner Tye Walling Wamble Ward Westlake Whaley Wigging Williams Wilson, J. M. Wilson, R. W. Wood Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Bowen Jordan, W. H. Leonard Moate Those not voting were Messrs.: Ballard Barber Barfield Bennett Berry, C. E. Blalock Buck Chandler Cheeks Clarke Cook Cooper, B. Crowe, William Crowe, W. J. Dean 3394 DeLong Dent Dickinson Dixon Doster Fallin Farrar FlemingFloyd Funk Gignilliat Gunter Hadaway Hale Hall Hill Howard Howell Jenkins JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Joiner Jordan, G. Laite Lambros Land Longino Lovell Malone McDaniell Melton Moore, Don C. Moore, J. H. Mullinax Nimmer Northcutt Oglesby Otwell Pafford Paris Parrish Phillips Pickard Ragland Eoach Rush Shields Smith, J. R. Snow Starnes Sullivan Sweat Underwood Vaughan, D. N. Vaughn, C. R. Ware Wells Winkles Mr. Speaker On the motion, the ayes were 129, nays 4. The motion prevailed, and the House reconsidered its action in withdrawing HB 1044 from further consideration. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: HB 1044. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising appellate and other post-trial procedure, so as to redefine what judgments shall be subject to review; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Smalley of the 28th moves to amend HB 1044 by striking Section 9 in its entirety and renumbering Section 10 as Section 9. Mr. Levitas of the 118th moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment. The motion prevailed, and the House disagreed to the Senate amendment to HB 1044. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3395 The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1197. By Mr. Howard of the 101st: A Bill to amend an Act providing for a tax on certain deed, instruments, or other writings transferring real estate, so as to exempt any instru ment or writing from said tax which is executed by any agency of the State of Georgia or by any political subdivision thereof, or by any public corporation or authority; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 741. By Mr. Mixon of the 81st: A Bill to authorize the Supervisor of Purchases to permit county gov ernments, on an optional basis, to purchase county supplies through the State, and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, as amended, by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1498. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Bill to provide the procedures under which surplus State property shall be disposed of; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed, by substitute, by the requisite constitutional major ity the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1057. By Messrs. McCracken of the 49th, Wiggins of the 32nd, Maxwell of the 106th, Lambert of the 38th and Underwood of the 61st: A Bill to amend Code Section 34-202, relating to the duties of the State Election Board and authorize them to exercise additional powers as they relate to primaries and elections; and for other purposes. The following Bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto: 3396 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, HB 1197. By Mr. Howard of the 101st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a tax on certain deeds transferring real estate, so as to exempt any instrument from said tax which is executed by any agency of the State of Georgia or by any political subdivision thereof; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Committee on Banking and Finance moves to amend House Bill No. 1197, as follows: By inserting in the title immediately before the phrase: "to repeal conflicting laws;", the following: "to provide that the tax shall not apply to instruments or writ ings which convey no more than a leasehold interest in standing timber;". By adding after the word "shown", wherever it shall appear in Section 1 the following: "Provided further that the tax imposed by Section 1 shall not apply to any instrument or writing which conveys no more than a leasehold interest in standing timber." Mr. Harris of the 118th moved that the House agree to the Senate amend ment. On the motion to agree, the ayes were 104, nays 1. The Senate amendment to HB 1197 was agreed to. The following Bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of consider ing the Senate amendments or substitutes thereto: HB 741. By Mr. Mixon of the 81st: A Bill to be entitled an Act to authorize the Supervisor of Purchases to permit county governments, on an optional basis, to purchase county supplies through the State; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3397 The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to authorize the Supervisor of Purchases to permit local political subdivisions and agencies, on an optional basis, to purchase through the State; to provide the procedures connected there with; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. The Supervisor of Purchases is hereby authorized to per mit local political subdivisions, on an optional basis, to purchase their supplies through the State. Section 2. The governing authorities of each of the local political subdivisions in this State shall have the right, from time to time, to determine through study whether an overall substantial price advantage will result to a political subdivision by the means of a local political subdivision either alone or in conjunction with another political subdi vision, bidding through the Supervisor of Purchases on standard items of equipment, supplies, or services or other standard expenses ordinarily needed, procured, or incurred by such governments without a sacrifice of safety or quality. If the governing authority of any political subdi vision shall determine that such a price advantage may be obtained by such means on any one or more of such items or expenses, said governing authority or authorities shall make this fact known to the Supervisor of Purchases. After receipt of such notice from said political subdivisions, the Supervisor of Purchases shall, after consultation, with such govern ing authorities, establish sets of uniform standard specifications for such item or items as may be reasonably required in order to meet the needs and requirements of the requesting political subdivision. The gov erning authorities of the requesting political subdivision shall, at such times as the Supervisor of Purchases shall prescribe, report its probable annual requirements for such standard items to the Supervisor of Pur chases and the requested time for delivery of such items. The Supervisor of Purchases shall compile such requirements together with such other information as may be needed for the purpose of advertising for bids for a uniform state price on such items. Section 3. The Supervisor of Purchases shall advertise for bids for supply of such items in the same manner followed for State purchases: provided, however, that the Supervisor of Purchases shall inform pro spective bidders that the bid requested is for the furnishing of such items to be designated political subdivisions at the times specified on the basis of a single State price applicable to all such local political subdivisions; that payment for such items as may be purchased by such political subdi visions shall be made by the respective political subdivision to the bidder; that no guarantee is made that any purchases will be made from the successful bidder as a result of such bid, and such other information as may be appropriate under the circumstances. The Supervisor of Pur chases shall, upon receipt of bids, process the same in the same manner followed for State purchases and promptly notify the governing author- 3398 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, ities of the political subdivisions of the name of the successful bidder, the bid price, the terms of delivery guaranteed by the successful bidder, and any other pertinent information. The Supervisor of Purchases shall prescribe regulations necessary for implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this Act and is authorized to establish minimum stand ards and uniform standard specifications and procedures for the pur chase and distribution of equipment, supplies, services and other expenses for the political subdivisions of this State. Section 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Mr. Mixon of the 81st moved that the House agree to the Senate substitute. On the motion, the ayes were 105, nays 2. The Senate substitute to HB 741 was agreed to. HB 1057. By Messrs. McCracken of the 49th, Wiggins of the 32nd and others: A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 34-202, so as to change the duties of the State Election Board; and for other purposes. The following Senate substitute was read: A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 34-201 of the Georgia Election Code, relating to the State Election Board, so as to change the composition of the Board; to provide for vacancies; to provide for other matters relative thereto; to amend Code Section 34-202, relating to the duties of the State Election Board, so as to change the duties of the Board and authorize it to exercise additional powers relative to primaries and elections; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. Code Section 34-201 of the Georgia Election Code, relat ing to the State Election Board, is hereby amended by striking said Sec tion in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 34-201 to read as follows: "Section 34-201. Creation, seal; by-laws; meetings; minutes of meet ings.-- (a) There is hereby created a State board to be known as the 'State Election Board' to be composed of the Secretary of State, an elec- FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3399 tor to be elected by a majority vote of the Senate of the General Assem bly at its regular session held in each odd-numbered year, an elector to be elected by a majority vote of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly at its regular session held in each odd-numbered year, and a member of each political party to be nominated and appointed in the manner hereinafter provided. No person while a member of the General Assembly shall serve as a member of the Board. "(b) A member elected by a House of the General Assembly shall take office on the day following the adjournment of the regular session in which elected, and shall serve for a term of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner removed. An elected member of the Board may be removed at any time by a majority vote of the House which elected him. In the event a vacancy should occur in the office of such a member of the Board at a time when the General Assem bly is not in session, then the President of the Senate shall thereupon appoint an elector to fill the vacancy if the prior incumbent of such office was elected by the Senate or appointed by the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall thereupon appoint an elector to fill_the vacancy if the prior incumbent of such office was elected by the House of Representatives or appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. A member appointed to fill a vacancy may be removed at any time by a majority vote of the House whose pre siding officer appointed him. Each present member of the Board who was elected by a House of the General Assembly shall continue to serve on the Board until his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner removed; and effective April 1, 1967, this sentence is hereby stricken and repealed. "(c) Within thirty days after the effective date of this subsection, the State executive committee of each political party shall nominate a member of its party to serve as a member of the State Election Board and, thereupon, the Governor shall appoint such nominee as a member of the Board to serve for a term of two years from the date of the ap pointment and until his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner removed. Thereafter, such State executive committee shall select a nomi nee for such office on the Board within thirty days after a vacancy occurs in such office and shall also select a nominee at least thirty days prior to the expiration of the term of each incumbent nominated by it, and each such nominee shall be immediately appointed by the Governor as a member of the Board to serve for the unexpired term in the case of a vacancy, and for a term of two years in the case of an expired term. Each successor, other than one appointed to serve an unexpired term, shall serve for a term of two years, and the terms shall run consecu tively from the date of the initial gubernatorial appointment. No person shall be eligible for nomination by such State executive committee unless he is an elector and a member in good standing of the political party of the committee. Such a member shall cease to serve on the Board and his office shall be abolished if and when his political organization shall cease to be a 'political party' within the definition of this Code. "(d) The Secretary of State shall be the Chairman of the Board. Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, and no vacancy on the Board shall impair the right of the quorum to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the Board. The Board shall adopt a seal for its use and by-laws for its own government and procedure. 3400 JOUENAL OP THE HOUSE, " (e) Meetings shall be held whenever necessary for the performance of the duties of the Board on call of the Chairman or two of its members. Minutes shall be kept of all meetings of the Board and a record kept of the vote of each member on all questions coming before the Board. The Chairman shall give to each member of the Board prior notice of the time and place of each meeting of the Board. "(f) If any member of the Board shall qualify as a candidate for any office which is to be voted upon in any primary or election regu lated by the Board, that member's position on the Board shall be immedi ately vacated and such vacancy shall be filled in the manner provided for filling other vacancies on the Board." Section 2. Code Section 34-202, relating to the duties of the State Election Board, is hereby amended by striking said Section in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 34-202 to read as follows: "Section 34-202. Duties of the Board.--It shall be the duty of the State Election Board: "(a) To so supervise and coordinate the work of the Secretary of State, superintendents, registrars, deputy registrars, poll officers, and other officials, as to obtain uniformity in their practices and proceedings and legality and purity in all primaries and elections; "(b) To formulate, adopt and promulgate such rules and regu lations, consistent with law, as will be conductive to the fair, legal and orderly conduct of primaries and elections; and upon the adop tion of each rule and regulation, the Board shall promptly file certified copies thereof with the Secretary of State and each ordinary; "(c) To publish and furnish to primary and election officials, from time to time, a sufficient number of indexed copies of all pri mary and election laws and pertinent rules and regulations then in force; "(d) To publish and distribute such explanatory pamphlets re garding the interpretation and application of primary and election laws as in the opinion of the Board should be distributed to the electorate; "(e) To investigate when necessary or advisable the adminis tration of primary and election laws, and frauds and irregularities in primaries and elections, and to report violations of the primary and election laws to the appropriate solicitor general for further investigation and prosecution, (nothing in this subsection shall be so construed as to require any complaining party to request an in vestigation by the Board before he might proceed to seek any other remedy available to him under this Code or any other provision of law); FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3401 "(f) To make such recommendations as it may deem advisable to the General Assembly relative to the conduct and administration of primaries and elections; "(g) To employ such assistants as may be necessary; and "(h) To take such other action, consistent with law, as the Board may determine to be conducive to the fair, legal and orderly conduct of primaries and elections." Section 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Mr. McCracken of the 49th moved that the House agree to the Senate sub stitute. On the motion, the ayes were 109, nays 2. The Senate substitute to HB 1057 was agreed to. HB 1498. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide the procedures under which sur plus State property shall be disposed of; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: The Senate Committee on Economy Reorganization and Efficiency in Government moves to amend HB 1498 as follows: By striking in its entirety Section 5 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 5 to read as follows: "Section 5. Nothing contained within this Act shall be con strued so as to apply to any real property owned by the State, and this Act shall not apply to such property, nor shall this Act be con strued so as to prohibit the Attorney General from distributing or selling the published reports of the opinions of the Attorney General, Provided, further, nothing herein contained shall prohibit the transfer of title to any surplus personalty of the State of Geor gia to any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State by gift, negotiated sale, or otherwise." Mr. Murphy of the 26th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. On the motion, the ayes were 133 nays 1. 3402 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The Senate amendment to HB 1498 was agreed to. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 1639. By Messrs. Peterson and Stalnaker of the 59th: A Bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Warner Eobins so as to change the compensation of the mayor and councilman; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolutions of the House, to-wit: HR 104. By Messrs. Lambros of the 130th and Turner of the 32nd: A Resolution requesting the motto "Justice, Mercy and Humility" be engraved upon the face of the United States one dollar bill; and for other purposes. HR 451-994. By Messrs. Vaughn of the 117th, Wood of the 16th, Buck of the 112th, and others: A Resolution authorizing the creation of an Interim Study Committee to revise, consolidate, and recommend the enactment of new laws and to re-codify all laws pertaining to the highways and public roads of the State of Georgia; and for other purposes. HR 493-1063. By Mr. Vaughn of the 117th: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of certain real property in Fulton County in exchange for slope easements and certain other real property located in Fulton County; and for other purposes. HR 498-1089. By Messrs. Vaughn of the 117th and Wood of the 16th: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of a certain tract of land to Ira H. Hardin Company; and for other purposes. HR 520-1103. By Mr. Vaughn of the 117th: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of a certain tract of land with improvements thereon, in Fulton County; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3403 HR 597-1247. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th, and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution to ratify, approve and confirm the Executive Order of the Governor, Dated March 29th, 1967, suspending the collection of the tax imposed by the Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act on the sale and use of the Holy Bible and Testaments until the next meeting of the General Assembly; and for other purposes. HR 598-1247. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th, and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution to ratify, approve and confirm the Executive Order of the Governor, dated March 20, 1967,'suspending the collection of taxes imposed by the Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act upon the sale of tangible personal property to certain general non-profit hospitals until the next meeting of the General Assembly; and for other purposes. HR 599-1247. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution to ratify, approve and confirm the Executive Order of the Governor, dated March 29, 1967, suspending the collection of taxes im posed by the Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act on the sales of food to private non-profit, accredited elementary schools until the next meeting of the General Assembly; and for other purposes. HR 600-1247. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution to ratify, approve and confirm the Executive Order of the Governor, dated December 12, 1967, designating the new official resi dence of the Governor of the State of Georgia as the "Executive Center" and designating the Executive Center as the official residence of the Governor; and for other purposes. HR 603-1280. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of certain real property located in Stephens County; and for other purposes. HR 673-1450. By Mr. Chandler of the 47th: A Resolution declaring that those portions of that State property known as and presently under lease as the Western and Atlantic Railroad which are not included in new lease of said Railroad shall be subject to the jurisdiction, supervision and control of the State Properties Control Commission as provided in the State Properties Control Code; and for other purposes. 3404 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HR 706. By Messrs. Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd, Cooper of the 113th, and others: A Resolution urging the consolidation and combination into one au thority of the City of Marietta Hospital Authority and the Cobb County Hospital Authority; and for other purposes. HR 709-1479. By Mr. Smith of the 54th: A Resolution approving an amendment dated the 15th day of February, 1968, to the lease contract dated the 12th day of January, 1960, entered into between the Western and Atlantic Railroad Commission and City Center, Incorporated; and for other purposes. HR 715-1515. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lance of the 64th, and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of certain real property in Wayne County, Georgia, in exchange for certain other real property located in Wayne County, Georgia; and for other purposes. HR 737-1616. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th and Chandler of the 47th: A Resolution authorizing the State Properties Control Commission to amend the present and existing lease of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, so as to postpone for six months, to June 27, 1969, the date by which the State, must give to the lessee of said railroad notice of the State's desire to acquire any or all property acquired by the lessee during the term of said lease; and for other purposes. HR 784-1636. By Messrs. Clarke of the 45th and Pickard of the 112th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the Department of Industry and Trade to expend available funds for the business meals and incidental expenses of bona fide indus trial prospects and other persons who attend any meeting at the re quest of the Department to discuss the location or development of new business, industry, or tourism within the State; and for other purposes. The Senate has agreed to the House amendments to the following Bills of the Senate, to-wit: SB 180. By Senator Cox of the 21st: A Bill to repeal Section 24-3104 of the Code of Ga., relating to the compensation of court reporters by counties; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3405 SB 205. By Senator Gardner of the 1st: A Bill to prohibit the intentional inhaling of fumes from model glue for the purpose of causing intoxication; to define "model glue"; to prohibit selling and possessing model glue for illegal purposes; to pro hibit transfer of model glue to persons under 21 without consent; to provide for records of sales to persons under 21; to define punishment; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 234. By Senators Eldridge of the 7th, Flowers of the 10th, Young of the 13th and otheis: A Bill to establish the State Department of Air Transportation; and for other purposes. SB 236. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to provide for the compensation ol the sheriff of certain counties and the procedure in connection with the payment thereof; to provide for an effective date; to specifically repeal certain laws; to repeal con flicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 274. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to establish the Criminal Court of Atlanta', so as to provide that vacancies occurring in the offices of Judge and Solicitor General of the Criminal Court of Fulton County shall be filled by the Governor appointing a successor to serve until the next general election at which time a successor shall be elected"; and for other purposes. SB 310. By Senators Sells of the 37th, Ward of the 39th, Smith of the 34th and others: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to require the tax receiver or tax commissioner of Fulton County to receive tax returns for the City of Atlanta; and for other purposes"; so as to authorize the tax com missioner of Fulton County to receive tax returns and collect taxes due the City of Atlanta located in Fulton County and DeKalb County; so as to vest the tax commissioner of Fulton County with all powers and authorities now vested in the municipal revenue collector; and for other purposes. SB 324. By Senators Shea of the 3rd, Gardner of the 1st and Searcey of the 2nd: A Bill to provide the procedure for the impaneling of alternate jurors in criminal cases in the Superior Courts of this State; to provide how such alternate jurors may be substituted for original jurors; and for other purposes. 3406 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, SB 342. By Senator Kennedy of the 4th: A Bill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Evans, State of Georgia, so as to change the compensation of the Chairman and members of said Board; and for other purposes. SB 359. By Senators Conway of the 41st and Johnson of the 42nd: A Bill to amend Code Title 34, known as the Georgia Election Code, so as to prohibit certain political activities; so as to provide that such activities shall be known as unlawful campaign practices; and for other purposes. The Senate has agreed to the House amendment to the following Resolution of the Senate, to-wit: SR 193. By Senator McGill of the 24th: A Resolution authorizing the conveyance of a certain tract of Stateowned property located in Wilkes County to Wilkes County; and for other purposes. The Senate has agreed to the House substitute to the following Bills of the Senate, to-wit: SB 151. By Senators Coggin of the 35th and Bateman of the 27th: A Bill to amend the Georgia Election Code, relating to the comprehen sive regulation of primaries and federal, State and County elections, so as to provide that municipal primaries and elections shall be regu lated by the Georgia Election Code; and for other purposes. SB 245. By Senator Kidd of the 25th: A Bill establishing the Georgia State War Veterans' Home, so as to re define the term "war veterans"; and for other purposes. SB 258. By Senator Kidd of the 25th: A Bill to amend an Act providing for the issuance of automobile license tags to disabled veterans, so as to provide for the issuance of license tags to certain other veterans; and for other purposes. SB 277. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta the provisions of the amendment to Paragraph 1, of Section 7, of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia", so as to FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3407 provide that vacancies occurring in the office of Judge of the Civil Court of Fulton County shall be filled by the Governor appointing a successor to serve until the next general election at which time a suc cessor shall be elected; and for other purposes. SB 364. By Senators McGill of the 24th, Fincher of the 51st, Carter of the 14th and others: A Bill to provide a salary payable from State funds for each solicitor general effective at the beginning of the next term of office of each solicitor general; to provide for the disposition of all fees, fines for feitures, costs and commissions formerly allowed solicitors general; and for other purposes. SB 392. By Senator Rowan of the 8th: A Bill to amend an Act creating the office of tax commissioner of Berrien County, so as to place the tax commissioner on an annual salary; to provide for the disposition of all fees, commissions and emoluments, formerly allowed the tax commissioner; to provide for assistants and their compensation; to provide an allowance for office supplies and expenses; and for other purposes. SB 406, By Senator Hall of the 52nd: A Bill to create the Coosa Valley Area Vocational Technical School and Junior College System; to provide for a Board of Trustees of said sys tem; to provide for the appointment of the Board of Trustees; to provide for the qualifications, compensation and terms of office of the members of the Board; and for other purposes. The Senate has agreed to the House amendment to the following Bill of the Senate, to-wit: SB 117. By Senators Flowers of the 10th, Eldridge of the 7th, Searcey of the 2nd and Carter of the 14th: A Bill to amend Code Section 56-2413 of the Georgia Insurance Code, relating to the contents of policies in general; and for other purposes. The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 329. By Mr. Steis of the 100th: A Bill to amend Code Chapter 84-4, relating to barbers and manicurists, so as to change certain provisions relative to examinations for certifi cates of registration as a master barber; and for other purposes. 3408 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 509. By Messrs. Rowland of the 48th, Doster of the 73rd and Peterson of the 59th: A Bill to amend an Act providing retirement benefits for the clerks of the superior court of Georgia, so as to provide that the benefits and funds shall be exempt from attachment, garnishment, taxation, levy, and sale and any other process; and for other purposes. HB 776. By Messrs. Maxwell and Fleming of the 106th and others: A Bill to amend an Act regulating public instruction in the County of Richmond, so as to fix the date of the election for members of the County Board of Education hereafter elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in all future elections; and for other purposes. HB 838. By Mr. Barber of the 24th: A Bill to abolish the present mode of compensating the Clerk of the Superior Court, the Ordinary, and the Tax Collector of Jackson County; and for other purposes. HB 853. By Messrs. Games of the 129th, Cooper of the 16th, Fallin of the 94th, and others: A Bill to amend an Act establishing Juvenile Courts, so as to change provisons relating to jurisdiction and procedure and to clarify provisions relating to rights of juvenile offenders; and for other purposes. HB 886. By Mr. Dixon of the 83rd: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively revising the laws relating to subpoenas and other like processes and providing for the attendance of witnesses and fees thereof, so as to provide for the payment of fees to certain peace officers; and for other purposes. HB 896. By Mr. Douglas of the 60th: A Bill to amend Code Section 92-3106, relating to personal exemptions, so as to allow a taxpayer who is the head of a household to claim a $600 exemption for certain dependents who are students; and for other purposes. HB 950. By Mr. Cooper of the 103rd: A Bill to amend the Act creating the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Funds, so as to provide newly-employed peace officers with certain rights; and for other purposes. HB 993. By Messrs. Vaughn of the 117th, Wood of the 16th, Buck of the 112th and others: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways", so as to provide that local authorities shall conform their FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3409 traffic-control devices to specifications contained in the Georgia Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways; and for other purposes. HB 1050. By Messrs. Lane of the 64th, Paris of the 23rd, Parker of the 55th and others: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the State Employees' Retirement System, so as to provide for an exception relative to employment; and for other purposes. HB 1063. By Messrs. Smith and Cole of the 3rd, Crowe of the 1st, Grier of the 132nd and others: A Bill to create the Georgia Interdepartmental Council on the Handi capped; and for other purposes. HB 1077. By Messrs. Jones of the 112th, DeLong of the 105th, Brantley of the 139th and others: A Bill to amend an Act regulating charges and interest on loans secured by secondary security deeds on certain property, so as to clarify the provisions relating to secondary security instruments; and for other purposes. HB 1078. By Messrs. Jones of the 112th, DeLong of the 105th, Brantley of the 139th and others: A Bill to amend an Act known as "The Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales Act", so as to redefine certain terms; and for other purposes. HB 1100. By Messrs. Games of the 129th, Townsend of the 140th, Gates of the 123rd and others: A Bill to repeal an Act to establish the license fees which may be charged to any person, firm or corporation with a taxicab franchise in certain cities, so as to provide that the license fee shall be the only fee or business tax such cities shall be authorized to levy and collect; and for other purposes. HB 1142. By Messrs. Adams of the 125th, Bond of the 136th, Gates of the 123rd and others: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "Zoning in Certain Counties", so as to provide that the hearing before the county authorities with respect to the modification or amendment of any portion of the plan or zoning resolu tion shall be after a written report has been filed by the Planning Commission of the County; and for other purposes. 3410 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, HB 1177. By Messrs. Hale of the 1st and Jones of the 76th: A Bill to amend the Act known as the "Georgia Health Code", by delet ing Section 88-1812, of a certain chapter and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 88-1812, so as to provide for the use of general funds or tax revenues derived from the levy of an ad valorem tax not exceeding 7 mills by cities; and for other purposes. HB 1193. By Messrs. Adams of the 125th, Vaughan of the 14th, Harris of the 14th and others: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Georgia Motorboat Numbering Act", so as to change the short title of said Act; and for other purposes. HB 1195. By Mr. Bray of the 43rd: A Bill to amend Code Section 109A-2-328, so as to provide that in sales by auction the auctioneer shall be considered agent of both parties so far as to dispense with any further memorandum in writing other than his own entries; and for other purposes. HB 1217. By Mr. Hale of the 1st: A Bill to amend to Act authorizing the governing authorities of mun icipalities and counties to establish planning commissions, so as to remove restrictions which limit the appointment of public officials to planning commissions; and for other purposes. HB 1224. By Mrs. Hamilton of the 137th, Messrs. Egan of the 141st, Bond of the 136th and others: A Bill to amend an Act to provide for a board of elections in certain coun ties, so as to provide that the board of elections in certain cases shall be authorized to expend public funds for distributing sample ballots; and for other purposes. HB 1233. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing that the State of Georgia become a party to the "Southern Nuclear Compact", so as to provide that the funds necessary to cai-ry out the provisions of the Act shall be paid from funds appropriated to or otherwise made available to the Execu tive Department; and for other purposes. HB 1238. By Mr. Threadgill of the 32nd: A Bill to amend an Act providing uniform standards for audits of municipalities and counties within the State of Georgia, so as to make FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3411 the provisions of the Act applicable to all audits of the financial affairs of a county, municipality or political subdivision of a county or mun icipality; and for other purposes. HB 1241. By Messrs. Paris of the 23rd, Murphy of the 26th, Miller of the 108th and others: A Bill to amend Chapter 25-1 of the Code of Georgia, relating to credit unions; and for other purposes. HB 1245. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 61th and others: A Bill to amend an Act creating the Department of Public Safety, to establish within the Department of Public Safety a Division to be known as the Security Guard Division; and for other purposes. HB 1246. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and others: A Bill to amend an Act prohibiting the purchase of any passenger automobile by any department, bureau or agency of the State, so as to provide that passenger automobiles may be purchased, leased or rented for use by and on behalf of the Governor; and for other purposes. HB 1260. By Mr. Henderson of the 102nd: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Family Planning Services Act", so as to change the classification of persons to whom family planning services may be offered; and for other purposes. HB 1264. By Messrs. Davis, Westlake and Higginbotham of the 119th. Malone, Smith and Palmer of the 117th: A Bill to amend Code Section 92-4902, relating to the requirement that tax collectors keep a cash book, so as to provide that entries required to be made in said book shall be entered within a certain length of time; and for other purposes. HB 1277. By Mr. Fleming of the 106th: A Bill to amend an Act authorizing the governing authorities of mun icipalities and counties to establish planning commissions, so as to require a brief description of the property sought to be rezoned to be published in certain newspapers; and for other purposes. HB 1293. By Messrs. Hargrett of the 77th, Rainey of the 69th, and Mullinax of the 42nd: A Bill to amend an Act revising, consolidating and superseding the laws of this State relative to Game and Fish, so as to eliminate alligator hunting licenses for non-residents; and for other purposes. 3412 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1300. By Messrs. Westlake, Jenkins, Higginbotham and Davis of the 119th, Palmer, Smith, Malone and Vaughn of the 117th, and others: A Bill to make it unlawful for any person to wilfully make a false report of a crime; and for other purposes. HB 1334. By Mr. Matthews of the 94th: A Bill to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to determine, establish and promulgate grades of quality for citrus fruit offered for sale"; and for other purposes. HB 1341. By Mr. Harris of the 118th: A Bill to amend Code Chapter 67-26, so as to conform the provisions of said Code Chapter to the requirements of Section 6323 of the U. S. Internal Revenue Code of 1954, known as the Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966; and for other other purposes. HB 1342. By Mr. Lee of the 79th: A Bill to amend an Act relating to the issuance of motor vehicle license plates in counties; so as to increase the fee for purchase by mail; and for other purposes. HB 1349. By Messrs. Howard of the 101st, Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd: A Bill to amend an Act authorizing certain counties in this State to establish and maintain a law library; and for other purposes. HB 1355. By Mr. Bennett of the 95th: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide an annual contingent expense allowance for each of the solicitors general of the superior courts", so as to change the annual contingent expense allowance for solicitors general; and for other purposes. HB 1360. By Mr. Shanahan of the 8th: A Bill to amend Code Chapter 56-24, so as to provide the circumstances under which certain policies may be cancelled; and for other purposes. HB 1395. By Messrs. Hill of the 121st, Dillon of the 128th, Carnes of the 129th, and others: A Bill to provide that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpo ration to operate or allow to be operated any truck, motor vehicle or other vehicle engaged in hauling or carrying any type of gravel, dirt FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3413 or sand without having the same protected or enclosed in certain counties; and for other purposes. HB 1398. By Messrs. Harris and Scarlett of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act which increases the salary of the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Glynn County, so as to change the salary; and for other purposes. HB 1404. By Messrs. Harris of the 118th and Harris of the 85th: A Bill to provide for the interpretation of provisions of the Constitution and statutes basing elections and other actions on elections of members of the General Assembly; and for other purposes. HB 1405. By Mr. Fleming of the 106th: A Bill to amend Code Section 49-701, so as to increase the amount which can be remitted to the ordinaries belonging to minors and insane persons who have no legal guardian; and for other purposes. HB 1407. By Messrs. Wilson of the 102nd, McDaniell and Howard of the 101st, Cooper of the 103rd and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for the establishment of an Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning District, so as to increase the membership; and for other purposes. HB 1412. By Mr. Busbee of the 79th: A Bill to provide the dates on which laws shall become effective; and for other purposes. HB 1420. By Messrs. Dean of the 20th, Lowrey, Graves and Starnes of the 13th, and Sims of the 131st: A Bill to amend an Act authorizing the governing authorities of munici palities and counties to establish planning commissions; and for other purposes. HB 1424. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th and Smith of the 54th: A Bill to provide for the establishment of a special training program within the State Department of Education; and for other purposes. HB 1438. By Messrs. Levitas and Walling of the 118th, Jones and Buck of the 112th: A Bill to prohibit the possession of certain types of firearms, to be known as the "Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act"; and for other purposes. 3414 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1439. By Mr. Ross of the 31st: A Bill to strike the words "Roads and Revenues" from the official names of all the governing authorities of the 159 counties of the State of Geor gia; and for other purposes. HB 1451. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st, Paris of the 23rd and Lane of the 64th: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for license and excise taxes upon the business of dealing in malt beverages", so as to provide that the State Revenue Commissioner shall sell any and all malt bever ages found to be contraband; and for other purposes. HB 1458. By Mr. Malone of the 117th: A Bill to amend an Act creating and establishing the civil and criminal court of DeKalb County, so as to provide the salaries of the solicitor; and for other purposes. HB 1461. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend the charter of the City of Brunswick, so as to provide specific requirements relating to the publications of ordinances which are adopted for the purposes of raising revenue; and for other purposes. HB 1462. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Bill to amend the "Georgia Retailers' and Consumers' Sales and Use Tax Act", so as to make certain transactions the equivalent of a retail sale under said Act; and for other purposes. HB 1475. By Messrs. Howard and McDaniell of the 101st, Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd, and Cooper of the 103rd: A Bill to amend an Act amending, revising, consolidating and super seding the several Acts incorporating the Town of Austell, so as to in crease the corporate limits of said city; and for other purposes. HB 1480. By Messrs. Gaynor of the 114th, Funk and Richardson of the 116th, Gignilliat and Berry of the 113th, Smith of the 114th: A Bill to supplement the salaries of the judges of the superior court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia; and for other purposes. HB 1507. By Messrs. Lambros of the 130th, Dillon of the 128th, Townsend of the 141st and others: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the Criminal Court of Atlanta, so as to provide for a method of trial and correction of errors in the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3415 HB 1511. By Messrs. Threadgill and Wiggins of the 32nd: A Bill to amend Code Section 67-108, relating to registry of mortgages and security deeds on property of railroads and public utilities, so as to include corporations or entities engaging in the furnishing of telephone service within the provisions of said code section; and for other pur poses. HB 1512. By Messrs. Threadgill and Wiggins of the 32nd: A Bill to amend the "Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions", so as to exempt from the filing provisions security interest in property of corporations and other entities engaged in the furnishing of tele phone service; and for other purposes. HB 1513. By Mr. Carnes of the 129th: A Bill to re-establish a Local Education Commission in Atlanta and Fulton County to continue the study of the desirability of combing the school systems; and for other purposes. HB 1526. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to amend an Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads arid Revenues for Echols County; so as to change the terms of office of the members of the Board; and for other purposes. HB 1528. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to provide for the election of the members of the Board of Educa tion of Echois County; and for other purposes. HB 1529. By Mr. Pafford of the 97th: A Bill to amend an Act creating the County Court of Echols County, so as to change the term of office of the Judge; and for other purposes. HB 1533. By Mr. Collins of the 62nd: A Bill to amend an Act providing for grants to certain incorporated municipalities of this state to be used for any public purposes, so as to provide for minimum grants; and for other purposes. HB 1541. By Messrs. Scarlett and Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend the Charter of the City of Brunswick, so as to provide a successful primary candidate shall not be required to file a nominating petition; and for other purposes. 3416 JOUKNAL OF THE HOUSE, HB 1547. By Messrs. Colwell of the 5th, Moore of the 12th, Steis of the 100th and Wells of the 30th: A Bill to provide that the governing authorities of the various counties shall have the authority to employ personnel to assist the various county officers; and for other purposes. HB 1549. By Mr. Conner of the 91st: A Bill to amend Code Section 56-1310(2) relating to the power of mun icipal corporations to impose and collect a tax on gross direct premiums of life insurance companies, so as to provide that such tax shall be based solely upon such gross direct premiums as are received during the pre ceding calendar year from certain policies; and for other purposes. HB 1575. By Messrs. Longino of the 122nd, Gates of the 123rd, Turner of the 123rd and others: A Bill to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of College Park, so as to change the residence qualifications for councilmen; and for other purposes. HB 1580. By Messrs. Harris and Scarlett of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act placing the sheriff of Glynn County on a salary basis in lieu of a fee basis, so as to authorize the sheriff to employ additional deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1581. By Messrs. Scarlett and Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Brunswick, so as to authorize the sheriff to employ additional deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1586. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and Caldwell of the 51st: A Bill to amend Code Chapter 88-13, relating to radiation control, so as to authorize the Department of Public Health to purchase, lease, accept or acquire a suitable site or sites for the concentration and storage of radioactive wastes; and for other purposes. HB 1593. By Mr. DeLong of the 105th: A Bill to amend an Act which comprehensively revised the laws relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public works camps and prisoners, so as to provide for an oath of office for wardens, guards and other custodial officers; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3417 HB 1598. By Mr. Mason of the 22nd: A Bill to amend an Act creating the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit and providing for its powers, duties and jurisdiction and the officer thereof, so as to supplement the salary of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; and for other purposes. HB 1600. By Mr. Clarke of the 45th: A Bill to provide for the election of members of the board of education of Butts County; and for other purposes. HB 1603. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to amend an Act abolishing the present mode of compensating the clerk of the superior court, the ordinary, the tax commissioner and the coroner of Madison County; and for other purposes. HB 1604. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Madison County, so as to provide for the compensation of the clerk of the Board of Commissioners; and for other purposes. HB 1605. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Bill to amend an Act abolishing the present mode of compensating the Sheriff of Madison County, so as to change the additional funds such officer shall receive to compensate deputies; and for other purposes. HB 1608. By Messrs. Carnes of the 129th, Lambros of the 130th, McClatchey of the 138th, Townsend of the 140th and others: A Bill to provide tenure for teachers and other professional personnel of the public school systems of each city of this State having a population of more than 300,000; and for other purposes. HB 1610. By Messrs. McDaniell of the 101st, Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd and Cooper of the 103rd: A Bill to amend an Act incorporating Chattahoochee Plantation, so as to change the corporate limits of said municipality; and for other purposes. HB 1611. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to create the Brunswick-Glynn County Charter Commission; and for other purposes. 3418 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, HB 1620. By Messrs. Walling and Farrar of the 118th and Jenkins of the 119th: A Bill to amend an Act amending, revising, susperseding and consolidat ing the laws pertaining to the governing authority of DeKalb County and creating a Chairman and Board of Commissioners of Roads and commis sioner districts and to redefine the duties and powers of the Chairman and the Executive Assistant; and for other purposes. HB 1627. By Messrs. Lee, Gary and Northcutt of the 35th: A Bill to amend an Act to create and incorporate the City of Morrow in the County of Clayton and grant a charter to that municipality under that name and style, so as to provide for a referendum for annexation of property to be held within six months after passage of this Act; and for other purposes. HB 1630. By Messrs. Gates, Turner and Cook of the 123rd: A Bill to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Roswell, so as to change the terms of office of the mayor and council; and for other purposes. HB 1632. By Messrs. Harris, Farrar, Walling of the 118th: A Bill to amend an Act creating and establishing a Recorder's Court for DeKalb County, so as to provide that the Clerk of the Recorder's Court may take affidavits for the issuance of warrants and issue war rants thereon; and for other purposes. HB 1642. By Mr. Barber of the 24th: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Jefferson in Jack son County, so as to change the salary of the judge and solicitor of said court; and for other purposes. HB 1646. By Mr. Scarlett of tee 85th: A Bill to amend the charter of the City of Brunswick in the County of Glynn, so as to define the corporate limits of said City; and for other purposes. HB 1650. By Mr. Hadaway of the 46th: A Bill to amend Code Section 23-1109, relating to fees of county sur veyors, so as to make the provisions pertaining to counties with popula tions of 17,000 or over apply to counties with less than 17,000 population; to strike the fee schedule for county surveyors of counties with less than 17,000 population; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3419 HB 1651. By Mr. Steis of the 100th: A Bill to amend an Act incorporating the Town of Waverly Hall in Harris County, so as to change the term of office of the Mayor and Council; to change the punishment of offenders against the ordinances of said Town; and for the purposes. HB 1652. By Mr. Gunter of the llth: A Bill to amend an Act creating and establishing the City Court of Habersham County, so as to provide that in all matters pertaining to service, pleadings, practice, notice and appeal the laws governing. The Superior Courts shall govern the City Court of Habersham County; and for other purposes. HB 1653. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Bill to amend an Act repealing an Act incorporating the Town of Mid way and creating a charter for the City of Midway in the County of Liberty, so as to change the compensation of the mayor and council; and for other purposes. HB 1654. By Messrs. Busbee, Lee, Odom and Hutchinson of the 79th: A Bill to amend an Act placing the sheriff, the clerk of the superior Court, and the ordinary of Dougherty County upon an annual salary, so as to change the compensation of the ordinary of Dougherty County; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolutions of the House, to-wit: HR 50-134. By Mr. Land of the 53rd: A Resolution compensating William Harvey Arnold; and for other pur poses. HR 93-219. By Messrs. Wilson and Henderson of the 102nd, McDaniell and Howard of the 101st, Cooper of the 103rd and Leggett of the 21st: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to change the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in civil cases; and for other purposes. HR 108-252. By Mr. Cook of the 123rd: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Vonceille T. White; and for other pur poses. 3420 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, HR 183-555. By Mrs. Merritt of the 68th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Lee Wisham, doing business as Wisham's Garage; and for other purposes. HR 194-604. By Mr. Smith of the 54th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. J. B. Covington; and for other pur poses. HR 379-853. By Messrs. Games of the 129th, Lane of the 126th, Dodson of the 107th, Cooper of the 16th and Fallin of the 94th: A Resolution creating the Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; and for other purposes. HR 380-855. By Mr. Gaynor of the 114th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Joseph E. Hinely, Jr.; and for other purposes. HR 384-880. By Mr. Chandler of the 47th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Alton Brown; and for other purposes. HR 385-880. By Mr. Colwell of the 5th: A Resolution compensating Clyde Ravan, doing business as Community Grocery; and for other purposes. HR 399-912. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Paris of the 23rd, Lane of the 64th and Caldwell of the 51st: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly may create Development Authorities or au thorize any county or municipal corporation or combinations thereof to create Development Authorities to issue revenue obligations for the purpose of developing industry, trade and employment opportunities; and for other purposes. HR 402-912. By Mr. Hall of the 67th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Eugene G. Moncus; and for other pur poses. HR 403-912. By Mr. Douglas of the 60th: A Resolution compensating Mr. James C. Lord; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3421 HR 404-912. By Mr. Douglas of the 60th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Miles A. Jones, Jr.; and for other pur poses. HR 427-941. By Messrs. Rowland and Joiner of the 48th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Daphne Whitaker; and for other pur poses. HR 428-941. By Messrs. Rowland and Joiner of the 48th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Geneva J. Harrison; and for other purposes. HR 429-944. By Mr. Lambros of the 130th: A Resolution to compensate William Frank Horton; and for other pur poses. HR 530-1156. By Messrs. Tye and Whaley of the 115th, Richardson, Funk and Battle of the 116th, Smith and Gaynor of the 114th, and Gignilliat and Berry of the 113th: A Resolution creating the Forward Georgia Commission; and for other purposes. HR 435-952. By Mr. Branch of the 74th: A Resolution to compensate Wendell Walker; and for other purposes. HR 436-952. By Messrs. Ware of the 42nd, Wood of the 16th, Steis of the 100th, Dean of the 20th, Berry of the 110th, Dollar of the 89th, Russell of the 92nd and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to extend the homestead exemption for disabled veterans to those veterans suffering from loss, or loss of use, of both lower extremities, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes or a wheelchair; and for other purposes. HR 448-973. By Mr. Collins of the 62nd: A Resolution to compensate Mrs. Hershel V. Pope; and for other pur poses. HR 521-1103. By Messrs. Bostick of the 93rd, Poss of the 17th and Cheeks of the 104th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to in crease the amount of loans and scholarships for medical students and to 3422 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, change the provisions relative to the repayment of such loans and scholarships, the State Medical Education Board and the Secretary of said Board; and for other purposes. HR 410-917. By Mr. Wamble of the 90th: A Resolution compensating Mr. E. C. White; and for other purposes. HR 414-923. By Mr. Dillon of the 128th: A Resolution creating a committee to study the feasibility of establish ing a State Department of Urban and Municipal Affairs; and for other purposes. HR 423-932. By Mr. Lee of the 35th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Jack Lee Arnold; and for other pur poses. HR 424-941. By Mr. Floyd of the 7th: A Resolution compensating Mr. Robert A. Housch; and for other pur poses. HR 452-999. By Mr. Russell of the 92nd: A Resolution compensating the Boston Seed Company; and for other purposes. HR 454-1013. By Mr. Harris of the 14th: A Resolution to compensate W. B. Hamby; and for other purposes. HR 456-1013. By Mr. Winkles of the 120th: A Resolution to compensate Phoenix Air Conditioning, Inc.; and for other purposes. HR 457-1013. By Mr. Fallin of the 94th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. Wallace Thomas; and for other pur poses. HR 478-1029. By Mr. Poss of the 17th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. Clyde N. Pitzpatrick; and for other pur poses. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3423 HR 480-1037. By Mr. Parker of the 68th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Eura Mae Pope; and for other pur poses. HR 482-1037. By Mr. Parker of the 68th: A Resolution compensating Mr. A. H. Grant; and for other purposes. HR 483-1037. By Mr. Parker of the 68th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. J. E. Ferguson; and for other purposes. HR 499-1089. By Mr. Knapp of the 109th: A Resolution compensating Claude H. Renfroe, Jr.; and for other pur poses. HR 500-1089. By Mr. Knapp of the 109th: A Resolution compensating R & R Sales Company; and for other pur poses. HR 526-1114. By Mr. Leggett of the 21st: A Resolution to compensate Paul C. Barton; and for other purposes. HR 528-1156. By Mr. Dixon of the 83rd: A Resolution compensating Mr. L. D. Darden; and for other purposes. HR 532-1156. By Mr. Otwell of the 10th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Ruby Odell Holbrook and her husband, Mr. Robert Andrew Holbrook; and for other purposes. HR 534-1179. By Mr. Colwell of the 5th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. Carroll J. Mincey; and for other pur poses. HR 533-1156. By Mr. Howard of the 101st: A Resolution compensating the heirs at law of the late Mr. William Couch; and for other purposes. 3424 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HR 542-1183. By Messrs. Harrington and Chandler of the 47th: A Resolution compensating Miss Margaret Echols; and for other pur poses. HR 549-1200. By Mr. Roach of the 15th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. Glawer Pitts; and for other purposes. HR 550-1206. By Mr. Magoon of the 19th: A Resolution to compensate Mr. Burch Griffin; and for other purposes. HR 595-1243. By Mr. Henderson of the 102nd: A Resolution compensating Billy W. Parks; and for other purposes. HR 604-1288. By Mr. Lambert of the 38th: A Resolution compensating H. K. Moody; and for other purposes. HR 605-1295. By Mr. Anderson of the 71st: A Resolution compensating Laurie M. Jones; and for other purposes. HR 609-1296. By Messrs. McCracken of the 49th; Wiggins of the 32nd and Lam bert of the 38th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the Secretary of State, Attorney General, State School Superintendent, Comptroller General, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agri culture, and Commissioner of Labor shall be elected in the same manner as the Governor; and for other purposes. HR 610-1297. By Mr. Jones of the 76th: A Resolution compensating Mrs. Francis B. Riggins; and for other pur poses. HR 615-1320. By Mr. Jordan of the 82nd: A Resolution to compensate Mrs. Louie Mae Green; and for other purposes. HR 661-1420. By Mr. Lee of the 79th: A Resolution creating the "Georgia Study Commission on Law Enforce ment Office Standards and Education" to provide for membership; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3425 HR 662-1427. By Mr. Tucker of the 36th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to au thorize the governing authority of Henry County to levy a tax not to exceed 2 mills per dollar on all taxable property located therein to retire bonded indebtedness and to otherwise support and maintain the operations of the Henry County Water Authority; and for other pur poses. HR 663-1427. By Mr. Tucker of the 36th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to au thorize the General Assembly to change the form of government of Henry County; to provide for a county manager; and for other purposes. HR 681-1473. By Mr. Tucker of the 36th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to authorize Henry County to incur an additional indebtedness for water and sewerage purposes; and for other purposes. HR 685-1477. By Mr. Hargrett of the 77th: A Resolution compensating Robert M. Fales; and for other purposes. HR 686-1477. By Messrs. Fleming and Maxwell of the 106th, Sherman and Delong of the 105th, and Dent and Cheeks of the 104th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to pro vide that the General Assembly shall have the power, by local act, to create, designate, vest powers and duties, set terms and compensation, establish functions, combine and consolidate municipal and county public agencies, departments, and governing authorities within Richmond County; and for other purposes. HR 710-1479. By Mr. Ballard of the 37th: A Resolution compensating Irene Thompson; and for other purposes. HR 712-1486. By Mr. Farmer of the 29th: A Resolution compensating Miss Marie Yvette Contine; and for other purposes. HR 713-1512. By Mr. Cook of the 123rd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to au thorize the governing authority of the City of Atlanta to establish an historic zone within a designated area of the city; and for other purposes. 3426 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HR 725-1550. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Busbee of the 79th, Hale of the 1st, Lambert of the 38th and Jones of the 76th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide for an independent General Assembly by electing the members thereof for 4 years terms at a different General Election from the one at which the Governor is elected; and for other purposes. HR 728-1570. By Mr. Clarke of the 45th: A Resolution amending a resolution authorizing the disposal of that tract of land which is presently located at the Governor's Mansion in Ansley Park, Atlanta, Georgia, so as to name the grantee; to specify the sale price; and for other purposes. HR 732-1597. By Messrs. Vaughan of the 14th and Harris of the 14th: A Resolution proposing- an amendment to the Constitution so as to change the provisions relating to the powers of county government; and for other purposes. HR 734-1600. By Mr. Moore of the 12th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Stephens County Development Authority; and for other pur poses. HR 735-1608. By Mr. Moate of the 39th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to create the Putnam County Development Authority; and for other purposes. HR 740-1616. By Messrs. Vaughn and Malone of the 117th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that notwithstanding the Seven per cent debt limitation provided in Article VII, Para. 1, the debt incurred by the Rockdale County Board of Education for the Rockdale County School District may exceed Seven per cent of the assessed value of all the taxable property in said school district; and for other purposes. HR 781-1631. By Messrs. Williams of the 16th, Crowe of the 1st, Knapp of the 109th, Gary of the 35th and others: A Resolution creating the Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; and for other purposes. HR 782-1631. By Mr. Dixon of the 83rd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to pro vide that the powers, duties and responsibilities of the sheriff of Ware FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3427 County, as they relate to the enforcement of criminal laws of the United States, this State and any political subdivision thereof, shall be exercised by a county police force which shall be established by the governing authority of Ware County; and for other purposes. HR 785-1636. By Mr. Nash of the 22nd: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to au thorize the General Assembly to provide by law for the creation of a Merit System of employment for any or all present and other than elected officials; and for other purposes. HR 786-1643. By Messrs. Lovell of the 6th, Magoon of the 19th, Higginbotham of the 119th, Rainey of the 69th, Dorminy of the 72nd, Mixon of the 81st, Parker of the 68th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to reimburse certain employees of the State Game and Fish Commission; and for other purposes. HR 791. By Mr. McClatchey of the 138th: A Resolution making April, 1968, as Cancer Control Month; and for other purposes. HR 806-1653. By Messrs. Mason and Nash of the 22nd: A Resolution proposing a constitutional amendment so as to change the provisions relating to the filling of vacancies on the Board of Education of Gwinnett County; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted the following resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 873. By Messrs. Bray of the 43rd, Smith of the 54th and Steis of the 100th: A Resolution expressing regret at the passing of George Clarence Thompson; and for other purposes. The Senate has agreed to the House amendments to the following Bills and Resolution of the Senate, to-wit: SB 17. By Senators Johnson of the 42nd and Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to provide for a system of officially designated Georgia Gov ernment Documents in order to obtain maximum efficiency in the dis- 3428 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, tribution and preservation of government documents; to constitute an Advisory Council to the Legislative Services Committee to establish maintain, and oversee such system; and for other purposes. SB 201. By Senators Smith of the 18th, Broun of the 46th and Johnson of the 42nd: A Bill to provide who may appear and practice before the State Board of Pardons and Paroles for a fee, money or other remuneration; to pro vide a penalty for the violation of this Act; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 225. By Senators Coggin of the 35th and Rowan of the 8th: A Bill to provide that any person who keeps, maintains, employs or carries on a game for the hazarding of money or other thing of value; or permits the playing for money or other thing of value of a game or device for the hazarding of money or other thing of value; or keeps or employs a device or equipment for the purpose of carrying on or operat ing a game or device for the hazarding of money or other thing of value; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 230. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to create the "Georgia Business Corporation Act"; to comprehen sively revise and supersede the present laws relating to business corpor ations; to provide for a title and definitions; and to establish provisions prescribing the application of this Act; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 237. By Senator Johnson of the 42nd: A Bill to amend "An Act to prohibit the State of Georgia or any depart ment thereof or any political subdivision thereof from employing in any agency of the State of Georgia or any of its departments or political subdivisions any alien except where there is no qualified American citizen available", so as to authorize the employment of alien students enrolled in a college or university in this State or in a program of student ex change sponsored or participated in by a college or university in this State; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 248. By Senator Johnson of the 38th: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Housing Authorities Law", so as to increase the membership of housing authorities in certain municipal ities; to change the terms of office and qualifications of the commission ers of housing authorities in certain municipalities; and for other pur poses. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3429 SB 252. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to amend an Act providing a Sheriffs' Retirement Fund of Geor gia, so as to clarify the membership of administrative Board of said Fund; and for other purposes. SB 332. By Senator Webb of the llth: A Bill to amend Code Section 31-110, so as to provide that a widow shall be barred from dower if she fails to apply for dower within twelve (12) months of the death of her husband; and for other purposes. SB 353. By Senators Johnson of the 42nd, Minish of the 48th, Steis of the 37th and others: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965," as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 4, 1966, so as to clarify what costs may be capitalized as costs of a rapid transit system or project; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 360. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to amend Section 59-106 of the Code of Georgia of 1933, relating to the revision of jury lists and the method whereby Jury Commission ers choose grand and traverse jurors, so as to change the method of selecting grand jurors; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 372. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to abolish the present method of compensating the tax collector of Fannin County, known as the fee system; to provide in lieu thereof an annual salary for such officer; to provide that all fees, costs or other emoluments with the exception of fees for the sale of motor vehicle license plates for such officer shall become the property of the county; and for other purposes. SB 408. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to create the North Georgia Mountains Commission as a commis sion and agency of the State Government; to provide for a short title; to define certain terms connected therewith; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. SB 409. By Senator London of the 50th: A Bill to create the North Georgia Mountains Authority as an instru mentality to the State; to define certain terms connected wherewith: to provide for its organization, the appointment and terms of office of its members; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. 3430 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, SB 410. By Senators Shea of the 3rd, and Gardner of the 1st: A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create and organize Commis sioners of Chatham County, who shall be ex officio Judges; to provide for commissioner districts; and for other purposes. SR 63. By Senators Johnson of the 38th and Andrews of the 49th: A Resolution to change the name and designation of the office of solici tor-general to district attorney. The Senate has agreed to the House substitutes to the following bills and Resolutions of the Senate, to-wit: SB 30. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill entitled an Act to create the Trial Judges and Solicitors Retire ment Fund; to provide that said Fund shall be administered by the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System; and for other pur poses. SB 31. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the office of Judge of the Superior Courts Emeritus, approved March 9, 1945, as amended so as to provide the procedure for granting credit for service in the armed forces; to provide for the procedures connected with the foregoing; and for other purposes. SB 250. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to amend Code Section 24-2823, so as to change fees provided for in civil and criminal cases; and for other purposes. SB 251. By Senator Smalley of the 28th: A Bill to provide the procedure to be followed in the event the Governor orders an investigation of presentments or changes against a sheriff; to provide for a committee to conduct such investigation; to provide for the composition of any such committee; and for other purposes. SB 393. By Senator Johnson of the 42nd: A Bill to amend an Act providing for personal jurisdiction over any non-resident, or his executor or administrator, as to a cause of action arising from the transaction of business within this state, or the com mission of a tortious act within this state, or owning, using or posses- FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3431 sing real property situated within this state, so as to define certain terms; and for other purposes. SR 149. By Senator Smith of the 18th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to authorize the submission of a proposal by the General Assembly for a new Constitution; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes. SR 183. By Senators Hall of the 52nd and Plunkett of the 30th: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to au thorize the General Assembly to empower the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to provide grants or scholarships to students attending colleges or universities which are not branches of the University System of Georgia; and for other purposes. SR 227. By Senators Hall of the 52nd, Broun of the 46th, Young of the 13th and others. A Resolution providing for the Teacher Hall of Fame; and for other purposes. The Senate recedes from its substitute to the following Bill of the House, to-wit: HB 25. By Messrs. Harris and Levitas of the 118th: A Bill to amend Code Section 113-1005, relating to the appointment of appraisers, so as to provide that notice of the filing of the appraisers' return must be given to the tax commissioner in certain counties; and for other purposes. The Senate recedes from its floor amendment to the following bill of the House, to-wit: HB 671. By Messrs. Palmer and Vaughn of the 117th, and others: A Bill to amend an Act establishing a retirement system for teachers in the State public schools, so as to change the provisions relating to creditable service; and for other purposes. The Senate recedes from its amendment to the following Bill of the House, to-wit: 3432 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, HB 1044. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively revising appellate and other post-trial procedure, so as to redefine what judgments shall be subject to review; and for other purposes. The Senate agrees to the House amendments to the Senate amendments to the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 952. By Mr. Moore of the 20th: A Bill to amend an Act establishing the Teachers' Retirement System, so as to provide that the term "earnable compensation" shall include compensation paid to a member by a member institution of the Univer sity System of Georgia from grants or contracts made by outside agencies with the member institution; and for other purposes. HB 1230. By Mr. Harris of the 85th: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively modernizing pretrial, trial and certain post trial procedures in civil cases, so as to provide for service by publication when so ordered by the court; and for other purposes. The Senate has adopted the report of the Committee of Conference on the following Bills of the House, to-wit: HB 130. By Messrs. Dillon of the 128th, Steis of the 100th, McClatchey of the 138th, Adams of the 125th, Games of the 129th and others: A Bill to provide for the defense of indigents; to provide for a short title; to authorize the establishment of the Office of Public Defender; and for other purposes. HB 742. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to amend an Act comprehensively and exhaustively revising, superseding and consolidating the laws relating to the State Board of Corrections and to prisons, public work camps and prisoners; and for other purposes. HB 743. By Messrs. Murphy of the 26th, Caldwell of the 51st and others: A Bill to amend an Act known as the "Georgia Prison Industries Act", so as to authorize the administration to compensate certain inmates employed in prison industries; and for other purposes. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968 3433 HB 862. By Messrs. Parker of the 55th, Lewis and Newton of the 50th, Wiggins and Threadgill of the 32nd and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for grants to certain municipalities so as to provide that the State Treasurer shall disburse grants on a quarterly basis; and for other purposes. HB 933. By Messrs. Murphy of the 36th and McClatchey of the 138th: A Bill to amend Code Section 100-108, so as to provide that industrial revenue bonds or bonds of development authorities duly validated and not in default may be given by state depositories under certain condi tions; and for other purposes. HB 1198. By Messrs. Barber of the 24th, Smith of the 54th, Paris of the 23rd, Lee of the 35th, McCracken of the 49th, and others: A Bill to amend an Act providing for equal pay for both males and females for comparable work on jobs which have comparable require ments relating to skill, effort and responsibility, so as to define "Com missioner", and for other purposes. HR 6-1. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th, Busbee of the 79th, Jones of the 76th, Lambert of the 38th and others: A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that when no person receives a majority of the votes in an election for Governor, a runoff election shall be held between the two persons re ceiving the highest number of votes; and for other purposes. The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McWhorter, the Secretary thereof: Mr. Speaker: The Senate has adopted, as amended, the following Resolution of the House, to-wit: HR 905. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th and Busbee of the 79th: A Resolution relative to adjournment; and for other purposes. The following Resolution of the House was taken up for the purpose of con sidering the Senate amendment thereto: 3434 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, HR 905. By Messrs. Smith of the 54th and Busbee of the 79th: A Resolution relative to adjournment; and for other purposes. The following Senate amendment was read: Senator Webb of the llth moves to amend HR 905 by striking "8:45" and inserting in lieu thereof "11:10". Mr. Busbee of the 79th moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. The motion prevailed, and the Senate amendment to HR 905 was agreed to. Under the provisions of HR 905, as amended, the Speaker announced the House adjourned sine die. The following communications were received from Honorable J. Robin Harris, Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary: February 26, 1968 Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Judiciary spent a considerable number of hours in research during its consideration of the impeachment resolutions. The particular matter arose in a different manner than did those which were precedents in Georgia or in other States in that those were prod ucts of Special House Committees which performed the investigatory work and introduced in their respective Houses pre-drafted Articles of Impeachment based upon the results of the investigation. Since there were no precedents which your Committee could use that were directly in point, it became necessary for your Committee to formulate rules of procedure based upon its research. In a conscientious effort to be of assistance to future General Assemblies that might he faced with similar situations, your Committee requests that the Rules of the House be suspended to allow the inclusion in the House Journal of the fol lowing items: 1. The rules of procedure adopted by the Committee in its con sideration of the Resolutions. 2. The letter from the Legislative Counsel expressing his opinion as to the nature of the conduct which would substantiate im peachment proceedings. 3. The Substitute Resolution for HR 383-867 voted out by the Com mittee together with the proposed Articles of Impeachment there to attached. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3435 4. The Committee Report favorably recommending the passage of the above Substitute Resolution and recommending certain rules of procedure. 5. The statement of the Speaker announcing the method of pro cedure to be utilized in the House during its consideration of the Resolution. 6. The Substitute Resolution for HR 382-867 voted out by the Committee. Respectfully submitted, For the Committee J. Robin Harris Chairman Pursuant to the motion of the Gentleman from Irwin, Mr. Mixon, the Subcommittee appointed by the Chairman to promulgate a course of action for the Judiciary Committee in connection with the Impeach ment Resolutions has met and makes the following recommendations: 1. That the Committee establish Monday, January 22, 1968 at 10:00 o'clock a.m. as the date and time to consider HR 382-867 and HR 383-867. 2. That the meeting be held in the hall of the House of Rep resentatives and be open. 3. That the Committee will determine only whether or not probable cause exists with respect to the charges made against each of the parties named in the Resolutions, guided by the same rules and principles as Grand Juries in finding indictments. 4. That the Attorney General's office be requested to appear before the Committee with the sworn affidavits and sworn testi mony supporting his report and that these be accepted as evidence without requiring the appearance of witnesses. 5. That the parties named in the Resolutions be invited to appear and offer any statements they might desire with respect to the matter. 6. That the Committee request of the Speaker permission to have a Court Reporter to transcribe the proceedings. Respectfully submitted, Snow of the 1st Harris of the 85th Egan of the 141st Harris of the 118th 3436 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Honorable Elliott H. Levitas Representative, 118th District State Capitol Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear Elliott: January 11, 1968 This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 8, 1968 in which you request my opinion as to whether, in order to impeach a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, it is necessary that such official be charged with a criminal act. Grounds for impeachment are not prescribed by the Georgia Con stitution or by statute. With relation to the House of Representatives, the only pertinent provision is contained in Article III, Section VI, Paragraph III (Ann. Code 2-1803) which provides: "The House of Representatives shall have the sole power to vote impeachment charges against all persons who shall have been or may be in office." The fact that impeachable offenses are not specifically provided for is immaterial as far as impeachment proceedings are concerned. (See 67 C.J.S. 68b.) Since impeachment and, in fact, impeachment proceedings are not common occurrences, there is not the abundance of law on this subject that we find in other areas. I am of the opinion, however, that the fol lowing quote from 67 C.J.S. 68b. is an accurate statement of the law as relates to your request. "The grant of the general power of impeachment properly and sufficiently indicates the causes for its exercise. Under the com mon law the wrongs justifying impeachment need not be statutory offenses, or even offenses against any positive laws, although gen erally speaking they are designated as high crimes and misde meanors. The causes contemplated by a constitutional provision authorizing impeachment of an officer by the legislature should be neither trivial nor capricious, and must be restricted to some thing of a substantial nature directly affecting the rights and interests of the public, and they must be causes attaching to the qualifications of the officer; or his performance of his duties, show ing that he is not a fit or proper person to hold the office." (Also see Ferguson vs. Maddox [Tex.] 263 S.W. 888, Moulton vs. Scully, [Me.] 89 A. 944.) In answer to your specific question, it is my opinion that, in order for a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to be im peached, it is not necessary that such official be charged with a criminal act. FHE:dm Sincerely yours, Frank H. Edwards Legislative Counsel INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3437 MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee on Judiciary has had under consideration HR 383-867 and, after hearings and deliberations, finds that probable cause exists for the House to consider favorably the adoption of the Articles of Impeachment which have been prepared as a part of the attached Committee Substitute for the above Resolution, relating to J. W. Claxton, and recommends that HR 383-867 do pass by Committee Substitute. The Committee further recommends that in its consideration of the matter, the House proceed in the following manner: (1) Recognize and accept the premise that it is the responsi bility of the House to consider only whether or not probable cause exists for believing that J. W. Claxton has engaged in conduct which, if proven to be true at a trial in the Senate, would authorize that body to declare that his actions and conduct render him unfit to continue in office. (2) Recognize, further, that where the Rules of the House are silent as to the conduct of the proceedings that the House should be guided by the same principles as Grand Juries in finding indict ments, this being--essentially--the nature of the proceeding. (3) Consider as evidence, for the purpose only of determining probable cause, the exhibits tendered to the Committee on January 22, 1968, which are now in the custody of this Committee. The Committee further recommends that, in the event, Articles of Impeachment are voted by the House, a Board of Managers be elected by the House to prosecute in the Senate. In this connection the Com mittee would ask the Speaker to consider appointing a nominating com mittee to present the names of ten (10) members of the House who voted favorably on the adoption of the Articles of Impeachment, from which list the House would elect, by secret ballot, five (5) to serve as such Board. The Board of Managers should be empowered to hire counsel. Respectfully submitted, Harris of the 118th Chairman Committee Substitute for House Resolution 383-867: A RESOLUTION Voting Articles of Impeachment against J. W. Claxton, member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and transmitting said Articles to the Senate for trial and final disposition; and for other purposes. 3438 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, WHEREAS, the House of Representatives, pursuant to the pro visions of Articles III, Section VI, Paragraph III of the Constitution, has had under consideration impeachment charges against J. W. Claxton, a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles; and WHEREAS, after hearings and deliberations the House of Repre sentatives has found that there exists probable cause to believe that said J. W. Claxton has been guilty of conduct as set forth in the speci fications and charges contained within the attached Articles of Im peachment. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the House does hereby vote the attached Articles of Impeachment against J. W. Claxton, member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is hereby instructed to transmit this Resolution and the attached Articles of Impeachment against J. W. Claxton to the Senate for trial and final disposition. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Presented and exhibited by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in the name of the members thereof and in the name of all the people of Georgia against J. W. Claxton, member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, in maintenance and support of their impeachment charges against him. The impeach ment charges contained in the Articles of Impeachment provided for hereinafter having been voted by the House of Representatives, and said House does now present them to the Senate of the State of Georgia, for trial and final disposition. ARTICLE I. That J. W. CLAXTON is a duly appointed, qualified and acting member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, a constitutional board. He had all the powers and duties of said office devolve upon him on February 14, 1962; and on said date, he took the oath of office as said member; and, he, said J. W. CLAXTON, is now a duly appointed, qualified and acting member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles; and he has been serving in said office and served with all the powers and duties thereof continuously since said date of February 14, 1962. That said J. W. CLAXTON, while holding the office as a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, unmindful of and in utter disregard of the high duties, obligations and standards of conduct of his office and his oath of office and requirements of the Constitution and laws of this State, heretofore wrongfully and corruptly did borrow and attempt to borrow sums of money from subordinate State employees subject to his direction, control and authority, by intimidation, both express and implied, in that: INTERIM COMMITTEE EEPORTS 3439 SPECIFICATION 1. He did during or about January of 1967 cause one of his subordinate employees, to wit, Mrs. Jeanette Bennett, to contact another subordinate employee, to wit, Mr. Edward S. Kendrick, for the procuring of a loan in the amount of $3,600.00 through the Small Agencies Credit Union. Pursuant to the instruction and direction of said J. W. CLAXTON, said loan was arranged by the said Jeanette Bennett in the name of Edward S. Kendrick and was consum mated in January, 1967. After said Edward S. Kendrick had obtained said loan proceeds, they were turned over and paid to the said J. W. CLAXTON. Said transaction between said J. W. CLAXTON and said Edward S. Kendrick took place without the execution of any docu ments to record said indebtedness. Said J. W. CLAXTON had made periodic monthly payments to Edward S. Kendrick up until the fall of 1967, at which time said payments ceased and no payments on said indebtedness have been made in the last several months; thus subject ing Edward S. Kendrick to the full liability and obligation of repaying said loan. SPECIFICATION 2. On or about September 6, 1967, at the direc tion of said J.W. CLAXTON, Mrs. Jeanette Bennett contacted W. J. Logan, a Senior Parole Officer employed by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, working out of the Savannah District Office, said em ployee being under the control and subject to the authority of said J. W. CLAXTON, requesting that said W. J. Logan come to Atlanta on Friday, September 8, 1967, and to spend the preceding night in the home of said J. W. CLAXTON. Said W. J. Logan spent the evening and night of September 7, in the home of said J. W. CLAXTON, at which time said J. W. CLAXTON approached and requested of the said Logan that a loan be obtained from the Small Agencies Credit Union in the amount of $1,000, which loan J. W. CLAXTON said was already arranged. During said conversation on the evening of Septem ber 7, said J. W. CLAXTON made the statement "anybody that can't spare $50.00 a month ought to be looking for another job". Said J. W. CLAXTON arranged for W. J. Logan to meet the next morning with Mrs. Bennett and several other parole officers for the purpose of dis cussing and consummating said loan. Then on Friday, September 8, said W. J. Logan met at the office of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in the presence of Mrs. Bennett, Gerald Willis, Albert Martin Gates, Jr., and Roy Alien Richards, at which time Mrs. Bennett ex plained the desire of J. W. CLAXTON to obtain loans from all of said individuals in the sum of $1,000.00 each. After discussing same, said W. J. Logan declined to make said loan. SPECIFICATION 3. On or about September 7, 1967, at the direc tion of said J. W. CLAXTON, W. J. Logan was in contact with Albert Martin Gates, a Senior Parole Officer employed by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, working out of the Macon District Office, said employee being under the control and subject to the authority of said J. W. CLAXTON, requesting that said Albert Martin Gates come to Atlanta that day, to wit, September 7, 1967, and to spend the night in the home of said J. W. CLAXTON. Said Albert Martin Gates spent the evening and night of September 7, 1967, in the home of said J. W. CLAXTON, at which time said J. W. CLAXTON approached and re quested of the said Albert Martin Gates that a loan be obtained from the Small Agencies Credit Union in the amount of $1,000.00, which loan 3440 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, J. W. CLAXTON said was already arranged. During said conversation on the evening of September 7, 1967, said J. W. CLAXTON made a remark to the effect that anyone that cannot spare $50.00 per month out of their salary should be looking for another job. Said J. W. CLAX TON arranged for Albert Martin Gates to meet the next morning -with Mrs. Bennett and several other parole officers for the purpose of dis cussing and consummating said loan. Then on Friday, September 8, said Albert Martin Gates met at the office of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in the presence of Mrs. Bennett, Gerald Willis, W. J. Logan, and Roy Alien Richards, at which time Mrs. Bennett explained the desire of J. W. CLAXTON to obtain loans from all of said individuals in the sum of $1,000.00 each. After discussing the same, the said Albert Gates declined to make said loan. SPECIFICATION 4. Gerald Willis, Institutional Parole Officer at Reidsville State Prison, said employee being under the control and subject to the authority of said J. W. CLAXTON, at the request of J. W. CLAXTON met at the office of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles on September 8, 1967, with Mrs. Jeanette Bennett and W. J. Logan, Albert Martin Gates, and Roy Alien Richards. At that time Mrs. Jeanette Bennett explained to the said Gerald Willis and the other gentlemen that J. W. CLAXTON desired to obtain loans from each of said individuals in the sum of $1,000.00. After discussing the matter, the said Gerald Willis declined to make the loan. SPECIFICATION 5. Roy Alien Richards, an employee of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, said employee being under the control and subject to the authority of said J. W. CLAXTON, met on September 8, 1967, at the request of J. W. CLAXTON, with Mrs. Jeanette Bennett, W. J. Logan, Gerald Willis, and Albert Martin Gates, at the office of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. At that time Mrs. Jeanette Bennett explained to the said Roy Alien Richards and the other gentlemen that J. W. CLAXTON desired to borrow the sum of $1,000.00 from each of them. After discussing the matter, the said Roy Alien Richards declined to make the loan. SPECIFICATION 6. John E. Whetsell, a Parole Officer employed by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and subject to the authority and control of J. W. CLAXTON, on or about February 23 or February 27, was contacted by said J. W. CLAXTON, at which time the said J. W. CLAXTON requested that John E. Whetsell lend the said J. W. CLAX TON a sum of money. The said John E. Whetsell made a loan to the said J. W. CLAXTON in the amount of $8,000.00 on or about the afore said dates, after having borrowed said $8,000.00 from the Spivey State Bank in Swainsboro, Georgia. SPECIFICATION 7. After informing Paula S. Tisdale, Office Manager of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, and an employee of said Board subject to the control and authority and direction of J. W. CLAXTON, in August or September, 1967, that he was in dire need of financial help, J. W. CLAXTON attempted to induce the said Paula S. Tisdale to endorse a note in the amount of $5,000.00 in connection with the loan the said J. W. CLAXTON was negotiating with the Small Agencies Credit Union. The said Paul S. Tisdale declined to become involved in the transaction. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3441 ARTICLE II. That J. W. CLAXTON is a duly appointed, qualified and acting member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. He had all the power and duties of said office devolve upon him on February 14, 1962; and on said date, he took the oath of office as said member; and, he, said J. W. CLAXTON, is now a duly appointed, qualified and acting member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles; and he has been serving in said office and served with all the powers and duties thereof continuously since said date of February 14, 1962. That the said J. W. CLAXTON, while holding office as a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, as aforesaid, unmindful of and in utter disregard of the high duties, obligations and standards of conduct of his office, of his oath of office, and of the requirements of the Constitution and the laws of this State, took actions and rendered decisions which were subject to improper influences and considerations, and which amounted to a gross abuse of discretion in connection with the release of certain prisoners and the failure to revoke certain paroles. WHEREBY the said J W. CLAXTON, member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, as aforesaid, did commit and was guilty of committing gross abuses of discretion and acts of gross misconduct in office, as represented by the aforesaid Articles and specifications, ren dering the said J. W. CLAXTON unfit to hold public office. The following statement was delivered to the House by the Honorable George L. Smith II, Speaker of the House of Representatives: On Thursday, February 1, 1968, the House of Representatives will meet under very grave circumstances to discharge a duty to the people of the State of Georgia pursuant to provisions of our State Constitu tion. On that date, the members of this body will take up for considera tion a resolution, which was reported out of the Judiciary Committee by substitute, calling for the impeachment of Mr. J. W. Claxton, a mem ber of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Due to the seriousness of this matter, I have felt it my duty as your Speaker to give it deliberate study in order that I might make recommendations relative to the procedure which should be followed by this House. I know that every member joins me in the desire that the consideration of this resolution be conducted in a responsible and states manlike manner. With these thoughts in mind, it is my judgment that the proceedings should be held under the following conditions: 1. Absolute order and perfect decorum must be maintained at all times. 2. All of the proceedings will be open to the public and to the news media, but no disturbance or undue noise will be permitted. 3442 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 3. House Rule 23 relative to the privileges of the floor will be strictly enforced and all members of the House are respectfully re quested to wear their identification badges. 4. The rules of the House will be suspended in order to allow Mr. Claxton and his counsel to be present on the floor of the House in order that they may hear the entire presentation of the Judiciary Committee. 5. The committee substitute will be considered as any other reso lution and shall be presented to the House as follows: (a) The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and, in his dis cretion, such other members of the Committee as he shall designate, shall present to the House the evidence and documents forming the basis for the charges contained in the committee substitute. (b) During the period of the presentation, any member of the House shall have the right to propose a question or questions to the person making such presentation. (c) At the close of the presentation by the Judiciary Commit tee, Mr. Claxton shall have the right to make such statement to the House as he desires. (d) At the close of Mr. Claxton's statement, members of the House shall have the right to debate said matter in the manner prescribed by the rules of the House. I hope that you agree with these recommendations, and I know that with your help and cooperation we can discharge the duties imposed upon us with the dignity and respect which the people have the right to expect from their duly elected Representatives. HR 382-867. By Mr. Townsend of the 140th: (COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE) A RESOLUTION Calling upon Mrs. Rebecca L. Garrett, a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, to retire; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, a resolution calling for the impeachment of Mrs. Re becca L. Garrett, a member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, was introduced in the House of Representatives at this regular 1968 session of the General Assembly of Georgia; and WHEREAS, said resolution was referred to the standing Judici ary Committee of said House, which committee has conducted a hearing concerning the charges contained in said resolution; and WHEREAS, the committee has heard and received evidence from the Attorney General and members of his staff relative to a report INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3443 issued by the Attorney General on December 13, 1967, entitled "Report of Investigation of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles" and has also heard from Mrs. Garrett; and WHEREAS, the evidence did not disclose probable cause to believe that she was guilty of committing gross abuses of discretion and acts of gross misconduct in office sufficient to justify Articles of Impeach ment, but rather that her actions were the result of ill health and other circumstances and do amount to an abuse of discretion not befitting of this high public office; and WHEREAS, it is the judgment of the House of Representatives that, in the circumstances, the confidence of the people of the State cannot be restored in the operations of the Pardons and Paroles Board so long as she remains a member of said Board. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES that this body does hereby call upon the said Mrs. Rebecca L. Garrett, member of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, to retire as a member of said Board for the welfare of the State and the benefit of the Pardons and Paroles Board. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of this resolution to Mrs. Garrett and to the Governor. The following interim committee reports were received: TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE AUTOMOBILE AD VALOREM TAX STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Sidney Lowrey, Chairman Representative, 13th District Honorable James A. Otwell, Jr. Representative, 10th District Honorable Fred L. Winkles Representative, 120th District Honorable J. R. Smith Representative, 44th District Honorable Jim T. Bennett, Jr. Representative, 95th District Honorable Joe Mack Wilson Representative, 102nd District Honorable Rooney L. Bowen Representative, 69th District Honorable Donald E. Cheeks Representative, 104th District Honorable Jack E. Threadgill Representative, 32nd District Honorable Richard S. Hutchinson Representative, 79th District 3444 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, PRELUDE This Committee was created pursuant to the authority of House Resolution No. 3. The Speaker of the House of Representatives appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Sidney Lowrey, Chairman Representative, 13th District Honorable James A. Otwell, Jr. Representative, 10th District Honorable Fred L. Winkles Representative, 120th District Honorable J. R. Smith Representative, 44th District Honorable Jim T. Bennett, Jr. Representative, 95th District Honorable Joe Mack Wilson Representative, 102nd District Honorable Rooney L. Bowen Representative, 69th District Honorable Donald E. Cheeks Representative, 104th District Honorable Jack E. Threadgill Representative, 32nd District Honorable Richard S. Hutchinson Representative, 79th District INTRODUCTION At the 1966 Session of the Georgia General Assembly, pursuant to the authority of a constitutional amendment ratified in the General Election of 1964, a comprehensive tax statute was enacted which classified motor vehicles as a separate and distinct class of tangible property for ad valorem tax purposes. This method of taxing motor vehicles went into effect on January 1, 1967. As is the case for all taxing statutes which provide for a new or different method of taxation, there were numerous pieces of legislation introduced at the 1967 Ses sion of the General Assembly to modify the methods and means of taxing motor vehicles. In order to come to grips with this most important field, the Speaker of the House of Representatives created this Committee and charged it with the responsibility of making a comprehensive study into the entire area of the taxation of motor vehicles. WORK OF THE COMMITTEE The most serious complaints with the method of taxing motor vehicles came from those persons engaged in the business of selling motor vehicles. Invitations were extended to the Georgia Automobile Dealers Association and the Georgia Independent Automobile Dealers Association to appear before the Committee and express to the members thereof their recommendations concerning the shortcomings of the present method of taxing motor vehicles and receive their suggestions for improvement therein. The Committee also extended invitations to the Georgia Association of Assessing Officials, the Georgia Municipal Asso ciation, the Georgia Association of County Commissioners, the Georgia Motor Trucking Association, the Georgia Department of Revenue, and other persons interested in this area to meet with the Committee and advise them concerning their thoughts and recommendations concerning the taxation of motor vehicles. With the exception of representatives of the associations set forth above representing motor vehicle dealers, the general consensus of all parties appear- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3445 ing before the Committee was that the present laws pertaining to the taxation of motor vehicles are effective. They are generally well pleased with the first year of their operation, and they have no recommendations or suggestions for changes in the ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles. During the early periods of the Committee's study, it was urged upon the Committee to investigate alternative methods of taxing motor vehicles. Two prime examples of other means of taxing motor vehicles are found in our sister states of Alabama and Florida. Florida does not tax motor vehicles according to value. They employ a single excise tax which is collected at the time of the purchase of a license registration plate for the motor vehicle. This is the only tax levied on motor vehicles in the State of Florida. This legislation in the State of Florida was adopted pursuant to a specific constitutional amendment authorizing the taxation of motor vehicles in this manner. In order for Georgia to adopt a similar method of taxation, it would be necessary to amend our Constitution in a similar fashion since our present Constitution would not permit this type of taxation. Alabama employs a method of ad valorem taxation for motor vehicles similar to the State of Georgia with certain significant differences. Rather than taxing motor vehicles according to the calendar year, Alabama employs a tax year for motor vehicles running from October 1st of one year to September 30th of the following year. Alabama requires that prior to purchasing a license plate for motor vehicles, an owner must present satisfactory proof that the previous year's ad valorem taxes have been paid and collected on the motor vehicle. There are also provisions present which proportionately reduced the taxes on motor vehicles depending upon which quarter the motor vehicle becomes subject to ad valorem taxation in Alabama. In order to gain firsthand information concerning these types of motor vehicle taxation, the Committee spent a day at both Tallahassee, Florida and Montgomery, Alabama with the taxing officials of these states. Both states re port that each of the respective methods of taxation is generally accepted by the public. It is interesting to note that in the State of Alabama, approximately three years ago, ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles in the hands of automobile dealers was eliminated with no serious opposition being encountered either in the Alabama legislature or from the citizens of the State of Alabama. FINDINGS After examining several alternative methods of taxation for motor vehicles and receiving the benefit of comment and criticism on the present method of taxation of motor vehicles employed in the State of Georgia, the Committee is of the opinion that with a few minor exceptions the most serious objections to the present laws relating to the taxation of motor vehicles can be traced to the rather unrealistic and arbitrary evaluations assigned to motor vehicles by the State Department of Revenue. In many instances the evaluations assigned in the past to motor vehicles have been in excess of the full retail price of auto mobiles. Because of these evaluations, almost intolerable tax burdens have been placed on the shoulders of automobile dealers and because of the suddenness of the change in the taxation of motor vehicles, they have been unable to adjust the price of the motor vehicles in order to absorb this additional cost of doing business. After consultations with the Georgia Deepartment of Revenue by this 3446 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Committee, it is gratifying to report that for the 1968 tax year much more realistic evaluations will be employed, and there will be present methods whereby the heretofore extreme tax burdens on the part of automobile dealers will be further reduced. Another area in which the present method of taxation of motor vehicles works to an extreme disadvantage of automobile dealers is found in those areas of the State which are located in close proximity to adjoining states. It does not take a great deal of imagination to understand the uncompetitive position which such dealers are placed in when adjoining states have little or no ad valorem taxation. Both ad valorem, sales and income taxes are being lost in those instances where sales are lost to dealerships located in adjoining states. Many areas in which the automobile dealer desires relief for his particular problem cannot be brought about without the necessity of amending our Con stitution to permit this course of action. Under our present Constitution, all motor vehicle owners must receive the same treatment insofar as their ad valorem taxation is concerned. Therefore, while this Committee was generally sympathetic to the problems of the dealers, constitutional prohibitions have prevented this Committee from making recommendations which would satisfy all of the complaints of the automobile dealers to our present method of taxation. RECOMMENDATIONS This Committee recommends that the present method of taxation of motor vehicles be continued without significant change in our laws relating thereto. However, we recommend that the General Assembly maintain close scrutiny over the administrative supervision of the law being exercised by the Revenue De partment. We further recommend that all organizations and associations par ticularly concerned with the ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles be afforded ample opportunity to consult and advise with the Revenue Department prior to any meaningful change in the assessment and valuation of motor vehicles being adopted, including both dealer and governmental organizations and associations. If, in the future, unrealistic and arbitrary assessment of motor vehicles becomes evident, this Committee makes the following recommendations: (1) that ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles in the hands of dealers be eliminated, and (2) that an intensive study be commenced directed toward determining the advis ability of employing a single use tax similar to the State of Florida, and at the same time, a method be devised whereby the bonding capacity of our counties and municipalities will not be reduced by the removal of motor vehicles from the tax digest. In order to relieve some of the economic burdens which dealers are now suffering, the Committee recommends that the General Assembly consider legislation which will provide that the ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles in the hands of a dealer for sale shall be paid at the time of the first sale of the motor vehicle or on December 20, whichever occurs first. Last year's extension of time within which the taxes on motor vehicles were to be paid proved of no particular benefit to anyone, but did create some serious INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3447 problems. We recommend that in the future no new extensions be granted for the payment of taxes on motor vehicles. Respectfully submitted, /s/ SIDNEY LOWREY, Chairman Representative, 13th District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS JOINT REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY (Senate Resolution No. 120) AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AIRPORT STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) SENATE Honorable Frank Eldridge Senator, 7th District Chairman Honorable A. W. Holloway Senator, 12th District Honorable H. McKinley Conway, Jr. Senator, 41st District Honorable Brooks Pennington, Jr. Senator, 45th District Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Honorable J. Crawford Ware Representative, 42nd District Chairman Honorable Guy Hill Representative, 121st District Honorable Cecil Turner Representative, 123rd District Honorable Bert Ward Representative, 2nd District Honorable Henry L. Reaves Representative, 99th District Honorable Nathan D. Dean Representative, 20th District Honorable Richard S. Hutchinson Representative, 79th District Honorable Harry D. Dixon Representative, 83rd District Honorable Paul Stalnaker Representative, 59th District Honorable Alan S. Gaynor Representative, 114th District Honorable Jack Shuman Representative, 65th District Honorable Carlus D. Gay Representative, 60th District January 1968 3448 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, INTRODUCTION The Senate Committee to Study Developments of the Aviation Industry Study Committee was appointed by the President of the Senate pursuant to the author ity vested in him under Senate Resolution No. 120. The President of the Senate appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Frank Eldridge Senator, 7th District Honorable A. W. Holloway Senator, 12th District Honorable H. McKinley Conway, Jr. Senator, 41st District Honorable Brooks Pennington, Jr. Senator, 45th District Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District Senator Frank Eldridge was appointed Chairman of the committee by the President of the Senate. The House of Representatives Airport Study Committee was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to the authority vested in him under House Resolution No. 3. The Speaker appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable J. Crawford Ware Representative, 42nd District Honorable Richard S. Hutchinson Representative, 79th District Honorable Guy Hill Representative, 121st District Honorable Harry D. Dixon Representative, 83rd District Honorable Cecil Turner Representative, 123rd District Honorable Paul Stalnaker Representative, 59th District Honorable Bert Ward Representative, 2nd District Honorable Alan S. Gaynor Representative, 114th District Honorable Henry L. Reaves Representative, 99th District Honorable Jack Shuman Representative, 65th District Honorable Nathan D. Dean Representative, 20th District Honorable Carlus D. Gay Representative, 60th District Representative J. Crawford Ware was appointed Chairman of the Committee by the Speaker. FINDINGS Both committees were created to conduct a broad study of the aviation indus try in the State of Georgia. At one of their first meetings the committees heard tes timony from state aviation officials which indicated that there were approximately ten airports in the State of Georgia which were in critical need of repairs. Upon investigation, the committees determined that there were eight airports in the State of Georgia which should be repaired in the very near future or it will be impossible to repair them all. These airports are: Cordele, Donalsonville, Herbert Smart Airport in Macon, Statesboro, Sylvania, Gainesville, St. Mary's and Tifton. In most instances the runways, taxiways, and aprons need to be sprayed with a grass killer, dead grass removed from the cracks and the cracks sealed. This will cost approximately $40,000 for each 5,000 feet of runway. These airports are important not only to the economy of their particular community but they are INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3449 also important to the industrial development of the entire State of Georgia. The present estimated value of these airports is as follows: Cordele Donalsonville Herbert Smart Statesboro $1,400,000 $1,400,000 $1,500,000 $ 500,000 Sylvania Gainesville St. Mary's Tifton $1,500,000 $4,500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000 A small investment to repair these airports at the present time will save the taxpayers of the State of Georgia and the taxpayers of the communities where the airports are located many thousands of dollars. The airports need repairs now and if they are not repaired, then it will be necessary to tear up the present runways and build new ones. The committees studied the possibility of placing all state aircraft under one separate department of state government. In this connection, the committees employed the consulting firm of Kysor Associates, of Richfield, Connecticut to conduct a preliminary survey to determine if it would be in the best interest of the State of Georgia to place all state aircraft under one separate department. Kysor Associates have completed their report which is on file in the Office of Legislative Counsel for review by all interested persons. This report strongly recommends the establishment of a separate department of state government to manage and maintain all state aircraft. The committees heard testimony from the governing: authorities of the counties and municipalities which own and operate airports. The overwhelming opinion of the persons who testified before the committees was that the counties and municipalities needed matching fund money on at least a 50% state and 50% local basis. However, some of the persons testified that their communities might be able to participate on a 25% state and 75% local basis. The Georgia Civil Air Patrol appealed to the committees for state assistance in connection with its activities, which consists primarily of rescue operations. The officials of the Georgia Civil Air Patrol furnished the committees with information which indicates that over half the states in the United States appropri ate funds to the Civil Air Patrol in their respective states. The committees believe that this proposal is meritorious, however, the request for assistance was pre sented to the committees at one of their final meetings and the committees, because of the limited time available to complete their work, were not able to act upon the request. The committees made a cursory study of registration fees in lieu of personal property taxes on all privately owned aircraft. However, the committees did not have the time to fully explore this proposition. The states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and Wis consin presently charge registration fees in lieu of personal property taxes. Florida, for example, charges a registration fee of $5.00 on all aircraft from pri vate use based on a graduated gross weight scale ranging from $5.00 to $25.00. Aircraft for hire in Florida are charged a registration fee based on a graduated gross weight scale ranging from $1.00 to $100.00 and schedule air carriers pay 3450 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 1/10 of 1% per mile of over-Florida flying not to exceed $100.00 per aircraft. Glider fees in Florida are $2.50 and dealer demonstrations certificates are $10.00. RECOMMENDATIONS The committees recommend the following: (1) A non-recurring appropriation of $160,000 to the State Highway Depart ment for the fiscal year 1968-69 to be used by the State Highway Department as matching fund monies which shall be available to the various counties and munici palities on a 50% state and 50% local basis to repair existing airports. These airports are all non-carrier airports and the Federal Aviation Agency is not authorized to participate because the repairs are considered maintenance. The maximum funds available to any county or municipality shall be limited to $20,000. These funds shall be used exclusively for repairs to existing runways, taxiways and aprons. (2) A recurring appropriation of $30,000 per anum to the Aviation Division of the Department of Industry and Trade. The Department of Industry and Trade shall be responsible for furnishing continuous technical assistance to the various counties and municipalities in connection with the maintenance of their airports. The committees feel that this would eliminate the need of state assistance to repair airports in the future. (3) That the further study be given the proposal concerning registration fees on all private aircraft in lieu of personal property taxes. (4) That further study be given the request of the Civil Air Patrol for an annual state appropriation. (5) During its deliberations, testimony was presented before the committees which indicated that the State of Georgia can realize a savings of approximately 25% on the purchase of aircraft fuel used by state owned aircraft by contacting the major oil companies and expressing a desire to participate in contract fuel. The committees strongly recommend that this situation be investigated im mediately by the Supervisor of Purchases. (6) The establishment of a new department of state government to be known as the State Department of Air Transportation. This recommendation was cor roborated by the Kysor Associates report. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The members of the committees wish to express their sincere appreciation to the federal and state aviation officials and local officials who appeared before INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3451 the committees and offered their suggestions and recommendations to improve airports in the State of Georgia and in their respective communities. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Frank Eldridge Frank Eldridge, Chairman Senate Committee /s/ J. Crawford Ware J. Crawford Ware, Chairman House of Representatives Airport Study Committee TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******** REPORT OF SPECIAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution 3) THE COMMITTEE Honorable Willis J. Richardson, Jr. Representative, 116th District Chairman Honorable Hines L. Brantley Representative, 63rd District Honorable Thomas B. Buck, III Representative, 112th District Honorable Harold G. Clarke Representative, 45th District Honorable J. C. Daugherty Representative, 134th District Honorable Jack N. Gunter Representative, llth District Honorable G. Robert Howard Representative, 101st District Honorable Preston B. Lewis Representative, 50th District Honorable Carl P. Savage Representative, 58th District Honorable Roger W. Wilson Representative, 109th District December, 1967 REPORT OF THE SPECIAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STUDY COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE: The Committee was created under House Resolution No. 3 for the purpose of studying the subject of "Capital Punishment in Georgia". The Committee held is organizational meeting on August 24, 1967, and it was decided that since the interim Senate Committee of 1965 held its public meetings in principally metropolitan areas, that the Committee would hold four public hearings in the areas of the State not previously heard from by the Senate Com mittee, with the exception of Atlanta. These public hearings were held in Atlanta, Brunswick, Americus and Gainesville. In addition to the public hearings, the members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Director of the Department of Corrections, the Warden of the State Prison at Reidsville and the Superintendent and psychiatrists of Central State Hospital at Milledgeville appeared before the Committee. 3452 FINDINGS: JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, The Committee, in its public hearings, heard from approximately fifty people who represented the opinions of individuals and various groups, including attor neys, police officers, ministers, city, county and State officials, school boards, newspapermen, businessmen, and students--both high school and college. There was no definite pattern or trend that the Committee could establish as to public opinion from the individuals who appeared before the Committee, as the opinions as to the retention or abolishment of capital punishment varied with each individual and the locality. The Committee noted, however, that the testimony favorable to the abolishment of capital punishment was based primarily on moral and religious grounds. On the other hand, the individuals and groups who ex pressed themselves as being in favor of retaining capital punishment confined their arguments primarily to the idea that capital punishment served as a deter rent to crime, provides protection for society, and furthers the concept of justice. The Committee found considerable sentiment for reducing the number of offenses presently punishable by the death penalty, and in many instances those persons who testified as being in favor of the abolishment of capital punishment in principle, did state that they thought it would be wise to retain capital punish ment for certain crimes. The Committee noted, however, that it was the general opinion of the persons in favor of capital punishment, as well as some of the individuals who were in favor of the abolishment of capital punishment, except for certain crimes, that capital punishment should be retained for the crimes of murder, rape, kidnapping and treason. Although the subject of pardons and paroles and life sentences was not within the purview of the Committee's investigation, the Committee felt that it would be be impossible to properly study the subject of capital punishment without obtain ing information in regard to these two subjects, inasmuch as they were so closely related to the question of the retention or abolishment of capital punishment. It was the unanimous opinion of the State officials responsible for pardons and paroles and the administration of the prison system that capital punishment should be retained in lieu of a mandatory life sentence without parole or commu tation. They further expressed a belief that the present law pertaining to the eligi bility of parole after seven years should be retained. There was some acquiescence to the possibility of lengthening the time whereby an individual would be eligible for parole. An effort was made by the Committee, through the obtaining of statistical data from the Pardons and Paroles Board and the Department of Corrections, to determine if any conclusion could be drawn from the persons convicted of capital offenses in the past, as to the effect of social, educational or economic background being a factor as to these individuals receiving the death sentence. Although no conclusion could be drawn by the information made available to the Committee, it is noted that from six individuals whose death sentences have been commuted to life imprisonment, the lack of formal education, as well as limited income, is apparent. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3453 Inquiry was also made by the Committee on these factors through the State psychiatrists who have observed and treated individuals sentenced to the death penalty, but no information was available from which a conclusion could be drawn. The Committee found in its public hearings some evidence that there is dis satisfaction as to the administration of justice with regard to the death penalty in the courts. However, the comments made in regard to this were based on no factual or documented evidence. It is noted by the Committee that of the law enforcement officers appearing before the Committee, none advocated the abolishment of capital punishment. There was no suggestion by any of those people appearing before the Commit tee that there should be a public referendum with regard to the subject of capital punishment. Some interest was expressed in the substitution of a gas chamber for the elec tric chair as being a more humane method of execution. The Committee determined that 415 persons were electrocuted in Georgia since 1924, and during this period there have been no executions for any crimes other than murder, rape and robbery by open force. At the present time there are 25 individuals under the death sentence in Georgia. There has been no execution in the State of Georgia since 1964. It is noted that there is one inmate who has been under the death sentence since 1958, three under the death sentence since 1960, and three under the death sentence since 1963. The Committee found no information or statistics that indicate with any de gree of certainty that race was a factor in individuals receiving the death penalty, although this inference could be drawn insofar as race related to the economic, educational and social background of the individuals, and in the fact that the Negroes executed in Georgia outnumber the whites approximately four to one. During the course of the Committee's investigation voluminous documentary and statistical materials from various sources have been assembled relative to capital punishment. These materials are being maintained on file by the Commit tee and any member of the General Assembly who wishes to inspect or study these materials may have the opportunity of doing so by contacting the office of Legis lative Counsel. RECOMMENDATIONS: (1) The Committee, by a vote of nine to one, recommends that capital punish ment should be retained in Georgia, for at least the following crimes: Murder, rape, robbery by force, kidnapping for ransom, perjury causing death or perjury resulting in the conviction of another person of an offense punishable by death, and treason, with one member being of the opinion that the death penalty should be abolished entirely. (2) That the Committee introduce legislation at the 1968 session of the General Assembly providing for the following: 3454 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, (a) That persons sentenced to death, whose sentences are commuted to life, and persons sentenced to life imprisonment should be required to serve a minimum of 15 years before being eligible for parole. (b) That a unanimous decision by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles be required prior to the commutation of a death sentence to life imprisonment. (c) That the sentence in capital felony cases upon conviction, automatic ally be made life imprisonment unless punishment by death is recommended by the jury. 3. That due to the lack of public sentiment expressed to the Committee, as well as the questioned legality, that no necessity presently exists for a Statewide advisory referendum on the question of the retention or abolishment of capital punishment. 4. That the proper officials make a study of the feasibility of using a gas chamber in lieu of the electric chair. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Willis J. Richardson, Jr. Willis J. Richardson, Jr. /s/ Hines L. Brantley Hines L. Brantley /s/ Thomas B. Buck, III. Thomas B. Buck, III. /s/ Harold G. Clarke Harold G. Clarke /s/ Jack N. Gunter Jack N. Gunter /s/ G. Robert Howard G. Robert Howard /s/ Preston B. Lewis Preston B. Lewis /s/ Carl P. Savage, Sr. Carl P. Savage, Sr. /s/ Roger W. Wilson Roger W. Wilson MINORITY REPORT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPECIAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STUDY COMMITTEE THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The Committee in its deliberations considered most, if not all, serious argu ments regarding the retention or abolishment of capital punishment in this State; however, it is apparent that while 50 persons appeared before the Committee with INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3455 varying opinions as to retention or abolition of capital punishment, a great majority of the citizens of this State do not apparently have enough information on the subject to decide one way or the other, except those who have been affected directly or indirectly as the subject relates to the administration of justice, equal protection of the laws and the interplay of economic factors, racial factors, social factors and even religious factors. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RELATING AGENCIES It is noted that all law enforcement, State prison and prisoner administrative agencies were unanimously in favor of retaining capital punishment while numer ous denominational representatives were for abolishing capital punishment. By way of opinion, based on the fact of opinions expressed by the law enforcement and related agencies, it should not be overlooked that in their zeal to enforce the laws of this State that maintain the good order, peace, morals and tranquility of our society and the discipline necessary to effective law enforcement, correctional procedure, rehabilitation, pardon and parole personnel tend toward the narrow view of a crime oriented legal-social structure. This should not be so in a many faceted ever-changing society that looks toward new and developing techniques of crime prevention, detection, sentencing and rehabilitation. RELIGIOUS REPRESENTATIVES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS Georgia is largely a state that believes in law and order if the proper climate is created by its leaders in local communities, general government and religious oriented organizations and denominations. The opinions of religious representa tives appearing before the Committee were largely in favor of abolishing capital punishment for moral reasons centered primarily on the modern concern for the significance of human life and the proper evaluation, preservation and rehabilita tion of it. At least one responsible representative of a deliberative body opposed capital punishment on the basis of the larger value of the overall social and behavioral development of our society, race and other factors notwithstanding. DETERRENCE AS A FACTOR Whether or not deterrence is a factor in the retardation of the commission of capital offenses, there certainly seems to be no conclusive evidence to support the notion that capital punishment serves the purpose of deterring crime; however, when it is considered that a great many capital offenses are committed between close relatives, friends and on impulse, it is reasonable to believe that these cate gories of offenses would be committed without regard to the existence or nonexistence of capital punishment. In this connection, see the "Memorandum on Capital Punishment", prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union, dated February, 1967. RACE AND STATUS E. T. Kehrer, President of the Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, stated at one of the public hearings that: "The existence of the death penalty for crimes results in discrimination against the poor, the uneducated, and the Negro." 3456 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Even a cursory look at that statement immediately demonstrates that the category of those persons described include Negroes in each category since Negroes are generally poor and uneducated; the conclusion being that the Negro accused on a capital crime has three strikes against him. This presses one to the conclusion that Negroes are more likely to get the death penalty than anyone else accused of capital crimes in this State. Information provided the Committee by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles showed statistically that there are presently 25 men under the death sentence in the penitentiary of this State and the county prisons; and of that number, 17 are Negroes, of which 5 were convicted of rape and 12 for murder. Of the 415 executions in Georgia within the last 40 years, 337 were Negroes according to the records of the penal and corrections offices. These statistics tend to bear out the belief of a great many people who have studied the subject that the death penalty operates unevenly against the poorer members of our society and Negroes, and is consequently a denial of equal protection of the laws. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE It should not be disregarded that the whole question of the administration of justice in this country and in this State bears a direct relation to the general population's respect for law and order, and where laws are applied unevenly, it necessarily leads ultimately to a disregard for the courts and our general system of justice. This disrespect can be seen to manifest itself in terms of civil disorders, riots, demonstrations and all other forms of violent protest. It would seem that in view of the present-day emphasis on immediate and urgent fulfillment of the promises of our democratic institutions, the Minority believes that capital punish ment should be abolished in Georgia or at least suspended by a moratorium of a minimum of three years and a maximum of five years. Respectfully submitted, /s/ J. C. Daugherty J. C. Daugherty Representative, 134th District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******** REPORT OF THE STATE CLAIMS STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Don C. Moore, Chairman Honorable A. LaRue Parrish, Sr. Representative, 12th District Representative, 96th District Honorable A. B. C. Dorminy, Secretary Honorable George W. Smith Representative, 72nd District Representative, 117th District Honorable Robert H. Farrar Honorable E. O. Branch Representative, 118th District Representative, 74th District Honorable Marcus Collins Honorable Young H. Longino Representative, 88th District Representative, 112nd District Honorable A. T. Land, Sr. Representative, 53rd District December, 1967 INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3457 REPORT OF THE STATE CLAIMS STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) INTRODUCTION: The State Claims Study Committee was created pursuant to House Resolution No. 3 which was adopted at the 1967 session of the General Assembly of Georgia. The Speaker appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Don C. Moore Representative, 12th District Honorable A. B. C. Dorminy Representative, 72nd District Honorable Robert H. Farrar Representative, 118th District Honorable Marcus Collins Representative, 88th District Honorable A. T. Land, Sr. Representative, 53rd District Honorable A. LaRue Parrish, Sr. Representative, 96th District Honorable George W. Smith Representative, 117th District Honorable E. 0. Branch Representative, 74th District Honorable Young H. Longino Representative, 122nd District Representative Don C. Moore was designated Chairman by the Speaker, and at the organizational meeting of the Committee, which was held on October 5, 1967, Representative A. B. C. Dorminy was elected Secretary. The Committee was created for the purpose of studying the procedure for processing claims against the State. At present such claims are presented in the form of a resolution providing for payment to the party alleging the claim. The Committee heard from two persons who have a firsthand knowledge as to the method by which such claims are presently processed. At this time the Committee wishes to express its appreciation to those per sons as follows: Honorable Ben W. Fortson, Jr., Secretary of State, Chairman, Claims Advisory Board Mrs. Carolyn Thomas, Secretary Claims Advisory Board FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: There have been several different suggestions proposed concerning this par ticular situation, among them being: (1) Completely removing the State's immunity from suit; (2) The creation of a claims court; (3) Obtaining liability insurance to cover such claims; (4) Leaving the situation as it presently exists; 3458 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (5) Creating a subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee to make direct payments for specific amounts. The Committee found that one of the complaints which was most numerous as regards the present procedure, concerns the time lag in making payments on claims. On the other hand, it was brought out that if the claimant were author ized to bring suit against the State, the time lag would probably be even greater, since the claimant would have to go through courts which might have a heavy backlog of cases. After reviewing the procedures which are used by other states for processing claims against the state, the Committee found that Georgia was in the category of states which had one of the most economical procedures as far as payment by the state for claims is concerned. Mr. Charles G. Duncan, Jr., State Insurance Program Director, in a memo randum prepared July 20, 1962, stated that annual premiums on comprehensive general liability insurance would amount to in excess of $400,000.00 per year. It is interesting to note that the total amount of money authorized by the General Assembly to be paid to claimants in the years 1953 through 1967 is approximately $466,000.00. Mrs. Thomas, in a report prepared for the Committee, furnished the following interesting statistics: During the fifteen year period in which the Claims Advisory Board has existed, there have been 802 claims presented, and the total amount claimed has been $2,209,415.36. The Claims Advisory Board has recommended payment of $359,361.53. The amount actually authorized by the General Assembly was $465,687.96. Consequently, the difference in the amount claimed and the amount actually paid was $1,743,727.40. Since the Claims Advisory Board has been in existence, the General Assem bly has paid $106,326.43 more than the Claims Advisory Board has recommended. Mrs. Thomas also pointed out that during the 1967 session of the General Assem bly, the General Assembly paid approximately $17,400.00 more in claims than the Board recommended. Two claims were paid on which the Board recommended no action and eight claims were increased over the Board's recommendation to pro vide the total amount of approximately $17,400.00. This averaged out to approxi mately $1,740.00 more paid out on each of the ten claims than was recommended by the Board. The Committee is of the unanimous opinion that the Claims Advisory Board is following the guidelines provided by the General Assembly when the Board was created and that the Appropriations Committee and the General Assembly should follow the recommendations that are made by the Board much closer than recom mendations have been followed in the past. In light of the fact that actions for most types of injuries to the person must be brought within two years after the right of action accrues, the Committee recommends that the General Assembly consider whether claims against the State should also be brought within a limited period after the accident occurs, before the claims will be considered by the Claims Advisory Board and the General Assembly. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Don C. Moore Don C. Moore, Chairman Representative, 12th District INTEEIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3459 /s/ Robert H. Parrar Robert H. Farrar Representative, 118th District /s/ A. T. Land, Sr. A. T. Land, Sr. Representative, 53rd District /s/ George W. Smith George W. Smith Representative, 117th District /s/ Loung H. Longino Young H. Longino Representative, 122nd District /s/ A. B. C. Dorminy A. B. C. Dorminy, Secretary Representative, 72nd District /s/ Marcus Collins Marcus Collins Representative, 88th District /s/ A. LaRue Parrish, Sr. A. LaRue Parrish, Sr. Representative, 96th District /s/ E. O. Branch E. 0. Branch Representative, 74th District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERA1 ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF LICENSING AND REGULATING COLLECTION AGENCIES (Senate Resolution No. 72) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Billy Adams, Chairman Senator, 26th District Honorable R. Eugene Holley Senator, 22nd District Honorable Ben F. Johnson Senator, 42nd District Honorable W. W. Fincher, Jr. Senator, 54th District Honorable W. Armstrong Smith Senator, 34th District January, 1968 The Committee to Study the Feasibility of Licensing and Regulating Collec tion Agencies met with private individuals and representatives of various collec tion agencies in Georgia, and listened to testimony on the question of whethei collection agencies should be licensed or regulated. Those speakers voicing opposition to the regulation of collection agenciet felt that the industry could take care of itself. Those speakers for regulation oi 3460 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, collection agencies gave case histories where collection agencies have taken advan tage of various people, especially doctors, in Georgia. As a result of the testimony, the Committee decided that there is a need for collection agencies to be subject to fair practices legislation, but there is no need for a regulatory agency for collection agencies to be created, nor is there any need for regulatory legislation. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AN**D**O**T*H* ER INTERESTED PERSONS. REPORT OF THE DRUNK DRIVING LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE (Senate Resolution No. 92) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Frank G. Miller Senator, 43rd District Chairman Honorable W. Armstrong Smith Senator, 34th District Secretary Honorable W. W. Fincher, Jr. Senator, 54th District Honorable I. William Gregory, Jr. Senator, 15th District Honorable William A. Searcey Senator, 2nd District September 15, 1967 PRELUDE The committee was created pursuant to the authority of Senate Resolution Number 92. The Lieutenant Governor appointed the following members of the Senate to the committee: Frank G. Miller, 43rd District; William A. Searcey, 2nd District; W. Armstrong Smith, 34th District; I. William Gregory, Jr., 15th District; and W. W. Fincher, Jr., 54th District. At the organizational meeting of the committee, Senator Miller was elected Chairman and Senator Smith, Secretary. At the 1967 Session of the Georgia General Assembly, there were introduced several bills dealing with the problem created by the intoxicated driver. One of such bills was Senate Bill No. 120. This bill received extensive examination and scrutiny by the Senate Highway Committee. Following the Senate Highway Com mittee's consideration of this bill, a proposed substitute to the original Senate Bill Number 120 was drafted; however, due to the press of business at the close of the 1967 Session and the far reaching effects of this substitute, it was deemed advisable that an interim study committee be appointed for the purpose of inves tigating the entire field and problems relating to the intoxicated driver. This com mittee was created with that purpose in mind and was charged with the responsi bility of making an exhaustive study of this entire area and reporting its findings and recommendations back to the 1968 Session of the Georgia General Assembly. INTRODUCTION It is very difficult if not impossible to pinpoint with scientific exactness the precise percentage of drivers who have been drinking and who are involved in traffic accidents and fatalities. However, based upon reliable estimates, the com- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3461 mittee is informed that approximately 12% of the entire driving force at any given time is drinking. Prom the same sources, the committee is informed that in excess of 50% of all traffic accidents in which fatalities occur, drinking drivers have been involved. Needless to say many authorities will disagree with the per centages set forth and reported to the committee. Suffice it to say here that there has been evidence presented to the committee to lead it to the unavoidable conclu sion that the intoxicated driver is a decided factor in contributing to traffic accidents. Last year there were more than 50,000 individuals killed in the United States due to traffic accidents. Hundreds of thousands of additional Americans received personal injuries which incapacitated and maimed them. When the millions upon millions of dollars of property damage caused by traffic accidents are added in, it is unavoidable that there is at the present time a terrific problem presented by the person who insists upon driving an automobile while intoxicated. INVESTIGATION OF THE COMMITTEE In the early stages of the work of the committee, it was felt that it would be advisable and desirable to present to the general public an opportunity to present their views on the problem of the intoxicated driver. As a result, the committee held, both in Columbus, Georgia, and at the State Capitol, extensive public hear ings which were well attended. For three full days witnesses did appear and pre sent to the committee their observations and recommendations dealing with this most important problem. Without fail, it was the opinion of those responsible witnesses appearing before the committee that the one most important item of legislation needed in order to cope with the problem of the intoxicated driver was the enactment of an implied consent law. Basically speaking, an implied consent law has its foundation in the theory that the right of an individual to possess a driver's license is a privilege rather than an absolute right. Therefore, all implied consent laws provide that an individual operating a motor vehicle upon the public streets and ways impliedly consents to the submission of a scientific analysis of blood, breath or urine specimens in order to determine the amount of the alcohol present in the blood of a suspected intoxicated driver. In the event any suspected driver shall fail or refuse to consent to this test, his privilege to possess a driver's license is revoked. Twenty-two states have adopted such laws. At the present time, the State of Georgia does not require that a suspected driver submit to a blood-alcohol test. However, there are provisions available for the testing of a person's blood, and upon the proper evidential foundation being laid, findings relating to the alcoholic content of a defendant's blood may be pre sented in evidence and certain presumptive conclusions concerning the defendant's sobriety may be drawn therefrom. Recently, the United States Congress has enacted the Highway Safety Act of 1966. Pursuant to this legislation, the Department of Transportation has been charged with the responsibility of formulating comprehensive programs for high way safety which are to be designed to reduce the number of traffic accidents and deaths. In order to encourage and promote state participation in these recom mended programs, states who fail to comply with the standards of the highway safety programs will be penalized through their failure to receive certain federal, public road funds. One of the most important programs of the Highway Safety 3462 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Act of 1966, and the standards adopted pursuant thereto, is that all of the states must adopt an implied consent law which provides that if a chemical analysis of the defendant's blood shall reveal that there were present 0.10% or more by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood that he shall be presumed to be driving under the influence of intoxicants. At the present time, the presumptive level in Georgia is 0.15%. Many experts will disagree as to the proper level of the percent age of alcohol in the defendant's blood which will give rise to these presumptions. In the opinion of the committee, the real argument concerning this point has been eliminated when the Department of Transportation announced that it will require that the presumption shall arise when 0.10% is present. In addition to recommendations that an implied consent law be adopted, the majority of those witnesses testifying before the committee were of the opinion that the present approach employed by the majority of the courts of this state in the punishment of those persons found guilty of driving under the influence were inadequate to deter future violations. It is rare when persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages are sentenced to and actually serve jail sentences. With only a little more frequency, it occurs that driver's licenses are suspended or revoked for certain periods of time for such offenses. However, these instances are not great at all when compared to the total number of violations. In the vast majority of cases, the defendant receives simply a monetary fine. It was urged upon the committee that more stringent penalties be assessed against persons who are found guilty of driving under the influence. This includes manda tory suspension of driver's licenses, and in those cases which warrant more severe penalties, jail sentences for repeated offenders. In this day and time, the use of an automobile has become almost an indis pensable asset. The loss of an individual's license to operate a motor vehicle, there fore, is a severe penalty--one which is to be avoided by many individuals at all costs. This committee feels that if, rather than mere monetary fines, the judges of this state were to suspend and revoke driver's licenses on second offenses and in cases which warrant more severe penalties, sentence repeated offenders to con finement by jail sentences--a real deterrent would be present to those who insist upon driving while intoxicated. FINDINGS The committee unanimously feels that it is imperative that the State of Georgia adopt an implied consent law as outlined above which provides that when 0.10% or more by weight of alcohol is discovered in the defendant's blood that he be presumed to be operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxi cants. It is the distinct feeling of the committee that if an implied consent law is adopted, the provisions of this law must provide for the testing of the alcoholic content of the defendant's blood by means other than the withdrawal of a blood sample. The state of the art has progressed to the point that there is available to law enforcement officers reliable breath testing equipment which will enable any one with a minimum degree of training to withdraw breath specimens and receive accurate results revealing the alcoholic content of the blood. The committee recom mends that provisions be made both for a breath sample chemical analysis as well as blood specimens. Another glaring deficiency in the present legislative enactments concerning intoxicated drivers is represented by this situation. At the present time, unless a warrant is obtained charging an intoxicated driver with an appropriate offense there is no procedure whereby appropriate criminal charges may be preferred INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3463 against intoxicated drivers which cause the death of third parties in traffic acci dents. This committee feels that it is within the province of, and should be the duty of, the solicitor general, in appropriate instances to seek indictments for criminal offenses of this nature without requiring private citizens to seek a warrant. Another area in which improvement might be made in order to reduce the number of drivers who drive under the influence is the serious curtailment of the young driver's privilege to drive who has been found guilty of driving under the influence. The committee recommends that this group of drivers receive more serious revocation and suspension penalties. In order to support this recommen dation, it is interesting to note that all young drivers can expect to be involved in a traffic accident before reaching the age of twenty. In this day and time it is extremely valuable and desirable that young persons possess a driver's license and the means to transport themselves in this highly mobile economy. The loss of this privilege is serious indeed, and in this manner it is hoped that the young driver with his high accident potential will be discouraged from driving while intoxicated. At the present time the laws of Georgia are designed so that upon receiving notification of the conviction of an individual for driving under the influence, the Department of Public Safety automatically suspends the driver's license of the defendant. At the present time, judges trying traffic cases are allowing an ac cused to enter a plea of nolo contenders (no contest) to charges of driving under the influence. This plea is not considered to be a conviction, and the Department of Public Safety is powerless to revoke the license of an individual who pleads no contest to a charge of driving under the influence although the person entering such a plea usually receives the same penalty from the court as one found guilty of driving under the influence. It was brought to the attention of the committee that there is a vast abuse of this use of no contest plea. From December of 1966 until August of 1967 a period of nine months there were 15,518 nolo contendere pleas reported to the Department of Public Safety by those courts which try traffic offenders and report the results thereof to the Department of Public Safety. At the present time there are 647 courts trying traffic cases in the State of Georgia. Of this number 233 fail or refuse to report their convictions to the De partment of Public Safety. It is apparent that without complete and uniform reporting from all of the traffic courts of this state it will be impossible to devise a meaningful and comprehensive attack upon the ever increasing number of traf fic accidents and fatalities in this state. Traffic courts should report to the De partment of Public Safety all convictions of moving traffic violations in order that the Department of Public Safety might take appropriate action and have available the necessary statistical information upon which to base an effective program designed to reduce traffic accidents and deaths. RECOMMENDATIONS This committee recommends the adoption of an implied consent law with the presumptive percentage of alcohol being lowered to .10%. The committee also recommends that breath tests be authorized in addition to withdrawal of blood samples. The committee also recommends that solicitors general be required to seek indictments in those instances wherein a driver of a motor vehicle who is intoxicated is the proximate cause of the death of an individual involved in a traffic accident. The committee further recommends that the driver's license of 3464 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, persons less than 21 years of age be suspended for a period of 2 years or until age 21, whichever the court shall deem appropriate for these drivers who are found guilty of driving under the influence. A copy of a bill incorporating these recommendations is attached hereto and made a part of this report as Exhibit "A". The committee further recommends that the judges and clerks of all courts throughout this state who have jurisdiction to try offenders of traffic laws and ordinances be required to report to the Department of Public Safety convictions of such offenses. It is further recommended that the judges of such courts dras tically reduce the number of nolo contendere pleas which they will allow persons accused of driving under the influence to enter. Respectfully submitted, /a/ Prank G. Miller FRANK G. MILLER Chairman A BILL To be entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on the Highways" approved January 11, 1954 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 9, 1956 (Ga. Laws 1956, p. 674), and an Act approved February 28, 1966 (Ga. Laws 1966, p. 70), so as to provide that it shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate or be in actual physical control of any vehicle while under the influence of intoxi cating liquor; to provide for the chemical analysis of a defendant's blood or breath in order to determine the alcholic content thereof; to provide for certain presump tions concerning the amount of alchol found in a defendant's blood; to provide for those persons who may conduct an analysis of such blood and breath speci mens ; to provide for those persons who may withdraw blood specimens; to provide that information concerning the chemical analysis of the defendant's blood shall be made available to him; to provide that it shall be unlawful for persons under the influence of certain drugs to drive or operate a vehicle; to provide penalties for persons convicted of operating, driving, or being in physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs; to provide that it shall be the duty of the solicitor generals to seek indictments of persons involved in accidents which cause the death of third parties when a violation of the fore going offenses is the proximate cause of the death of the deceased; to provide that operators and drivers of motor vehicles impliedly consent to a chemical analysis of their blood or breath specimen for the purpose of determining the alcholic content of a driver suspected of driving or operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating beverages or drugs; to provide the procedures con nected therewith; to provide for the suspension of the driver's license of those persons who fail to submit to proper chemical analysis; to provide the procedure connected therewith; to provide that persons accused of driving under the in fluence of intoxicating liquors shall be entitled to a chemical analysis of their blood or breath under certain conditions; to provide for the payment and cost of such tests; to provide the procedure connected with all of the foregoing matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3465 EXHIBIT A BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. The "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways", approved January 11, 1954 (Ga. Laws 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556), as amended, particu larly by an Act approved March 9, 1956 (Ga. Laws 1956, p. 674), and an Act ap proved February 28, 1966 (Ga. Laws 1966, p. 70), is hereby amended by striking Section 47 in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 47 to read as follows: "Section 47. Persons Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Drugs. (a) It shall be unlawful and punishable as provided in subsection (g) of this Section for any person who is under the influence of intoxi cating liquor to drive, operate or be in actual physical control of any vehicle within this state. (b) Upon the trial of any person accused of violating subsection (a) of this Section, evidence as to the amount of alcohol in the defend ant's blood at the time of the alleged offense as shown by a chemical analysis of the defendant's blood or breath shall be admissible as compe tent evidence bearing upon the question of whether the person was under the influence of intoxicating liquor and shall give rise to the following presumptions: (1) If there was at that time 0.05 per cent or less by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, it shall be presumed that the de fendant was not under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (2) If there was at that time in excess of 0.05 per cent but less than 0.10 per cent by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, such fact shall not give rise to any presumption that the person was or was not under the influence of intoxicating liquor, but such fact may be considered with other competent evidence in determining whether the defendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (3) If there was at the time 0.10 per cent or more by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, it shall be presumed that the de fendant was under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (4) Per cent by weight of alcohol in the blood shall be based upon milligrams of alcohol per one hundred cubic centimeters of blood, (5) The foregoing provisions of subsection (b) shall not be construed as limiting the introduction of any other competent evi dence bearing upon the question whether the person was under the influence of intoxicating liquor. 3466 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (c) Chemical analyses of the defendant's blood or breath to be considered valid under the provisions of this Section shall have been performed according to methods approved by the State Crime Laboratory and by an individual possessing a valid permit issued by the State Crime Laboratory for this purpose. The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to approve satisfactory techniques or methods to ascertain the qualifications and competence of individuals to conduct such analyses and to issue permits which shall be subject to termination or revoca tion at the discretion of the State Crime Laboratory. (d) Only a licensed physician, registered nurse, medical examiner, or ASCP certified or qualified medical or laboratory technician or aide may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content therein. This limitation shall not apply to the taking of breath speci mens. (e) Upon the request of the person who shall submit to a chemical test or tests at the request of a. law enforcement officer, full informa tion concerning the test or tests shall be made available to him or his attorney. (f) It is unlawful and punishable as provided in subsection (g) of this Section for any person who is under the influence of any narcotic drug, or who is under the influence of any other drug to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving or operating a vehicle, to drive or operate a vehicle within this state. The fact that any person charged with a violation of this subsection is or has been entitled to use such drugs under the laws of this state shall not constitute a defense against any charge of violating this subsection; provided, however, it shall be the duty of the arresting- officer, if it shall become necessary to incar cerate a person suspected of violating the provisions of this subsection, to summon, as soon as possible, a licensed physician to examine the party so apprehended. The expense of such examination shall be borne by the court having jurisdiction of said alleged offense. (g) Every person who shall be convicted of a violation of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, except as otherwise pro vided for herein, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. (1) Those persons who are convicted of violating this Section for the first time shall have their drivers' license suspended for a period of at least 30 days and shall receive such other punishment as the judge shall deem appropriate. (2) Those persons who are convicted of violating this Section for the second time within a period of three years shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of at least 60 days, shall have their drivers' license suspended for a period of at least six months and shall receive such other punishment as the judge shall deem ap propriate. (3) Those persons who are convicted of violating this Section for the third or more time within a period of three years shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of at least 90 days, shall INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3467 have their drivers' license suspended for a period of at least three years and shall receive such other punishment as the judge shall deem appropriate. (4) Notwithstanding- the foregoing provisions of this subsec tion, if the person convicted of violating this Section shall be less than 21 years of age, the judge may suspend such person's driver's license until he shall reach 21 years of age or for a period of two years and impose such other punishment as he shall deem appro priate. (5) In those instances wherein the defendant shall be con victed of a violation of this Section and he shall have been involved in an accident in which injuries result to parties other than the de fendant which require the hospitalization of such parties, the de fendant shall be punished by confinement for a period of at least 30 days, shall have his driver's license suspended for a period of at least three years and shall receive such other punishment as the judge shall deem appropriate. (6) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed so as to limit or prohibit the judge from sentencing any person convicted of violating any provision of this Section to any punishment which the judge is otherwise authorized to impose. (h) In the event a person shall be charged with a violation of this Section and he shall have been involved in an accident resulting in in juries which caused the death of a third party, it shall be the duty of the solicitor general of the judicial circuit in which such accident occurred to seek an indictment against such person for the appropriate offense which such persons conduct may dicate, if such person's violation of this Section was the proximate cause of the death of the deceased." Section 2. Said Act is further amended by adding immediately after Section 47 a new section to be designated Section 47A, to read as follows: "Section 47A. Implied Consent to Chemical Tests. (a) Any person who drives or operates a motor vehicle upon a hig'hway of this state shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical test, administered pursuant to the provisions of Section 47, of his blood or breath for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of his blood is lav/fully arrested for any offense allegedly committed while the person was driving or operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor. If such persons shall be minors, their parents or guardians shall also be deemed to have given such consent. The test shall be incidental to a lawful arrest and administered at the direction of a law enforcement officer having reasonable cause to believe such person was driving or operating a motor vehicle upon a highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Such person shall be informed by the arresting officer that his failure to submit to such a chemical test will result in the suspension of his privilege to operate a vehicle for a period of six months. 3468 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Any person who is dead, unconscious, or otherwise in a condition rendering him incapable of a refusal, shall be deemed not to have with drawn his consent, and such tests may be administered pursuant to the provisions of Section 47 whether or not such person is told that his fail ure to submit to the test will result in the suspension of his privilege to operate a motor vehicle. (b) If any such person refuses the request of a law enforcement officer to submit to a chemical test, the Department of Public Safety, upon receipt of the sworn statement of a law enforcement officer to the effect that he had reasonable cause to believe that such person had been driving or operating a motor vehicle upon a highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and that the person had refused to submit to the test after being requested by the law enforcement officer, shall suspend his license to operate a motor vehicle for a period of six months. No such suspension shall become effective until ten days after the giving of written notice thereof as provided for in subsection (c). (c) The Department of Public Safety shall immediately notify such person in writing of the proposed action to be taken. Within 15 days of the receipt by the Department of the person's request in writing, the Department shall afford him an opportunity for a hearing in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, approved March 10, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 338), as the same may now or may hereafter be amended. For the purposes of this Section, the scope of the hearing shall cover the issues of whether the law enforcement officer had reasonable cause to believe the person had been driving or operating a motor vehicle upon a highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, whether the person was placed under arrest, whether he refused to submit to the test after being requested to do so by a law enforcement officer, and whether, except for the persons described in subsection (a) above who are incapable of refusing, he had been informed by the arresting officer that his driving privilege would be suspended if he refused to submit to the test. An application for a hearing made by the affected person within ten days of receiving notice of the proposed action of the Department of Public Safety shall operate to stay the suspension by the Department for a period of fifteen days during which time the Department must afford a hearing. If the Department fails to afford a hearing within fifteen days, the suspension shall not take place until such time as the person is granted a hearing and is notified of the Department's action as hereinafter provided. However, if the affected person requested that the hearing be continued to a date beyond the fifteen-day period, the suspension shall become effective immediately upon receipt of the De partment's notice that said request for continuance has been granted. If the Department determines upon a hearing of the matter to sus pend the affected person's license to operate a motor vehicle, the sus pension herein provided for shall not become effective until five days after receipt by said person of the Department's notification of such suspension. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3469 (d) Any person who is afflicted with hemophilia shall be exempt from the blood specimen test required by this Section. (e) Any person who is afflicted with a heart condition and is using an anticoagulant under the direction of a physician or surgeon shall be exempt from the blood specimen test required by this Section. (f) Only a licensed physician, registered nurse, medical examiner or ASCP certified medical or laboratory technician or aide acting at the request of a law enforcement officer may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content therein. This limitation shall not apply to the taking of breath specimens. Only those persons provided for in subsection (c) of Section 47 shall conduct the appropriate tests to determine the alcoholic content thereof. (g) Any person who is arrested for driving or operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor shall have the right to demand a blood or breath test to determine the amount or weight of alcohol in his blood. It is mandatory upon the officials in whose custody he shall have been placed after arrest to have a blood or breath specimen taken for the purpose of determining the amount of alcohol in the per son's blood, if the facilities for obtaining such specimens are available in the county of his confinement, and to have said specimen analyzed ac cording to the procedures provided therefor by this Section. The costs of such test shall be borne by the jurisdiction having custody of such arrested person, but in no event shall such jurisdiction be responsible for the payment of such costs which exceed $20.00. (h) No licensed physician, registered nurse, medical examiner, or ASCP certified medical or laboratory technician or aide shall incur any civil or criminal liability as a result of the proper obtainment of such specimens for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content thereof when requested in writing by a law enforcement officer to administer such a test." Section 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. December 26, 1967 TO: CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE STANDING EDUCA TION COMMITTEE AND CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE SEN ATE EDUCATIONAL MATTERS COMMITTEE Your Committee to study the "Teachers' Retirement System of Georgia" submits the following report: 3470 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, In carrying out its responsibilities the Committee met with the following per sons: G. E. Pittman, Executive SecretaryTreasurer Teachers' Retirement Sys tem of Georgia Wesley R. Rucker, Deputy Director Teachers' Retirement System of Georgia Prank M. Hughes, Executive Secretary Georgia Education Association E. C. Mitcham, Jr. Director of State and Federal Relations E. C. Martin, Executive Director Georgia Education Improvement Council FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The Committee found that the law governing the Teachers' Retirement Sys tem of Georgia provides that those members that retired on or before July 1, 1961, receive a minimum pension based on a floor of $5.00 for each year of serv ice up to 40 years. Therefore, such teachers will receive at least $5.00 per month for each year that they have been in service up to 40 years. The result of the $5.00 floor being limited to teachers that retired on or before July 1, 1961 is that, in some instances, teachers who have taught an equal number of years do not receive at least the same minimum benefits as other teachers even though such teachers have participated to the maximum in the retirement system. In fact, the Committee found that in some instances, teachers who have contributed more funds into the system and have been in service for a greater number of years, receive less than other teachers who have contributed less and have been in serv ice for fewer number of years simply because the teachers that contributed more retired after July 1, 1961. The Committee also found that a number of teachers have taught for 40 years or more and receive less than $200.00 per month. There fore, the Committee recommends that the minimum floor apply equally to all teachers who are members of the retirement system regardless of whether they re tired prior to, on, or after July 1, 1961. The Committee also recommends that the minimum floor of $5.00 be raised to $6.00 so that a retired teacher will receive at least $6.00 per month for each year he has been in service up to a maximum of 40 years. To finance the raising of the floor, the Committee recommends that the teachers contribtition be increased from the present level of 6 per cent of his earnable compensation to 6.25 per cent. The Committee also found that under the present law a teacher may retire at age 63 with 40 years of service and receive maximum benefits. The Committee recommends that the age be reduced from 63 to 62 so that a teacher may retire at age 62 with 40 years of service and receive maximum benefits. The members of the Committee wish to express their sincere appreciation to all of the persons who appeared and testified before the Committee. Respectfully submitted, /s/ H. Goodwin Hall H. Goodwin Hall Representative, 67th District Chairman INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3471 /s/ Richard S. Hutchinson Richard S. Hutchinson Representative, 79th District /s/ Clarence A. Parker Clarence A. Parker Representative, 68th District /s/ Dewey D. Rush Dewey D. Rush Representative, 75th District /s/ Lamar D. Northcutt Lamar D. Northcutt Representative, 35th District /s/ Martin Young Martin Young Senator, 13th District Chairman /s/ Maylon K. London Maylon K. London Senator, 50th District /s/ Joseph E. Kennedy Joseph E. Kennedy Senator, 4th District /s/ Roy V. Noble Roy V. Noble Senator, 19th District APPENDIX I A BILL To be entitled An Act to amend an Act establishing a retirement system for teachers in the State public schools and other State supported schools, approved March 19, 1943 (Ga. Laws 1943, p. 640), as amended, so as to provide for increas ing the employee contribution in order to receive membership service credit for any period of active duty in the military service after July 1, 1968; to provide for increasing the employee contribution; to provide for raising the minimum floor; to provide that the minimum floor shall apply to all teachers that are members of the retirement system; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other pur poses. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: Section 1. An Act establishing a retirement system for teachers in the State public schools and other State supported schools, approved March 19, 1943 (Ga. Laws 1943, p. 640), as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end of Para graph (ii) of Subsection (6) of Section 4 (originally Subsection (5) of Section 4) the following : ", and at the rate of 6 1/4 percent on the compensation last paid to him as a teacher before entering military service or 6 1/4 percent on the compensation first paid to him as a teacher after returning from 3472 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, military service, whichever the case may be, plus 3 1/2 percent interest on said employee contributions compounded annually to date of payment, for any period of active military service subsequent to July 1, 1968.", so that when so amended Paragraph (ii) of Subsection (6) of Section 4 (origin ally Subsection (5) of Section 4) shall read as follows: "(ii) Membership service credit shall be awarded for any period of active military service performed after January 1, 1945, provided said person shall pay the regular employee contribution of 5 percent on the compensation last paid to him as a teacher before entering mili tary service or 5 percent on the compensation first paid to him as a teacher after returning from military service, whichever the case may be, plus 3 1/2 percent interest on said employee contributions, com pounded annually to date of payment, for any period of active military service between January 1, 1945, and July 1, 1961, and at the rate of 6 percent on the compensation last paid to him as a teacher before enter ing military service or 6 percent on the compensation first paid to him after returning from military service, whichever the case may be, plus 3 1/2 percent interest on said employee contributions, compounded an nually to date of payment, for any period of active military service subsequent to July 1, 1961, and at the rate of 6 1/4 percent on the com pensation last paid to him as a teacher before entering military service or 6 1/4 percent on the compensation first paid to him as a teacher after returning from military service, whichever the case may be, plus 3 1/2 percent interest on said employee contributions compounded annually to date of payment, for any period of active military service subsequent to July 1, 1968." Section 2. Said Act is further amended by striking from Paragraph (a) of Subsection (1) of Section 8 the following: "six per centum", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "six and one-fourth per centum", so that when so amended Paragraph (a) of Subsection (1) of Section 8 shall read as follows: "(a) Each employer shall cause to be deducted from the salary of each member for each and every payroll period (after the commencement date) six and one-fourth per centum of his earnable compensation, but the employer shall not have any such deduction made from the compensa tion of a member after the close of the school, fiscal or contract year in which the member has attained age 65 and has completed 40 or more years of creditable service. In determining the amount earnable by a member in a payroll period, the employer may consider the annual rate of compensation payable to such member on the first day of the payroll period as continuing throughout such payroll period, and it may omit the deduction from compensation for any period less than a full payroll pe riod if a teacher was not a member on the first day of the payroll period, INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3473 and to facilitate in making of deductions the employer may modify the deductions required of any member but not more than one-tenth of one per centum of the annual compensation upon the basis of which such deductions are to be made. Each employer shall immediately pay to the board of trustees, in such manner as the Board shall prescribe the amount deducted, which shall be credited by the Board to the individual accounts in the annuity savings fund of the member from whose com pensation the deductions were made." Section 3. Said Act is further amended by striking from Paragraph (d) of Subsection 3 of Section 8 the following: and inserting in lieu thereof: "6 1/4%", so that when so amended Paragraph (d) of Subsection 3 of Section 8 shall read as follows: "(d) In addition to the 6 1/4% contribution of each member for an annuity savings fund as provided for in Section 8, Subsection (1) (a), that part of the cost for pensions under this retirement system which is to be borne by appropriation from the State, payable to the Board of Trustees, shall consist of the normal and accrued liability contribu tions based on the part of the earnable compensation of members payable from state teacher salary funds provided by law, or from funds of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, or from other funds of the State, at the rates provided in Section 8, Subsection (3) (a) and the balance of the cost for pensions, consisting of the normal and accrued liability contributions at the rates provided in Section 8, Subsection (3) (a) based on the part of the earnable compensation of members not payable from State teachers' salary funds or from other funds of the State shall be borne by the employers having contributing members in their employ, and each employer having contributing mem bers in its employ shall pay immediately such contributions to the Board of Trustees, to be credited to the pension accumulation fund." Section 4. Said Act is further amended by striking from Section 9 of an amendatory Act, approved April 5, 1961 (Ga. Laws 1961, p. 392), as amended, the following : "those members retired on or before July 1, 1961, until a minimum floor of five ($5.00) dollars", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "for all retired members until a minimum floor of six ($6.00) dollars per month", and by striking in the last sentence of Section 9 the following: 3474 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, "five ($5.00) dollar floor", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "six ($6.00) dollar floor", so that when so amended Section 9 shall read as follows: "Section 9. Also, the board of trustees shall after an actuarial in vestigation into the benefit structure of the system, study the benefits being paid to the retired members prior to the effective date of this bill with authority to increase their retirement allowances in keeping with actuarial soundness of the system. The board of trustees in hereby re quired to make available semi-annually such funds as the income of the State will allow to the retirement structure for all retired members until a minimum floor of six ($6.00) dollars per month for each year of serv ice up to 40 years is reached. If the funds made available semi-annually are not sufficient to fully finance said aforementioned floor the amount necessary to reach said floor or any part thereof may be authorized by the Budget Bureau to be paid from State funds. Provided, however, that the contribution of the State funds, shall be reduced as the funds made available from the income of the retirement system is increased. Said practice shall continue until the retirement system can absorb the entire cost of maintaining said minimum six ($6.00) dollar floor." Section 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTEUANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE PROPERTY EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE STANDING HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE ****** THE COMMITTEE Honorable H. Walstein Parker Representative, 55th District Chairman Honorable Robert H. Farrar Representative, 118th District Secretary Honorable Preston B. Lewis Representative, 50th District Honorable Robert C. Pafford Representative, 97th District Honorable Joe Mack Wilson Representative, 102nd District Honorable Walt Davis Representative, 119th District December, 1967 INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3475 REPORT OF THE PROPERTY EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE STANDING HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION: Members of the Subcommittee: Honorable H. Walstein Parker Representative, 55th District Chairman Honorable Robert H. Farrar Representative, 118th District Secretary Honorable Preston B. Lewis Representative, 50th District Honorable Robert C. Pafford Representative, 97th District Honorable Joe Mack Wilson Representative, 102nd District Honorable Walt Davis Representative, 119th District The purpose of this Subcommittee was to study all matters concerning the relationship between property evaluation and Senate Bill No. 180 establishing a new Minimum Foundation Program of Education. In order to complete these assigned tasks, the Subcommittee has met pursuant to its authority to prepare details of this report based on evidence received by it. Testimony was requested and received from officials and personnel of the following: Honorable E. B. Davis, State Department of Audits and Accounts Dr. R. L. Johns, Head of the Department of Education Administration, University of Florida Mr. Jerald B. Searle, Hunnicutt and Associates, Inc. Dr. Jack P. Nix, State Department of Education After collecting information from these sources, the Subcommittee has pre pared the following report. GENERAL STATEMENT OF FINDINGS: The financing of Georgia public school systems is a major responsibility of both the state government and of our local school districts. The new Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act, approved January 24, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 3), as amended, hereinafter referred to as SB 180, is resulting in improvement in the quality of education in our state and a com mensurate increase in school costs. Prior to the passage of SB 180, the state paid 85% of the Minimum Foundation costs and the local system collectively paid 15%. Beginning in 1965-66, the state was to reduce its share by 1% each year until it is paying 80%, and the local district increased its share by 1% until it is pay ing 20 % of the cost. After this the state will continue at an 80% share and the local district at 20%. For the fiscal year 1967-68, the ratio is 82:18, and legisla tion now requires the local effort to increase at 1/2 of 1% after 1968. Many people have questioned whether there should be any local share. Why not, they ask, since all the money is coming from the local districts anyway, let the state pay all the costs? 3476 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, It is believed that we will have better schools if local people pay a portion of the cost. Local communities do not want to completely turn control of their schools over to the state. By paying a portion of the cost, local people will see that the money is not wasted and that schools will be operated to fit the needs of the community. S. B. No. 180 inaugurated a new formula for measuring the ability of each local school system to pay its fair share of the total local effort. Based on local property evaluation, because this is the major source of local tax revenue, it is theoretically an accurate method of measuring ability to pay, but the change from the old "economic index" formula has caused a large increase in required local effort for some school systems which had been considered relatively poor under the old formula. Pursuant to the Act requiring the State Auditor to establish an equalized adjusted school property tax digest for each county in the state and for the state as a whole, excluding therefrom real and personal property exempted from taxation for school purposes, approved March 18, 1964 (Ga. Laws 1964, p. 706), herein after referred to as S. B. 191, the only factor used is the evaluation of taxable property located within the school district. The State Auditor was given the re sponsibility of evaluating property using a method based primarily on actual sales of property within the school district during the last five years. This is, theoretically, an accurate measure of ability to pay, because local property evalution is the primary source of local school taxes. The Subcommittee reviewed the progress of the Minimum Foundation Pro gram since 1964. The people who appeared before the Subscommittee felt Geor gia has an outstanding Minimum Foundation Program, and it should be fully implemented. Local effort should be retained to insure a healthy educational program for each system. The percentage of local effort was discussed in the range of 17 to 20 percent. The local effort features of the program should be retained, but no definite decision was agreed upon on the percent of local effort. For fiscal year 1968-69 and thereafter local effort will increase at 1/2 of 1% each year until the state pays 80% and local sources 20%. Most counties in Georgia are in the process of reevaluation of property for 1968. The State of Georgia could save approximately $100,000 as there would be no real change in evaluation. There would be no need for private evaluation if the counties are already performing this function. After 1967, revenue estimates would be used rather than sales. The Subcommittee was also concerned that part of the local effort paid is lost when educational funds lapse. Line item appropriations to the State Department of Education if not used are lapsed back to the general state fund, but the local effort is not returned to local sources. The money lapsed back to the state goes in to the general fund and is used for purposes other than education. Legislation has been drawn to return local effort on lapsed funds. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3477 RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. That legislation be enacted relieving the State Auditor of the responsibil ity of evaluating property under S. B. No. 191 and transferring responsibility to the Department of Revenue. 2. That legislation be enacted to return local effort on lapsed funds to local systems on the basis of state earned allocated teachers. (See Appendix) Respectfully submitted, /a/ H. Walstein Parker H. Walstein Parker Representative, 55th District Chairman APPENDIX A Provided further, that all funds appropriated under this Act for purposes authorized by the Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act (Ga. Code Ann. 32-601 et seq.) which are not expended during the fiscal year shall be prorated and distributed to the local school systems of this State as a supplement to the maintenance and operation funds provided for in Ga. Ann. 32-613. The amount of funds to be distributed to each school system shall be determined by dividing the total unspent Foundation funds by the total number of teachers alloted throughout the State under Ga. Code Ann. 32-611 and 32-620 and then distri buting to each system that amount per teacher multiplied by the total number of teachers alloted to that system under Ga. Code Ann. 32-611 and 32-620. Note: (1) Depending upon the location of this proviso (to wit: whether there are other provisos before it or not) the second word, i.e., "further," could or could not be eliminated. (2) The use of the phrase "Local school systems" in the first sentence would exclude area school systems. If it is desired that area systems be included, the phrase should read "local and area school systems." APPENDIX B A RESOLUTION Directing the State Revenue Commissioner to undertake a complete, exhaus tive examination of properties owned by public utilities in order to ascertain their true fair market values for ad valorem taxation purposes, and to assign said true fair market values to said properties; and for other purposes. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: WHEREAS, the State Government, in order to efficiently and effectively carry out its constitutional responsibilities to the citizenry of Georgia, must adhere to sound financial principles and policies; and 3478 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, WHEREAS, over the past few years, practically all of the counties have undertaken to redetermine the valuation of properties owned by private interests in order to assign realistic values for ad valorem taxation purposes; and WHEKEAS, the returns of public utilities are made to the State Revenue Commissioner, and not to the county governments, and a revaluation of property owned by public utilities has not been undertaken in recent years; and WHEREAS, there exists a disproportionate tax burden as between public utilities and private interests, and financial responsibility requires that the State Revenue Commissioner immediately implement the procedures provided by law to assign proper values to properties owned by public utilities doing business in the State of Georgia. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY OF GEORGIA that the State Revenue Commissioner is hereby directed to immediately conduct a complete, exhaustive examination, and to assign the true fair market value to all properties returned to him for ad valorem taxation by public utilities. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE ELECTION LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE (Senate Resolution No. 88) THE COMMITTEE Honorable J. Roy McCracken Representative, 49th District Chairman Honorable T. Kenneth Kilpatrick Senator, 44th District Vice Chairman Mrs. Melba Williams Member, State Election Board Secretary Honorable Julian Webb Senator, llth District Honorable J. Steverson Knight Senator, 16th District Honorable Oliver C. Bateman Senator, 27th District Honorable Paul C. Broun Senator, 46th District Honorable Horace T. Ward Senator, 39th District Honorable Jay D. Gardner Senator, 1st District Honorable E. Roy Lambert Representative, 38th District Honorable Regnald Maxwell, Jr. Representative, 106th District Honorable Joe C. Underwood Representative, 61st District Honorable Harry Mixon Representative, 81st District Honorable William J. Wiggins Representative, 32nd District Honorable Joe S. Higginbotham Representative, 119th District Honorable Dubignion Douglas Representative, 60th District Honorable Ben W. Fortson, Jr. Secretary of State Honorable Arthur K. Bolton Attorney General Mr. Bill Blanks Member, State Election Board INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3479 REPORT OF THE ELECTIONS LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE The Election Laws Study Committee was appointed pursuant to the authority of Senate resolution No. 88. During the initial phases of the Committee's study and investigation, a great deal of time was consumed in a review of Senate Bill No. 151, the so-called "Municipal Election Code". During the course of the Com mittee's review of this bill, the Committee arrived at the conclusion that in order for any workable municipal election code to be adopted, it would be necessary that the municipal election code provisions be divorced from the rather detailed and complicated provisions of the Election Code. Acting upon this finding, the Com mittee proceeded to prepare a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151 dealing only with municipal elections. Such substitute will be recommended to the General Assembly for passage. After disposing of the municipal election code, the Committee then reviewed all election bills which had been introduced at the 1967 session of the General Assembly. Many of these bills, in the judgment of the Committee, were meritorious and deserve the attention of the General Assembly. However, because of the limited time available to the Committee and the exhaustive nature of some of these bills, the Committee recommends the adoption only of House Bill No. 75, which is a bill that prohibits all persons from soliciting votes within 250 feet of any polling place, House Bill No. 248, which authorizes newly arrived residents in the State who have not otherwise met the residential requirements to cast their votes for President, Vice-President, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and Senate Bill No. 181, which provides that an incumbent independent shall not be required to again secure a nomination petition if he chooses to seek reelection. The Committee's failure to recommend the adoption of any other bill coming before its consideration is not to be construed as an expression of approval or disapproval of the merits of the legislation. It should be understood that the Com mittee acted only on those items which it felt were imperative and did not recom mend bills which were of such a nature that an exhaustive study of their potential effects was required because the Committee did not have sufficient time to devote to such a study. The Committee then undertook to draft legislation in the following areas which, in the Committee's judgment, requires immediate attention before the next general election: A bill to increase from $25 to $50 the per diem authorized for members of the State Election Board, other than the Secretary of State. A bill to extend the jurisidiction of the State Election Board to include pri maries as well as elections. A bill to require that at least one vote recorder for each 300 electors be pro vided in each election district using vote recorders. The present requirement is one vote recorder for each 600 electors. A bill to require that the size of an election district must be reduced so that it does not contain more than 2,000 electors, if, at the last general election, voting had not been completed by one hour after the polls closed. 3480 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, A bill to require candidates who have been nominated by a convention to file their notice of candidacy at least 60 days prior to the general election. A bill to amend the Election Code to provide that a straight party vote does not cast a vote for that party's nominees for the office of presidential electors, but requires a separate and independent mark or voting action upon the part of the elector to cast a vote for the office of presidential electors. In 1965 the Election Code was amended to require that the candidates for office of presidential electors be listed in a separate column on the ballot and ballot labels. This bill conforms the other provisions of the Election Code to that amendment. A Bill to provide that in the event an elector votes a straight party ticket and then casts a vote for a candidate which is not a nominee of the political party for which he has cast a straight party vote, his vote will be counted for the individual candidate which the elector by his action has indicated he desires to receive the same, and a vote will be counted for all other candidates on the straight party ticket. A bill to amend the Election Code to provide: (1) That the tax commissioner or collector shall be a deputy registrar in those counties which do not have a board of registrars which maintains an office which is open during regular office hours on weekdays; (2) That the main office of the registrar shall remain open for business dur ing regular office hours of each weekday; (3) For a simplification of the registration process; (4) That, except for electors voting by absentee ballot, electors may vote only in the election district in which they are registered; (5) That no person shall be a candidate in a primary for more than one of certain listed offices; (6) For a change in the requirements and composition of conventions to provide substitute nominations; (7) That nomination petitions must be signed by at least five percent of the number of electors eligible to vote for candidates for the office the candidate is seeking at the last general election; (8) That in primaries paper ballots shall be marked by a "check" or "cross" mark rather than striking through; (9) That the form of ballot labels for vote recorders may be changed in order to present a clear presentation of candidates and questions to the electors, and that the Secretary of State prescribe the form of the ballot labels; (10) That if an elector has marked his ballot in such a manner to indicate clearly the candidate for whom he desires to vote, his ballot shall be counted even INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3481 though he may have marked his ballot in some manner other than as prescribed by the Code; (11) That write-in votes may not be cast in primaries; (12) For a change in the method of folding the ballot prior to depositing the ballot in the ballot box; (13) For an increase from one to five in the number of electors any one person may assist in voting; (14) That a poll officer may vote by absentee ballot; (15) That a postal employee designated by the postmaster may sign the jurat for an absentee ballot; (16) That any aggrieved elector, rather than any five electors, may contest an election. A bill to require political parties to establish rules and regulations governing the nomination of candidates by petition. This bill also requires nomination con ventions to be held at least 90 days prior to the day on which primaries are con ducted and requires that condidates nominated by convention must pay the same qualification fee which independent candidates are required to pay. A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide that the Lieutenant Governor-Elect shall succeed to the Governorship in the event of the death of the Governor-Elect. A Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for a runoff election in the event no candidate for governor receives a majority in the general election. During the course of the Committee's study, it became apparent that the pre sent Election Code is a rather cumbersome and confusing document, and that it should, as soon as possible, be completely revised in order that the election pro cesses might be set forth clearly and in an understandable fashion. In order to accomplish this rather ambitious purpose, the Committee further recommends that a new interim study committee on election laws be created for the purpose of completely revising the Georgia Election Code. Respectfully submitted, /s/ J. Roy McCracken J. Roy McCracken Representative, 49th District 3482 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. Jjs * # * * * REPORT OF THE GEORGIA FIREMEN TRAINING ACADEMY STUDY COMMITTE THE COMMITTEE Honorable B. Jack Sullivan Representative, 95th District Chairman Honorable Joe F. Ragland Representative, 109th District Secretary Honorable C. Ed Berry Representative, 110th District Honorable Alan S. Gaynor Representative, 114th District Honorable Tom L. Shanahan Representative, 8th District Honorable James L. Bentley Georgia State Safety Fire Commissioner Honorable Harrison W. Bray President, Association of County Commissioners of Georgia Honorable John L. Cromartie President, Georgia Municipal Association. Honorable T. R. Nichols President, Georgia State Firemen's Association Dr. George L. Simpson, Jr. Chancellor, Board of Regents December, 1967. REPORT OF THE GEORGIA FIREMEN TRAINING ACADEMY STUDY COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION The Georgia Firemen Training Academy Study Committee was created pur suant to the provisions of H. R. 182. The Committee was made up of five mem bers of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker, and five nonlegislative members, designated in the creating resolution. The names of the members of the Committee and the positions they hold are shown on the cover page of this report. The creating resolution provided that the committee would elect its own Chairman from the legislative membership of the Committee. At the organizational meeting of the Committee held on May 29, 1967, at the State Capitol, Representative B. Jack Sullivan was duly elected Chairman, and Representative Joe F. Ragland was elected Secretary. The Committee established a quorum of five for the transaction of business. The creating resolution charged the Committee with the responsibility of stu dying the need, feasibility and ways and means of establishing a Firemen Train ing Academy for the State of Georgia. The following report sets forth the Committee's findings and conclusions and recommendations based on its study. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3483 FINDINGS The Committee found that the need for a fireman training program has long been recognized, not only in Georgia, but in most of the other states. In 1966, thirty-four states conducted training programs involving 125,000 firemen. The beginning of Georgia's program dates back to the early 1930's when the Industrial Education Department of Georgia Tech appointed a group of leaders in the Georgia fire service to serve as training coordinators within their respective areas. World War II disrupted the program but was resumed in 1947, and by 1957, some 2,500 firemen were enrolled in training classes. In 1958, the Georgia Fire Institute was established at Georgia Tech which began offering training for firemen at the Institute and in zone areas, as well as courses in basic firemanship. The program offered by the Fire Institute of Georgia Tech has grown from an enrollment of fire fighters in organized training classes of 2,600 in 1958 to 4,100 in 1967. The Committee heard testimony from Mr. Bruce Cox and Mr. Harold Thomp son of the Georgia Fire Institute, and from several members of the Georgia Fire men's Association to the effect that the training in Georgia in basic firemanship has been, and still is, quite good as compared to the other states, although there is some need for expansion of the program. It appears, however, that Georgia is lagging seriously behind some of the states in providing the kind of highly technical training that is required for the complicated nature of modern fire fighting and prevention. Obviously, training in general firemanship is certainly still necessary, but this kind of training is not comprehensive enough for the problems associated with modern fire fighting. According to the Fire Training Facilities Committee of the Georgia State Fire men's Association, modern fire fighting involves the technical knowledge and manipulative skills of approximately 40 different vocations. Without enumerating the various skills required, the problems which are involved with raising water hundreds of feet above the ground to fight a fire on the 30th floor of a modern office building, and the complicated nature of fires caused by modern chemicals, could be mentioned by way of example. Several other states have recognized that highly technical training is required for today's firemen. For example, the University of Southern California at Los Angeles offers a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in fire department administra tion; the Illinois Institute of Technology offers a Bachelor's Degree in fire pro tection engineering, and the University of Maryland offers a Bachelor's Degree in fire protection, and twelve states have universities, colleges and technical institutes that offer two year associate degree programs in various forms of fire training. During its deliberations the Committee decided that it needed a great deal of information from those persons who are directly associated with fire fighting and fire training in the State of Georgia. For example, the Committee wished to obtain information relating to the type of fire protection which is presently being offered by the various departments of the State; information concerning training which is available to the firemen of the State; information concerning the attitude of the fire department personnel as to the feasibility of establishing a training center and offering a two year associate degree in fire protection technology or fire administration; information concerning the courses of study which might be offered by such a training center; information concerning the projected partici pation in such a training center; and finally information concerning financing 3484 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, such a training center. As a result, the Committee devised a comprehensive ques tionnaire which was mailed to all the fire departments throughout the State and to certain counties and private industries in the State. The results that the Com mittee received from this questionnaire have been compiled and are attached to and made a part of this report as Appendix 1. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Based on its findings and deliberations, the Committee has concluded that there is a definite need in Georgia to provide a higher level of training for fire men than is being offered at the present time. In this connection, the Committee believes that Georgia should be providing training similar to that which is already being provided by many of the other states in order to provide the kind of fire protection that is required by today's standards. In short, an adequate modern fireman training center should be established for the State of Georgia. The Committee further believes that this center should take the form of an expansion of the Fire Institute at Georgia Tech. Not only do the skills required of the modern fireman involve higher education, but the knowledge and experience that the Fire Institute has already gained in this important field should be fully utilized in developing a fireman training center. The Committee has concluded, however, that it does not have at this time ade quate information to make a concrete proposal to the General Assembly outlining the requirements associated with establishing an adequate fireman training cen ter. For example, information is needed concerning the physical facilities re quired to establish the training center; the location of the training center, in cluding whether or not it should be set up on a regional basis; information con cerning the personnel that would be required, and finally, information concerning the costs that would be involved in establishing and maintaining the center. A study is being undertaken by the Fire Institute at Georgia Tech which will provide this needed information. This study should be completed during 1968, and the Committee believes that it will be very important for the General Assembly to take full advantage of the information gathered when the study has been com pleted. As a result, the Committee recommends that an interim committee be created at the 1968 session of the General Assembly to make such further studies as it deems advisable relating to the creation of a fire training center and to ana lyze the results of the study being made by the Fire Institute at Georgia Tech. By utilizing that information, the next Committee would be able to make an appropri ate report to the 1969 session of the General Assembly setting forth a concrete proposal, including cost estimates, for establishing an adequate fire training center lor the State of Georgia. In conclusion, the Committee believes that the investment necessary to pro vide our firemen with the kind of training necessary to insure that Georgia has adequate fire protection will be returned many times through the lives and prop erty that will be saved, and through attracting more industry to our State and lowering fire insurance rates. Respectfully submitted, /s/ B. Jack Sullivan B. Jack Sullivan Representative, 95th District Chairman INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3485 APPENDIX I FIRE QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS The questionnaire was designed to give some idea of the type of fire protec tion which is presently offered by each department; the training which members of each department have received; the general attitude of each department head as to the feasibility of a training center and a two-year degree in Fire Protection Technology or Fire Administration; the courses of study which might be offered by a training center; the projected participation, both in courses at the training center and in local training by qualified instructors; and, finally, ideas in regard to financing the suggested program. The results of the questionnaire are as follows: RETURN Of some 430 questionnaires which were mailed out, 196 (45.6%) were re turned. One hundred and ninety units reported fire protection, while four said they have none; one answered "limited" and another failed to respond to the particular question. Note: Most respondents left some part of the questionnaire blank. TYPE OF PROTECTION The following table reflects the response to the question, "What is the insur ance rate classification of your jurisdiction?" STATEWIDE Insurance Rate 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 No. of Units 7 11 7 26 32 55 9 4 2 1 STATEWIDE, OMITTING CITIES OF 25,000 AND ABOVE Insurance Rate No. of Units 3 0 4 9 5 6 6 26 7 32 8 55 9 9 10 4 11 2 13 1 Statewide The mean insurance rate for the 140 departments which report either single rate or multirates is 6.98, while the median rate is 7.0. Statewide, Omitting Cities of 25,000 and Above The mean insurance rate for the 129 responding departments, exclusive of departments in cities above 25,000 population, is 7.25 and the median rate is 7.0. Note: The mean insurance rate classification for 106 units which reported experi ence at state, area, zone or local fire training schools was 6.8. For 34 units which claimed no fire training experience, other than their own, the mean rate was 8.0. 3486 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, PERSONNEL Full Time Twenty-six of the responding fire departments operate with full time paid firemen exclusively. An additional 52 units reported the use of one or more full time firemen. With these 78 departments a total of 3,077 full time firemen are employed representing public (2,620), military (441) and industrial firemen (16). Note. Omitting cities of 25,000 or more, there were 1,305 full time paid firemen reported, of which 441 were on federal payrolls. Part Time The total of volunteer firemen reported for the entire state is 3,769. Part paid volunteers represent 166 of the total while 3,603 are non-paid volunteers. Twelve private businesses use 541 non-paid volunteers. PRESENT TRAINING One hundred and seventy-seven departments reported their own training pro grams: daily training--41 departments; weekly--53 departments; monthly--54 departments. Bi-weekly and bi-monthly training is also reported by some units. Thirteen departments reported no training whatsoever, 11 of these being from cities of less than 5,000 population. Question: "Do the personnel in your department now participate in any of the state, zone, area or local training sessions?" Response: Yes--123; No--63. State--52 units Zone--43 units Area--34 units Local--38 units Forty-one of the negative responses were from cities of less than 5,000 population. Note: The Georgia Fire Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, reports an enrollment of 4,109 students for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967. The enrollment represents 300 (75%) of the fire departments in Georgia, according to a report prepared by Mr. Bruce Cox of the Institute. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3487 TRAINING CENTER FEASIBILITY Question: "Would a training center for fire fighters be beneficial to the members of the your department or company?" Response: Affirmative--175 (89.2%) Negative--12 Qualified-- 9 Fire departments in incorporated areas of 5,000 population or less reported 91.5% in the affirmative. Atlanta reported having its own training center. The greatest proportion of negative votes (3) in any one group was from the 12 businesses. When asked if members of their departments would take advantage of the training center, 163 respondents said "yes," and 12 "no." In the group of cities of 25,000 population and above, where all department personnel are on a "full time-paid" basis, the mean estimate of class participation at the center by depart ment personnel on a continuing basis was 24.6%. The lowest mean estimate for any on group came from military installations which reflected a continuing partici pation of 24%. One hundred and fifty-three units estimated the percentage of participation in a local part time training program taught by a Georgia Fire Institute Instruc tor at 80.8%, if such training were made available. DEGREE PROGRAM FEASIBILITY Question: "Should a two-year Associate Degree program in Fire Protection Technology or Fire Administration be offered, would some of your personnel take advantage of it?" Response. Yes--100 No--53 Qualified--29 Thirty-eight of the 53 negative responses came from cities below 5,000 popula tion, which was a group registered only 33.8% affirmative. Eighty-seven respond ents would consider taking such courses of study themselves. Virtually "complete cooperation" could be expected in regard to arranging work schedules to allow men to take advantage of training. Only 29 registered "no," most of which quali fied their answers by explaining that they were volunteer units and as such were not in control of that factor. SUGGESTED COURSES When asked to indicate which courses listed on the questionnaire would be advantageous to their departments, the respondents incidated the following: Responses 159 126 Courses Basic Fire Fighting First Class or Advanced Fire Fighting 3488 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 107 Inspection 75 Driver Training 72 Hydraulics 65 Fire Fighter's Mathematics 84 Officership--Company Level 55 Officership--Command Level 69 Officership--Chief Level 100 Arson Investigation 57 Human Relations 82 Public Relations 95 Instructor Training 127 First Aid 67 Radiation Hazards 27 Photography 13 Marine Fire Fighting 72 Aircraft Crash and Rescue 98 Industrial Fire Protection A number of additional possible courses were suggested: Letter Writing and Record Keeping Legal Training in the Field of Fire Prevention Traffic Control at Fires Radio and Telephone Communications General and Preventive Maintenance on Equipment Rescue Handling of Gas, Petroleum, Chemical and Electrical Fires Handling of Explosives Automatic Sprinklers and Alarm Systems FINANCING Question: "How much of the cost of sending the individual fireman for train ing do you feel should be paid by the local (city or county) government?" Response Statewide Statewide, Omitting cities of 25,000 and above Cities below 5,000 Business PercentAll None age Other 81 25 44 Numerous 74 24 42 44 12 14 220 Numerous 12-50% 6-50% Other suggestions for financing the cost of the proposed training usually involved the state government. Fort Gordon suggested tuition for the training center programs, while Moody Air Force Base thought an increased rate on fire insurance with those funds earmarked for the program was a good idea. A few INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3489 respondents suggested that civic clubs might take it upon themselves to raise the original funds. The Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta suggested federal funds. Chief J. B. Hobbs of the Seventh District Fire Department in Chatham County said: "I understand that the insurance companies in some states give addi tional rate classification to fire departments that send members to the fire academy, after the men pass the required classes. This local money saved on insurance premiums might be turned back to the state of Georgia." Fire equipment companies and county governments were also suggested as pos sible sources of revenue. Note: "The City of Quitman made a comment in regard to a term of duty for fire men after completing training which is financed by local government. SUPPORT Question: "Would the members of your department or company support legis lation providing funds for constructing, maintaining and operating such a train ing center in Georgia?" Response: Yes--163 No--8 Three negative votes came from industry; four came from cities of 5,000 population or less which doubted that they would be able to make use of the center. Note Their support would probably be for their conception of the training center and program. This question is not the type that can be a good indicator. COMMENTS In addition to the information specifically requested, several pertinent com ments were volunteered. Local training programs were mentioned by some small units as the best means for reaching their volunteers who had other responsibili ties which would keep them from being able to participate in courses at a training center. 1. "Due to the fact that 90% of the fire departments in the state of Georgia are volunteer, the biggest help to these departments would be for them to be able to get a qualified instructor from Georgia Tech (for local classes)." Chief J. B. Hobbs, Seventh District Fire Department, Inc., Chatham, County. 3490 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 2. "Since the fire insurance rate in the state of Georgia is based on fire protection statewide, I feel that this training center properly used will lower the basic rates for the entire state, showing to be very profitable. Also, it will be very encouraging to industry to know that we have the training center whereby they can send their personnel to be trained in fire protection for their plants." Chief R. M. Adams, Bainbridge. 3. "Training should be tailored to the various needs of each department." Chief Charles E. Weir, St. Mary's. 4. "The former Chief of the Clarkesville Fire Department, Frank Hill, did a preliminary survey on the possibility of establishing such a school about five years ago. In his proposal there would have been two such training centers in the state--one at North Georgia Technical and Vocational School and one at South Georgia Training and Vocational School. We would be able to use facilities already owned by the state with a minimum of cost for expansion to perform such a service. The advantages of having two schools in the state should be explored." Chief Claude Marcus, Clarkesville. 5. "Georgia is one of two states in the country that does not have a state training school! I think this speaks for itself." Chief D. B. Foster, Valdosta. September 29, 1967 ******** TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS OF ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OF THE STANDING HOUSE GAME AND FISH COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Robert H. Walling, Chmn. Representative, 118th District Honorable Kent Dickinson, Secretary Representative, 27th District Honorable Joe S. Higginbotham Representative, 119th District Honorable W. Harvey Jordan Representative, 78th District Honorable Dick Lane Representative, 126th District Honorable W. B. Malone Representative, 117th District Honorable Thomas A. Roach Representative, 15th District Honorable William J. Cox Representative, 127th District March, 1968 INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3491 The sub-committee appointed to study the need for additional training and higher qualifications of enforcement officers of the Game and Fish Commission has completed its study and submit herewith the report of its findings and recommendations. BACKGROUND Fifty years ago, Georgia had approximately twenty thousand hunters and fishermen within her boundaries. Today this figure has grown to more than one million. As man strives to meet the mounting daily pressures of an affluent society, he must turn more and more to some type of recreation, or succumb to a miserable existence of complications and coronaries. As people realize this need to involve themselves in some type of relaxation, more people turn to hunting and fishing to fill this need, thus creating a greater responsibility for our Game and Fish Department. If the trend in the increase of hunters and fishermen merely continues at the present rate, the next fifty years will see an additional three million hunters and fishermen in Georgia. To meet this challenge and to provide the necessary hunting and fishing will demand the very best of every man and woman involved in the work of wildlife conservation in our State. Georgia is blessed with a habitat that lends itself to almost all of the more desirable species of the game and fish. As a result the hunter and fisherman in our State expects to fill his game bag or creel basket on each outing, and this can be done only if the most progressive wildlife conservation programs are carried out by personnel of our Game and Fish Department who are the most qualified, conscientiuos and best trained that can be provided. The study and resulting recommendations of this sub-committee are intended to help assure qualified personnel which will in turn provide maximum benefits to Georgia's sportsmen. SCOPE OF STUDY During our studies, we have contacted representatives of the Missouri Con servation Department and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. These two states are regarded as having two of the finest conservation officer training programs in the nation. In addition to the representatives of these two states, we also conferred with Director George T. Bagby and various other per sonnel of the State Game and Fish Commission, Mr. James L. Adams, President of the Georgia Sportsmen's Federation, officials of the Georgia Police Academy and officials of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education at Athens. We also inspected a proposed location for a training school on Lake Seminole in southwest Georgia. Each of the persons with whom we conferred emphasized that selection and training of enforcement officers were probably the two important undertak ings of any conservation program since the success of the entire program of the department depended on their qualifications, ability and knowledge. TRAINING IMPORTANT In Georgia, as in most other states, the wildlife ranger is the man the public generally knows as "Mr. Game and Fish Department." How well he carries out his duties, how fairly he deals with the public, and especially how well he is able to answer the questions put to him day by day by the public reflects directly on 3492 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, the entire department and determines the degree of respect the department re ceives over the state. This sub-committee feels the importance of proper selection and training cannot be over-emphasized. TRAINING NEGLECTED Georgia's opportunity to move into the forefront of the national wildlife conservation picture has never been greater than it is today. In the past few years, we have made tremendous progress in many phases of our Game and Fish Department and there is every reason to believe that this progress will continue The one area that stands out as the most neglected, throughout the history of the department, is the area of selecting and training enforcement officers. POLITICAL FAVORITISM DOES DISSERVICE From the very inception of the enforcement division, the department has been influenced in the hiring of wildlife rangers by members of the General Assembly and others throughout the state with political connections. While this political favoritism is not as evident today as it has been, there is still reason to believe that hiring is still not based solely on a merit basis in all cases. Persons qualified for employment should not have to depend on politics to gain employment, and persons not qualified should not be employed, regardless of the political support which they might have. Political favoritism is a disservice to the department and to the sportsmen of our State who depend on the department to provide hunting and fishing. SOME PERSONNEL EXCEPTIONALLY QUALIFIED In spite of the methods used, the department in past years has managed to recruit some exceptionally qualified personnel; however, the department has had more than its share of unqualified personnel. This fact is pointed out both from conversations with employees and from the high rate of personnel turnover in Georgia when compared with turnover in states with a comprehensive program of selection and training. PRESENT SYSTEM UNSATISFACTORY At the present time, the department uses a "buddy system" of training new enforcement personnel. This system involves placing a new man with an experi enced man to work for a period of time, usually from three to six months. This system leaves much to be desired. If the new employee's "buddy" happens to be an energetic, conscientious officer, there is a good chance that the new employee will be a good officer. If, on the other hand, the experienced "buddy" is a deadbeat, the chances are the new employee will be infected with the same attitude. Every effort should be made to eliminate any element of chances in cultivating the right attitude in the new employee and the best way to eliminate element of chance is to provide adequate training facilities for such employees and to require the satisfactory completion of the training program. Again, it should be pointed out that some competent, dedicated men have evolved out of the present system, but this is in spite of it, and not because of it. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3493 PROBLEMS FORESEEN IN TRAINING PROGRAM A comprehensive pre-employment training program and a regularly sched uled in-service refresher course for enforcement personnel is absolutely necessary if the Game and Fish Department is to meet its obligations to the citizens of Georgia. Such a program as we envision will not be easy to establish in our State. Some employees, and possibly even some commission members, may be expected to resist a training program. The department and its work is growing and becom ing more important and will continue to grow and become even more important and each employee must be prepared to grow with the department and to accept more responsibility as they grow. If we should ever reach the point where the employees become stagnant and no longer develop, then the department will also stop growing and that will mark the end of wildlife conservation in Georgia. THREE-PHASE PROGRAM NEEDED A three-phase training program is needed and should be given top priority within the department. This program should consist of: (1) A pre-employment training program for all employees; (2) An in-service review program to be held at least annually, and more often if circumstances dictate; (3) An advance training program for potential leaders within the depart ment. Here it should be pointed out that personnel employed to work on the tidal and salt waters of our State would need training that would not be necessary for other employees. Chart reading and tides are only two of the subjects which coastal employees would need in addition to the standard training program. It is therefore recommended that employees who are assigned to coastal Georgia be given additional training after completing the standard six weeks program. It will probably be desirable to continue this training at a location other than that used for the standard training program, possibly at the Brunswick office of the Commission where sleeping facilities are available. This would provide the proper environment for this special training. Details of this training should be worked out by the training officer. PRE-EMPLOYMENT TRAINING FOR ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL The pre-employment training program for wildlife rangers will probably require a minimum of six weeks to adequately cover the necessary subject matter. Major emphasis should be given to a study of Georgia's laws dealing with wildlife and search and seizure as well as state and federal court decisions on these sub jects. Needless to say, these subjects must be taught by someone thoroughly familiar with the laws and court decisions affecting them. The quality of the training in all subjects can only be as good as the instructor. We recommend that pre-employment training for enforcement personel include the following subject matter: orientation; Georgia's wildlife laws; Georgia's boating laws; ecology of Georgia; basic concepts of wildlife conservation; basic game management; basic fish management; fish, game and waterfowl identification; communicable animal diseases; hunter safety; boating safety; first aid; predator control; public rela tions; public speaking; and, any other subject matter recommended by the department. 3494 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, PRE-EMPLOYMENT TRAINING FOR NON-ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL The pre-employment training program for personnel other than enforcement personnel will probably not require over a week or ten days. There seems to be no need to include subjects in law enforcement except the very basics. These em ployees will have already received their training in game or fish management. Consequently, a program of orientation; ecology of Georgia; first aid; public relations; public speaking, etc. should be all that is necessary for this type of program. REFRESHER COURSES The refresher course for employees should be designed to keep employees upto-date on new laws affecting wildlife conservation, search and seizure, etc. as well as pertinent court rulings. New programs in game and fish management as well as changes in departmental policies and procedures would be covered in such a training program. All employees would be kept abreast of the operations of the department through this in-service program. ADVANCED TRAINING Curriculum for the advanced training program should be worked out by the training officer in cooperation with the University of Georgia Center for Continu ing Education and other qualified organizations. The time required for this pro gram would depend on the curriculum selected. LOCATION OF TRAINING FACILITIES Some members of this sub-committee went to Decatur County and inspected a building on Lake Seminole which the Corps of Engineers has licensed to the Game and Fish Department. Director George T. Bagby has recommended that this building be used as a training facility, and it is the recommendation of this com mittee that arrangements be made to use this building on a temporary basis. The location of the facility, (in extreme southwest Georgia) is not ideal. The train ing facility should eventually be located in a more central location, possibly in the central Georgia area. It is the understanding of this committee that Bibb County has offered a parcel of land on the new Lake Tobesofkee near Macon, and we suggest that the training officer look into and make recommendations concerning the building of a training facility on this tract sometime in the future. During the course of our investigation we considered the use of the facilties of the Georgia Police Academy for this proposed training program; however, the physical facili ties of the Academy would be all that could be utilized in this program, and that the necessary expense at the Academy would not be justified. SUMMARY The need to establish a comprehensive training program has never been greater than it is today. Procrastination is the greatest threat to the proposed program and this subcommittee strongly recommends that the Director of the Game and Fish Department be requested by privileged resolution to immediately begin a study to determine the cost factor, to recommend curriculum and take INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3495 every action possible toward the immediate establishment of a pre-employment training school as well as an in-service refresher and an advanced training pro gram. We further recommend that the Director be requested to keep the standing House Committee informed of the progress being made and that the Committee take whatever action is necessary to assure that the recommendations of the com mittee be carried out. We recommend that a training officer familiar with the department be selected and charged with the responsibility of planning and coordinating this proposed program. The training officer can "make or break" this program and should be genuinely interested in and firmly committed to making this program one of the finest in the country. A thorough knowledge of the department and its workings as well as the other subjects covered in the training program is abso lutely necessary. Careful selection of trainees and proper pre-employment training of the wild life ranger can produce an enthusiastic, disciplined, proud, professional enforce ment officer. For wildlife conservation to be successful, we must have public acceptance of our conservation laws and regulations. Proper training of enforce ment officers will help to assure this public acceptance. This training must be "in depth". A "once over lightly" program is worthless and will waste valuable money and time and cannot be justified. An effective training program must pre sent a challenge to the trainee. There is no pride in completing an easy task. Pride comes only from accomplishing the difficult. With the pride of accomplishment of a training program, such as this committee envisions, will come an esprit de corps that will mean much to the department and the State. We recommend that we move forward with this training program without delay. Respectfully Submitted, Robert H. Walling, Chairman TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******** REPORT OF THE STATE HIGHWAY GRANTS STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 246) THE COMMITTEE Honorable Nathan D. Dean Representative, 20th District Chairman Honorable Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Vice-Chairman Honorable Richard A. Dent Representative, 104th District Secretary Honorable Carlton Colwell Representative, 5th District Honorable John H. Hadaway Representative, 46th District Honorable Hugh Lee McDaniell Representative, 101st District Honorable Roscoe Thompson Representative, lllth District December, 1967 3496 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, REPORT OF THE STATE HIGHWAY GRANTS STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 246) INTRODUCTION The State Highway Grants Study Committee was appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to the authority vested in him under House Resolution No. 246. The Speaker appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Nathan D. Dean Representative, 20th District Honorable Carlton Colwell Representative, 5th District Honorable Richard A. Dent Representative, 104th District Honorable Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Honorable John H. Hadaway Representative, 46th District Honorable Hugh Lee McDaniell Representative, 101st District Honorable Roscoe Thompson Representative, llth District Representative Nathan D. Dean was appointed Chairman of the Committee by the Speaker. Representative Arthur J. Funk was elected Vice-Chairman and Representative Richard A. Dent was elected Secretary by the Committee. FINDINGS The Committee was created to study the procedures and laws under which state highway grants are made to determine if the amounts involved are exces sive or inadequate. The Committee was authorized to consult with State Highway Department officials, county officials, and municipal officials in connection with this study. The Committee researched the various laws and constitutional pro visions in Georgia pertaining to state highway grants. The Committee also heard testimony from officials of the State Highway Department, Georgia Municipal Association, and the Association of County Commissioners. After studying the laws relative to State highway grants and listening to the highway, county, and municipal officials it was determined by the Committee that there was no need to change the laws relating to state highway grants at this time. Mr. Elmer George, Executive Director of the Georgia Municipal Association and Mr. Hill Healan, Executive Director of the Association of County Commis sioners of Georgia, testified that the cooperation between city and county officials and the State Highway Department has improved tremendously since 1963. Both officials were asked if they had any criticism concerning the certification relative to the expenditure of state funds and both answered that their respective groups had no criticism of the certification requirement. Mr. Emory C. Parrish, Assistant Director of the State Highway Department, in his presentation before the Committee, suggested that the counties assume more responsibility for the maintenance of rural roads constructed under the Rural Roads Authority in accordance with the laws of the state and the agreements signed by the counties. Mr. Parrish suggested that all municipalities which have not already done so up-date their traffic signals with a portion of the state funds received by them in accordance with the Georgia Manual on Uniform Travel Control Devices for Streets and Highways. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3497 During its deliberations the Committee discussed the sales tax which is being collected on gasoline tax. It was felt by the members of the Committee that these funds should be allocated to the State Highway Department. The Committee also discussed the possibility of amending the Constitution to provide that motor vehicle license fees be appropriated to the State Highway Department in the same manner as motor fuel taxes. RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The Committee recommends that the grants be continued and increased proportionately in consistency with the growth and economic structure of the state. 2. Should the sales tax on gasoline tax continue to be collected, the Com mittee recommends that these funds be appropriated to the State Highway Department. 3. The Committee urges counties to assume more responsibility for the main tenance of rural roads constructed under the Rural Roads Authority in accord ance with the laws of the state and the agreements entered into by the counties. 4. The Committee strongly recommends that all municipalities up-date their traffic signals with a portion of the state funds received by them in accordance with the Georgia Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways. 5. The Committee recommends the passage of a constitutional amendment which will be introduced by the members of the Committee at the 1968 Session of the General Assembly to provide for the appropriation of motor vehicle license fees to the State Highway Department in the same manner as motor fuel taxes. These additional funds are needed by the State Highway Department immediately to adequately maintain the highways of this state. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Committee wishes to express its sincere appreciation to the following persons who appeared and testified before the Committee: Mr, Elmer George, Ex ecutive Director, Georgia Municipal Association; Mr. Randolph Medlock, Chair man, Georgia Municipal Association Committee on Highways; Mr. Jim Mclntyre, General Counsel, Georgia Municipal Association; Mr. Hill Healan, Director, Asso ciation of County Commissioners; Mr. Emory Parrish, Assistant Director, State Highway Department; Mr. W. M. Williams, Treasurer, State Highway Depart ment; Mr. H. H. Huckeba, State Highway Engineer; Mr. Howard Atherton, Mayor of Marietta and past President of the Seventh District Georgia Municipal Association; and Mr. Griffin Smith, Commissioner of Bartow County and past President of the Association of County Commissioners. According to information furnished to the Committee, the State Highway Department is expending highway funds on a basis which approximates a per capital distribution. The Committee wishes to commend the State Highway De partment for the equitable manner in which it is expending highway funds for the benefit of all of the citizens of this state. 3498 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The members of the Committee wish to commend the county, municipal, and highway officials for the cooperation they have exhibited during the past few years. The Committee urges the county, municipal and highway officials to con tinue to improve this cooperation. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Nathan D. Dean Nathan D. Dean Representative, 20th District Chairman /s/ Arthur J. Funk Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Vice-Chairman /s/ Richard A. Dent Richard A. Dent Representative, 104th District Secretary /s/ Carlton Colwell Carlton Colwell Representative, 5th District /s/ John H. Hadaway John H. Hadaway Representative, 46th District /s/ Hugh Lee McDaniell Hugh Lee McDaniell Representative, 101st District /s/ Roscoe Thompson Roscoe Thompson Representative, lllth District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******** REPORT OF THE STATE HIGHWAY LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 241) ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Clarence R. Vaughn, Jr. Representative, 117th District Chairman Honorable Joe T. Wood Representative, 16th District Secretary Honorable Thomas B. Buck Representative, 112th District Honorable Goodwin Gates Representative, 123rd District Honorable Frank P. Holder, Jr. Representative, 70th District Honorable G. Robert Howard Representative, 101st District Honorable John H. Sherman, Jr. Representative, 105th District November 30, 1967 INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3499 REPORT OP THE STATE HIGHWAY LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE PRELUDE The Committee was created by House Resolution No. 241. House Speaker George L. Smith appointed Representative Clarence R. Vaughn, Jr., Chairman of the Committee and appointed the following Representatives as members of the Committee: Representative Thomas B. Buck of the 112th District; Representative Goodwin Gates of the 123rd District; Representative Prank Holder of the 70th District; Representative G. Robert Howard of the 101st District; Representative John H. Sherman, Jr., of the 105th District; Representative Joe T. Wood of the 16th District. Representative Wood was elected Secretary by the members of the Committee at its organizational meeting June 27, 1967. Legal practitioners have been aware for years that the laws relating to the State Highway Department, particularly those laws relating to the organization, powers, duties and operating practices, have been ambiguous and confusing. Highway laws dealing with truck weights, speed limits, maximum dimensions of vehicles allowed on the State's highways, exemptions, traffic signs, and powers of the State Highway Department to enforce its laws and regulations have caused headaches to motor vehicle owners, officials of the State Highway Depart ment, and to the Attorney General's office. Consequently, the State Highway Laws Study Committee was created to sort out the confusion created by the laws of Georgia which deal with highways and the State Highway Department. The Committee was directed by House Resolution No. 241 to consult with officials and employees of the State Highway Department, the Attorney General's office and the Legislative Counsel's office in order to accomplish the necessary revision and modification of the State Highway Laws. Members of these offices met with the Committee at each of its meetings. The modification and revision of the State Highway Laws proposed by the Committee were decided upon after extensive thought, debate and research. The following persons were present at most of the Committee's meetings. State Highway Department Emory Parrish, Executive Assistant Director Richard Williams, Secretary and Treasurer H. Huckaba, Assistant State Highway Engineer Attorney General's Office Richard F. Chambers, III, Assistant Attorney General John A. Sligh, Attorney Office of Legislative Counsel Virlyn Slaton, Deputy Legislative Counsel Paul Listen, Assistant Legislative Counsel Introduction From the outset it was apparent that any meaningful revision of the high way laws would be an enormous task. Consequently, it was decided by the Com- 3500 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, mittee that a three-phased attack would be necessary: First, the Committee decided to consider laws that needed minor changes. This was accomplished in five meetings. Secondly, the Committee entertained consideration for changes in the substantive highway laws. Thirdly, the Committee considered the feasibility and practicability of authorizing the State Highway Department to devise a com plete, comprehensive and easily understandable Highway Code. Minor Changes (1) The Committee acceded to the wishes of the State Highway Department and Attorney General's office that the laws relating to internal operation of the Highway Department be amended, in appropriate cases, to have certain duties vested in the Director of the State Highway Department or in the State Highway Department rather than in the State Highway Board. The reasons for these changes are that the Director is the Executive Officer and he, of necessity, is responsible for seeing that all functions are carried out. The Board oversees the Director of the State Highway Department and establishes policy. The laws pres ently require that all duties be vested in the State Highway Board. It would be cumbersome to convene the Board every time some official action had to be taken by the State Highway Department, so the Committee voted to conform the laws to the actual practices of the State Highway Department. (2) Several laws which are still on the books, but which have been repealed by implication by the Budget Act (Ga. Laws 1962, p. 17) were voted to be spe cifically repealed by the Committee. Substantive Revision The Committee, at the instance of officers of the State Highway Department, voted to make the following substantive changes in the State Highway Laws: (1) The Committee heard testimony from State Highway engineers and experts concerning truck weights and highway damage caused by overweight trucks. Our laws presently allow certain types of materials to be hauled in trucks without regard to weight limits. Other industries are required to obtain a special excess weight permit before hauling loads above the maximum limit. The Com mittee voted to delete from our laws the blanket authorization for the specified loads to exceed weight limits on the state highways. The amendment proposed by the Committee requires the heretofore exempted industries to obtain a permit for hauling excessively heavy loads. This action by the Committee, if enacted, will eliminate favoritism to certain industries and will prevent a constitutional attack on the laws by the disfavored industries. (2) Construction companies having contracts with the State are permitted by law to exceed the State Highway weight limitations under certain circum stances. Testimony before the Committee indicated that overweight trucks used in building new roads destroy the service roads. The Committee was of the view that considerable tax money would be saved if construction truck loads were reduced to the present maximum weight limit. Further testimony indicated that one of the private contractors doing business with the State has a policy of con forming his truck weights to the maximum load limit. This contractor is making more money since he reduced his loads because his trucks are lasting longer. In case of need, the contractor could be given a special permit to exceed load and length limits. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3501 (3) Code Chapter 95-1722 authorizes the State Highway Board to set aside $50,000.00 for use as an emergency fund. The Committee, at the instance of State Highway Department officials, voted to delete the provision granting this authority. The reason for the deletion is that the code provision conflicts with the Budget Act of 1962. The code section has probably been repealed by implication. (4) The Committee voted to delete the provision contained in Ga. Laws 1956, p. 615, Section 3, which exempts sellers of fruits, nuts and vegetables from penal ties for selling anything of value while parked on the State right-of-way of the State highways. Testimony before the Committee indicated that many accidents are caused by cars slowing or stopping to look at wares offered by fruit stands. The Committee felt that the removal of the statutory exemption would place fruit sellers on par with sellers of other wares i.e., all sales be prohibited on the State right-of-way. This, the Committee feels, will reduce the many costly traffic acci dents and fatalities on the Georgia highways. (5) The Committee voted to amend Section 3 of Georgia Laws 1941, p. 449. This section exempts haulers of timber, lumber and piling, going from their home county to the adjoining county, from weight and load limits. The Committee heard testimony which indicated that wood haulers are violating the Act's provisions by going into several counties with excessive load weights and lengths. Testimony also indicated that State roads are being destroyed by the excessive loads. The Committee's proposal will permit two-axle trucks carrying timber, lumber and piling to exceed the State's truck weight and length laws until January 1, 1969. No trucks will be exempted after January 1, 1969, but excessively heavy or long truck loads will require special permits in order to operate on the State highways. (6) The highway laws presently permit trucks to travel at 60 miles per hour at night on four-lane highways. The Committee voted to reduce the truck speed limit at night to 50 miles per hour, so as to require trucks to conform to the speed limit for cars. This change will only affect four-lane highways other than inter state highways. (7) The Committee voted to change the "stop" signs at all railroad crossings to "yield" signs. This change was sought by the officials of the State Highway Department because present law provides no penalty for drivers of vehicles failing to stop at railroads. Studies have shown that few automobiles observe the "stop" signs at railroads. A "yield" sign will require the driver to slow down and ascer tain whether a train is approaching. (8) The Committee voted to require that "stop" signs and other traffic signals be of a uniform size. This change was advocated by Highway Department officials because some units of government have signs in their jurisdiction that are different from those on the State highways. Drivers might fail to recognize the odd-sized sign at high speed and at night, so the Committee voted to require a uniform sign size in hopes that the change would reduce the number of accidents on our highways. (9) The Committee voted to place a sliding scale charge on special permits for exceeding the State's maximum load and length laws. Special permits presently cost the applicant One Dollar. The cost of issuing the permits has approximated One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollars per year, while revenues from the special permits have averaged Two Hundred Fifty Thousand ($250,000.00) Dollars. The sliding scale cost, based on type of vehicle or object to be moved, is designed to 3502 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, bring in enough revenue to pay for the administration of the special permits. Charges, under the scale, will range from Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) to Ten ($10.00) Dollars per trip. (10) The Committee voted to set a maximum overall length of Seventy-Five (75) feet for trucks carrying loads of poles, logs, lumber, structural steel, piping, timber and pre-stressed or pre-cast concrete. The Seventy-Five (75) Foot limit applies to the truck and its load. Special permits will be required for trucks carry ing loads of these materials which exceed Seventy-Five (75) Feet. The SeventyFive (75) foot limitation was decided upon in a joint meeting with the Traffic and Safety Control Subcommittee and the Motor Carriers Sub-committee, after each Committee had heard from prepresentatives of the industry and Highway Department. The members of each of the Committees felt that their respective committees had a duty to investigate this area of the highway laws. The commit tees met jointly on two days in order to align their recommendations. (11) The Committee voted to authorize the Department of Public Safety, upon recommendation of the State Highway Department, to take drivers' licenses of truck drivers who willfully refuse to drive their trucks upon truck scales for weighing of their loads. There exists on the books a law which assigns criminal penalties to drivers refusing to drive on scales, but the law was held unconstitu tional by the Supreme Court of Georgia. See Aldrich v. State, 220 Ga. 132. This holding created a void in the State Highway Department's enforcement powers. The Committee voted to fill the void by giving the State Highway Department powers to recommend that the Department of Public Safety suspend or revoke truck driver's licenses. (12) The Committee voted to grant the State Highway Department power to reimburse the Attorney General's Office for expenses incurred in hiring expert attorneys in litigation involving contracts. The State Highway Department cur rently possesses authority to reimburse the Attorney General for expert counsel expenses in other areas, and the officials of the State Highway Department felt that this move is a necessary extension of authority. Contractors have been using expert legal counsel very effectively. The State Highway Department feels it is necessary to counter with counsel equally expert. The Committee agreed with the views of the State Highway Department. (13) The Committee voted to give the State Highway Department authority to make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, removal, and relocation of pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, poles, towers, tracks and other equipment and appliances of any public utility in, on, along, over or under any State Highway project. This is the same authority granted to the Georgia Rural Roads Authority, but instead of being over rural road projects, the authority is granted to State Highway projects. (14) The Committee voted to change the laws which deals with expenses of the State Highway Engineer, to provide that he may be reimbursed for expenses incurred while in Fulton County. The law presently grants the State Highway Engineer reimbursement for expenses incurred in all counties but Fulton. The State Highway Department feels the present law to be based on faulty reasoning. (15) The Committee voted to propose legislation which will enable county governments to request that railroad signalling devices be installed at designated railroad crossings, with the railroad and county splitting the costs of the signalling INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3503 devices and installation. Municipalities presently possess this authority. The officials of the State Highway Department feel that county governments need this authority. (16) The Committee voted to propose legislation which will require the owner of land, which has been condemned by a special master, to post bond equal to the award of the special master before appealing the award to a superior court. The Committee feels that a law of this nature is necessary because several instances were cited to the Committee which showed that many landowners have refused to repay awards, or portions of awards, after the superior courts have reduced them. Committee Proposal The Committee voted to introduce a resolution creating a study committee consisting of five Representatives and five Senators to work with the State High way Department in a joint endeavor to develop a comprehensive Highway Code for Georgia. The resolution will recommend that the State Highway Department exercise its authority to execute contracts for research purposes by contracting with the University of Georgia Law School to research and draft a complete Highway Code for Georgia. Seventy-two per cent of the research cost of developing the State Highway Code will be paid by Federal funds. The State Highway Laws Study Committee recommends that the Law School and the State Highway Department prepare the new Highway Code in chapter form and that the separate chapters be presented to the new committee for review and approval as soon as practicable after completion. The Committee further recommends that the entire code, incorporating any changes which may be recommended by the new committee, be completed no later than December 1, 1968, and that the entire code be introduced at the 1969 Session of the General Assembly. Recommendations (1) The Committee strongly urges that all of the proposed changes recom mended by this Committee be adopted by the General Assembly. These proposals were made after considerable debate and study, and none were voted upon until they had been analyzed carefully. (2) The Committee strongly urges that the resolution creating a new commit tee to work with the State Highway Department in the development of a complete and comprehensive Highway Code for Georgia be approved. The State of Georgia is in dire need of a separate code dealing with highway laws which will be mean ingful to truckers, contractors, lawyers, and officials of the State Highway De partment. A research staff from the University of Georgia Law School will be able to devote the needed time and study to develop a complete and understandable Highway Code for Georgia. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Clarence R. Vaughn, Jr. Clarence R. Vaughn, Jr. Representative, 117th District Chairman /s/ Joe T. Wood Joe T. Wood Representative, 16th District Secretary 3504 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA A*N**D***O*T* HER INTERESTED PERSONS. REPORT OF THE HORSEBACK RIDING FACILITIES STUDY COMMITTEE ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable William J. Cox, Chairman Representative, 127th District Honorable Hubert Dollar Representative, 89th District Honorable H. Goodwin Hall Representative, 67th District Honorable J. H. Henderson, Jr. Representative, 102nd District Honorable L. F. Jenkins Representative, 119th District January, 1968 INTRODUCTION The Committee was created pursuant to the authority contained in House Resolution No. 3 for the purpose of studying the desirability of providing horse back riding facilities at our State parks. The Speaker of the House appointed the following members of the House to the Committee: Dr. William J. Cox, 127th District, Chairman; Honorable Hubert Dollar, 89th District; Honorable H. Goodwin Hall, 67th District; Dr. J. H. Henderson, Jr., 102nd District and Honorable L. F. Jenkins, 119th District. FINDINGS In carrying out its duties, the Committee visited several State parks and conferred extensively with officials of the Parks Department and others. The Committee decided that Hard Labor Creek State Park at Rutledge, Georgia, would be an ideal location to initiate a program of providing horseback riding facilities. This State park was selected by the Committee for several reasons, the most important of which are as follows: 1. It is the State's largest park consisting of approximately 6,000 acres. 2. It is easily accessible from Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and Athens. 3. It will serve in conjunction with the State's new golf course, catering to family outdoor recreation needs. The Committee made a detailed study regarding all aspects of providing horseback riding facilities at this State park, and the results of this study, includ ing maps showing bridle paths and related information, is available to interested members of the General Assembly through the Chairman of this Committee. This material could not be reproduced for distribution with the Committee's report. The Committee also made a detailed study of equipment and construction needs in connection with providing horseback riding facilties at this State Park. Based on its study, the equipment and construction needs for this facility are as follows: INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3505 1. Three separate buildings with 10 stalls each making a total of 30 stalls enclosed by one large paddock. 2. Parking area for cars and horse trailers. 3. Riding ring 100 x 200 feet. 4. Shed for storage of shavings. 5. A concrete slab constructed with three walls for the disposal of refuse. 6. Two bridle paths consisting of 10 and 25 miles suitable for the safe travel of horse and rider and some elective jumps. RECOMMENDATIONS The Committee recommends that horseback riding facilities be provided by the State Parks Department at Hard Labor Creek State Park at the earliest prac ticable time. These facilities should be provided in accordance with the plans developed by the Committee and officials of the Parks Department. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Committee received excellent cooperation from everyone that was con sulted in connection with its study, but would like to express its appreciation to the following persons whose assistance was of particular value to the Committee: Mr. John Gordon, Director, Department of State Parks; Mr. Henry Struble, Dep uty Director; Mr. Dodson Carter, Superintendent, Hard Labor Creek State Park; Mr. Bill Mangum, former President, Georgia Horsemen's Association; Mr. T. H. Blackwell, Vice President, Georgia Horsemen's Association; Mr. Brooks Pennington, Jr., Senator, 45th District; and Mr. Roy Lambert, Representative, 38th District. Respectfully submitted, /s/ William J. Cox William J. Cox Representative, 127th District Chairman /s/ Hubert Dollar Hubert Dollar Representative, 89th District /s/ H. Goodwin Hall H. Goodwin Hall Representative, 67th District /s/ J. H. Henderson, Jr. J. H. Henderson, Jr. Representative, 102nd District /s/ L. F. Jenkins L. F. Jenkins Representative, 119th District 3506 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA, AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS ^:**^**HJ REPORT OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH STUDY COMMITTEE (Senate Resolution No. 114) *%*#** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Culver Kidd Senator, 25th District, Chairman Honorable Billy Adams Senator, 26th District, Vice-Chairman Honorable I. William Gregory, Jr. Senator, 15th District Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District January 1968 REPORT OF THE SENATE MENTAL HEALTH STUDY COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION: (Senate Resolution No. 114) The Senate Mental Health Study Committee was created by the President of the Senate pursuant to the authority vested in him under Senate Resolution 114. The President of the Senate appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Billy Adams Senator, 26th District Honorable I. William Gregory, Jr. Senator, 15th District Honorable Culver Kidd Senator, 25th District Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District Senator Culver Kidd was appointed Chairman of the Committee by the President of the Senate. The Committee was created to study the need for standard licenses, practices and procedures in the field of psychodrama; the need for supplemental commit ment laws; the operation of Central State Hospital and other general problems in the field of mental health. FINDINGS: Since its appointment the Committee has visited the Central State Hospital on several occasions to discuss the needs and conditions of the hospital with Superintendent James Craig, Business Manager William Crittenden and other department heads at all levels of employment. The Committee also visited St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D. C. where they checked into the area of psychodrama and how it is utilized at that hospital. The Committee also visited Pilgrim's Hospital in New York where they learned of many new approaches which are being utilized by that State in the treatment of mental illness. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3507 RECOMMENDATIONS: (1) Psychodrama Mr. James Enneis, director of psychodrama at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in formed the Committee that psyehodrama had been in use at that hospital for some twenty-five years. The Superintendent of the hospital is a psychiatrist and he was very high in his praise of the accomplishments which have been achieved through psychodrama. Mr. Enneis let the Committee participate in a class of psychodrama on two different occasions. The patients involved were very re ceptive and highly complimentary of the results. It was brought to the attention of the Committee that television strips are available through NEC dealing with psychodrama and suggested that these strips be presented to members of the Georgia General Assembly to familiarize them with the field of psychodrama. A story in the Wall Street Journal of August 28, 1967 was also shown to the Com mittee with its comments about the new psychiatric tool for dealing with mental illness. After these observations it was the general feeling of the members of the Committee present that certainly this was a new field in the treatment of mental illenss and one where certain restrictions needed to be imposed. Whether the legislation now pending in the General Assembly is the answer is debatable; however, it is a definite step in this new field which should place Georgia in a position to attract qualified psychodramatists and to utilize their experience. It is the general feeling of the Committee that the leaders in the field of mental health should be qualified in all areas, including psychiatry, psychology, psychodrama and others to bring about as speedy a recovery as possible. Qualifying standards have been established by the Federal Government in this area. A copy of these qualifications are attached to this report as "Exhibit A". (2) New Approaches The Committee, upon visiting Pilgrim's Hospital in New York, was confronted with the new approaches which have been utilized in that hospital for some five years. Over eighty per cent of the patients at Pilgrim's have no restrictions. They can more or less go and come as they please. The Superintendent of Pilgrim's, Dr. H. S. Barahal was very helpful to the Committee, taking an entire day off to show us its operation. Pilgrim's is the only mental hospital in the United States larger than Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. The new approach in regard to mental health laws which have been enacted in New York is an admittance law rather than a commitment law. The new law sets up the mechanics whereby seven qualified attorneys are employed on the staff at Pil grim's and the law states that at the end of sixty days any person committed to the hospital will either have to be released or the attorney will check the case with the doctor in charge. If not released the patient would remain in the hospital for another four months. At the end of the six months period, the case would again be reviewed and if the patient again was not released, this same procedure would take place in twelve months. A court has been built and established on the grounds of the hospital to take care of this procedure and to speed it up. This has brought about an overall general change of feeling on behalf of the mentally ill according to Dr. Barahal. They feel like they will not be "railroaded" or sent away to be forgotten in some mental hospital and that they are really sick people. This Committee recommends that further study of the New York laws be made by the Senate Committee on Institutions and Mental Health in 1968 and make recommendations concerning changes in our commitment laws to the General Assembly in 1969. (3) The Use of Commissaries Operated by Patients 3508 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, It was brought to the attention of the Committee at both hospitals that the practice of having commissaries run by patient help was obsolete. Vending ma chines have replaced the commissaries on all of the wards and in every building with one large commissary being run by hired labor to handle those items that could not be best distributed by machine. In checking this policy at the Central State Hospital, the general feeling seems to be that this was a good practice. In the past when patient help was being used and release was not as quick as it is today, this was a good spot to place certain patients for therapy and general rehabilitation. Now it is difficult to get patients who can do a good job in this area. With the hospital coming under wage and hour laws, the general feeling is that money can be saved and better service given to patients, by letting a con tract to a vending company to take care of these needs. The company in turn would furnish the machines, keep them in operation and have their men service them with the Patient's Benefit Fund of the Hospital receiving an adequate com mission monthly. The Committee believes that this is a practical move and recom mends to the Board of Health that this step be made not only at the Central State Hospital but at Gracewood and other institutions where it would be practical. (4) Needs for More Facilities--Special School, Central State Hospital The Committee upon visiting this new facility at Central State Hospital was very much impressed with what has been accomplished in a relative short time with the expenditure of very little money. This special education school is designed as a treatment-educational program in which the patients are given the oppor tunity to learn or relearn a variety of appropriate social behaviors so that their formal education can proceed. This type student carries many names--disturbed, emotionally upset, exceptional or partially retarded. Many of the children falling into this category are intensely frightened in regular school because of repeated failures both academic and social. Therefore, the first task at this special school has been to make the children less anxious so that adequate learning can take place and the child become more acceptable to regular behavior patterns. At the present time there are approximately 200 pupils attending these classes. During the month of October 1967, 56 children were admitted and there are over 200 children on the waiting list of the school. There is an immediate need for facilities to accommodate over 400 pupils. The admission trend for this age patient has been in the last five years as follows: 1964 -- 31% increase 1965 -- 33% increase 1966 -- 40% increase 1967 -- 30% increase Or 141% increase in a five year period. The projected estimate is 772 patients who will need this type treatment by 1970. The present cost per day per child at the Central State Hospital is hospital cost of $4.53, school cost of $1.90 or an overall cost of $6.43. For com parison, cost for the same child in Nashville, Tennessee is $34.00 and at Haw thorne School in New York, $36.00 per day. The general feeling of the Committee has been that this type child is entitled to an education just as any other school age child in Georgia and that to fail to appropriate needed funds to accomplish this is a mistake. The complex at the Central State Hospital was the first totally maintained school of its type in the State of Georgia. In order to take care of future needs and the general trend in the field of mental health and to try to give adequate treatment as soon as possible in order to reduce the number of mental institutions in later years, the Committee recommends that immediate steps be INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3509 taken by the Board of Health to remove all under age children from wards in the hospital to one central area; that additional buildings be built creating a central educational complex with forty class rooms, a gymnasium, offices and meeting room spaces; that four dormitory buildings be made available with four wards to each building with approximately 24 to 30 patients to each ward and that a diagnostic center be established and equipped to evaluate and plan treat ment for disturbed youngsters. The overall cost for additional buildings would be approximately six million dollars. Salaries, classroom equipment and school room supplies for the first year, approximately one and one-half million with subse quent yearly costs for all purposes approximately one million three thousand and fifty dollars. The proposed funds, if appropriated, will be handled by both the State Health Department and State Department of Education. The coopera tion between these two groups has brought about the success that we have today and we have been assured by their department heads that they will work further for its continued growth and improvement. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The members of the Committee wish to express their sincere appreciation to Mr. James Enneis, Director of Psychodrama, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wash ington, D. C.; Dr. H. S. Barahal, Superintendent, Pilgrim's Hospital, New York, New York; Dr. Jack Nix, Superintendent, State Department of Education; Dr. James Craig, Superintendent, Central State Hospital; Mr. William Crittenden, Business Manager, Central State Hospital, and to the other department heads at all levels of employment at Central State Hospital for the courtesies and cooper ation they extended to the members of the committee during this study. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Culver Kidd Culver Kidd, Chairman Senator, 25th District lal Billy Adams Billy Adams Senator, 26th District /s/ I. William Gregory, Jr. I. William Gregory, Jr. Senator, 15th District /s/ Robert A. Rowan Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District DRAFT Single Agency Qualification Standard Psychodramatist Series GS-640 GS-7/15 Description of Work Psychodramatists direct, supervise or perform work in psychodrama as a means of therapy for mentally ill patients, including participation in or direction of psychodrama sessions, and observation, evaluation and recording of patients' 3510 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, participation and reactions to therapy. The psychodramatist functions as an agent for change who diagnoses the functioning level or state of individuals and groups using knowledges and skills of the social sciences, particularly those of psychodrama, sociometry and group dynamics. After obtaining this diagnostic knowledge he employs psychodramatic methodology to assist the group (or individual) in achieving its goal (s) through focusing on concerns relevant to the problem area (s). Some examples of the uses of psychodramatic methodology are: to combat the development of total institutionalization among hospital populations; to help prepare patients for return to the community as functioning members; and to conduct dynamically-oriented "uncovering" intensive group psychotherapy. EXPERIENCE, TRAINING, AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS State psychodramatist positions at Saint Elizabeth Hospital are established at grades GS-9 and above. Experience and training equivalent to that usually provided at grades GS-5 and GS-7 are acquired through participation in an ap proved psychodrama training program (or in a work setting providing experience of the same depth and scope). LENGTH AND TYPE OF EXPERIENCE Except as otherwise provided in this standard, applicants must have had the amount and type of experience indicated below: Grade GS-9 GS-11/15 Total General Experience Specialized Experience Experience (Years) (Years) (Years) 325 336 General Experience: For any grade level, applicants must show progressive ly responsible experience which has provided a basic knowledge and understanding of the fundamental theories and concepts of normal and abnormal psychology, sociopathology and personality development equivalent to that which is acquired in a full, four year course of study in an accredited college or university. Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible experience in a psychodrama program under the supervision of a psychiatrist or professional psychodramatist which has included participation in and direction of psychodramatic sessions for mental patients, assistance to groups in the selection and interpreta tion of scenes focusing on particular concerns of the group, and exchange of information concerning patients with other professional workers (i.e. M.D.'s, social workers, registered nurses, clinical psychologists) regarding patients' re action and progress. The experience acquired must clearly demonstrate the appli cant's ability to function as an auxiliary ego, and to effectively utilize techniques such as role reversal, role playing, asides, doubling, mirroring, and soliloquy. There is no increase in the length of specialized experience required for grades GS-12/15. However, for each successively higher grade, a correspondingly INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3511 higher level and quality of experience is required. This experience must demon strate clearly the applicant's ability to perform at the grade level for which he is applying. Quality of Experience: The number of years of experience required for any grade level represents the minimum amount of time necessary to qualify, but length of time alone is not of itself qualifying. For grades GS-9 and GS-11, one (1) year of the required specialized experience must have been at the level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the second lower grade in the Federal service (i. e. one year at the GS-7 level for GS-9 positions and one year at the GS-9 level for GS-11 positions). For grades GS-12/15, one year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade is required. Substitution of Education for Experience For General Experience: Study in an accredited college or university which has included a minimum of six (6) semester hours per year in the fields listed below, may be substituted on the basis of one full year of academic study for nine (9) months of general experience. Receipt of a bachelor's degree with at least 24 semester hours in the fields below will meet the general experience requirements for all grade levels in full. Fields of Study: Any one or combination of major fields which has pro vided the applicant with a basic knowledge and understanding of the fundamental theories and concepts of normal and abnormal psychology, sociopathology and personality development is satisfactory. Typically acceptable fields of study in clude: psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, criminology, psychiatric nursing, and counseling. Specialized Experience: Two full years of graduate study in an accredited college or university which has included at least 48 semester hours in one or a combination of the fields specified above may be substituted for the two years of specialized experience required for grade GS-9. Completion of all the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in an appropriate field will satisfy the requirements for grade GS-11 in full. NOTE: Applicants who qualify on the basis of education only, should refer for additional information to the section below entitled PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REQUIREMENT. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REQUIREMENT Applicants who qualify on a basis of education alone will be required to undergo a performance evaluation through active participation in a regular psychodrama session at Saint Elizabeths Hospital to obtain an eligible rating. In the performance evaluation the applicant will be required to demonstrate in a realistic situation with patients that he has acquired, and can apply the requisite knowledge and understanding of the techniques, methodologies and concepts essential to effective performance as a Psychodramatist. 3512 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, PROVISION FOR RECOGNITION OF SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT AND ABILITY IN AN INTERNSHIP OR RESIDENCY ******* To qualify for grade GS-9, applicants must meet the following requirements: A. Three years of general experience, and in addition, B. Have demonstrated within the past 2 years superior achievement and ability in a full-time, one year psychodrama internship in a training program accredited by the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Psychothearpy or the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. To obtain an eligible rating for grade GS-11, applicants must meet the fol lowing requirements: A. Three years of general experience; plus B. Satisfactory completion of an approved full-time, one year psychodrama internship; or C. One year of specialized experienced equivalent in scope and difficulty to that which is gained in a psychodrama internship; and D. Within the past 2 years have demonstrated superior achievement and ability in a full-time, one year psychodrama residency in a training program accredited by the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy or the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Superior achievement and ability is defined as that demonstrated by a psychodrama intern or resident who completed his training within the preceding 2 years, and who, on the basis of a total evaluation would fall into approximately the upper quartile of all interns and residents in the program. In evaluating an intern or resident to determine whether he falls into the upper 25% of his class (or previous classes over the preceding 5 years period) the following will be taken into consideration: 1) Knowledge of psychodramatic methodology, group dynamics and sociometry, and ability to apply this knowledge in working with patients. 2) Maturity and judgment in working with patients, structuring patient groups and focusing groups on goals. 3) Effectiveness in working with physicians, nurses, social workers and others on the professional team. 4) Ingenuity, resourcefulness and dedication in working with patients and associates. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3513 5) Consistency of performance from day to day. 6) Ability to handle unusual or stressful situations satisfactorily. 7) Professional potential in the field of Psychodrama. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS: ******* REPORT OF THE INVASIONS OF PRIVACY STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ******* THE COMMITTEE March, 1968 Honorable Elliott H. Levitas Representative, 118th District Chairman Honorable W. Mobley Howell Representative, 86th District Honorable Milton Jones Representative, 112th District Honorable Harry Mixon Representative, 81st District REPORT OF THE INVASIONS OF PRIVACY STUDY COMMITTEE At the 1967 Session of the General Assembly the new Right of Privacy Law, House Bill No. 64, was adopted and subsequently signed into law by the Governor as Act No. 567, (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 844). This legislation is designed to protect the individual's right to privacy, to prohibit illegal bugging and electronic snooping and authorized court-ordered and supervised surveillance of persons by electronic devices only under strict statutory and constitutional safeguards. Also at the 1967 Session of the General Assembly, the House of Representatives adopted and transmitted to the Georgia congressional delegation, a Resolution (H.R. No. 102) calling upon Congress not to preempt the states from legislating in this field. At that time several bills relating to this subject matter were pending before Congress. This committee was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the purpose of continuing to survey the need for protection of privacy in light of recent developments, and of assuring that Federal legislative activity in this field would not preempt State laws. In this latter connection, one of the most important functions of the committee related to the need for appearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Com mittee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate which was holding public hearings on S. 928, the pending bill in Congress which would outlaw eaves dropping. This U.S. Senate subcommittee had conducted a study of this subject over a course of several years which culminated in the introduction of S. 928. 3514 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, This committee appeared and testified before the U.S. Senate subcommittee and placed into the record of proceedings concerning S. 928, so as to preserve as an integral guide to Congress's legislative intent, the desire of the Georgia House of Representatives that any Federal legislation on this subject should not preempt the states from dealing effectively with this problem. The states are best able to perceive the local problem in the area of privacy and find the best solutions to them. At that appearance, this committee received in the record the assurance of the Senate subcommittee's counsel that here was no intention of Congress to preempt this field. The following is an excerpt from that record: "Mr. Fensterwald I think the record should be clear that there is no attempt on the part of this committee, and I think on the part of any Federal agency to exempt or to preempt the field." (See Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Pro cedure of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, 90th Congress, First Session, Part 2, at p. 623.) Shortly after this committee's appearance before the congressional sub committee, the United States Supreme Court announced its long awaited decision concerning court-ordered wiretapping and held the New York statute on this sub ject to be unconstitutional. The invalid New York law was quite different from the new Georgia Act, and it is the considered opinion of experts in the field, including the Solicitor General of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, that House Bill 64 was specifically drafted in anticipation of this decision and that House Bill 64 very likely meets the standards set forth in the case of Berger vs. New York, (35 LW 4649). Following the Berger decision, another landmark case in this field was announced by the Supreme Court in the case of Katz vs. U.S. (36 LW 4080) in which it was held that the so-called "trespass" doctrine found in Olmstead vs. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 and Goldman vs. U.S., 316 U.S. 129 was overruled and that henceforth only court-supervised surveillance would be permitted. This decision further demonstrates the usefulness of House Bill 64 and its anticipation of subsequent judicial developments. In short, it is the view that Georgia's law is valid in the case of court-supervised surveillance and as such will provide a model available to other state legislatures and even to Congress itself. During the course of the committee's work, it received no complaints of specific suggestions for any amendments from any law enforcement agency within the state, and based upon all information received, House Bill 64 has apparently functioned satisfactorily since its enactment in protecting the citizen's right of privacy. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Elliott H. Levitas Elliott H. Levitas, Chairman TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. *$$$*** REPORT OF THE JUVENILE COURT LAW STUDY COMMITTEE INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3515 THE COMMITTEE SENATE Honorable John T. McKenzie Senator, 17th District Honorable Jack L. Stephens Senator, 36th District Honorable Maylon K. London Senator, 50th District Honorable Leroy R. Johnson Senator, 38th District Honorable Billy Shaw Abney Senator, 53rd District HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Honorable Charlie L. Carnes Representative, 129th District Chairman Honorable J. Robert Cooper Representative, 16th District Honorable Billy Gene Fallin Representative, 94th District Honorable Dick Lane Representative, 126th District Honorable Carr G. Dodson Representative, 107th District GOVERNOR'S APPOINTEES Honorable Elmo Holt Judge, Juvenile Court of Fulton County Honorable Thomas A. Parker Judge, Juvenile Court of Ware County Honorable Edwin Kemp Judge, Superior Court of Clayton County Mr. John Pierce Blanchard Superintendent, Columbia County School Honorable John A. Frazier, Jr. Judge, Juvenile Court of Floyd County Honorable Albert Henderson, Jr. Judge, Superior Court of Cobb County Mr. Stewart Werner Executive Director, Georgia Citizens Council Mr. S. Ed Kelly Attorney At Law EX-OFFICIO ADVISORY MEMBERS Dr. James C. Quarles Mercer University Dr. Robert S. Stubbs Emory University Dr. Thomas F. Green University of Georgia CONTENTS I. PRELUDE .,,...__... II. INTRODUCTION III. RECOMMENDED CHANGES IN THE 1951 JUVENILE COURT ACT ____._. IV. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS V. EXHIBITS ___.____,,_._.__ 3516 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, I. PRELUDE The Juvenile Court Law Study Committee was created pursuant to the au thority of House Resolution Number 190-566. The following persons were appointed to the Committee: From the Senate: Honorable John T. McKenzie, 17th District; Honorable Jack L. Stephens, 36th District; Honorable Leroy R. Johnson, 38th District; Honorable Billy Shaw Abney, 53rd District; Honorable MayIon K. London, 50th District. From the House: Honorable Charlie L. Carnes, 129th District; Honorable J. Robert Cooper, 16th District; Honorable Billy Gene Fallin, 94th District; Honorable Carr G. Dodson, 107th District; Honorable Dick Lane, 126th District. By the Governor: Honorable Elmo Holt, Judge, Juvenile Court of Fulton County; Honorable Thomas A. Parker, Judge, Juvenile Court of Ware County; Honorable John A. Frazier, Jr., Judge, Juvenile Court of Floyd County; Honorable Albert Henderson, Jr., Judge, Superior Court of Cobb County; Honorable Edwin Kemp, Judge, Superior Court of Clayton County; Mr. Stewart Werner, Executive Director, Georgia Citizens Council; Mr. John Pierce Blanchard, Columbia County School Superintendent; Mr. S. Ed Kelly, Attorney at Law. The following persons were appointed ex-officio advisory members of the Committee: Dr. James C. Quarles, Mercer University; Dr. Thomas F. Green, University of Georgia; Dr. Robert S. Stubbs, Emory University. Charles L. Carnes, Representative, 129th District, was appointed Chairman by the Committee. In October, 1960, the Supreme Court of the United States held, In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1966), that juvenile court delinquency hearings must provide the essentials of due process and fair treatment that are provided criminal cases, that the juvenile and his parents must be notified in writing of the specific charges to be considered at the hearing, that the child and his parents must be advised of the child's right to counsel, that the child must be advised of his right to remain silent, that the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses must be given and that means for appeal must be provided for the juvenile (i.e., transcripts must be kept of the proceedings). The Court's decision graphically demonstrated the shortcomings of the Juve nile Court Act of 1951. The Georgia Act was created with the view that juvenile courts would act as parens patriae to juvenile offenders. This meant that the juvenile judge would determine what treatment would best aid the juvenile in becoming an asset to society. The duty of the judge was not to mete out punish ment, as in criminal cases, but he was to take custody of the juvenile and see that the boy or girl had proper guidance prior to reaching adulthood. Harsh trial pro cedures were felt to be unnecessary. Consequently, the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 provided few of the procedural safeguards so common in criminal trials. The child needed no attorney, nor a court transcript, nor the right to cross-examine witnesses. Now, however, these procedural safeguards must be engrafted into our law in order for it to withstand constitutional attack. This Committee was created to bring the Juvenile Court Act up to constitutional standards. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3517 II. INTRODUCTION The Commitee held its organizational meeting on June 14, 1967. Time was spent in studying the Gault decision and measuirng its mandates against the wording of the Juvenile Court Act of 1951. The Committee immediately became aware of the fact that substantial revision was necessary in order to save the 1951 Act from being held unconstitutional. The Committee painstakingly went through each section of the 1951 Act, as amended, and posted solutions and new wording to remedy the patent defects. Materials were secured from each of the forty-nine other states in hopes that their legislation and reviews would aid the Committee in its task. After several meetings it became increasingly apparent that Georgia's Juve nile Court Act contained many loose ends that could possibly come to light in a constitutional attack. Several members of the Committee were of the opinion that completely new legislation was in order, rather than just an amendment of the old Act. The majority of the Committee members felt that time was of the essence and too precious to spend in areas other than making our present Act constitutional according to the dictates of Gault. The Committee was of the unanimous opinion that a permanent study commission, with at least a two-year life, would be necessary to create for Georgia a Juvenile Court Act that will stand the test of time and Supreme Court scrutiny. After making the basic policy decisions and after approving many changes of the 1951 Act, the Committee held a public hearing in the old Supreme Court chambers at the Capitol. The Committee spent a great percentage of the time in apprising the audience at the public hearing what the Juvenile Court Act states and what the Supreme Court held in Gault. A member of the A.C.L.U. stated that our present Act is unconstitutional. Several other speakers echoed the view of Elmo Holt, Judge, Fulton County Juvenile Court, that the Supreme Court will make further inroads in the area of juvenile proceedings. Several more meetings were held by the Committee and the final passages of the proposed amendments were hammered out. A draft of the Committee's work was presented to the Joint Conference of Juvenile Court Judges and Superior Court Judges in Athens on November 1. This was to be the supreme test of the Committee's work. Four changes in the Juvenile Court Act were questioned by the judges. The Committee upon returning to Atlanta, studied the remarks made by the judges in Athens, and voted to accede to the judges' wishes in all but one instance. The requested changes were made in the proposed draft. Upon reading its work product, the Committee once again voiced the need for a permanent study commission, or one with at least a two-year life, that can effectively devise a Juvenile Court Act for Georgia that will provide efficient channels for supplying the needs of society. The Committee feels that the work it has done will make Georgia's Act constitutional, according to the Gault decision, but that the Act might not measure up to further tests created by the Supreme Court of the United States. III. RECOMMENDED CHANGES IN THE 1951 JUVENILE COURT ACT 3518 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (1) The Committee voted to change the definition of "child" in the Juvenile Court Act of 1951, from a person less than Seventeen years of age to a person less than Eighteen years of age. This serves to increase the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. The amendment will permit the courts to have jurisdiction over children up to eighteen years of age, rather than just up to seventeen years of age. The reasons for the change are: People are allowed to vote at eighteen; they are subject to the draft at Eighteen; they are treated as adults at eighteen; and people Seventeen or less associate with younger children who are under the juvenile court jurisdiction. The age of eighteen appears to be the natural cut-off point for juvenile court jurisdiction, and the great majority of other states use the age of eighteen as their juvenile court jurisdictional cut-off point. It is illogical to send a sixteen-year-old to juvenile court, while his seventeen-yearold partner goes to a Superior Court for trial and possible criminal sentence. (2) A definition was provided for "delinquent child." Ten sub-categories were created which define the acts a juvenile must commit in order to be adjudged a "delinquent child." The reason for this addition is that the juvenile court's jurisdiction attaches upon a finding of delinquency, in most cases, and due process of law requires that the offender be apprised that his actions are wrong. If a statute is unduly vague, an enterprising attorney can have the statute de clared to be unconstitutional. Georgia's definition of delinquent child should with stand constitutional attack, if this amendment is enacted. If the amendment is not enacted, Georgia will not have a definition of "delinquent child", and charges, of necessity, will be subject to constitutional attack. (3) The jurisdiction of juvenile courts was extended to children who "are found to be in need of supervision." This enables a juvenile court to have juris diction over children who have not committed a crime, but have done some act injurious to themselves or others--case in point: glue sniffing. This is not a crime, so a finding of delinquency would be improper under our present law. The amendment permits the juvenile court to take custody of the child and see that he is supervised. (4) The Act was changed to require that the complaint against the juvenile be set out in writing and that the charges be stated with specificity. This change was necessary in order to meet the requirements of due process and the Gault decision. (5) The Act was changed to give the juvenile offender the right to legal counsel and the right to be informed of his right to remain silent. These changes were dictated by due process requirements and the Gault decision. (6) The juvenile court was made a court of record. This has the effect of bringing in to play the Georgia Civil Practice Act and its requirements for pro ceedings in court; the Habeas Corpus Act; and it gives each juvenile court judge a clerk, a seal, and requires minutes and records to be kept of all proceedings. This was dictated by predictions of what the Supreme Court of the United States will require in the future. (7) A requirement was placed in the Act that provides for an official court reporter to take down testimony of all proceedings. This requirement meets the dictates of Gault. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3519 (8) Provisions dealing with delinquency and other jurisdiction-giving factors --neglect of child, insufficient guardianship, etc.--were re-written to conform to due process. (9) The juvenile judge was given authority to issue arrest warrants, writs of habeas corpus, and search warrants. (10) Provisions dealing with appeals were rewritten so as to conform to a 1956 amendment of the Georgia Constitution. (11) Various other sections were re-written to make them grammatically correct. IV. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS (1) The Committee feels that it is absolutely necessary to enact the above changes of the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 in order to keep the Georgia Juvenile Court system in existence. Without these changes, no finding of delinquency by a juvenile court judge will withstand constitutional attack. (2) The Committee recommends that a study commission, with at least a two-year life, be created to devise modern, efficient and durable juvenile court legislation for Georgia. The Supreme Court of the United States has served notice on the states that it intends to begin an exhaustive review of juvenile court proceedings. Georgia's Act, even with the aforementioned changes, will not withstand heavy scrutiny. The commission should be composed of judges, law professors, legislators, and lay people who are experienced in juvenile affairs. It should be given a staff, a lawyer and funds with which to conduct the requisite research and draft the ap propriate laws. The Committee feels that Georgia will be able to have proper juvenile court legislation only if a long-term study group is made possible. The Committee experienced the problems that come from too little time to do so much. The commission's first assignment will be to create laws that will withstand constitutional attack--for years to come. Secondly, the commission will undertake to create a juvenile court system that operates uniformly throughout Georgia. Decisions will have to be made on questions like: "Shall the juvenile courts be made a division of the Superior Court system or shall juvenile courts be separate and apart from superior circuits?" A copy of the resolution creating the Juvenile Court Law Study Commission is attached hereto and made a part of this report as Exhibit "A". (10) Provisions dealing with appeals were rewritten so as to conform to a 1956 amendment of the Georgia Constitution. (11) Various other sections were rewritten to make them grammatically correct. 3520 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, V. EXHIBIT A A Resolution Creating the Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 was created with the view that juvenile courts would act as parens patriae to juvenile offenders; and WHEREAS, the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 contemplated informal proceed ings designed to afford juveniles protection and guidance as opposed to trial procedures with criminal sanctions; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States in recent decisions has held that constitutional safeguards apply to juvenile court proceedings; and WHEREAS, the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 needs complete revision in order to meet the standards that experts predict the Supreme Court of the United States will require when the appropriate questions are presented to the Court; and WHEREAS, the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 needs a complete revision in order to provide for a uniform system of juvenile courts in Georgia; and WHEREAS, a great amount of study and consideration will be required to provide Georgia with a completely modern juvenile court system that will with stand the test of time and Supreme Court scrutiny; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY OF GEORGIA that there is hereby created the "Juvenile Court Law Study Commission". The Commission shall be composed of Twelve (12) members as follows: Three (3) members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker; Three (3) members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate; and Six (6) other members to be appointed by the Governor, Two (2) of whom shall be juvenile court judges who are not superior court judges, One (1) of whom shall be a superior court judge, and Three (3) of whom shall be selected from the law schools of Emory University, the University of Geor gia, and Mercer University. The Commission shall study the juvenile court procedures of Georgia, other states, and of other countries, and shall elicit views from experts in juvenile af fairs and laws. It shall study recent court decisions affecting juvenile courts and shall create a new juvenile court system for Georgia, having in mind a uniform system that will operate throughout the State. It shall be the Commis sion's duty to devise a juvenile court law that is modern, efficient and constitu tionally sound. The members of the Commission shall be appointed within Thirty (30) days after approval of this Resolution by the Governor or after it otherwise becomes law. The members shall meet within Thirty (30) days after all members have been appointed for the purpose of organizing, electing a chairman and such of- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3521 ficers as are deemed advisable and adopting the procedures for the operation of the Commission. The Commission shall remain in existence until December 31, 1969, at which time the Commission shall present to the Governor and General Assembly a re port and proposed legislation creating a new juvenile court system for the State. The Commission is authorized to employ a fulltime staff, consisting of no more than Two (2) secretaries, a clerk and legal counsel, to be paid for from funds appropriated to or available to the executive branch of government and from other available funds. The compensation to be received by staff members shall be fixed by the chairman. The members of the Commission shall receive the compensation, per diem, expenses and allowances authorized for legislative members of interim legislative committees, but shall receive the same for not more than Forty (40) days. The superior court judges and juvenile court judges shall be paid from the same funds from which they are otherwise compensated. The other non-legislative members of the Commission shall be paid from the funds appropriated to or available to the executive branch of the government and from any other available funds. The legislative members of the Commission shall be paid from the funds appropriated to or available to the legislative branch of the government and from any other available funds. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ****** REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A STATE LIAISON OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. THE COMMITTEE Honorable A. W. Holloway Senator, 12th District Chairman Honorable Ronald F. Adams Senator, 5th District Honorable Jay Carroll Cox Senator, 21st District Honorable Sam P. McGill Senator, 24th District Honorable Ford B. Spinks Senator, 9th District Honorable Mac Pickard Representative, 112th District Vice Chairman Honorable Harold G. Clarke Representative, 45th District Honorable Arthur M. Gignilliat Representative, 113th District Honorable Guy Hill Representative, 121st District Honorable Roger W. Wilson Representative, 109th District November, 1967 REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A STATE LIAISON OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. INTRODUCTION The Committee was created pursuant to the authority of a joint resolution (Senate Resolution No. 27) adopted at the 1967 session of the General Assembly. 3522 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The President of the Senate appointed the following Senators to the Committee: Honorable Ronald F. Adams, 5th District; Honorable Jay Carroll Cox, 21st Dis trict; Honorable A. W. Holloway, 12th District; Honorable Sam P. McGill, 24th District; and Honorable Ford B. Spinks, 9th District. The Speaker of the House appointed the following Representatives to the Committee: Honorable Harold G. Clarke, 45th District; Honorable Arthur M. Gignilliat, 113th District; Honorable Guy Hill, 121st District; Honorable Mac Pickard, 112th District; and Honorable Roger W. Wilson, 109th District. The organizational meeting of the Committee was held on June 7, 1967, at the State Capitol, at which time Senator Holloway was elected Chairman of the Committee and Representative Mac Pickard was elected Vice Chairman. The creating resolution charged the Committee with the responsibility of studying the feasibility of establishing a State liaison office in Washington, D. C. In connection with this study, the resolution also provided that the Committee ". . . shall examine the types of offices which have been established by other states, the scope of activities of such offices, the staffing of such offices, and the cost involved in the operation of such offices." The following sections of this re port briefly summarize the Committee's findings regarding these matters as well as the other functions of the Committee. The final section of the reports sets forth the Committee's conclusions and recommendations based on its findings and deliberations. FINDINGS A. Existing State Liaison Offices in Washington, D. C. The Committee found that several states including California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia have established liaison offices in Washington. While the na ture of these offices varies somewhat from state to state, each of them is pri marily concerned with promoting and protecting the economic interests of the state they represent through close contact and liaison with the Federal govern ment. In protecting and promoting their state's economic interests, these offices obtain and disseminate current information concerning the following subjects: (1) Any Federal action that would affect business and industry of their state. (2) Any Federal contracts that might be awarded to businesses and indus tries located within their state. (3) Any Federal installations already located or which may be located with in their state. (4) All Federal grant-in-aid programs of interest to state departments and agencies and local governments within their state. These offices supply the information they obtain and compile to the various agencies of their state government which may be interested in it and, frequently, to local governments, private industry and private business associations. In some instances, these offices work very closely with private industry and help in securing Federal loans and providing other assistance for the businessmen of their respective states. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3523 Other services provided by some of these offices are promoting tourism with in their states, assisting state residents visiting or living in Washington, con tacting Federal officials and agencies on behalf of state agencies and officials, and performing research. These offices are usually created as an extension of the Governor's office or as a division or agency of the counterpart of Georgia's Department of Industry and Trade, although in some instances the offices are set up as agencies of other departments of the state government. The liaison office for Texas was created by an Act of the legislature which established the "Division of State-Federal Rela tions in the Office of Governor". The Texas Act also provided that the legislature could establish interim committees to work with and receive information from the Washington office and develop and recommend legislation that might be bene ficial. The State of California has recently created a legislative liaison office in Washington. This office is entirely separate from the California executive branch and is the only one created exclusively to serve the legislative branch of the state government. The California legislative liaison office began operation only this year and, unlike the offices previously summarized, has the following primary responsibilities: (1) To supply information requested by the various members and committees of the California General Assembly. (2) To keep the California General Assembly advised of the progress of actual legislation before Congress which affects the state. (3) To act as a personal liaison between the various Federal agencies and the California General Assembly. The staff of these offices varies from a director and one secretary to a direc tor and six additional personnel, including secretarial help. The cost of the opera tion of these offices varies, of course, with their size, but the Committee found that the smallest offices require approximately $50,000 per annum, while the larger offices, such as New York's, cost in excess of $100,000 per annum. With the exception of the California legislative liaison office, the directors of the liaison offices in Washington ordinarily work in cooperation with their respective state delegations in the United States Congress. B. Meeting with the Georgia Congressional Delegation. Shortly after begin ning its study, the Committee decided that it would be essential to meet with the members of the United States Congress from Georgia to gain the benefit of their knowledge, experience and views concerning the subject under consideration. The Committee also thought it advisable to observe firsthand the operation of some of the liaison offices that have been established in Washington by other states. As a result, the Committee arranged to visit Washington during the latter part of June to carry out these objectives. The Committee was fortunate in gaining the attendance of all members of the Georgia congressional delegation at the Washington meeting, and the various aspects of the feasibility of establishing a state liaison office in Washington was 3524 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, discussed at length. It is the consensus of the members of the Committee that the meeting with the congressional delegation was informative and constructive and of great benefit to the Committee in arriving at its conclusions and recommenda tions. The Committee also visited some of the major liaison offices in Washington and interviewed their directors in order to gain firsthand knowledge regarding the operation and effectiveness of these offices. These visits and interviews were also informative and beneficial to the members of the Committee and formed the basis for some of the information provided in this report concerning state liaison offices in Washington. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Conclusions. Generally speaking, the members of the Committee believe that the state liaison offices which have been established in Washington are pro viding a valuable service for their respective states. The Committee has concluded, however, that it would not be advisable for Georgia to establish such an office by legislative act at the present time, although it may be advisable for the executive branch of the State government to give consideration to the problem of better coordinating Federal and State programs. The Governor, in cooperation with the Department of Industry and Trade or the recently created State Plan ning and Programming Bureau, may wish to consider coordinating State and Federal programs through one of these agencies which might act as a central informational facility on Federal and State programs. Private municipal and county governmental associations and private business associations may also wish to give consideration to the establishment of a liaison office in Washington on either a part-time or full-time basis. These thoughts are merely observations of the Committee, however, and should not be considered formal recommendations to the executive branch or to the private associations. The primary reasons for reaching the conclusion that a liaison office in Wash ington should not be established by an Act of the General Assembly are as fol lows: (1) The members of the present Georgia congressional delegation are effec tively providing essentially the same services that a liaison office would provide. (2) As long as the statement above remains true, the few additional services such an office might provide would not justify the considerable expense involved in establishing and maintaining such an office. (3) State agencies and their Federal counterparts are effectively com municating at the present time, and the State is not losing any available Federal funds for lack of knowledge of Federal programs. (4) Local governmental agencies in Georgia have access to information regarding Federal programs through their counterparts at the State level and through the municipal and county associations. B. Recommendations. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3525 (1) That no action be taken by an Act of the General Assembly to establish a liaison office in Washington for either the executive or legislative branches of the State government at this time. (2) That the question of establishing such an office be periodically reexamined by the General Assembly, because the need for such an office could change with time and circumstances. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Committee wishes to express its appreciation to members of the Georgia congressional delegation for the courtesy and excellent cooperation given to the Committee at the Washington meetings. The Committee would also like to express its appreciation to the personnel of the state liaison offices which the Committee visited in Washington for their assistance and cooperation. Respectfully submitted, /s/ A. W. Holloway A. W. Holloway, Chairman /s/ Mac Pickard Mac Pickard, Vice Chairman TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ****** REPORT OF THE MENTAL RETARDATION STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ****** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Virgil T. Smith Representative, 3rd District Chairman Honorable Jack H. Cole Representative, 3rd District Honorable William J. Crowe Representative, 1st District Rev. J. D. Grier, Jr. Representative, 132nd District Dr. A. S. Johnson, Sr. Representative, 25th District Honorable Nick G. Lambros Representative, 130th District Honorable Dick Lane Representative, 126th District Honorable C. C. Moreland Representative, 28th District Honorable Glenn S. Phillips Representative, 41st District Honorable Howard Simmons Representative, 9th District December, 1967 REPORT OF THE MENTAL RETARDATION STUDY COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION The Mental Retardation Study Committee was created pursuant to the pro visions of House Resolution No. 3. Honorable Geo. L. Smith, Speaker of the House of Representatives, appointed the following members of the House to serve 3526 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, on the Committee: Representative Virgil T. Smith, Chairman; Representative William J. Crowe; Representative J. D. Grier, Jr.; Representative A. S. Johnson, Sr.; Representative Nick G. Lambros; Representative Dick Lane; Representative C. C. Moreland; Representative Glenn S. Phillips; and Representative Howard Simmons. The Committee was created for the purpose of studying the problems of mental retardation in Georgia. In completing its study, the Committee heard from officials of the various departments of the State government providing services for the mentally retarded, and officials of private associations providing services for the mentally retarded. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The Committee found early in its study that the subject of metal retardation is quite complex and that it involves several departments of the State government. Because of the broad nature of the subject and the limited time available, the members of the Committee decided to limit their primary concern to a particular phase of the subject rather than attempting a comprehensive analysis of the many problems associated with mental retardation. The particular phase of the subject on which the Committee decided to focus its attention was the matter of lateral coordination of services among the various departments of the State gov ernment providing services, in one form or another, for the mentally retarded. As a result of the testimony given to the Committee by some of the depart ment heads, other officials and officials of private organizations, it appeared to the Committee that there is a certain degree of duplication of effort and loss of efficiency resulting from a lack of coordination of services among the depart ments providing services for the mentally retarded. For example, everyone who appeared before the Committee agreed that adequate psychological testing and evaluation is crucial to any successful program for the mentally retarded, whether the program is in the area of treatment, vocational rehabilitation, educa tion or otherwise. It appears, however, that some departments and divisions within the departments are purchasing psychological testing and evaluation serv ices for the mentally retarded independently of each other. The members of the Committee feel that if psychological testing and evaluation of the mentally re tarded were coordinated for all departments and divisions, it may be possible to do a better job in this area for less per capita cost. There are other areas where coordination of services among various departments and divisions of the State government might promote more efficiency and better services for our citizens, and psychological testing is mentioned only by way of example. The Committee recognizes, of course, that obstacles exist to coordinating serv ices in many instances. In some instances there might be legal obstacles prevent ing coordination, and in others the lack of a vehicle to promote coordination of services might have operated as a disadvantage to the various departments of the State government. As a result of these considerations, the Committee decided to propose a bill for consideration by the General Assembly which would create an interdepartmental council to achieve the coordination of services among the de partments of the State government providing services for the handicapped. The Committee first considered a version of the bill which created an Inter departmental Council on Mental Retardation, consisting of members of the Department of Health, Department of Education, and the Department of Family and Children Services. As the Committee looked further into the matter, how ever, and heard additional testimony from some of the department heads, it was INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3527 decided that the Council should not be limited to the subject of mental retardation but should be expanded to include the coordination of services for all handicapped inasmuch as mental retardation is included in the more general area of handicap ped persons. It was further decided that membership on the Council should be expanded to include the Department of Labor, Department of Corrections, and the Board of Regents, as well as the Department of Education, Health and Family and Children Services, because the handicapped, including the mental retarded, are served by all of these departments. The Committee also gave consideration to including members of private or ganizations and members of the General Assembly on the Council, but decided that such extensive membership would not be advisable at this time. The principal ob jective of the Committee was to achieve coordination of services among depart ments of the State government, and as a result, the vehicle to achieve this coordi nation should be an "Interdepartmental Council" and not a new and separate State agency, which would be created if the membership included private as sociations and members of the General Assembly. Attached hereto and made a part of this report as Appendix 1, is a proposed bill creating the Interdepartmental Council on the Handicapped. The members of the Committee recognize that after experience has been gained in the matter of coordination of services among departments of the State government, further refinements might need to be made in the proposed bill, but the Committee feels that the bill, as proposed, is certainly a step in the right direction. If further changes are needed, they should be based on a thorough consideration of the mat ter by the members of the Council and could be set forth in detail in one of the annual reports to the General Assembly that the bill requires the Council to make. The Committee hopes that the members of the General Assembly will give the attached bill careful consideration, and urges that it be adopted at the 1968 ses sion. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Virgil T. Smith Representative, 3rd District Chairman APPENDIX I. A BILL To be entitled An Act to create the Georgia Interdepartment Council on the Handicapped; to provide for the membership of said Council; to provide for the powers and responsibilities of said Council; to provide that said Council may promulgate rules and regulations for its own government; to provide for the organizational meeting of said Council; to provide that the Governor shall serve as temporary Chairman for the purpose of calling said organizational meeting; to provide that said Council shall meet at least once during each calendar month; to provide that the members of said Council shall not receive additional compen sation for their services on the Council but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP GEORGIA: 3528 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Section 1. There is hereby created the Georgia Interdepartment Council on the Handicapped, hereinafter referred to as the Council. The Council shall be composed of twelve members as follows: The State Superintendent of Schools and one official or employee of the State Department of Education designated by the Superintendent of Schools; the Director of the Department of Family and Children Services and one official or employee of the Department of Family and Children Services designated by the Director of said Department; the Director of the State Department of Public Health and one official or employee of the Department of Public Health designated by the Director of said Department; the Director of the Department of Corrections and one official or employee of the Department of Corrections designated by the Director of said Department; the Commissioner of Labor and one offical or employee of the Department of Labor designated by said Commissioner; the Chancellor of the Board of Regents and one official or employee of the Board of Regents designated by said Chancellor. Section 2. The Council shall have the following powers and responsibilities: (a) To promulgate rules and regulations for its own government, including rules and regulations governing the election of officers, other than the Chairman who shall be elected as provided in Section 3 of this Act, and for the establish ment of a quorum for the transaction of business; (b) To make a thorough study regarding the services being provided for the handicapped of Georgia by the various departments and agencies of the State government and by private associations in an effort to better coordinate such services to avoid duplication and inefficiency; (c) To make advisory recommendations, from time to time, to the heads of the various departments of the State government providing services for the handicapped regarding the steps that should be taken by such departments to coordinate, expand and make more efficient services for the handicapped; (d) To make an annual report to the General Assembly and to the heads of the various departments providing services for the handicapped setting forth recommendations and suggested legislation, when necessary or desirable, re garding the steps that should be taken by the General Assembly or said de partments or by the General Assembly and said departments to coordinate, expand and make more efficient the services for the handicapped of Georgia. Such report shall be made during the first week of each annual session of the General Assem bly. (e) To devise a plan for the creation of a central referral and information agency regarding all services available to the handicapped of Georgia on the State and local level. Such plan shall be included in the first annual report to the General Assembly and to the department heads; (f) To devise a plan for the coordination of services for the handicapped on the local, district or regional level. Such plan shall be included in the first annual report to the General Assembly and to the department heads. Section 3. The organizational meeting of the Council shall be called by the Governor of Georgia within thirty days after the effective date of this Act. The Governor is hereby designated temporary Chairman of said Council only for the purpose of calling said organizational meeting and presiding until a permanent Chairman is elected by a majority vote of all members of the Council. After the INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3529 organizational meeting of the Council, meetings shall be called and held in ac cordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Council at the organizational meeting, but such rules and regulations shall provide for at least one meeting of the Council during each calendar month. Section 4. The members of the Council shall not receive any additional com pensation for their services on the Council but shall be reimbursed for any actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Section 5. This Act shall become effective on the first day of the month following its approval by the Governor or its otherwise becoming law. Section 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. January, 1968 REPORT OF THE SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE COMMITTEE ON LENGTH, WIDTH AND WEIGHT LIMITATIONS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES TO: THE CHAIRMAN AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE STANDING MOTOR VEHICLES COMMITTEE Mr. Chairman, your committee appointed for the purpose of looking into re commendations for proposed changes in the restrictions of width, weight and length for motor vehicles has met, concluded its study, and submits the following recommendations: 1. Annotated Code Section 68-407 (Ga. Laws 1941, p. 449, Sec. 3) exempts motor vehicles transporting timber, lumber and piling from all length and weight limitations when transported from the forest where cut to the owner's place of business or residence within the county cut or the adjoining county. The committee recommends that this exemption be repealed with the proviso that two-axle motor vehicles transporting such products be allowed to operate under the exemption until January 1, 1969. 2. That the following maximum limitations as to length and weight apply to motor vehicles transporting forest products: (a) Length - 75 feet. (b) Weight - single axle load - 24,000 pounds. (c) Maximum total gross weight - 78,000 pounds. No permit will be issued to authorize any such vehicle to exceed these limita tions, under any circumstances. No vehicle transporting forest products which exceeds 55 feet in length should be in operation after darkness or on Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. 3530 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 3. For motor vehicles transporting poles, piling, structural steel, pre-stressed concrete and piping, the maximum permissible length should be increased to 75 feet. 4. Vehicles transporting those materials set forth in 3 above may exceed the 75-foot limitation by special permit issued by the Highway Department pursuant to the following procedure: (a) Persons and firms engaged in transporting such materials will be licensed according to the following scale: 5 vehicles or less 6 to 10 vehicles 11 to 50 vehicles 51 to 100 vehicles above 100 vehicles $ 50.00 per annum 100.00 per annum 250.00 per annum 500.00 per annum 1,000.00 per annum (b) These permits will be issued on an annual basis and predicated upon the number of vehicles owned as of January 1st of each calendar year and shall permit unlimited trips during the effective period of the license. (c) For isolated incidents of transporting such materials not war ranting a yearly license, single-trip permits in accordance with the exist ing procedures will be continued at the option of the operator. 5. The State Highway Department should decentralize its permit operations so that facilities will be available for securing permits to exceed width, length and weight limitations in each highway division office and each State patrol divi sion headquarters. 6. We recommend the following mandatory safety procedures for all motor vehicles transporting 5' 3" pulpwood: (a) Motor vehicles with fixed metal standards should have one binder chain of 5/16" or cable equivalent. (b) Motor vehicles with movable or wooden standards should have two binder chains of 5/16" or cable equivalent or combination thereof. (c) The present law for binding logs or lumber (95-613) should be amended to read "5/16" chain or cable equivalent". This would specify sizes as in the other load binder provisions. 7. During the course of this committee's study, it came to our attention that there are in this State jurisdictions who do not see fit to prosecute to a final conclusion violators of the width, length and weight provisions of this State's laws. It also came to our attention that there are a number of jurisdictions which do not remit the State's proportionate share of the fines and forefeitures derived from violations of the size and weight laws. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3531 We recommend that the Attorney General institute immediate action to secure the State's lawful share of all fines and forfeitures from those jurisdic tions which are not now presently remitting the same. We further recommend that the State Highway Department periodically inform the governing authorities of those jurisdictions in which such violators are not being prosecuted, as well as the members of the General Assembly, so that appropriate corrective action may be taken. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Bobby AV. Johnson Bobby W. Johnson, Chairman Representative, 40th District /s/ Joe Frank Harris Joe Frank Harris, Vice-Chairman Representative, 14th District /s/ Jack H. Cole Jack H. Cole Representative, 3rd District /s/ John H. Anderson, Jr. John H. Anderson, Jr. Representative, 71st District /s/ David N. Vaughan, Jr. David N. Vaughan, Jr. Representative, 14th District /s/ Bert Ward Bert Ward Representative, 2nd District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS ****** REPORT OF THE HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ****** THE COMMITTEE Honorable A. B. C. Dorminy, Chairman Representative, 72nd District 701 W. Central Avenue Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750 Honorable Fulton Lovell, Vice Chairman Representative, 6th District Clayton, Georgia 30525 Honorable Edwin C. Poss, Secretary Representative, 17th District RFD Hull, Georgia 30646 Honorable Joseph A. Battle Representative, 116th District 2308 Ranchland Drive Savannah, Georgia 31404 3532 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Honorable Ward Edwards Representative, 57th District Butler, Georgia 31006 Honorable James D. Mason Representative, 22nd District Route 1, Oak Road Snellville, Georgia 30278 Honorable G. Ed Knapp Representative, 109th District 4435 Pio Nono Avenue Macon, Georgia 31206 Honorable John Harvey Moore Representative, 20th District 503 N. Cave Spring Street Cedartown, Georgia 30125 Honorable W. E. Laite, Jr. Representative, 109th District 2948 Crestline Drive Macon, Georgia 31204 Honorable A. T. Land, Sr. Representative, 53rd District Allentown, Georgia 31003 Honorable Dick Lane Representative, 126th District 2704 Humphries Street East Point, Georgia 30044 Honorable Alien LaRue Parrish, Sr. Representative, 96th District 301 E. 4th Street Adel, Georgia 31620 Honorable David N. Vaughan, Jr. Representative, 14th District P. O. Box 534 Cartersville, Georgia 30120 Honorable George W. Smith Representative, 117th District 2218 Deer Ridge Drive Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083 Honorable Harry Magoon Representative, 19th District 410 E. Franklin Street Hartwell, Georgia 30643 Honorable Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Representative, 13th District 1001 Terrace Drive Rome, Georgia 30161 Honorable Howard Simmons Representative, 9th District Ellijay, Georgia 30540 Honorable Fred L. Winkles Representative, 120th District 878 Falcon Drive, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30311 Honorable John H. Hadaway Representative, 46th District Hillsboro, Georgia 30138 REPORT OF THE HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) During the 1967 Session of the General Assembly, the Natural Resources Committee resolved to investigate and study the various procedures and holdings of the Georgia Forestry Commission. The first phase of the Committee's investigation was to visit, for two days, the headquarters of the Georgia Forestry Commission in Macon. The Director, Ray Shirley, and his staff briefed the Committee on the various programs, serv ices and operations of the Commission, thus providing for the committee an excel lent overview of the Commission's functions. While in Macon, the Committee discussed matters with the Director and his staff, watched slides, took tours and observed demonstrations. The service pro grams of forest protection (including fire, insect and disease protection) for the INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3533 24,066,000 acres of forest land owned by private individauls and the State were explained to the Committee fully. The Committee's feelings, after the two-day session with the Director, were that the Georgia Forestry Commission is being handled most ably. In November, the Committee visited several points of interest in the Savan nah area. The Committee toured Union Camp Corporation's vast operation on the Savannah River. The plant employs some 5,300 people and produces from 900,000 to 1,000,000 tons of paper products annually. In 1966, the plant was the first mill to pass the million-ton figure when it produced 1,001,202 tons. The Committee was informed that the plant uses 4,000 cords of pulpwood per day. Accordingly, the company is concerned with and involved in forest regenera tion and conservation, and has been a leader in forest managment technique in Georgia. The plant uses slash, longleaf, loblolly and short leaf pine, plus hardwoods of tupelogum, redgum, bay, magnolia, yellow poplar and maple. The Committee was informed by the officers of Union Camp that Georgia is the largest supplier of pulpwood in the nation and is the leader of the Tree Farm movement. Next on the Committee's agenda was the impressive Herty Laboratory facility in Savannah. The Herty Foundation is the successor of the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory which was established in 1932 when the late Dr. Charles Holmes Herty was Director of Research for Pulp and Paper of the Geor gia State Department of Forestry. The principal objective of this laboratory was to find a use for fast growing and resinous Southern slash pine, especially trimmings from dense stands. The most significant accomplishment was the production of sulfite and groundwood pulps and their conversion into newsprint. This led to the establishment of the first newsprint mill in the South and greatly influenced and hastened develop ment of the paper industry in the South with accompanying beneficial effect on the economy. In 1938 by an Act of the Georgia General Assembly, the Herty Foundation was created to assume the assets of the Savannah Plup and Paper Laboratory and to operate under a trusteeship of the State. Since 1938 Herty Foundation has developed into a unique institution exclusively for reseach and development on all fibrous materials, specifically on forest and agricultural products and synthetic fibers, emphasis is on pulping and papermaking in the broadest sense. Other areas of interest are: (1) conservation of natural resources, (2) improvement of water and air, (3) evaluation of materials for use in pulp and papermaking. New quarters and improved facilities provided in 1957 have enabled Herty to grow because of the quality of its work and service. This established an excellent reputation with clients from whom all funds for operations were derived. To satisfy requirements of clients, additional quarters and equipment had to be installed in 1967. Herty Foundation is in a position at present to render greater service than it has in the past and to contribute still more to the economy and welfare of Georgia, the South, and the Nation. 3534 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The Committee then boated to Skidaway Island for a tour of the proposed O. S. C. A. Site. The Committee spent several days in Middle Georgia observing experimental stations and pulpwood mills. The Committee also took time out to visit the Coweeta Experiment Station in Franklin, North Carolina, where many problems were discussed concerning experimentation of Southern Appalachian Conifer and Hardwoods common to the region--especially the effects and measurement of rainfall. The Committee wishes to thank the following gentlemen for their most able assistance during the various tours: Ray Shirley, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission. James C. Turner, Assistant Director and Chief, Forest Protection. W. H. McComb, Chief, Forest Management. Sanford Darby, Chief, Reforestation. Frank Craven, Chief, Forest Education. George Bishop, Chief, Forest Administration. Jim Wynens, Seed Orchard Development. Bill Miles and Tom Hankinson, who so ably demonstrated the various devices used in forestry. The Committee was, and is, pleased with the way the Georgia Forestry Com mission is being run. The men are able, the equipment is capable, and the plans and ideas are excellent. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS: **%**% REPORT OF THE OCEANOGRAPHIC STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) ****** THE COMMITTEE Honorable Charles M. Jones, Chairman Representative, 76th District Honorable Chappelle Matthews Representative, 29th District Honorable Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Honorable Paul E. Nessmith, Sr. Representative, 64th District Honorable Joseph A. Battle Representative, 116th District Honorable Richard M. Scarlett Representative, 85th District Honorable John F. Collins Representative, 62nd District Honorable J. Robert Tye Representative, 115th District INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3535 The Oceanographic Study Committee was created pursuant to the authority of House Resolution No. 3. The Speaker of the House appointed the following members of the House to the Committee: Honorable Charles M. Jones Representative, 76th District Honorable Chappelle Matthews Representative, 29th District Honorable Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Honorable Paul E. Nessmith, Sr. Representative, 64th District Honorable Joseph A. Battle Representative, 116th District Honorable Richard M. Scarlett Representative, 85th District Honorable John F. Collins Representative, 62nd District Honorable J. Robert Tye Representative, 115th District Your Committee, composed of the aforementioned members, is pleased to make the following report on the status of the OSCA activity. First, however, we would like to remind you that our Georgia project on Skidaway is one of first magnitude as an educational and research resource to the State, with eventual economic repercussions which will be State-wide in ef fect. The OSCA research activity excepts to participate in the present Federal $3,000,000,000 per year expenditure for this work and to earn a substantial part of the $600,000,000 which the Federal Government is expected to spend in the early 1970's. This money supports research activities, contracted out to oceano graphic stations of acknowledged excellence throughout the country, and is a cornerstone of national defense. The U. S. Navy enumerates some 70 budget items in the oceanographic spectrum covering subjects from anti-submarine surveil lance to the medical aspects of under-water operations. This research enters ac tively into biological and technological fields alike. In the industrial areas the oceanographic field is moving ahead in such areas as undersea oil drilling, marine life conservation and harvesting, desalinization, corrosion resistant materials, sea protein sources. The list is growing. One trade survey indicates that one out of four of America's 500 largest corpora tions have an oceanographic interest, while another estimate puts the figure at 60 percent. Westinghouse, for example predicts that 10% of its sales, or $400,000,000 will come from products of its oceanographic enterprises by 1975. North American Aviation makes a similar prediction. The excellence of our Skidaway facility, the timeliness of its research findings, the national attention that it is bound to attract, the wholehearted local and State support it is receiving, will inevitably focus the attention of industrialists to the area. The station is a new asset; a new resource. It will be of interest to know that the Government's offshore oil lease liquidate the amount it spends on its oceanographic effort. Latest available data indicated that the value of off-shore gas and oil production was $779 million, 6% of the U. S. total. The recovery of mineral deposits on the sea floor (such as the Blake Plateau off the Georgia coast) will make our country mineral rich in certain critical items instead of mineral poor. One of the objectives of oceanography is better weather forecasting. It has been estimated that a 10% increase in forecasting would save southeastern growers millions of dollars a year. These are but some of the facets of oceangraphic knowledge to which Georgia has committed itself. 3536 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, To return to our committee activities proper, your committee has had two formal meetings since its organization, but I say with pride that each member of this Committee has had an intimate working experience with one or more of the following programs of OSCA activity, to the end that it is a working committee dedicated to the objectives of this program. During the fall of 1966 the OSCA site selection committee of the Georgia Science and Technology Commission was beginning with its work, and it was the prerogative of this Committee to see that the selection committee was afforded a full and impartial view of the assets of the several communities that were considered. The selected committee eventually announced that the Skidaway Island site in Savannah was chosen as the location for the State's oceanographic venture. In September of 1967 the people of Chatham County in an unprecedented vote of approval (the margin being nine to one in favor) approved $3,600,000 worth of general obligation bonds to finance a bridge to Skidaway Island to service the center and the general growth of the island. Your Committee members from Chat ham County worked tirelessly to build up voter sentiment for this project, and the success of their efforts is apparent. Construction work on the first segment of the road began on December 27 and bids will be asked for the Back River bridge in March of this year, and in July of this year the county will advertise for a bascule bridge across Skidaway Narrows. In November of 1967 at a public ceremony in Savannah with your Committee members present, OSCA organization accepted a deed of gift from Mr. Robert Roebling conveying his northern portion of the island to OSCA fronting on the intra-coastal Waterway along with a number of pieces of equipment needed for land clearing, grading, and drainage. His gift also included a number of pieces of valuable marine equipment, including a steel barge of 30 tons capacity. Simultaneously with the Roebling transaction, the Union Bag Camp Cor poration is preparing a conveyance to give to OSCA some 500 acres of high land. The Union Bag gift makes available about 3,000 feet of deep water front age to the property. It is estimated, with the increase in island values in coming years that will be produced by the bridge, that these two donations will have a multimillion dollars value and the thanks of this Committee and the Savannah community in general go to these two donors. Your Committee is pleased to report that the use of the island property is being carefully planned by the OSCA authorities, these authorities having en gaged the industrial development branch of Georgia Tech for a detailed land use plan. Assisting them is Arthur D. Little, Inc., an organization of recognized sta ture in the oceanographic field. The two organizations, along with the local Chatham County Metropolitan Planning Commission, will also give broad plan ning suggestions for the island in general. We are pleased with the careful ap proach exhibited by the members of the project, a theme discussed in some de tail at our Committee meetings. The Committee is cognizant of and endorses the five lines of research activity announced by Dr. Tom Jackson, Director of the Institute to be located on the INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3537 island under the direction of the Board of Regents. They are: 1) geophysical ex ploration of the continental shelf, 2) marine biological sciences, 3) undersea vehicle design, 4) undersea communication, and 5) minerals mining. Your Com mittee calls attention to the fact that Dr. Jackson is an acknowledged leader in the research field and has performed a number of contracts with the Navy, in the mine countermeasures branch and other departments. Thus, the Savannah activity begins with entree into the oceanographic field in a very important gov ernment activity. Your Committee has likewise taken a keen interest in the location of a state parks activity on Skidaway, visualizing these activities as complementary to each other and viewing with pleasure the announcement from the State Parks that tentatively the Big Ferry site on the island has been selected facing the Intracoastal Waterway and affording some 500 acres of land containing some of the most beautiful natural portions of the island. All of the members of this Com mittee have visited the site. Your Committee wishes to announce that the budget submitted by the OSCA activity represents the considered judgment of each member of our Committee. We reviewed it pro forma at our last meeting and have previously had it under study as individual members. Without going into details, the budget breaks down into three basic components; construction, personal services, and operations. Construction involves the erection of the first permanent building, a multi purpose structure for research, instruction, assembly and administration, and the land-fill phase of the deep water dock facility. The second element consists of personal services for the OSCA staff; the third element is the cost of operations of the Institute for Advanced Studies, which will have already begun by the time you receive this report. This institute visualizes in its first year of operation a staff of post-doctoral type projects directors (and assistant directors) and technicians embarking on work connected with under-water mobility devices and life support systems, desalinization, thermal systems, mapping, geological survey and instrumentation development (this latter also pertaining to commercial fishing techniques). The total amount of budget is $1,539,572. These programs, while situated on Skidaway, will also draw upon the tech nological might of the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, both long oriented to the National research program. In short, your Committee deems it a pleasure not only to have had a part in the inception of this program when it was unanimously supported by the House, but also to have assisted in the fullest practical extent in its execution. We rep resent in the House, therefore, a wide-awake commission which is moving and wasting no time in identifying itself with the urgently necessary governmentoriented oceanographic activity, as well as the emerging industrial significance of ocean science, which can call on a sea resource covering 71% of the earth's surface. We concur with Senator Richard B. Russell, who said the following: "The State of Georgia has taken a giant step forward in the field of technology and research in the development of the Ocean Science Center at Skidaway Island. The world's greatest store of untaxed resources lies beneath the sea, and the importance of exporting these resources for the well-being of mankind is incalculable. 3538 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, In my career as a public servant, I have been convinced time and again of the wisdom of finding ways to make the gifts of providence serve us through the establishment of research facilities. I am, there fore, filled with pride in the knowledge that the Ocean Science Center Makes Georgia a pioneer in oceanic research." Respectfully submitted, Honorable Charles M. Jones, Chairman Representative, 76th District Honorable Chappelle Matthews Representative, 29th District Honorable Arthur J. Funk Representative, 116th District Honorable Paul E. Nessmith, Sr. Representative, 64th District Honorable Joseph A. Battle Representative, 116th District Honorable Richard M. Scarlett Representative, 85th District Honorable John F. Collins Representative, 62nd District Honorable J. Robert Tye Representative, 115th District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL AS SEMBLY OF GEORGIA, AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE PARI-MUTUEL BETTING STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 3) THE COMMITTEE Honorable Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Representative, 13th District Chairman Honorable William B. Steis Representative, 100th District Vice-Chairman Honorable Marvin E. Moate Representative, 39th District Honorable W. Lance Smith Representative, 114th District Honorable Kiliaen V. R. Townsend Representative, 140th District Honorable Hubert Dollar Representative, 89th District Secretary Honorable Benjamin D. Brown Representative, 135th District February, 1968 INTRODUCTION The Pari-Mutuel Betting Study Committee was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to the authority vested in him under House Resolution No. 3. The Speaker appointed the following members to the committee: Honorable Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Representative, 13th District Honorable Marvin E. Moate Representative, 39th District Honorable W. Lance Smith Representative, 114th District Honorable Kiliaen V. R. Townsend Representative, 140th District INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3539 Honorable Benjamin D. Brown Representative, 135th District Honorable Hubert Dollar Representative, 89th District Honorable William B. Steis Representative, 100th District Representative Richard L. Starnes was appointed Chairman of the com mittee by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Representative William B. Steis was elected Vice-Chairman and Representative Hubert Dollar was elected Secretary by the committee. FINDINGS The committee was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to study the desirability of pari-mutuel betting in Georgia. The committee re quired the Office of Legislative Counsel to obtain copies of the pari-mutuel bet ting laws in the twenty-nine states which have legalized pari-mutuel betting and any other research reports or background studies published by the other states on pari-mutuel betting. Attached to this report as "Exhibit A" is a breakdown of the revenue collected from horse racing alone during 1966 by the states which have legalized parimutuel gambling. This revenue is the total tax monies collected on thoroughbred, harness and quarterhorse races. The committee was unable to obtain similar information on dog racing but it is believed that the revenue to the states which have legalized dog racing amounts to substantially more than the revenue collected on horse racing because the racing seasons are longer. The State of Connecticut conducted a comprehensive study in 1965 to deter mine whether or not horse racing should be authorized in that state. The Con necticut majority report is quoted below: "MAJORITY REPORT In our deliberations, we considered one of our major responsibilities to be the determination of the question of raising revenues for the State. At the conclusion of our investigation, we feel that the State could expect to realize revenue in an amount between 3 million and 3% million dollars. This does not represent even one per cent of the State expenditures. In addition, New Eng land and adjacent states are 'over raced' as things are now and Connecticut could not for many years, if ever, compete as a first rate racing operation. For these reasons, we consider the insignificant amount of revenue that would be realized would not in any way alter or alleviate the Tax structure of the State and so we voted to recommend against the establishing of Pari-Mutuel betting in Connecticut. However, we do not wish our vote to be interpreted to be in any way against the sport of Horse Racing or Pari-Mutuel Betting in connection there with. After interviewing hundreds of people in communities that have long been accustomed to the presence of a race track, we have come to the conclu sion that the claims of bad influence on economic, social, welfare, and criminal aspects in a community are greatly exaggerated. In the small percentage of cases where abuse may be demonstrated, we feel that this is an insignificant number to condemn horse racing because of the small abuse. 3540 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, In summary, we did not feel that it was our position to lobby for or against pari-mutuel betting. We tried to present the facts as we found them. We conclude that the estimated revenues to be obtained in only a 'drop in the bucket'. If the citizens of Connecticut desire a race track for recreational pur poses or for amusement, a different question is presented. But it should not be presented to the people as a valid revenue producing venture.'^1) The primary reason the committee in Connecticut voted against establishing pari-mutuel betting was that the estimated revenues would be negligible compared to overall revenues and that the issue should not be presented to the people as a valid revenue producing venture. The majority report was signed by six members and there were two individual concurring majority reports. A minority report signed by four members was also submitted. The Connecti cut minority report is quoted below: "MINORITY REPORT The subject is beclouded with emotion and preconceived notions. We have done our best to uncover such facts as are available, yet must always recognize that there are many intangible factors which can not be reduced to fact. Concerning such elements widely divergent opinions have been weighed by the committee. Based upon our investigation we conclude that pari-mutuel betting will not have a harmful effect on the moral climate or the economy of the state. We conclude that competition for the racing dollar will limit large tax revenue for several years but that eventually an appreciable addition to state tax revenue will accrue from pari-mutuel betting. We believe that the great majority of the people in the state want legal ized betting on horse races and the legislature should permit it under very careful controls."(2 ) HISTORY AND MECHANICS OF PARI-MUTUEL GAMBLING Prior to 1872 all wagers were made either directly between interested persons or with bookmakers, a breed of semi-outlaws who lived by their wits. From a bookmaking background, M. Oiler, an 18th Century Parisian businessman devised the pari-mutuel system of betting. After experiencing some losses at bookmaking, he decided it would be beneficial to devise a system whereby the people would bet among themselves and distribute the money among the winners. To name the game, he chose the French verb "parier", meaning "to wager" and attaching the shortened form pari to mutuel meaning "between ourselves". The effect was to make a true market, to insure a return exactly in accordance with the mass opinion, as opposed to the bookmaking method under which the return depends upon the contest of wits between the better and the bookmaker. Racing was to be rescued by this timely innovation which completely transformed the pastime from the dubious diversion of the sporting nabobs, to a complicated activity run by entrepreneurs for profit under the sanction of tax hungry state governments/3) (4) Today racing has become a commercialized sport cashing in on its entertain ment value, much like professional baseball, football, basketball, and hockey but INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3541 with one notable difference--by placing bets spectators participate in the action. It is interesting to note that racing attracts more spectators than any other sport. More than twice the number who see professional baseball or professional or collegiate football.C5) Under the rules governing pari-mutuel betting, the player purchases a partici pation in the pool, e.g., $2.00 to "win", or to "place" or to "show", and he has no assurance as to his return should he win, beyond the knowledge that he will share proportionately with all players of the same opinion. He receives no unfair advan tage, nor does he suffer from any discrimination. Obviously, the pari-mutuel prop erly supervised, is the fairest to the general public.C6) The wagering transactions and the betting odds are recorded and computed in the wink of an eye by a formidable device known as the totalisator. It may be described as a computer, activated by electronic impulses set in motion the instant the player exchanges his money for a ticket appropriate to his wager. It is entirely a machine transaction in which the totalisator instantly and automatically records the cash received, assigns the bet to the right wagering pool, adjusts the odds and flashes the changes to an illuminated tote board in public view. Betting windows are closed only seconds before the particular race begins.C7) These totalisator machines are an integral part of every licensed racing track in the country. Normally, they are not owned or operated by the track manage ment, but are the exclusive property of an independent company which supplies not only the machines but the operators as well, all under a leasing and service arrangement. The company guards the integrity of its machines and its men jealously. In every case machines and men are removed the day after the racing season ends to be installed and re-activated at the beginning of the ensuing season.( 8 ) MORAL ASPECTS OF GAMBLING In 1966 the Christian Life Commission of the Georgia Baptist Convention spent a year in studying gambling, and reported upon its study and investigation and findings. Quoted below is a portion of the report relating to individual and family life and psychological factors in gambling: "THE INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY LIFE The greatest harm in gambling comes from the damage done to human personality and the family. Win or lose, the gambler's life is affected. Some thing happens to him. Even if he wins, he takes out of the society more than he puts in. Greed enters his life. He has learned a short-cut, and his interest in his work is not the same. His whole moral life begins to deteriorate."(9) "PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN GAMBLING Psychologists say that almost everyone has at some time a desire to gamble. Most people resist this urge by finding other interests that provide 3542 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, excitement or relief from the tensions involved. Evidently the urge to wager is stimulated by a number of factors: personality, maladjustment, emotional disorder, spiritual sickness, economic need, the pressure of materialistic soci ety, and inability to use leisure time creatively. All contribute to one's desire to gamble. The gambling-prone personality not only becomes involved in social gambling, but becomes a public gambler due to the accessibility of gambling opportunities made legal and given the acceptance of respectability. Approxi mately fifty to sixty million Americans gamble, and six million are compulsive gamblers. For the compulsive gambler, gambling is religion. The gambler through his very act of gambling is affirming a creedal proposition: Behind the seeming uncertainty and chance of event in the human context, there is order. Through devotion to his spirit world, a world called 'luck', the gambler believes he can both discover and control this order. Environed by education escalation, space exploration and religious matur ation, the gambler remains a devotee of black magic and superstition. To dispel bad luck, he throws salt over his shoulder, knocks on wood, avoids black cats. To engender good luck, he wears an old hat, necktie, or tiepin. He is a believer in revelations. He dreams dreams and sees visions of winning numbers or unbeatable 'systems'. He experiences a sudden burst of 'inner light' and feels in his bones the fire of a winning streak. Further, gambling for the compulsive gambler is a religion of crisis. He goes to the brink, walks on the edge and dangles over the precipice of economic ruin. The crisis is like unto life and death. To his strange religion, the gambler gives a total commitment. He counts 'all things but loss' for the sake of the game. When he shuffles the cards or rolls the dice, he has put his hand to the plow. But precisely in this crisis where he risks all and commits all, the gambler receives his thrill. The compulsive gambler is an odd mixture. He has an egotistical drive to win but at the same time a neurotic desire to lose. And it is the latter desire that is dominant. Despite the overt behavior which appears bent on winning, the gambler's unconscious but real desire is to lose. For in losing, the gambler uses his gambling in another religious act. He punishes himself and feels a certain clean feeling of forgiveness for his plaguing guilt. The compulsive gambler is neurotic. He is ill. For society to place at his disposal the instruments for his own mental, moral and spiritual self-destruc tion is a crime of the first magnitude.'^1 ) INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3543 POTENTIAL REVENUE TO THE STATE OP GEORGIA Based upon the Missouri Report which indicated that the State of Missouri would collect approximately 10 million dollars annually if pari-mutuel gambling was legalized in that state, the State of Georgia could expect to collect approxi mately five million dollars annually if pari-mutuel gambling was legalized in this State. These estimates do not include the sums that would be spent by the spectators who would attend the races. As mentioned in the Missouri Report, it is possible to conceive of people from surrounding states journeying to Georgia for entire week ends. This, of course, would be an assist to the restaurant, hotel and tourist industries. There is a possibility that horse breeding would become a major indus try in the State of Georgia. Agricultural products and industry would expand in an entirely new direction in Georgia. The breeding and the training operations required to support major thoroughbred racing ventures would be immense. These requirements would be reflected in increased demands for feed, supplies and for the expensive animals themselves. CONCLUSIONS The members of the committee have attempted to conduct an objective study of pari-mutuel betting. We have studied the laws of the various states which have legalized pari-mutuel betting and we have also reviewed the statistics, background studies and research reports prepared by the other states. We do feel, as was pointed out in the Connecticut majority report, that the claims of bad influence on economic, social, welfare and criminal aspects in a community are greatly exaggerated. If the State of Georgia wishes to adopt pari-mutuel betting as a minor source of revenue and a major source of recreation and a boost to industry and commerce, particularly in relation to agriculture, the committee recommends that the Florida law, which allows local option by the counties, conditioned upon approval by the voters in such counties, be used as a model or guide. The Racing Commission or Board, which would supervise all of the aspects of racing, could be placed under an existing department without the necessity or expense of creating a new depart ment. The Committee emphasizes that this report should in no way be interpreted as an endorsement for or against pari-mutuel betting. The mission of the commit tee was fact finding only and we do not presume to dictate to the other members of the General Assembly what stand they should take relative to pari-mutuel betting. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The members of the committee wish to express their sincere appreciation to all persons who appeared and testified before the committee, particularly Dr. Searcey Garrison, Executive Secretary of the Georgia Baptist Convention, Mr. Jack U. Harwell, Editor of the Christian Index and Mr. Cothran Campbell, Presi dent of the Georgia Thoroughbred Association. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Representative, 13th District Chairman 3544 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, /s/ William B. Steis William B. Steis Representative, 100th District Vice-Chairman /s/ Hubert Dollar Hubert Dollar Representative, 89th District Secretary /s/ Marvin E. Moate Marvin E. Moate Representative, 39th District /s/ W. Lance Smith W. Lance Smith Representative, 114th District /s/ Kiliaen V. R. Townsend Kiliaen V. R. Townsend Representative, 140th District /s/ Benjamin D. Brown Benjamin D. Brown Representative, 135th District EXHIBIT "A" Horse Racing Revenue to States for 1966* State Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Dleware Florida Idaho Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Total $ 1,632,357 1,244,900 20,228,835 1,157,874 5,194,570 8,200,110 105,667 19,264,444 6,104,085 2,434,950 1,312,533 10,001,725 4,538,978 8,165,266 263,068 2,583,000 __ __________ 3,722,091 8,940,760 4,534,934 37,542,392 10,076,016 833,620 5,473,028 3,598,126 308,515 INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3545 State Vermont Washington West Virginia Total Total 1,576,842 1,885,160 5,922,240 $176,855,086 *The National Association of State Racing Commissioners, Lexington, Kentucky FOOTNOTES 1 . Horseracing for Connecticut? A Study of the Proposal. Connecticut Horseracing and Pari-Mutuel Study Committee Hartford, Connecticut 1965, p. 89 2 . Ibid, p 92 3 . Comptrollers Report on Pari-Mutuel Gambling State of Missouri, 1966, P. 4 4 . Joint Legislative Study Relating to Division of Pari-Mutuel Pool Commis sion. Joint venture between the State of Vermont and Licensee, State of Vermont, pp. 5-6 5 . Ibid, p. 5 . Ibid, p. 6 7 . Ibid, p. 6 8 . Ibid, p. 7 9 . Gambling, A Study of the Christian Life Commission--Georgia Baptist Convention 1966, p 3 10 . Ibid, pp. 3-4 TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******** REPORT OF THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ******** THE COMMITTEE Honorable J. T. Dailey, Chairman Representative, 66th District Honorable J. Lucius Black Representative, 56th District Honorable Thomas A. Roach Vice Chairman Representative, 15th District Honorable John F. Collins Representative, 62nd District Honorable George W. Potts, Secretary Honorable Dewey D. Rush Representative, 33rd District Representative, 75th District December, 1967 3546 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, REPORT OF THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS SUBCOMMITTEE On the 28th day of April, 1967, the Honorable George L. Smith, Speaker, House of Representatives, requested the Penal Institutions Subcommittee of the State Institutions and Property Committee to institute an immediate and thorough investigation of all state and county correctional institutions located within the State of Georgia. The Committee on the aforesaid date began its investigation by onsight inspection of all camps. These visits were made by the Committee without prior announcement and at various times during the day and night. Particular attention was paid to physical facilities, sanitary conditions, treatment of pris oners, kitchen facilities and diet. On each inspection, several prisoners were chosen at random and interviewed at length concerning the operation of the camp, diet and treatment received by all inmates. Guards, wardens and commissioners were also interviewed. The inspection revealed that there are approximately 8,370 prisoners incar cerated in our correctional institutions, of this number, 7,586 are felons and 787 are misdemeanors. Approximately 4,800 inmates are confined to the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto, the Training and Development Center at Buford, the twelve road prison branches, the Battey State Hospital, the Colony Prison Farm and the Stone Mountain Prison Branch. There are approximately 3,200 prisoners confined to 74 county public work camps. It is estimated that the costs per day per inmate range from $3.75 to $4.50. There are presently 2,850 inmates confined to the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville. This number is in excess of the capacity for which this prison was built. It was pointed out to the Committee that the prison population should not by any means exceed 2,400 prisoners at any one time and that it would be a much better and more efficiently operated institution if the population could be reduced to 2,000. The physical facilities at Reidsville were found to be in reasonably good condition, the buildings and adjacent grounds were neat and orderly, with the exception of the kitchen and dairy barn, which in the Committee's opinion should be modernized or replaced. The wooden buildings are old and are expensive to maintain. It is felt that some consideration should be given to removing them and replacing them with masonry structures. It was also pointed out to the Committee that a smaller kitchen is needed for the purpose of preparing food for prisoners who are on special diets, prescribed by the prison physicians. The State owns approximately 9,000 acres of land at Reidsville and approximately 8,000 acres are in cultivation, producing a major portion of the food for the inmates. A new industrial facility is presently being erected and when completed will produce uniforms, clothing and shoes for prison inmates and personnel. A new canning plant is also being erected and a more modern up-to-date license tag plant. It was also pointed out by correctional officials that the State of Georgia spends approximately $65,000 annually for tobacco furnished the inmates. It is estimated that a modern Tobacco Processing Plant could be established at Reids ville in connection with the other industrial facilities for approximately $75,000 that by so doing the State could save in the neighborhood of $35,000 per year. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3547 It was determined by the Committee that most correctional officials in Geor gia work a 60 hour work week at a starting salary of $326.00 per month and that in view of this, it is most difficult to employ capable personnel or to keep them for any length of time. It was the feeling of all correctional institution officials inter viewed that the work week should be shortened and that the starting salary should be increased. It was also felt by officials that if the State could erect an additional number of low cost houses at Reidsville for custodial officials that this would be an added incentive and would make it much easier to hire and keep qualified personnel. By far, the major portion of the Committee's time was spent investigating the 74 county work camps located throughout the State. As the Committee began its investigation, it was evident that most counties recognized the need for up grading and improving their correctional facilities and immediately instituted certain reforms and clean-up campaigns. Almost all of the camps visited by the Committee were in the process of painting, improving kitchen facilities, sanitary conditions and generally attempting to improve their facilities. It was determined by the Committee, however, that there was no uniformity throughout the county camps with respect to working hours, working conditions, visitation privileges and uniformity of punishment. Many of the camps were in very good condition, affording the inmates an opportunity to attend classes and/or to learn a skilled trade. Inmates were furnished books, newspapers and had access to regional county libraries. Many of the camps also had radio and television which the inmates were permitted to enjoy during their non-working hours. By far, the majority of the camps visited were serving wholesome, adequate meals, however, some camps did not have adequate food supplies, storage facilities, and the meals served were not well prepared or adequate. In several of the camps, the Committee found prisoners incarcerated in an isolation cell commonly known as the "hole". These cells varied throughout the State in size, cleanliness, ventilation, lights, etc. Some were absolutely unfit for human habitation. This situation has been dealt with at length in the new rules and regulations hereinafter referred to and it is hoped that once these rules and regulations become effective that these conditions will be improved. As the investigation progressed, detailed reports were submitted by this Com mittee to the Honorable Lester G. Maddox, Governor, State of Georgia, to the Honorable George L. Smith, Speaker, House of Representatives, to the Honorable Asa D. Kelley, Director, Board of Corrections, and to all members of the House of Representatives. Inasmuch as copies of the aforesaid periodic reports have been mailed to each member of the House, the Committee feels that it is not neces sary to attach copies hereto. Copies of these reports are available and can be obtained by any member who desires them. The Committee feels that these reports adequately reflect the findings of the Committee and the conditions existing in each county facility. It is not deemed necessary to comment further concerning the condiitons existing in each public work camp. It should be noted, however, that the Committee felt it necessary to visit some camps as many as three times to check on improvements which prison officials stated would be forthcoming. As this investigation further progressed and after receiving copies of periodic committee reports, the State Board of Corrections adopted a new set of rules and regulations governing the operation ol the state correctional institutions and county public work camps. These new rules are to become effective January 1, 1968, with the exception of capital outlay improvements which shall become effec tive on January 1, 1969. Some of these new rules and regulations are constructive 3548 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, and the Committee feels they will serve to upgrade the correctional institutions in Georgia. It is the feeling of the Committee, however, that the capital outlay to be required of some counties will be almost prohibitive, and the State may find itself in an intolerable situation if these counties decide to abandon their county work camps and turn these prisoners over to the State. A copy of the Kules and Regulations adopted by the Board of Corrections are attached hereto and made a part of this report. RECOMMENDATIONS 1. It is recommended that a maximum security prison be erected within the State of Georgia for hardened, incorregible criminals in order that these inmates might be segregated from the remaining prison population; that the dairy barns at Reidsville be repaired or replaced and that the kitchen be modernized, that a smaller kitchen be established for the purpose of preparing food for prisoners on special diets, that the State, as soon as practicable, construct its own Tobacco Processing Plant on the grounds at Reidsville State Prison. 2. That the working hours of all custodial personnel be reduced and that the salaries be increased and that additional living quarters be erected for custodial officials at Reidsville. Due to the comprehensive rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Corrections, which are to become effective on January 1, 1968 the Committee makes no recommendations at this time concerning the operation of the 74 county public work camps; with the exception that all wooden structures housing prison ers be eliminated as rapidly as possible. The Committee feels that much good has come from this investigation and from the publicity created thereby and recommends that periodic inspections be made by members of the General Assembly to determine the effect of the new rules and regulations heretofore referred to. The Committee wishes to express its appreciation to the members of the De partment of Correction, Warden Lament Smith and to all other State and County correctional officials and county commissioners who were so cooperative during the course of our investigation. Respectfully submitted, /s/ J. T. Dailey J. T. Dailey Representative, 66th District Chairman /s/ Thomas A. Roach Thomas A. Roach Representative, 15th District Vice Chairman /s/ George W. Potts George W. Potts Representative, 33rd District Secretary INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3549 /s/ J. Lucius Black J. Lucius Black Representative, 56th District /s/ John F. Collins John F. Collins Representative, 62nd District /s/ Dewey D. Rush Dewey D. Rush Representative, 75th District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. ******* REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CARE AND TRAINING OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN (House Resolution No. 3) ******* THE COMMITTEE Honorable Janet S. Merritt Representative, 68th District Co-Chairman Honorable Charles Graves Representative, 13th District Honorable W. Lance Smith Representative, 114th District Co-Chairman Honorable Grace T. Hamilton Representative, 137th District Honorable G. D. Adams Representative, 125th District Honorable Ben B. Ross Representative, 31st District November 1967 CONTENTS I. Introduction ______--__,,____--__________--____._--__----_____,,______,,_____._.. II. Witnesses Appearing Before the Committee --__------__-_-________________ III. Conclusions ----,,_--_----____._____________.___--_________________________ IV. Recommendations ____--__------__._.._,,_________________________._ V. Exhibits and Testimony Before Committee ___________________________ I. INTRODUCTION Pursuant to the authority granted by House Resolution No. 3, Honorable George T. Smith, Speaker of the House of Representatives, created an interim 3550 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, legislative study committee to be known as the Committee on Care and Training of Pre-School Children. The following members of the House of Representatives were appointed to serve on said Committee: Honorable Janet Merritt Representative, 68th District Honorable W. Lance Smith Representative, 114 District Honorable G. D. Adams Representative, 125th District Honorable Charles Graves Representative, 13th District Honorable Grace T. Hamilton Representative. 137th District Honorable Ben B. Ross Representative, 31st District Honorable Janet Merritt, Representative, 68th District, and Honorable W. Lance Smith, Representative, 114th District were designated as Co-chairman of the Committee. The purpose of this Committee was to examine present early childhood education in Georgia and make recommendations concerning state participation in this area. II WITNESSES APPEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE Jack P. Nix, State Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Alien C. Singletary, Associate State Superintendent of Schools. Miss Nancy Edwards, Senior Consultant on Day Care, Department of Family and Children Services. Mr. William H. Burson, Director, State Department of Family and Children Services. Dr. Elizabeth Sheerer, Department of Family Development, University of Georgia. Dr. M. S. McDonald, Superintendent of Rome City Schools. Joseph Williams, Dean, College of Education, University of Georgia. Dr. Rachael Sutton, Professor, College of Education, University of Georgia. Dr. Charles Johnson, Professor, College of Education, University of Georgia. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3551 Dr. Cornelia C. Eldridge, Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, Atlanta Instructional Services. Dr. Betty Jennings, Professor, University of Georgia. Dr. Stanley H. Ainsworth, Professor and Chairman of Department of Education, University of Georgia. Fannie L. Brooke, Assistant Professor of Home Economics, University of Georgia. Dr. Therry Deal, Assistant Professor of Home Economics, University of Georgia. Mrs. Flora Conger, Coordinator for Child Development Programs, Atlanta School System. Mrs. Hayes Edwards, Regional Training Officer, Project Head Start, University of Georgia. Dr. Mary Ellen Perkins, Professor, University of Georgia. Ill CONCLUSIONS During its consideration of the care and training of pre-school school children, the Committee heard from numerous persons qualified in the field. The consensus was that pre-school training should not be considered separately from the present system of education in Georgia but must be included as a basic element. The conclusion was also drawn that pre-school training is essential to the upgrading of Georgia's elementary and high school systems. Three independent school systems in Georgia--Atlanta, Columbus, and Bremen--have established kindergarten programs operated without the benefit of state funds. Federal Head Start programs are conducted in many communities but enrollment is limited to economically deprived children. Privately operated kindergartens are located in virtually every community in the State but function without supervision as to facilities, curricula or personnel. It was the unanimous opinion of those who appeared before the Committee, and also the position of many operators of kindergartens who spoke privately with individual Committee members, that there is an immediate need to imple ment supervision of privately operated kindergartens. While many private kindergartens are staffed with qualified personnel and have adequate facilities, concern was expressed that many private programs in Georgia are detrimental to children because they instill faulty or outmoded learning processes in the children. Several programs which deem themselves as "kindergartens" are really nothing more than overcrowded babysitting agencies. It is the opinion of the Committee that the State Department of Education is best qualified to render this supervisory service and should immediately begin preparing minimum standards of accreditation. 3552 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Honored as the first State to charter its University System, Georgia has long since taken cognizance of her responsibility to educate her young men and women to their fullest potential. We must take advantage of the knowledge gained in the field of education and be willing to make the necessary adjustments to accomplish the ultimate objective. Those witnesses appearing before the Com mittee agreed that a public kindergarten system is essential to the success of education in Georgia. Slightly more than 100,000 boys and girls will enter first grade next year and approximately 50 per cent of these children will have had some type of pre-school training. This poses two basic problems: Those who have the benefit of pre-school experiences, in most cases, will be ready to engage immediately in those learning processes now prescribed for the first year of formal education. Assembled in classes with those who have had no formal pre-school experiences, however, their progress will be retarded because of the necessity of gearing the educational output to those without these experiences. As a rule, those children without pre-school experience soon fall behind their classmates and are faced during their first year of formal education with a sense of failure. Surveys of high school dropouts show that many experienced failure during their elementary education years. Records in the State Department of Family and Children Services revealed that of 1,007 juveniles where educational information was adequate for reporting purposes, 305 were school dropouts. Only 113 of the total number had attended kindergarten. Of the 702 probationers who were in school, only 90 were on their proper grade placement. The following chart provides a more complete picture of those who were behind on their grade placement and placement period: Behind 1 year 148 Behind 2 years 130 Behind 3 years 90 Behind 4 years 41 Behind 5 years 46 Behind more than 5 years 157 Development of a State-wide public kindergarten program will be a totally new venture in the educational system of Georgia and must be approached in an orderly and economically feasible manner. The program must be launched with a continuing awareness of other pressing needs of education and the total economic structure of the State. Adequate facilities are not now available at the system level, the present supply of qualified personnel is insufficient, and the public is not yet fully aware of the importance of kindergarten training as a part of the public education program. Therefore, it would seem advisable that public kindergartens first be established in limited areas of the State where adequate facilities, personnel and local support are available. Expansion could then be orderly while greater emphasis is placed upon preparing instructors in the field of early childhood education. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3553 IV RECOMMENDATIONS I. To insure that children enrolled in kindergarten programs receive valuable pre-school training and, in fact, are not harmed by inadequate instruction and facilities, we recommend that the State Department of Education be authorized to formulate minimum standards for accreditation of public and non-public kinder gartens. II. Recognizing the necessity of pre-school training in Georgia, the General Assembly should appropriate those funds necessary to begin implementation of a public kindergarten program. III. We recommend that the kindergarten program be first implemented as demonstration projects in school systems which do not presently have publiclyfunded kindergarten systems and are able to provide the necessary local support required under the Minimum Foundation Program. IV. It is recommended that the Board of Regents of the University System and private institutions take immediate steps to expand their programs of early childhood education. V. It is recommended that the minimum compulsory school age be reduced in each independent or county system as such programs of pre-school training became established. V EXHIBITS AND TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMITTEE EXHIBIT # 1 The twentieth century has been called the century of the child because of the unprecedented interest which our society is showing in all phases of child welfare work. While this interest embraces children of all ages, there is, at present special interest in the pre-school period. It is clear that ours is not the first generation to concern itself with the young child. In the past a few outstanding individuals were responsible for any progress made; today, however, people representing more than one profession and numerous lay organizations are working in the interest of the pre-school child. The findings of medical examiners, connected with draft boards, and the experiences of physicians, nurses and reconstructive aids in war hospitals, reveal a surprising prevalence among grown men of physical and mental handicaps which might have been prevented with relative ease in early pre-school childhood. It is well known that these findings were a powerful factor in directing the attention of society toward the needs of childhood. In England, the Education Act of 1918 authorized the establishment of nursery schools as part of the Na tional school system. Modern science conceives of the individual as a highly complex organism, engaged throughout its span of existence in making a series of adjustments to a highly complex environment. Early records show that a day nursery was established in Switzerland as early as 1967. By 1913, most large cities in Germany had day care nurseries for babies under three and all day kinder- 3554 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, gartens to care for pre-school children three to six years of age. Thus, "kinder garten", as originated by Fredrich Frobel, became a pre-school educational system that continued the task of the day nursery service. EXHIBIT # l(a) "The Need for Early Childhood Education" from The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association of the United States and the American Association of School Administrators. "Research shows clearly that the first four or five years of a child's life are the period of most rapid growth in physical and mental characteristics and of greatest susceptibility to environmental influences. Consequently, it is in the early years that deprivations are most disastrous in their effects. They can be compensated for only with great difficulty in later years, and then probably not in full. Furthermore, it appears that it is harder to modify harmful learnings than to acquire new ones. Finally, experience indicates that exposure to a wide variety of activities and of social and mental interactions with children and adults greatly enhances a child's ability to learn. Few homes provide enough of these oppor tunities. It is reasonable to conclude that the postponement of an educational contribution by society until children reach the age of six generally limits the flowering of their potentials." EXHIBIT # 2 Remarks by Dr. Jack P. Nix, State Superintendent of Schools. "I think you have known me long enough to know that I have one basic concern in this matter--to develop mental capacities so that our children can be good citizens. We don't have enough background and development on the part of the people that are creating our problems now. We have to make these people feel like they are first and foremost, a responsible individual to themselves, and also to the state and nation in which they live and that we have our freedom to do as we please so long as we do not infringe on the other fellow's right to do as he pleases. To accomplish this we must go through education. I think primarily that this Committee is concerned with the child in his pre-school years. This in cludes the overall development of the individual before the first grade. We now have an existing law in this state for compulsory education from the age of seven until the age of sixteen. We have the feeling that these years are the real im portant formative years of an individual's life and with the change in overall family structure and society, we must have more now as compared to a few years ago. It is of even greater importance that the public agencies should become concerned. Attitudes are developed that are hard to overcome. It is a particular stage that they go through (developmental stage) and with so many of our mothers working now and a higher percentage of them going into the employment field, we do not have the individualized attention that these children need in these formative years in the home. In addition to this, an expanded knowledge and learning at an early age is much better for the child. The learning rate of a young child is extremely high and hits its peak at around the age of seven, then slowly levels off to about twelve or fifteen. If we in the State of Georgia expect to have an educational system that will measure up favorably with other states in this nation, we must realistically look now at the business of implementing an early childhood kindergarten program financed with public funds. We have some 37 or 38 systems in the state where we have realy childhood education INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3555 financed for those children who qualify as culturally deprived or disadvantaged children. This means that we have a portion of our children with this opportunity. We have other children who do not have this opportunity even within this system. This means it is somewhat more difficult to plan a smoother operating instruc tional program and I believe that on the national level there is a commitment to early childhood education or kindergarten programs. My plea now is that we consider beginning a state-wide tax-supported kindergarten program at least by September 1968. We have, I guess, the best legal structure for providing education from kindergarten through the Ph.D. Senate Bill 180 covers this. I am not an attorney, but I think that under Senate Bill 180 the General Assembly has already given us the authority to implement a kindergarten program. If we have the funds, the State Board of Education will adopt the necessary needs to implement such a program. We have discovered in a recent survey that we have some 622 classrooms that are available now--if we just had the funds and the teachers to staff the classrooms. It would seem to me that under existing laws we could probably support this with state funds and local assistance. In this program we would have some professional certificates that we do issue to some people who do not have all of the requirements that we would like them to have for teaching. Some of these people who do not have the requirements but have some form of formalized training and experience would be able to secure these certificates and could then work toward getting their total certification. We are presently transporting 52-53% of the children enrolled in the state. It costs us something to transport them, but I can't quite see that there would be a great deal of harmful effect on the five-year old child if he were to stay in school all day long, as long as they have the proper facilities, teachers, diet, etc. We could get this program started and off the ground within two to five years, depending on the General Assembly cooperating with us and giving their support and appropriating funds to us. To begin with we would need at least $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 and the entire program would probably run somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000,000." EXHIBIT # 3 Remarks made by Miss Nancy Edwards, Day Care Consultant, Department of Family and Children's Services. "I have had great concern about kindergarten for quite a long time as I once taught the first grade. First of all, our research does indicate that possibly the most formative time is the first six years of a child's life. More is learned in terms of ultimate personality and patterns for life at this age. These children participating in kindergartens have the opportunity to participate with groups in reading, painting, telling stories, and most of all learning to get along with other children. One of the most vital things a young child needs to learn is how to relate this to other people his own age. This should occur prior to the age of six years. Many of our youngsters come into first grade without these skills; they also need an enormous vocabulary. They need to have many opportunities about how to effectively solve problems--have a sense of worth--and also feel competent. They have to learn that there is a way that you do things and when you are in a group there are things to do in preparation for the first grade. In addition to this, our children are required to learn more and more complex things now than ever before. They are going to have to be prepared to move into a 3556 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, difficult and complex world. The child must have an awareness of himself as a person and how to use himself in order to be an asset to society. First grade is built on assumptions; teachers assume that when a youngster gets into first grade he will have achieved tasks such as turning pages, tying shoes, etc., when he gets there. If a child has not achieved these things when he reaches the first grade, he will fall far behind the other children. Going to school is an enormous task for a child. He has to do things like sit still for long periods of time and get used to an entirely different environment. If, when the child gets to first grade he has to learn how to handle a pencil as well as how to relate to a teacher, sitting still, etc., the child will be severely handicapped. Most children enter the first grade without this knowledge, so therefore they are already behind. The old business of solving problems has to be begun quite early and kindergarten is the appropriate place for this. When a child says, "I'm going to build a boat," he is deciding the question of what materials to use, doing it within the limit of the rules, setting up in a sort of organization, cooperation, and to a child all of these things are a problem. But, if he is able to do this task, be is beginning to learn how to use himself effectively to solve the problems with which he has been confronted. Problems include sitting still, listening to someone else, waiting to present what he has, to use words, learning to listen to stories and to grasp ideas. I think Head Start is a significant and fine organization. It has told a number of things. Even in this, our state, we are a state of small towns. The child who lives within the little town is a very different child from the metropolitan child. He may have had little or comparatively no contact with books or magazines of any type. We do have youngsters who have such vast differences in opportunity at home between these ages of one to four years, that if these children could be put into a kindergarten situation, they could start off at the same level as the metropolitan children. Most children who come in from the country are falling by the wayside and kindergarten could help this problem enormously. One other concern is that there are no licensing laws for kindergartens. All that is presently required is a business license. We do license day care centers and this comes under the Department of Education. Our standard for the day care centers is that each child must have thirty-five square feet of space. (This is equal to the size of a double bed.) Some of the private kindergartens in operation today are way below the standards of the day care centers and there is nothing at present to protect either the child or the parent. I have seen as many as forty-five children with the supervision of only one teacher. Some of them are being taught to read by sight only, which means that they will not have the ability later on in life to grasp the meanings of words, phrases or sentences. There is a tremendous difference in "See the puppy jump" and understanding "See the puppy jump". Many of these children cannot be taught to read for meaning by the time that they get to first grade. Many five year old children are willing to participate in experiences which later on in life will prove very damaging. He is frequently exposed to persons who do not use the English language correctly or fluently. The major concern of our day care centers is not to educate the youngsters, but merely to see that they get their proper nutrition and care. Kindergartens are being introduced to meet one particular need of the child during a certain portion of the day with a supplementary type of thinking, strictly educational. We are mainly charged with concern of dependent and neglected children. The kinder garten child is in a very different situation. We have some excellent private kindergartens which are run by very competent people who make their own standards and these standards are very high. Most of these people have started kindergartens because they feel that the community in which they are living has a very bad need for them. If some of these kindergartens are substandard, we have no control over them at the present time. Public schools would not eliminate the private kindergartens but it would eliminate the poor ones that are currently in operation. Some of these children are being damaged and enormously intel- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3557 lectually neglected. In the State of Georgia no kindergarten is licensed. I will say to this Committee that day care centers are money-making, but kindergartens will be even more so. I think there are problems in the areas of certification (you may want to talk with Mary Sheerer). Some of the teachers who are quali fied to teach kindergarten have received their training in home economics. We might want to explore this to see if this type of person could be certified. Student teaching in the third grade does not qualify you to teach four-year olds. The people in the kindergartens now are worried that these people will not be able to be certified and will not be able to teacher in public school kindergartens. They are also going to be concerned about the person who is an excellent teacher and has appropriate training courses but who does not have a degree of any kind. This concern is among very reputable people, where the private kindergarten has been their livelihood. The child from the consolidated school will have to be brought in by bus. If the four and one-half year old is going to arrive at school early and stay until three, this is going to require some real thought about transportation. If he is going to be there that long, he is going to need proper food, snack, and periods of rest. If the child isn't going to be there all day, there will have to be proper consideration given to getting the child home. I want the rural child to get to the kindergarten, but I have concern that this child may miss it because of the lack of transportation. I hope in thinking this through that the community people will raise questions about these large consolidated schools: how the child will get there and how he will be cared for when he arrives. I think a properly trained adult could help considerably in this situation; the child would not be in need of a trained professional teacher at all times during the entire day. He needs a good person to take care of him during certain parts of the day when he is not in the learning process. This person would be responsible for when the child would get his rest, make sure that the meals are sufficient, and these things will make a definite difference to this four year old child. For every trained teacher, there should be a trained supervisor. We would use an aide program very effectively with the pre-school child; they would tie shoes, take the children to the bathroom, portion out paints, etc. I am concerned as to how the consolidated school can manage the transportation of children for a three-hour day. Economically, the county school system would find that this would be a great expense to bus in and out children for a three-hour day. It seems perfectly possible to me that a child could be in school all day long as long as his needs are properly met. This would enrich the child's environment before he enters the first grade. This pre-school experience would make the difference for these country children. I would recommend that you visit one of our Head Start Centers and see how the child lives there. What is happening is that they stay all day all year round, their institutional needs are met as well as their nutritional needs, and very badly needed education. Certainly for our disadvantaged children in this state the pre school program is an absolute must. I think that with a kindergarten program every child can benefit. If you have a child in the eleventh grade who is doing well, he will continue along this line, but if this same child in the eleventh grade did not receive pre-school training, he may be doing very poorly and may eventually drop out of school altogether. The child today has to know more things than any of us had to know, he is going to have to be able to cope with the world ten years or fifteen years from now that none of us will be able to predict. He needs every skill and potential developed fully. A five-year old may be willing to learn to read and this need should be met but not by forcing the child to sit and concentrate on this. He should be helped when he asks to be, but he is not ready yet to concentrate on it. First grade teachers are required, more or less, to carry on the kindergarten techniques and then start with the first grade learning process. Fifteen to twenty will be about the size of the classes. This would be 15:1 preferably. If you have an exceptionally good aide, you could probably push it to 20:1. If you have a larger number of children than this, I would say that they 3558 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, cannot possibly be getting the individual attention that they would require. There are two organizations which you might want to know about: Associated Com mittee Education International (ACEI) and Georgia Pre-School Association, which is primarily made up of kindergarten teachers and some day care center people, all independents, who have built this association and have to have the need to be recognized. You may also want to speak with Mrs. Porter who is the President of the Southern Association of Children Under Six. I would also suggest that you speak with Mamie Hines. She is the lady who has worked with pre school children all of her life and is of national reputation. She is here in Atlanta and could speak with you about the pre-school program and pre-school child far better than I can. She has been the author of several textbooks in this field. Nan Ingram is also another qualified leader in this field. The main concern of the parents of retarded children is that they pay taxes, but the State does not educate their children. If a retarded child has not been given the opportunity to develop his potential by the age of seven, whatever potential he may have been able to develop will be lost. A pre-school program for the mentally retarded could help correct much of this. There are reports that first grade teachers have to teach their pupils how to turn pages of a book. A well-known educator remarked that he would drop the twelfth grade in favor of pre-school training for children. This shows the im portance of our investigation." Honorable Janet S. Merritt State Representative 234 W. Dodson Street Americus, Georgia 31709 Dear Mrs. Merritt: EXHIBIT # 4 State Office Building Atlanta, Georgia 30334 October 10, 1967 In response to a request from you as Chairman of the Special House Com mittee on Pre-School Education, I agreed to compile from our present probation caseload certain information about the educational status that might have value to you and your committee. Even though I do not have information on all pro bationers with whom we are currently working due to staff vacancies and all other factors, the total number of probationers in the sample considered, how ever, includes more than fifty percent of the children with whom we are working and, therefore, will give you a valid picture of educational status of these de linquent juveniles on probation. Our records reveal that of the 1,007 juveniles where educational information in the records was adequate for reporting purposes, 305 of these 1,007 children were school dropouts. Of those on probation, 113 attended kindergarten. In addition to the information about those who were dropouts and those who attended kindergarten, I thought you might be interested in having some informa tion about their grade placement, which I believe will give you a more complete picture of their educational achievement. Of the 702 probationers who are cur rently in school, only 90 of these are on their proper grade placement. The fol- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3559 lowing chart will give you a more complete picture of those that are behind in their grade placement and placement period: Behind 1 year 148 Behind 2 years 130 Behind 3 years 90 Behind 4 years 41 Behind 5 years 46 Behind more than 5 years 157 I am also including information on educational status of delinquent juveniles in our three State Youth Development Centers. Information on students in the three Centers was gathered from data already available, as no special studies were done for this specific purpose. At the Milledgeville Youth Development Center, including a total of 401 juveniles, only 5 of this number were on their proper grade placement with a large percentage (the exact number unknown) being school dropouts. This estimate of a large percentage of school dropouts is based on the fact that these are the older boys for whom we are responsible. The Atlanta Youth Development Center, with a total of 91 children, reported 41 school dropouts, with 10 of the total number being on their proper grade place ment. Behind 1 year 12 Behind 2 years 12 Behind 3 years 30 Behind 4 years 11 Behind 5 years 7 Behind more than 5 years 9 Only twenty of the number at the Atlanta Youth Development Center had kindergarten experience. At the Augusta Youth Development Center we have reports on 295 children, with a total of 101 school dropouts. Thirty of this 295 were on their proper grade placement. There were 22 who were one year behind in grade placement; 23 two years behind; 17 three years behind; 19 four years behind; 37 five years behind; and 177 more than five years behind proper grade placement. A total of 90 attended kindergarten. I hope this information will give you and your committee a general idea about how the lack of educational achievement is such a significant factor with children who get into trouble. If you are interested in talking with any or all of the Directors of our three State Youth Development Centers, they will welcome the opportunity to discuss educational needs of children they serve. Please let me know if our Department can be of further assistance to you, Sincerely, William H. Burson, Director State Department of Family and Children Services 3560 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, EXHIBIT # 5 Remarks made by Dr. M. S. McDonald, Chairman, Teacher Education Georgia Council; Superintendent, Rome City Schools, Rome, Georgia. "I became interested in trying to do something about children who were failing in school. One of the first things I found was that between the first and twelfth grade were were losing about 50% of our students. (In Rome). We began to make a study as to what was happening. Most of those who were drop ping out were of junior high age; about 16. We went to junior high school to find out why. Teachers felt that the children were lost a long time ago, before they got to junior high school. (The 7th and 8th grades in Rome). We went back and found that the children who were dropping out were failures back as far as the first grade. These students had been borderline students who subsequently became problems in the upper grades. Having found this, we made a survey of children consisting of the kindergarten vs. the non-kindergarten, an economicsocial level comparison, and high school vs. non-high school attendance. The net result of much testing readiness for school showed that the children who were failing only had the achievement levels of a three year old when they enrolled in the first grade. Many of these children came from homes which had been lacking in advantages. Some hadn't had vocabulary association with adults. As these children passed on from the first grade, the gap became greater, and finally these children dropped out of school altogether. We took a group of chil dren and divided them into two groups--those who were ready for first grade and those who were not ready. We tried an eight week Head Start; this turned out to be completely inadequate. We found it would take a full year for school readiness. They didn't know such words as "umbrella", and used one word ex pressions almost exclusively. These children had not had access to books and no one had ever read to them. As a result, these children were two or three years behind the child of the average home. We are never going to close the gap unless we begin to do it at least by five years of age, preferably four. It will take two years for us to close the gap between poverty children and non-poverty children. We found that we had white children who had the same problem as did Negro children. In many cases we found that Negro children's parents were more in terested than were the white parents. The general result of our study was that getting to these children in the fourth or fifth grade was too late; we must get to them by four or five years of age. It is expensive to get a pre-school program, but inasmuch as the State of Georgia will eventually have many of these children in welfare, it will not actually be so expensive in the long run. In most cases we will have a five year old kindergarten child who will have a fairly good attitude toward learning. Many of these children are quite intelligent. We could cut our rate of loss of students by 50%. Presently (Rome) we take Head Start children at five years of age. Atlanta takes Head Start children at four years of age because the five year olds attend kindergarten. All kindergarten teachers should have some college background. A compulsory pre-school program would help to close the gap as most of the higher economic group of children will attend kindergarten. A kindergarten day is only half a day. A teacher could have two groups of fifteen children each. Transportation would be a difficulty here. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3561 With the proper facilities a five year old could stay at school all day. You would need a teacher and an aide, rest facilities, day care, etc. If we could take teachers without certification, we could do this. In Rome we have found the people we need. As to qualified teachers, I think you have to evaluate individuals, I don't believe that these people have to be scholars. I believe we can train some kinder garten teachers in this area. Both the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern are training people to work with pre-school children. I feel that pre-school train ing is the Number One priority, that there is no area more important than this EXHIBIT # 6 Remarks made by Mrs. Hayes Edwards, Regional Training Officer, Project Head Start, University of Georgia (said to the Committee): "Nationwide interest in education seems to center more and more on good programs for the young child. Many people concerned with the high school drop out problem feel that proper beginning pre-school group experiences build a firm foundation for the development of positive, healthy attitudes toward later learning. In Georgia there seems to be an increasing awareness of the need for statesupported public school kindergartens for all pre-school children. For several years, Atlanta and Columbus have had public school kindergarten supported entirely by local tax funds. In more recent years several school systems have boasted kindergartens made possible through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act monies. This year twenty-two (22) school systems in Georgia operate Title I kindergartens. There is no complete available information as to the number of private and church supported kindergartens and nursery schools in the State as no licensing is required as is true in day care. Attendance at these private schools usually requires payment of monthly tuition by the child's parents. The summer of 1967 saw 22,600 Georgia children, most of whom were economically and culturally disadvantaged, served tuition free by Project Head Start. Some 2,400 Head Start children are enrolled in full year programs. An Early Childhood Education Consultant with the U.S. Office of Education in Washington said recently, "Exciting things are happening in education in the Southeast. This area is in an enviable position in that there are no traditional patterns in Early Childhood Education which have to be followed. The Southeast is free, as it creates public school kindergarten to search out the best in education, child development, social work, psychology, anthropology, sociology, health and nutrition. The best in each of these and other disciplines should be fused into a total program concerned not only with the education, health and well-being of the child, but also his family. More and more the family must be involved as a partner with the school in the educational process of the child. Project Head Start has proven the value of parental involvement.' The Office of Economic Opportunity and the U.S. Office of Education have embarked on a cooperative project in selected public schools this year called "Head Start Follow Through." This is a program which includes the medical, 3562 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, dental, nutritional, social work, psychological and educational components of Project Head Start, but now, for the first time, in first grade. Children are learning to read and write in a typical Head Start type room instead of the traditional classroom with its rows of desks. Georgia received one of thirty (30) such pro grams in the nation. It is located in Walker County, Georgia (LaPayette, Georgia). In the thirty pilot programs, by the Fall of 1968. Follow Through will involve both first and second grades. The third year the first three grades will move into the program. Other Georgia school systems will be joining this project. Plans are to fund 2,000 such programs in the nation by the Fall of 1968. People closely connected with Head Start are convinced that not only is involvement of the child's family in the educational process of extreme importance, but that a small pupil-teacher ratio and plenty of space are equally important. They feel that the teacher who attempts to work with twenty-five (25) children is defeated before she begins. She, by herself, simply cannot give sufficient individual attention of a desirable type to even half that number. Head Start experience has shown that through the use of an assistant teacher and a teacher aide with one teacher it is possible to have an optimum pupil-teacher ratio with out being too expensive. With this method, all adults in the room comprise a 'teaching team', and each child in the room then can receive enough special attention to make real progress." EXHIBIT # 1 LAWS CONCERNING KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION NOW IN EFFECT IN STATES IN OUR AREA NEW JERSEY ARTICLE 1A. NURSERY SCHOOLS AND NURSERY CLASSES [NEW] Establishment of nursery schools or departments The board of education of any school district may establish a nursery school or a nursery department in any school under its control, and shall admit to such nursery school or department any child who is under the age of which children are admitted to other schools or classes in such district. Approved and effective April 9, 1943. Title of Act: An Act concerning education, and providing for the establishment and main tenance of nursery schools and nursery classes, supplementing Title 18 of the Revised Statutes. L. 1943, C. 172, p. 492. Library references Schools and School Districts 11, 163. C.J.S. Schools and School Districts 13, 484. Teachers' special nursery school certificates INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3563 Every teacher in a nursery school or department shall hold a special nursery school certificate which shall be issued by the State Board of Examiners, at the request of the board of education of the school district in which such nursery school or department is situated. L. 1943, c. 172, p. 492. Expenses; how paid The expense of nursery schools or departments shall be paid out of the monies available for the current expenses of the schools, and in the same manner and under the same restrictions as the expenses of other schools or departments are paid. Laws 1943, c. 172, p. 493, 3. TENNESSEE Chapter 23 SCHOOLS FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN Section 49-2301. Establishment authorized. 49-2302. Funds for maintenance. 49-2303. Control of schools. 49-2301. Establishment authorized.--Any county, city or special district board of education operating public elementary and/or secondary systems of education under the laws of this state may provide for, establish, and maintain schools for children under six (6) years of age under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State board of education. [Acts 1945, ch. 101, 1; C. Supp. 1950, 2475.4]. Collateral References. 79 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, 447, 448. Power and duty of school authorities to maintain kindergarten or special ized departments. 70 A.L.R. 1313. 49-23-2. Funds for maintenance.--Such school boards shall be authorized to receive and accept any federal funds or state funds which hereafter may be specifically appropriated for pre-school purposes, or gifts, donations, or grants which may be received for such purposes, and to expend such funds in conformity with the provisions which may be set forth in any such appropriations, grants, gifts, or donations. Schools for pre-school children organized as public schools or as pubilc school classes under the provisions of this chapter shall be maintained and supported from local taxes or from such local tax funds supplemented by any federal funds or state funds which hereafter may be appropriated specifically for pre-school purposes, or from such gifts, donations, or grants as may be received for pre- 3564 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, school purposes; provided that no state funds appropriated for grades one (1) through twelve (12) or any local funds which are required for participation in said state funds, shall be used for pre-school purposes; and provided further that in the event that an appropriation is made by the state for pre-school purposes, the average daily attendance of such pre-school age pupils shall be reported to the state department of education in such manner and on such forms as shall be prescribed by the state commissioner of education. [Acts 1945, Ch. 101, 1; C. Supp. 1950, 2475.4; Act 1963, Ch. 292, 1.] 49-2303. Control of schools.--The state board of education through the commissioner of education shall exercise general control over all schools or classes operated under the provisions of this chapter and the school board, having im mediate control of such schools or classes, shall at all times have complete juris diction and control over such schools, including the employment of teachers, attendants, and any other employee and shall have complete control, subject to the supervision of the state board of education, of the expenditure of such funds in connection with the establishment and maintenance of such schools. Provided, further, that this chapter shall not apply to any pre-school age units now being operated by any incorporated city for the benefit of children of working mothers, without the approval of said city officials. [Acts 1945, ch. 101, 2; C. Supp. 1950, 2475.5] MARYLAND CHAPTER 24. PRESCHOOL EDUCATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN 243. Annual appropriation; definition of "handicapped child"; powers and duties of Department of Education. The Governor shall place in the State budget each year an item for the education and training of handicapped children under six years of age. The appropriation as finally determined by the General Assembly shall be expended under the supervision and control of the State Department of Education. For the purposes of this program, a handicapped child shall be one with a physical impairment or mental retardation which, in the judgment of the Department, makes a special educational and training program necessary or desirable to help the child attain a scholastic achievement as near normal as feasible. The Department of Education shall adopt standards and promulgate rules and regu lations based therein, for the nonmedical examination, classification and education of such handicapped children, for the qualifications of teachers, for curriculum and equipment, and generally for the supervision and operation of the program herein provided for. (1957, ch. 38; 1963, ch. 686.) Effect of amendment.--The 1963 amendment eliminated the former second sentence, providing that the amount should be in the Governor's discretion, except that it should not be less than $250,000. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3565 KENTUCKY Kentucky Revised Statutes 158.090--Kindergarten The board of education of any school district may establish and maintain kindergartens for children from four to six years of age and, subject to the ap proval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, may establish such night schools and other schools for the residents of the district as it deems advisable. FLORIDA STATE PLAN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION 228.14. Other public schools; nursery schools, kindergartens, junior colleges, special schools and courses.--The public schools of Florida shall, in addition to the elementary and high schools prescribed in 228.13, include nursery schools, kindergartens, junior colleges and special schools, courses or classes as authorized below: (1) Nursery Schools.--Nursery schools shall comprise classes for children who have attained the ages prescribed by 232.05, and may be established in the discretion of county boards where sufficient children of these ages are available to make possible an organization of at least twenty such children at any school center. (2) Kindergarten.--Kindergarten classes comprising children between the ages as provided by 232.04, may be established in the discretion of county boards; provided, sufficient children of these ages are available to make possible an organization of at least twenty such children at any school center. (1) Nursery Schools.--Nursery schools, when organized as public schools or public schools classes, shall be supported and maintained from county taxes, district taxes and from such funds supplemented by ____________ charges, or from funds from federal or other lawful sources, exclusive of state sources. (2) Kindergartens.--Kindergartens when organized as public schools or pub lic school classes comprising children who have attained the age as provided by 232.04, shall be considered as part of the elementary school organization and shall be supported and maintained by funds from state, county, district, federal or other lawful sources or combinations of sources. EXHIBIT # 8 REVIEW OF RESEARCH RELATED TO THE ADVANTAGES OF KINDERGARTEN by Mary Mindess, Lesley College, Cambridge, Mass. Alice V. Keliher, Wheelock College, Boston, Mass. 3566 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, "Research strongly supports the nation-wide plea for kindergartens as a part of public school systems. Currently less than half of America's kindergarten age children are in kindergartens. More and more states recognize this as a loss, per haps irretrievable, for the large number of children thus deprived. In 1925 Arnold Gesell recognized the importance of the early years. He said: '. . . The brain grows at a tremendous rate during the pre-school age, reaching almost its mature bulk before the age of six . . . The mind develops with cor responding velocity. The infant learns to see, to hear, handle, walk, comprehend, and talk. He acquires an uncountable number of habits fundamental to the com plex art of living. Never again will his mind, his character, his spirit advance as rapidly as in this formative pre-school period of growth. Never again will we have an equal chance to lay the foundations of mental health.' I. Rate of Growth--Preschool Benjamin Bloom, in his analysis of data related to the stability of achieve ment, states that: 'Since our estimates suggest that about 17% of the growth (in educational achievement) takes place between ages 4 and 6, we could hypothesize that nursery school and kindergarten could have far-reaching consequences on the child's gen eral learning pattern. The absolute scale of vocabulary development and the longitudinal studies of educational achievement indicate that approximately 50% of general achieve ment at grade 12 (age 18) has been reached by the end of grade 3 (age 9). This suggests the great importance of the first few years of school as well as the preschool period in the development of learning patterns and general achieve ment. These are the years in which general learning patterns develop most rapidly, and failure to develop appropriate achievement and learning in these years is likely to lead to continued failure throughout the remainder of the individual's school career. The implications for more powerful and effective school environ ments in the primary school grades are obvious.' II. Effect of Preschool Experience on IQ and Other Test Scores Bloom and his associates have been studying stability and change in measure ments of intelligence. The data suggests that in terms of intelligence measured at age 17, about 50% of the development takes place between conception and ages 4 and 8, and about 20% between ages 8 and 17. (Note the changing rate at which intelligence develops.) As much of the development takes place in the first 4 years of life as in the next 13 years.' Research related to the provision of preschool experience for culturally disadvantaged children indicates significant differences in favor of the experimental groups who had had preschool experience. Among measures used were: The Co lumbia Mental Maturity Scale, The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. (5, 7, 10) Deutsch reports higher group intelli gence scores among children who had preschool and kindergarten experience as compared to those whose initial contact with school was in first grade. (10) INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3567 Strodtbeck reported that, following thirteen weeks of stimulating nursery school experience, IQ scores of culturally deprived children were raised as much as 6.9 points and verbal intelligence, 20 points or more. (41) Leon Eisenberg studied Baltimore Head Start children in the summer of 1965. In a period of six weeks the children gained significantly in intelligence--esti mated at 8 to 10 points increase. Of supreme importance is Eisenberg's further analysis of those teachers who produced greater gains. '. . . teachers rated as warm, varied in their activity, and flexible produced significantly greater average change in IQ than their opposites.' (12) Findings of the Wolff study in New York, which received front-page New York Times treatment, were reported as follows: 'It confirmed that Head Start enriched the preschool child and left him with an unmistakable 'thirst' for further knowledge . . . Nearly two-thirds of the Head Start children quickly adjusted to school as compared with only 40% of their classmates . . . the speech work and listening habits of Head Start children were markedly better at the beginning of the kindergarten year. . . . (46)' In a study intended to provide special experience during the two preschool years and during the first year of school, which might contribute to better intel lectual processes and personal adjustments by the culturally underprivileged child, Klaus and Gray found at the end of the first summer the preschool group had a mean gain of 14 IQ points on the Stanford-Binet as compared to a 2.3 gain for the controls. On the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test the experimentals made a gain of 6.6 months of mental age as compared to 0.9 for the controls. The ex perimenters suggested that these large gains must in some part be attributed to the children's increased ability to relate to adults and better orientation to carry ing out a task.' (29) III. Newer Concepts of Intelligence In an address presented at an Institute conducted by the Child Development Center in New York City in 1962, Irving Sigel pointed out that intelligence tests do not 'reflect a child's curiosity, his motivation to learn, nor his ability to gain insights into various types of relationships. In other words, the question of how children seek and use their new information does not receive adequate assessment.' (35) According to Piaget, 'intelligence emerges at it is nurtured, it grows as the child has things to act upon. .... This understanding has led teachers to provide sensory experience as the undergirding base for abstract concepts.' (7) Professor Millie Almy, student of children's thinking and intellectual develop ment, says: 3568 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 'Each stage of development carries with it possibilities for the acquisition of new abilities, new ways of processing information. Unless each of these abilities is sufficiently exercised as it emerges, it will not develop fully and it will con tribute little if at all to the demands of the next stage. . . From the standpoint of developing intelligence, he (the child) may be re garded as storing information in patterns of action.' (1) The importance of environment is emphasized by J. McV. Hunt, who reports: 'It now looks as though early experience may be even more important for the perceptual, cognitive and intellectual functions than it is for the emotional and temperamental functions.' (24) David P. Ausubel, in his discussion of the stages of intellectual development, stated: 'The emergence of ideas--or at the more advanced level, ideas about ideas-- is dependent on an adequate background of direct experience, concrete--empirical in nature.' (35) This observation supports the principle 'That rich and varied direct experiences in the early years provide a solid foundation for the subsequent development of facility in symbolic manipulations.' (35) The vital importance of play in the development of the child is stressed by Lewis: 'The importance of imaginative play in a child's cognitive development is that it readily expands into exploratory and constructive play which, as it presents him with successive problems, demands the exercise of reasoning. . . . For in stance, in playing with water, he explores its physical properties and is confronted with problems which he may try to solve. In the growth of this exploratory and experimental play, language may play a part of ever-increasing importance ... he verbalizes his own acts, and so aids his perception, helps his recall of relevant past experience, helps his imaginative constructions, his anticipations and predictions and so fosters his conceptual and generalized thinking in the direction of reasoning. . . . the effects of language are immeasurably reinforced as a child comes to play with others--particularly if adults take interest in what he is doing. Language then helps to make play more imaginative, more constructive and a greater stimulus to reasoning.' (30) IV. Learning Potential of the Young Child Young children's potentiality for learning has often been underestimated. Susan Isaacs, through anecdotal data, has demonstrated that 'children can formulate new experiences, show logical cause and effect think ing, and engage in mutual correction and genuine interchange of opinion.' (25) INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3569 Kenneth Wann and his associates, in an action research study designated to appraise systematically the ability of young children to understand and interpret their social and physical world, found that '1. Young children collect information which they test and use in conversa tion and dramatic play. 2. Young children employ the essential elements of concept formations. 3. Young children are concerned and can deal with ideas and information about the 'far away' (remote in time and space).' (45) The value of a rich and physically active kindergarten experience is implied in studies by Miller and Swanson: '[They] coincluded that if the teacher enables [children] to express them selves with the large muscles of the torso and limbs, her students may make surprising educational progress.' (33) V. Kindergarten and the Development of Academic Abilities While this report is not basically concerned with the pros and cons of daily program in kindergartens, questions are persistently raised about reading readi ness activities and the actual teaching of reading to five-year-olds. Research is split on the subject. In favor of actual teaching of beginning reading skills on the kindergarten level are several studies. McHugh evaluated children at the end of grade three who had had a planned program of auditory and visual exercises with letter names and sounds in kinder garten. She concluded that they were superior in arithmetic and reading to children who had not had the program. (31) Durkin, who studied the progress of children who learned to read before first grade, concluded: '. . . that the lower the IQ of the early reader, the greater the advantage was his early start in reading.' (11) Durkin recommends what she calls 'an exposure curriculum.' A study in Denver by Brzeinski and McKee reports that average youngsters can profit from reading instruction in kindergarten but that gains made in kindergarten can be wiped out if not followed by stepped-up instruction in later grades. (32) In an extensive survey Fuller says: 'When the testing procedures are carefully used, when long-range rather than short-range interpretations are made, and when other factors, such as maturation are scientifically controlled, research does not support the use of 3570 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, formalized reading exercises in kindergarten. Neither does the evidence defend the omission of reading experience of a laissez-faire attitude toward reading in the kindergarten. Such evidence and experience as we have points to individual izing reading with instruction adjusted to the child's general maturation level and attitude toward reading.' (14) Against organized teaching of reading to all kindergarten children is the summary of 58 reports and statements on early reading compiled by Smith. She says: 'While we need much more research in regard to the use of readiness work books in the kindergarten, two of those that have been reported cast grave doubts upon their effectiveness in contributing to the reading maturation of kindergarten children.' (39) Smith reports a variety of studies. One by Keister concludes that, while five-year-olds may acquire reading skill, they tend to lose them in the summer months between first and second grade. She cites a comparison of English chil dren taught reading at five and Scottish children taught at six. By third-grade level neither group is superior in reading. Smith concludes along the same lines as Fuller: 'Thus it is that the kindergarten teacher has a responsibility in reading development--not in teaching classes of children with a basal reader but in providing abundant contacts with reading symbols in meaningful situations. This is her function in developing the reading facet of child growth.' (39) As to experience in other countries, Strickland reports: 'Forty schools in England, selected and scheduled by the Ministry of Education (to which the writer made visits), included none in which reading was systemati cally taught to five-year-olds, although there undoubtedly are such schools. Nor way, Sweden, Denmark and Russia teach reading at the age of seven. Far more evidence is needed than any that is available at the present time to justify universal teaching of reading to five-year-olds.' (40) Jerome Bruner warns: '. . . avoid premature symbolization. Do not give them the word to parrot before they know what it is about either by manipulation or in images.' (6) As to arithmetic, one study shows advantages of kindergarten experience: 'Research suggests that kindergarten children surpass nonkindergarten chil dren more in arithmetic reasoning than in the use of basic skills in numbers: they seem to be more willing to attempt difficult or unfamiliar problems than are nonkindergarten children.' (14) In Haines's study, the final analysis of matched groups showed pronounced academic advantages accruing from kindergarten experience in the area of arith metic. (19) INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3571 Much of the research which compares achievement in first grade of children who attended kindergarten and those who did not favors those with kindergarten experience. (2, 7, 15, 23, 43) One study reported in the Journal of Educational Psychology (1957) indicated that not only did kindergarten attendance facilitate academic performance in grade one, but also that evidence of this facilitation could be found as late as grade eleven. (13) Although it is possible to cite the studies which are inconclusive, (4) 'no research evidence gives centra-indication. [Rather] increasing evidence supports the assumption that rich experience enhances a child's intellectual activity, self-assurance, social skill, and hence, the potential for his academic achievement. (1, 7) VI. Implications for Social and Personality Development With current interest in the area of intellectual development, it is easy to overlook important findings related to social and personality development. 'Using a series of stories with dolls, Chittendon demonstrated successful training pro cedures which increased cooperative behavior on the part of dominating children.' (8) Keister demonstrated 'how children who initially had very immature and undesirable responses to failure could be helped to respond in more mature and effective ways.' (27) Mummery demonstrated through small group experiments how training increased security and self-confidence. (34) Smith further reports studies by Marston, Rice, Hood and Tulchin, showing emphatically the positive social and emotional effects of good early education and the negative effects of the lack of it. (39) Hammond describes the study by the 1954-56 Primary Committee in which almost all first-grade teachers felt there was a relationship between kindergarten experience and adjustment and progress in the first grade. (22) The study by Shaw indicated that preschool experiences make a significantly greater contribution to the social adjustment of first-grade youngsters than no organized preschool experience. (38) It seems clear that the association with their own age group, the stimulation of a rich environment and a variety of experiences, and the tutelage of a wise teacher add important ingredients of growth for the kindergarten child. VII. Age of Kindergarten Entrance Another area in which there are conflicting opinions is that of the age of entrance to kindergarten. In some communities children younger than the official entrance age can be given mental tests and, if successful, enter under age. While some communities obviously approve of this plan, many child development ex perts are concerned about the negative effects of this form of pressure on very young children. Several studies have resulted. In relation to age at entrance, Inez King's social adjustment problems were found among the younger group. (28) 3572 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Halliwell and Stein reported: 'The findings in this investigation are in substantial agreement with findings reported by other investigators in that pupils who entered school early were significantly poorer in achievement than were pupils who entered a school later.' (20) Hamalainen found that '24% of the children entering kindergarten under a September age of 4 years and 9 months have had difficulty in adjusting to school as compared with 6% of the normal aged children who had difficulty.' (21) Townsend reported 'Hampleman followed groups starting above and below median school en trance age through the sixth grade; his conclusion was that late starters are not handicapped, and may even make slightly better progress than younger groups.' (42) VIII. Implications for Screening and Prevention of Physical, Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties One obvious advantage of having all children in school early is the oppor tunity yielded to screen them for physical, emotional and behaviorial difficulties and launch treatment before conditions become grievous to the individual and dangerous to society. In a mental health screening of Boston's 1450 Head Start children, Summer 1965, 77 were found to be gravely disturbed. The Putnam Children's Center, among others, is trying to follow up these disturbed children. If they can be salvaged, not only will society be spared the possible dangerous acts of disturbed adolescents, but also these children can be helped to become productive, tax-paying citizens as adults. Such screening and treatment initiated at the kindergarten age would have the same benefits. There has even been demonstrated success in predicting delinquency at age 5. Craig and Click, using the Glueck Social Prediction Table, followed 301 boys up to the age of 17 who had been studied at school entrance age. They found that '. . . of the 33 boys identified at school entrance as having a high potential for delinquency 25 (or 84.8 per cent) actually did become persistent offenders before age 17; and of 243 identified as unlikely to become true delinquents, 97.1 per cent remained non-offenders, although residiing in areas with high delin quency rates. Of 25 boys who were placed in an ambiguous group having about an even chance of delinquency or non-delinquency--and therefore not clearly identifiable--nine actually became delinquent and 16 did not.' (17, 18) Gertrud Wyatt reports that 'From four to nine percent of elementary school children with normal to superior intelligence exhibit symptoms of developmental speech and language INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3573 disorders, such as Stuttering (or Stammering); Severely Defective Articulation in the Absence of Hearing Loss; and finally the syndrome of Multiple Perceptual, Motor, and Language Disorder. These developmental deviations or disorders inter fere markedly with early school adaptation. If no adequate help is forthcoming, the symptoms may increase in severity and interfere with the achievement and social adaptation of the children concerned.' (47) According to a three-year research project conducted by the United States Public Health Service and the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, eyes develop fully around 6 years of age. Lazy eye blindness, which develops earlier, can only be helped if it is detected before eyes are fully developed. (44) Katrina de Hirsch and her associates have demonstrated 'that valid prediction of reading, spelling and writing achievement can be made by evaluating children's perceptual motor and language behavior at early years', and that many 'intelligent but educationally disabled children . . . would not have required help had their difficulties been recognized at early ages. Early identification would have ob viated the need for later remedial measures.' (9) EXHIBIT # 9 TESTIMONIES BEFORE COMMITTEE Dean Joseph A. Williams: "The University has many interests in the total area of Early Childhood Education. We presently have programs at the University for the preparation of early elementary and kindergarten teachers. These programs that are in the College of Education rely very heavily on programs in the School of Home Economics. The College of Education and the School of Home Economics have a joint planning committee. Programs in the College of Education are at all levels: Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Sixth-Year Certificates and Doctorate Degree. A number of research projects are under way that relate to Early Childhood Education. Curriculum Development and Research for children ages 3 through 12 is being conducted by the University Research and Development Center. Suder School, Clayton County, Georgia serves as an experimental center. This school enrolls children ages 3 through 12. Three schools in Gainesville which enrolls children ages 3 through 12 are also participating in this project. We have been working here at the University with the Southern Education Foundation. This foundation is located in Atlanta. The Southern Education Foundation held a very significant conference on Early Childhood Education at the Georgia Center last year which included the 13 Southeastern states. A $1.8 Million Mental Retardation Center located on College Station Road is now under construction. This facility will provide excellent training facilities for the education of educational personnel needed in the area of education of the mentally retarded. 3574 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, We are attempting to extend interest beyond the campus in meeting the needs within the state of teachers of pre-primary children. Graduate in-service training programs reached 4,000 teachers in the state of Georgia last year. We took the service to them. The College of Education won the national 'Distinguished Achievement Award' last year. This award is presented to the school having the most outstanding program in teacher education for the year." Dr. Rachael Sutton: "The College of Education at the University of Georgia has approved pro grams in Early Childhood Education, ages 3 to 8, at the fourth, fifth, sixth year and doctoral levels. Persons who complete these programs have met criteria of national, regional and state accrediting agencies and are professionally certified at these respective levels. The four-year program has 90 hours of general education, 53 hours of special field content, 31 hours of professional education, and 15 hours of approved electives. The professional education sequence offers opportunities to study the behavior of children from ages 3 to 8, prepare instructional materials for them, and to teach them individually and in groups. Observation, participation, and teaching is done in accredited schools located within a 100 mile radius of the University. The approved graduate programs in this area offer advanced study of the learner, his community, his school, and content of his instruction. These pro grams are for persons interested in college teaching and other positions of leadership. Persons presently engaged in teaching nursery and kindergarten children are seeking help from the College of Education in improving their qualifications. Officers of the Georgia Pre-School Association requested that five inservice centers be established for their members, located in Athens, Atlanta, Macon, Au gusta, and Savannah. Approximately one hundred fifty (150) persons are enrolled at these centers and they are now being instructed by a regular member of the College of Education faculty. Attached are forms of the fourth, fifth, sixth year and doctoral level pro grams." Dr. Elizabeth Sheerer: "A Liaison Committee of the School of Home Economics and the College of Education is presently in the process of preparing a new joint curriculum in Early Childhood Education." Dr. Sheerer will forward a copy of the new joint curriculum in Early Child hood Education when it has been completed to the Legislative Committee. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3575 Dr. Charles E. Johnson: "The Research and Development Center in Educational Stimulation at the University of Georgia is currently supporting a variety of projects exploring the hypothesis: Early and continuous intellectual stimulation of children ages three (3) through twelve (12), through structured sequential learning activities will result in higher levels of ultimate achievement than would otherwise be attained. One such project is sponsored cooperatively with the Clayton County (Georgia) Public Schools and another with the Gainesville (Georgia) Public Schools. In these projects the long term effects of the systematic teaching of convention elementary school subjects to three, four and five-year olds are being examined. The Clayton County project began in the fall of 1966 with the initiation of a pre-primary unit of 180 children between the ages of two years, eight months and five years, eight months. These children were drawn from homes most of which provided culturallly normal circumstances. The Gainesville (Georgia) Project began in the fall of 1967 with the initiation of classes for 90 children approximately three years of age drawn from culturally disadvantaged environ ments. The plan is to gradually extend thse populations until each center provides a nine-year sequence of learning experiences upon which the hypothesis will be tested. Current focus is on the pre-primary curriculum. This curriculum differs radically from what is normally found in conventional nursery schools and kinder gartens. Each subject is structured into logical sequences for learning. The sub jects taught are reading, arithmetic, literature, science, social studies, art, music and physical education. Presently, selected available instructional materials are being tried to determine their appropriateness. Also, new materials are being developed as need for them arises. Daily schedules are flexible, but evolve from teacher-established guidelines which provide nine periods of from 15 to 20 minutes in duration alternating physically active with quiet activities. The achievement of these pupils will be compared periodically over the next nine years with that of other groups of similar personal characteristics who have not had this educational opportunity." Dr. Charles E. Johnson: "The main purpose of the Institute is to create an exemplary comprehensive training program in early childhood education. It proposes (1) to prepare master's level classroom teachers with the knowledge and skill to provide continuous edu cational stimulation for children three through nine, (2) to prepare advanced graduate level students to become supervisors and/or college teachers in early childhood education, and (3) to bring together university staff members in inter disciplinary seminars to promote interaction through systematc study in this area of concern. 3576 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The participants in this institute are twenty-five experienced teachers in early childhood education eligible to enroll in graduate course work who are currently associated with on-going program development projects in Early Child hood Education sponsored by the University of Georgia. Also, four advanced graduate student interns who anticipate devoting their careers to aspects of Early Childhood Education through teaching and/or supervision are supported as ap prentice members of the institute staff. The Institute is organized into interrelated phases. Phase I began with an eight-week on-campus summer conference where special emphasis was given to the psychological, sociological, and pediogogical aspects of early childhood educa tion. During this period the participants received laboratory experiences with pupils in Head Start classes in nearby communities. Phase II is being carried out during the academic school year. This phase includes weekly onsite visits and seminars at the project centers where the participants are teaching. The seminars are conducted by coordinators of instruction who are frequently accompanied by consultants and other specialists both from within and outside the University of Georgia. Emphasis during these seminars is given to the pedigogical aspects of early childhood education. During January 1968 staff members, interns, and participants will be required to attend a state-wide three-day conference on early childhood education sponsored by the University of Georgia and various other professional organizations. Phase III will be a culminating activity which will also be held on the University of Georgia campus. The University of Georgia is especially well-suited to carry out this Insti tute. It administers the aforementioned Research and Development Center; it has 58 staff members who devote a proportionately large part of their time to teach ing and research in Early Childhood Education on an interdepartmental basis; during the past three years it has sponsored several state and regional conferences on themes related to Early Childhood Education; and it has initiated and approved a new master's program and special courses for preparing teachers in Early Childhood Education." Dr. Cornelia C. Eldridge: "The Southern Education Foundation is a privately supported foundation, operating in thirteen (13) states, established to provide educational opportunities for Southern Negroes. In a recent memorandum concerning the SEF Early Child hood Education Program the following statement was made: 'Southern Educa tion takes the position that while early childhood education is not the solution to all our education problems, it could affect overall educational improvement by its repercussions. It is a promising area for improvement of Negro educational opportunities, for it is a field which seems closely related to problems of the children who because of race and poverty have been excluded from access to real education.' In 1967 Southern Education Foundation concentrated approximately $73,000 for graduate Negro education entirely in the field of Early Childhood Education. As a part of this program, the University of Georgia conducted a summer insti tute in Early Childhood Education which was supported by funds from the Southern Education Foundation. In this institute, teachers who were profession ally qualified in the area of Elementary Education earned 15 quarter hours credit INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3577 which permitted them to become certified in the field of Early Childhood Educa tion. In this way the number of qualified teachers available for teaching in public school kindergartens was increased. The Teacher Corps was authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965. The University of Georgia and the Atlanta Public Schools are participating in a joint effort to fulfill the two chief objectives of the Teacher Corps. These objectives are to reach and teach the children of poverty and to prepare college graduates who are not qualified as teachers to enter the teaching profession. In the Atlanta program, teams of Teacher Corps interns have been placed in kindergarten class room in the economically deprived areas of the inner City of Atlanta. These interns supplement the work of the regular classroom teachers. Teacher Corps interns may work in the position of teacher aide, assistant teacher, team member and occasionally head teacher. In order to prepare Teacher Corps interns for work in the kindergarten classroom, the University of Georgia submitted a planned program to the State Department of Education. This program was approved for earning the Master of Education degree in Early Childhood Education as well as professional certi fication at the fifth year level in this field. Two full years of work and study are necessary to complete these requirements. The first year program consists of two phases, the pre-service preparation program and the in-service program. During the pre-service programs the interns live the life of students and earn 16 quarter hours of academic credit. They are given intensive instruction in the causes and effects of poverty, the nature of the young child, and the kindergarten curriculum. During the in-service phase of the program, Teacher Corps interns work in the kindergarten classes in the mornings and attend late afternoon classes. A full summer quarter's academic load and a second year of internship in the Atlanta Public Schools complete the second year of the program and the academic requirements for the Master of Education Degree. Teacher Corps interns receive a stipend of $75 per week plus $15 for each dependent during the pre-service phase. During in-service the stipend becomes a weekly salary of $75. The first cycle of Teacher Corps interns started in June 1966, with 27 interns and 5 lead teachers. The second cycle with 34 interns and 5 lead teachers is now in its pre-service phase and will be ready to begin in-service in the kindergarten classes of the Atlanta Public Schools after Christmas. The chief advantages of the Teacher Corps program in the kindergarten are these: (1) to provide a lower pupil-teacher ratio (2) to provide more attention for individual needs and problems and (3) to provide opportunity to put into effect innovative aspects of programs designed for early childhood education." Dr. Andrew Shotick: "Mental retardation has a tremendous impact on the family. Training of the retardate in such daily routines as eating and other self-care activities are often prolonged and more difficult. It is not unusual for family life to be disrupted because of additional care and time demands in meeting the needs of the retarded. Pre-school programs for the retarded would help relieve training difficulties and 3578 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, tensions in the family. The disruption often includes not only the immediate family but secondary family members and others in the community also. Though institutions offer fine programs of training for retardates, it is de sirable, if at all possible, to maintain the child in the family. Further, it would be economically unfeasbile to attempt institutionalization of all mentally retarded. Because of their greater need for education and training, and training which re quires an earlier beginning, community pre-school programs are necessary. At the present time there are five institutions in the State of Georgia pre paring teachers of the educable mentally retarded but only one (1), the University of Georgia, preparing teachers of trainable mentally retarded or teachers of the pre-school mentally retarded. As programs for the trainable and pre-eschool retarded are developed more and more communities are going to demand them. This will necessitate an increase in funding through the State Department of Education, Division for Exceptional Children. The early education program (kindergarten) will have a definite impact on programs for handicapped children in general (including the retarded). If a handicapping condition, sight, hearing, physical, etc., is identified early, as in kindergarten, and corrected immediately, the child is better prepared to learn when entering first grade. Thus, the kindergarten program is not only of benefit to children in general but exceptional children as well. It is well known that any condition treated early not only prevents further deterioration but increases the functioning of the individual." Dr. Bettye Jennings: "Early Childhood Education is not new! It is as old as Man. The Bible men tions the training of children. It was revitalized when man began to be interested in his place in the universe. Frederick Froebel was credited with establishing the first kindergarten in 1837 in Germany. He was a religious fanatic. Most of his training was moral training. The first kindergarten established in the United States was in Wisconsin in 1873. For some years, it was thought the I.Q. of a person was formed from birth. We do not think this any longer. We think we can take a child and stretch his intelligence. Experience is the programmer. Change the child's way of living and he will change. Experience is extremely important. Schools were once thought to be very painful. The thought now is to make school enjoyable, rewarding and fun to do. The more things a child sees, the more he wants to see. If things are not pointed out to a child, then he does not see them. If a child's family does not speak to him, he then does not have a very colorful language. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3579 The focal point for education is steadily moving downward. Most children have a large visual vocabulary by the time they reach the first grade. Children are able to distinguish at a very early age. They know what kinds of bubble bath, cereal, etc., to pick out of many choices at the grocery store. Children learn prac tically from the moment of birth. Four (4) Reasons for Having Pre-Sehool Education: 1. Root years, two years old and up, reaching challenge of knowing who they are; their relationship to church, community, friends, etc. 2. Years when he is forming concepts. Our society is becoming more abstract all the time. 3. Root years for language development. Every concept is coded to you through words. Use words to store information, use words to unlock them out of your brain. Use words to gather data. 4. Root years for creativity. There is more and more a demand for creativity in children." Dr. Therry Dean and Miss Fanny Lee Brooke: "Georgia Day Care Standards are very minimum and should not be considered an 'ideal' on which to base kindergarten standards. Children prior to six (6) years of age learn a significant proportion of all the basic attitudes, approaches to information, and basic information which will in fluence them throughout their lives. Unless we can develop quality programs, perhaps we should not have kinder garten programs. Just putting a child in a classroom does not assume a quality learning situation. However, it will be a learning situation for the young child is constantly learning something. As a nation we are behind in terms of emphasis on the eduaction of young children. Many European countries are far advanced--Russia provides day care for children as soon as their mothers are able to go back to work. Russia thinks it is very important and puts a great deal of emphasis on the education of young children; not simply to provide day care but as an instrument for controlling the learning experiences of the young. Young children require a great deal of space, much more space than adults require in which to learn. They also need the opportunity to explore and discover materials. Discipline can be facilitated by surroundings. A teacher should not have to spend most of her time dealing with discipline problems. Great restriction in space and movement reduces the child's frustration tolerance level and increases potential for discipline problems. One major function of the early school setting should be to develop the motivation of children to want to continue to learn. Unless we provide the facilities and personnel which can provide for this goal attainment, education for the young will be a detriment, not an asset, to our educational system and our national goals." 3580 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS. MINORITY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CARE AND TRAINING OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN (HOUSE RESOLUTION 3) THE MINORITY Honorable G. D. Adams Representative 125th District January 7, 1968 The Committee on Care and Training of Pre-School Children, in my opinion, did an excellent job of fulfilling its duties: to investigate the need for State participation in the area of early childhood education. The Committee called in many experts and quizzed them on their views and recommendations. The Committee visited publicly-owned kindergartens, private kindergartens and institutions for mentally retarded children. The Committee spent hours upon hours researching and analyzing statistics and laws from other states, the federal government and Georgia. As the Committee's report states, most of the experts, the people called upon to testify, and owners of kindergartens visited by the Committee were of the view that State participation would be a healthy measure for Georgia's pre-school education. On December 29, 1967, the Committee held a public hearing on the question of whether the General Assembly should permit the State Department of Educa tion to set minimum standards for kindergartens. The response by the public at the hearing brought to my attention one area the Committee failed to concern itself with--religion. Several people at the hearing expressed concern for fear that church-affiliated kindergartens would lose their right to give religious instruction to their children if the State Department of Education were given jurisdiction to set curriculums and educational standards. While it is extremely unlikely that any State agency would seek to curb the teaching of religion in any Georgia school, public or private, there is concern among many Georgians that the federal court decisions could, through some legal twist, apply to kinder gartens regulated by the State Department of Education. It is for this reason that I must dissent, in part, from the report issued by the Committee on Care and Training of Pre-School Children. I dissent in the fol lowing particular: I feel that the State Department of Education should not be permitted to set any standards for church-affiliated kindergartens. There is legal justification for my stand--the Constitution of the State of Georgia, Article I, Section I, Paragraph XII, provides that each man has the INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3581 natural right to worship God without interference from any human authority. I feel that to give the State Department of Education the right to set standards would be to give the federal authorities a toe-hold--a toe-hold contrary to the dictates of our Constitution and my views. I endorse the Committee's recommendations in all its particulars, except as stated above. There is a need for a public kindergarten system in Georgia, and there is a need for minimum standards for non-sectarian, privately operated kindergartens. For the most part, the kindergartens in Georgia are good, well run, and educationally sound. But, there are untold numbers of agencies that call themselves kindergartens that offer their children nothing. Minimum stand ards should only have an adverse effect on the poorly run and maintained kindergartens. /s/ G. D. Adams G. D. Adams Representative 125th District REPORT OF THE STATE PORTS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE TO: THE CHAIRMAN AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE Your State Ports Subcommittee has completed its study, and submits the following report: The Committee made a visitation to the port at Columbus on November 22, 1967. At the time of arrival it was raining hard and the Committee was unable to find anyone from the Ports Authority in charge. It seems that this port is under lease or rental. The Committee was unable to obtain any information on the port as there was no one around to speak for the Ports Authority. The Com mittee went uptown and talked to a former member of the Ports Authority and he was of the opinion that they were getting along well as far as he knew. This port was serving its purpose, if for no other reason than it was holding rates down, but the Committee would like to have someone as a caretaker to keep maintenance up on the state owned property. Proper maintenance should be carried on and maintenance of this state property looked after. The Committee visited the Brunswick port and found the condition of the port to be very good. They are proceeding with the building of a new wharf and warehouse and it will be in use by the first part of the year. Mr. Cecil Gnann indicated to the Committee during one of the recent strikes in Savannah which made the handling of clay impossible there, that this clay was handled at the Brunswick port without any bulk handling equipment and they were able to please those who called on the port in handling it in a rather cumbersome manner. The total fiscal year as far as tonnage is concerned (from July 1 to June 30) the fiscal year July 1, 1967, indicates that the port has to the first of November handled 55,000 tons and their total handling in the previous year was between 61,000 and 62,000 tons. They expect an increase in general cargo during the year besides the clay handling. Their main exports have been pulp wood, naval stores, 3582 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, and cresol poles. The imports for the port came by virtue of the fact of the nuclear ship "Savannah" brought in 18G.4 tons and this was total imports during the period. This port has experienced good growth. The Committee visited the Bainbridge port on December 4 and found condi tions of the facilities in exceptionally good condition. One warehouse was in need of repair but after talking to the manager of the port the Committee found that appropriations had already been made for the repair of this building by the Georgia State Ports Authority. The equipment was in excellent condition and maintenance was properly cared for by the manager and his employees. The Committee was proud to find that a tonnage increase was evident. For the year 1963 which was the lowest year since the opening of the port, it was 34,000 tons. For the year 1967 through June 30, the tonnage was 101,000. This was an increase of 34.74% in barges .28%. At the time of visitation the port was in the process of unloading pipe being brought in from Texas. They were bringing in approxi mately 124 miles of pipe which necessitated the use of 21 barges. The Committee found a very efficient operation in Bainbridge and the future development of this port looks tremendous. The Committee would strongly recommend the Ports Authority of Georgia to work with the Corps of Engineers to deepen the channel below the dam on Apalachicola River Road which will enable heavier barges to come up the river. The Committee visited the bulk grain handling facilities but the Committee be lieves that the cost to install bulk grain handling facilities at the state docks would be very costly; however, when money becomes available these facilities should be installed because the shipping companies will realize a substantial savings and the volume of business at the state ports will certainly increase. The Committee met in Savannah on June 26 and 27 at which time they made a complete visitation of state property in Savannah. After meeting with the Committee and inspecting the properties we were shown slides of the ports in their activities and these were very helpful. During the visit and after talking to Mr. Jack Holt, Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, and Mr. W. D. Trippe, Chairman of the Ports Authority, the Committee went into discussion of the bulk cargo handling facilities needed at the state docks. The purpose of these facilities is to handle bulk clay and bulk fertilizer for export and import different bulk material into Savannah such as potash. The cost of this facility complete in 1969 will be $9,280,840. These facilities will enable the shipping company to save approximately $7.25 per ton on bagging costs plus approximately $8.24 which is a total of $15.49 per ton savings to the clay industries of Georgia. This will be an annual saving of approximately $3,485,250 to the clay industries which will put them in the position of being competitive with foreign markets. The Committee visited the Augusta port on December 4, 1967, and found the port in very good shape and progress being made satisfactorily. No additional money is needed this year. Deep appreciation was expressed for our consideration. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Hubert Dollar, Chairman /s/ Arthur Funk, Vice-Chairman /s/ Luke DeLong, Secretary /s/ Goodwin Hall /s/ Reid Harris INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3583 December, 1967 REPORT OF THE INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES SUBCOM MITTEE OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE TO: THE CHAIRMAN AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE STATE INSTITU TIONS AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE Your State Income Producing Properties Subcommittee has completed its study, and submits the following report. The Subcommittee has been meeting for the purpose of visiting and inspect ing the real properties owned by the State of Georgia to determine the condition of these properties, their value to the State and their present and anticipated use. The Subcommittee also had the responsibility of making such other studies as it deemed appropriate concerning these properties and to submit recommenda tions to the full Committee based on its inspection of the properties and its studies. The following paragraphs provide a summary of the Subcommittee's findings and recommendations concerning these properties: HENRY GRADY HOTEL: The Committee visited with Mr. Emory K. Crenshaw, President of the Henry Grady Hotel Corporation and representative of the Wilson estate, on two oc casions. This Committee made a physical inspection of the properties listed below: The Henry Grady Hotel The Roxy Theatre The Red Rock Building The Henry Grady Office Building We found that all the buildings were out-dated, and we feel that under no cir cumstances should the present buildings be considered in any future lease, be cause the ground on which the buildings are located is far more valuable than the buildings now in existence. We also feel that these properties should not be sold under any circumstances. The Subcommittee further recommends that the State Properties Control Commission investigate the possibility of purchasing the existing leases in order that the redevelopment of these valuable properties may begin at the earliest possible time. STONE MOUNTAIN: This Subcommittee visited Stone Mountain and met with Mr. Harold Maddox, General Manager of Stone Mountain Park, and with Mr. Ralph Donaldson, and were conducted on a tour of all the facilities of Stone Mountain. 3584 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Mr. Maddux advised the Subcommittee that the park could use about 40 more prisoners, if they could get them, but these prisoners would be used only in developing additional facilities and not in the presently developed areas of the park now used by the general public. The Subcommittee also met with Honorable Phil Campbell, Chairman of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. We found that there is a definite need for more hotel and motel room space and for an auditorium of convention size. The Committee feels that the additional hotel and motel space would be provided by private capital if the auditorium can be constructed to attract conventions. The Committee is of the opinion that the State should not enter into the hotel or motel building business. We think that stronger efforts should be made to keep the pool on the top of the mountain in a cleaner condition, or it should be replaced by another facility that is more easily maintained. The Committee also feels that it is definitely desirable for the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to become self-sustaining at the earliest possible time. The Committee highly commends Mr. Campbell and the Stone Mountain Mem orial Association for the accomplishments that have been made at the park, but recommends that in future concession leases, the Authority should retain greater control over the services provided and the prices charged for the services. The Committee also commends Mr. Campbell and the Association for their efforts to maintain the park in a manner which will complement the other com mercial amusement facilities in this area rather than compete with them. In order to assist Mr. Campbell in his efforts, the Committee makes the fol lowing specific recommendations: 1. That a new roof be placed on the marina which is more in keeping with the architectural style of the rest of the park. 2. That efforts be made to keep trash and other debris out of the pool on top of the mountain, and if these efforts prove unsuccessful, that the pool be eliminated. 3. That every effort be made to preserve the esthetic beauty of the site and to insure uniformity of style. JEKYLL ISLAND: The Committee visited Jekyll Island and met with Judge Hartley, the retiring Director, and Mr. Horace Caldwell, newly named Director of the Jekyll Island State Park Authority. An extensive inspection tour of the Island and its facilities (including the new golf course and the site for the marina) was made by the Committee, and the following recommendations are made: 1. That the motel at the south end of the Island (now abandoned) be developed for youth group facilities. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3585 2. That the old millionaire homes, which were built during the turn of the century, be restored and wherever possible made useful. The Committee also noted the tremendous increase in the number of persons visiting the Island and commends the Authority for the efficient and business-like manner in which the Island is operated. METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY (MARTA): Since the rapid transit plan which has been proposed by MARTA would utilize certain valuable State owned property located in downtown Atlanta the Subcom mittee had the responsibility of looking into the various aspects of rapid transit and particularly the plan proposed by MARTA. In carrying out this responsibility, the Committee heard testimony from Mr. Henry L. Stuart, General Manager of MARTA; Mr. King Elliott, Director of Public Information for MARTA and Mr. Earl W. Nelson, Chief Engineer for MARTA. These gentlemen appeared before the Committee and explained MARTA's plan for rapid transit and gave their arguments in favor of the proposed plan. At another meeting of the Committee, Mr. David Benson, Executive Director of the State Properties Control Commission, appeared before the Committee for the purpose of briefing the members on the relationship between the State owned property located in downtown Atlanta and MARTA's proposed use of these properties. Mr. Leland S. Veal and Mr. Robert C. Kirk, Planning Engineers from the State Highway Department, appeared before the Committee at another meeting to give the members the benefit of their thoughts concerning MARTA's proposed plan for rapid transit. These gentlemen were critical of the fixed rail concept and stressed the importance of achieving a balanced transportation system for metropolitan Atlanta. They also expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of co operation between MARTA and the planning section of the State Highway De partment. They further expressed the belief that the cost of the fixed rail rapid transit system would be excessive in view of the estimated number of persons who would use this facility, and in this connection, they expressed doubt that the number of cars using the expressway system would be substantially reduced if the proposed rapid transit plan were implemented. The number of automobile in metropolitan Atlanta is increasing at the rate of approximately 10% per annum, and they estimated that only 5% of the automobiles would be removed from the expressways by implementation of the proposed rapid transit plan. They further estimated that the cost of the rapid transit plan would build approximately 8 lanes of super highways over the same land, and observed that 1105 miles of the Interstate Highway System in Georgia would cost only twice as much as Atlanta's rapid transit system as proposed by MARTA. The Committee held a public hearing on the subject of rapid transit in the House Chamber on November 30th. As a result of this public hearing, the Com mittee found that there is considerable interest in rapid transit on the part of the citizens of the metropolitan area. Approximately 60 persons appeared at this public hearing and 20 of these gave testimony before the Committee. The pur pose of the public hearing was to determine how the citizens of Georgia felt about rapid transit for metropolitan Atlanta, and specifically whether they were op- 3586 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, posed to or in favor of the State of Georgia paying part of the cost of creating the rapid system. The merits of non-rail rapid transit as opposed to rail rapid transit were also discussed. The Committee noted at this public hearing that while there is general sup port for a rapid transit system for metropolitan Atlanta, serious objections have been raised to the particular plan of rapid transit which has been proposed by MARTA. The Committee feels that the Atlanta area definitely needs a balanced trans portation system, including some form of mass rapid transit. The Committee fur ther believes that the State should participate in funding the development of this balanced transportation system, inasmuch as it is important to the entire State. The Committee has concluded, however, that the fixed rail system which has been proposed by MARTA is not the best system, or the only system, or even that it is economically feasible. There are strong indications that the cost of creating the system proposed by MARTA, even as estimated by MARTA, is much too high for the results that would be achieved, and the Committee heard testimony to the effect that this cost may have been seriously underestimated. There are further indications that other less rigid mass transit systems are available that could be adapted to the growing needs of the metropolitan area of Atlanta. In view of these findings, the Committee recommends that the State do not make any further contributions in aid of the implementation of the present plan for rapid transit which has been proposed by MARTA. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Howard H. Rainey Howard H. Rainey, Chairman Representative, 69th District /s/ Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Richard L. Starnes, Jr. Representative, 13th District /s/ Carlus D. Gay Carlus D. Gay Representative, 60th District /s/ Bert Ward Bert Ward Representative, 2nd District /s/ Jack Shuman Jack Shuman Representative, 65th District /s/ Joe Mack Wilson Joe Mack Wilson Representative, 102nd District TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE TO STUDY SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS (House Resolution No. 86-209) THE COMMITTEE SENATE Honorable Hugh A. Carter Senator, 14th District Honorable Robert E. Lee, Jr. Senator, 47th District Honorable Render Hill Senator, 29th District Honorable Stanley E. Smith, Jr. Senator, 18th District Honorable Sam P. Hensley Senator, 33rd District INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3587 HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Honorable Reid Harris Representative, 85th District Chairman Honorable Francis A. Joiner Representative, 48th District Honorable Paul E. Nessmith, Sr. Representative, 64th District Honorable G. Ed. Knapp Representative, 109th District Honorable D. B. Blalock Representative, 33rd District GOVERNOR'S APPOINTEES Honorable Nelson Severinghaus, Sr. Vice President Georgia Marble Company Honorable Sanford P. Darby Chief of Reforestation Georgia Forestry Commission Honorable Paul Thiele President Thiele Kaolin Company Honorable W. R. Daniel President Dawes Silica Mining Honorable Lamar Franklin Member Soil & Water Conservation Committee Honorable R. S. Howard, Jr. Executive Secretary Georgia Water Quality Control Board Honorable Jessie Auvil Chief Geologist Department of Mines, Mining, and Geology Honorable Hugh Tarbutton Vice President Sandersville Railroad Company REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE TO STUDY SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS (House Resolution No. 86-209) INTRODUCTION The Committee was created pursuant to the authority contained in House Resolution No. 86-209. The Speaker of the House of Representatives appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Reid Harris 85th District Honorable Paul E. Nessmith, Sr. 64th District Honorable D. B. Blalock 33rd District Honorable Francis A. Joiner 48th District Honorable G. Ed. Knapp 109th District 3588 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, The President of the Senate appointed the following members to the Com mittee : Honorable Robert E. Lee, Jr. 47th District Honorable Stanley E. Smith, Jr. 18th District Honorable Hugh A. Carter 14th District Honorable Render Hill 29th District Honorable Sam P. Hensley 33rd District The Governor appointed the following members to the Committee: Honorable Nelson Severinghaus Vice President Georgia Marble Company Honorable Paul Thiele, President Thiele Kaolin Company Honorable Hugh Tarbutton Vice President Sandersville Railroad Comapny Honorable Jessie Auvil Chief Geologist Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Honorable Sanford P. Darby Chief of Reforestation Georgia Forestry Commission Honorable R. S. Howard Executive Secretary Georgia Water Quality Control Board Honorable W. R. Daniel, President Dawes Silica Mining Company Honorable Lamar Franklin Member, Soil & Water Conservation Committee Representative Reid Harris of the 85th District was elected as Chairman of the Committee and Mr. Hugh Tarbutton was elected Secretary. The Committee was created to make a comprehensive study of the laws, procedures and problems relating to surface mining. The Committee was au thorized to hold such meetings at such times and at such places as it considered expedient and to do any other things necessary or convenient to enable it to fully and adequately exercise its powers, perform its duties and accomplish its objectives and purposes. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3589 FINDINGS The Committee determined as the first order of business to inspect a number of mines around the State of Georgia representing the various types of mining industries located within the state. The Committee met in Macon, Georgia, and visited the kaolin mines in Twiggs and Wilkinson Counties. The Committee also visited granite mining activities in Bibb County and from there went to southwest Georgia where they reviewed the surface mining operations for iron in the Stewart, Lumpkin, and Webster County areas. Because of the interest of a number of the members of the Committee in the advent of phosphate and heavy minerals mining in the coastal plains region, the Committee decided to visit the Bartow, Florida, area to view phosphate mining. The Committee visited with the management of International Minerals & Chemicals Corporation in that area who conducted the tour. During this trip copies of the Manatee County Mining Ordinances were obtained and discussed. At the next meeting of the Committee public hearings were held at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Notices were given well in advance of the public hearings and the Associated Industries of Georgia sent out notices to fifty-three (53) mining members. Notices were sent out to a large number of mining industries who were not members of the A. I. G. and it was possible, therefore, for most mining inter ests around the state to be heard if they so desired. Notices were also sent out by press and radio and by invitations submitted by a number of Committee members. A preliminary proposal was presented by Mr. James Dellinger, Vice Chair man of the Mine and Quarry Committee of A.I.G., which was utilized as a basis for drafting legislation, and the members of the Committee discussed and stu died these proposals which are attached hereto and marked "Exhibit A". It should be noted that there was, during the course of deliberation of this Committee, a committee of the Associated Industries of Georgia which rendered invaluable service in drafting a proposal for legislation. The philosophy of the Committee and the draft of the legislation which is being proposed with this report has stemmed from a feeling that legislation of this scale should be approached with the best interest of the state and of estab lished mining industries kept firmly in mind. It was the hope of the Committee, during all of its deliberations, that a workable piece of legislation could be pro posed without the pressures of public sentiment, which have in some instances been detrimental to cool and calm deliberations, of the type problems faced by this Committee. A number of members of the Committee, during the course of deliberation felt that the matter before it was a matter to be handled by the state. It was felt that the Committee did not want the counties of the state to enact on their own zoning laws as has been done in Florida as this would vary from county to county, causing many problems to mining interests in the state. In like manner, the Committee felt that as a state problem this matter should be handled on a state level and not on the federal level. Statements from the United States Department of Interior and by the President of the United States have indicated that unless the states took the lead with the type legislation pro- 3590 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, posed that the federal government would fill the void by enacting federal legis lation. As late as November 21 of this year the Congressional Record indicated through the very strong language of Senator Lausche that federal intervention in this field would be forthcoming. A copy of Lausche's remarks to the Senate are attached hereto as "Exhibit B". This Committee has tried diligently to propose legislation which it felt would meet industries requirements and still afford protection to the citizens of the state. This has not been an easy task to perform. The Committee understands the burdens being required by law that are being placed upon the mining industry and realizes that in some instances it will be very difficult for small mining opera tors, particularly, to commence business in the State of Georgia. The Committee further understands that many of the mining interests now located in the state have, without being required to do so by law, made substantial strides, at the individual cost of the companies involved, in reclaiming land in initiating useful pilot projects for land reclamation. Discussions with the management of phosphate interests in Florida indicated that outside interests looking to the State of Georgia for possible future mining would rather have the laws on the books so that they would know what they would face in coming into our borders rather than having the possibility of future laws to be enacted without knowing what the financial impact would be. Although there was not total harmony among the mining interests which the proposed legislation will affect, the majority of the industries have expressed the view that the legislation is reasonable. As a future guide there has been placed on file in the Office of Legislative Counsel the following documents: "Surface Mining and Our Environment" by the U. S. Department of Interior "Reforestation of Strip-Mined Bituminous Coal Land In Pennsylvania" by the Pennsylvania Agriculture Experiment Station "Establishment of Seeded Black Locust on Spoil Banks" by West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station "Interstate Mining Compact" by The Council of State Governments "Progress Report for September 1962" by Tennessee Valley Authority, Division of Forestry Development Kentucky's House Bill No. 36, 1966 "Ten Years of Strip-Mine Forestation Research in Ohio" by U. S. De partment of Agriculture "Forest Planting on Strip-Mined Land" by Central States Forest Experi ment Station INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3591 "Chemical and Physical Properties of Spoil Banks In the Eastern Ken tucky Coal Fields" by U. S. Forest Service Tennessee Senate Bill No. 43, 1967 "Trees for Planting on Strip-Mined Land in Illinois" by U. S. Forest Service Station Note No. 151, U. S. Department of Agriculture Station Note No. 148, U. S. Department of Agriculture "The Black Alder as a Pioneer Tree on Sand Dunes and Eroded Land", Journal of Forestry TVA - 1965 Journal of Forestry, April 1952 "Conference of Interstate Agencies" by The Council of State Govern ments "Mixed or Pure Walnut Plantings on Strip-Mined Land in Kansas" by U. S. Department of Agriculture "Forest Planting on Strip-Mined Land in Kansas, Missouri, and Okla homa" by Central States Forest Experiment Station "Results of Revegetation of Strip Mine Spoil by Soil Conservation Dis tricts in West Virginia" by West Virginia University Agricultural Ex periment Station "Heritage" by Department of Natural Resources Surface Mining Act of West Virginia, 1967 "Success of Tree Planting on Strip-Mined Areas in West Virginia" by West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station Georgia Kaolin Company Letter to Mr. G. Don Sullivan of the American Mining Congress "Water Resources Development" by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Notes by the U. S. Forest Service "Mining Survey for Georgia" by Georgia Forestry Commission The Interstate Mining Compact "How to Make America Beautiful" by Alfred Lansing 3592 JOURNAL OP THE HOUSE, Bituminous Coal Mining Laws of Pennsylvania "The Mining Industry in North Carolina From 1946 Through 1953" by Sam D. Broadhurst, Assistant State Geologist "Surface Mining" by the Council of State Governments "Strip-Mined Lands of the Western Interior Coal Province" by U.S.D.A. "Project Report No. 1, South Georgia Minerals Program" by Georgia State Division of Conservation RECOMMENDATIONS (1) The Committee recommends that the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives appropriate a minimum of $40,000 in the 1968 Appropriations Bill to be utilized by the Board during the period of drafting the rules and regulations provided in the bill. (2) The Committee recommends the passage of a bill which will be known as the "Georgia Surface Mining Act of 1968" which will be introduced by the House members of the Committee during the 1968 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The members of the Committee wish to express their sincere appreciation to all of the persons who appeared and testified before the Committee; to the Associated Industries of Georgia for the assistance they rendered to the Committee during its deliberations and in the preparation of proposed legislation acceptable to the surface mining industry and the citizens of Georgia; and to the manage ment of the surface mining operations visited by the Committee in the states of Georgia asd Florida. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Reid Harris Reid Harris, Chairman Representative, 85th District /s/ Hugh Tarbutton Hugh Tarbutton, Secretary EXHIBIT "A" ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF GEORGIA OUTLINE OF PROPOSED PLAN FOR LICENSING OF SURFACE MINING OPERATIONS AND REGULATING THE MINED LAND USE THEREOF 1. Administration would be under the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology. (a) The law should call for rules and regulations to conform to Administra tive Procedures Act. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3593 2. A Surface Mined Land Use Board would be set up. (a) Personnel would be from the State of Georgia and would include: 1 - a State Senator 2 - a member of the House of Representatives 3 - a qualified forester 4 - a qualified geologist 5 - a qualified agronomist 6-- a qualified water quality control engineer 7 - a qualified soil conservationist 8 - four members representing the various segments of the mining industry Members of the Board would be appointed by the Governor. Each time there is an industry vacancy, a member would be appointed from two names proposed by the Associated Industries of Georgia. The Governor would appoint members to fill vacancies and upon terminations of the terms of office, consistent with above. Terms would be staggered with not more than three members' terms of office terminating each year. Terms would be for four years. (b) Duties of the Board would be to set up the rules and regulations for surface mined land use within the framework of the law, to hear appeals, and to rule upon appeals by mine operators. 3. The Department of Mines, Mining and Geology would have these respon sibilities : (a) Issue license to each operator (b) Receive and approve surface mined land use plans (c) Receive the license fee (d) Receive and hold the bond or cash required (e) Make inspections in accordance with the law and the rules and regula tions set up by the Board (f) Approve the compliance with surface mined land use plans and release of portions of all of each bond or cash (g) Recommend to the Board that a portion of all of the bond or cash be forfeited or a license renewal be denied, where a mine operator refuses to carry out his plan of mined land use. 3594 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, (h) Collect and submit to the Board information on surface mining and mined land use plans so as to keep the Board aware of the problems of the mine operators and the problems of the Department in the administration and operation of the law and the regulations (i) Collect, publish, and distribute information on mined land uses (j) Receive monies that are available from governmental units and private organizations for work in research and studies of mined land uses. (k) Carry out land use projects on lands where bonds, or cash have been forfeited using funds available for such purposes 4. Duties of the operators: (a) Each operator would be required to obtain a license from the Depart ment of Mines, Mining and Geology each year. A $50 fee would be required with each license (b) Each operator would be required to submit a plan each year showing to the best of his ability the area he intends to mine and where he intends to put the overburden (affected area), and to annually submit a satisfactory bond or cash in the amount of $200 per acre for each acre affected. The bond or cash would be held by the Department and shall be kept in force until the mining and the land use plan have been completed in accordance with the regulations of the Board, at which time the bond or cash, or a portion thereof, would be terminated. Operators would have the right to amend any mined land use plan at any time upon submission of a substitute plan with the proper bond or cash. Operators would have the right to submit a long term mined land use plan and upon submission of the appropriate bond or cash each year to cover any area to be affected during the coming year. (c) Operators would have the option of securing separate bonds or deposit ing cash on each mine area (d) Mined land use plans ought to be consistent with the land use in the area of the mine. The operator would be responsible for the plan. It is sug gested that mined land use plans could be for such uses as the perpetuation of fish, game and wildlife; for recreation purposes; for forestation; for farming; for residential or industrial sites. (e) Area required for refuse, by-products, or waste disposal would be exempted from the operation of the law. (f) It is suggested that the operator would have the right to substitute an area mined in the past for an area being mined on an acre per acre basis INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3595 5. Appeals from orders of the Board would be to the Superior Court of the county in which the mining is being done. No bond or cash shall be forfeited during an appeal. Requests for an appeal should be made within 30 days of a ruling. 6. If after notification by the Department, a mine operator refuses to request a license or refuses to submit a mined land use plan, the Department shall be au thorized to take such legal action as is necessary. It is suggested that such acts would be misdemeanors and that a fine would be applied of $100 to $1,000 for each act. Each day of noncompliance after notification would be considered as an individual act. 7. Effective date of the law could be January 1, 1969 I. Policy - It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State, after surface mining operations are completed, to provide henceforth for the mined land use and conservation of land affected by surface mining and thereby to preserve natural resources, to aid in the protection of wildlife and aquatic resources, to establish recreational, home and industrial sites, to protect and perpetuate the taxable value of property, and to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the people of this State. II. Definitions-- 1) Overburden means all of the earth and other materials which lie above natural deposits of ores or minerals, and includes all earth and other mater ials disturbed from their natural state in the process of surface mining. 2) Surface Mining means the mining of ores or mineral solids for sale or for processing or consumption in the regular operation of a business by removing the overburden lying above natural deposits thereof and mining directly from the natural deposits thereby exposed, or by mining directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state. Removal of overburden and mining of limited amounts of any ores or mineral solids shall not be considered sur face mining when done only for the purpose and to the extent necessary to determine the location, quantity, or quality of any natural deposit, so long as no ores or mineral solids removed during exploratory excavation or mining are sold, processed for sale, or consumed in the regular operation of a busi ness. 3) Operator means any person, firm, partnership, or corporation engaged in and controlling one or more surface mining operations. 4) Pit means a tract of land from which overburden has been or is being removed for the purpose of surface mining. 5) Affected land means the area of land from which overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited or both. 6) Spoil bank means overburden removed from its natural position and deposited elsewhere in the process of surface mining. 7) Peak means a projecting point of overburden removed from its natural position and deposited elsewhere in the process of surface mining. 3596 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 8) Ridge means a lengthened elevation of overburden removed from its natural position and deposited elsewhere in the process of surface mining. 9) Refuse means all waste material directly connected with the mining, cleaning and preparation of substances mined by surface mining. 10) Department means Department of Mines, Mining and Geology. 11) Inspector means any authorized employee of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology responsible for administration or enforcement of this act. 12) Board means "Surface Mined Land Use Board". EXHIBIT "B" November 21, 1967 SURFACE MINING AND STREAM POLLUTION Mr. LAUSCHE, Mr. President, I have had the pleasure of reading an article in an advance copy of the December 1967 issue of Outdoor Life, one of the leading publications in this country appealing to conservationists and outdoorsmen. The title of the article is "Blight on the Land." The subtitle is "Strip Mining's Legacy of Lifeless Land and Fouled Water Threatens Disaster to Our Hunting and Fishing." The Senators from West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania will be especially interested in the article for it mentions pollution conditions and streams in their States. As an example, the beautiful Blackwater River in West Virginia was, until the 1960's as famous a trout stream as any in the State. Acidladen waters have now fouled the river so that trout can no longer live in it. The article also cites a condition in my own State of Ohio where is located the Wills Creek Reservoir--a part of the famed Muskingum chain that was once con sidered a model conservation project for all America. Until recent years that reservoir was one of the best fishing lakes in Ohio for catfish up to 40 pounds and for the famous fishing muskies. But fishing there is a thing of the past. Old shaft mines were opened by strip mining and their reservoirs of poisonous wastes poured into Wills Creek. The water, the banks, and even the trees along the shore are stained red and the muskies and big flatheads and other fish are gone. In Tennessee, strip mine pollution has destroyed sport fishing in 235 miles of stream, including some of the topnotch smallmouth bass fishing areas. Another example of pollution resulting from strip mining is the Tradewater River in western Kentucky. It was once known for its excellent fishing. In bass, crappies, catfish, and others, but recently Gov. Ed Breathitt lamented: It is gone now. Strip mine pollution killed it. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3597 Mining operations without proper reclamation have not only destroyed fish ing streams, but have also destroyed wildlife areas such as the Bennetts Valley region in Pennsylvania. Much of it State-owned, it is one of the few wilderness areas left in that State and it is the only place in Pennsylvania where elk can be found; yet it is being gouged from end to end by strip mining. The authors of the articles also refer to S. 217, the Mined Lands Conservation Act, which I introduced last January and which is now pending before the Com mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. They also mention the report entitled "Surface Mining and Our Environment," issued last June by the Secretary of Interior, which is the result of a bill I introduced several years ago requiring a study of surface mining. In my opinion, the article in Outdoor Life is of much importance and should be made available to all Members of Congress. I therefore ask unanimous con sent that it be printed in the RECCED. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: BLIGHT ON THE LAND: STRIP MINING'S LEGACY OF LIFELESS LAND AND FOULED WATER THREATENS DISASTER TO OUR HUNTING AND FISHING--PART 1 (By Erwin A. Bamer and Ben East) The official guide to the state parks of West Virginia lists only one park out of a total of 20 that has water but no fishing. That one is Blackwater Falls Park, in the mountains at the state's northeast corner. The guide shows that there is fishing nearby but none in the park itself, and that is a strange piece of irony. Until the 1950's that section of the Blackwater River was as famous a trout stream as any in the state. The river tumbles over a 57-foot ledge and froths into a gorge eight miles long and strewn with massive boulders, to create Blackwater Falls and Canyon. It's the most spectacular scenic spot in West Virginia definitely one of the most idyllically beautiful sights in the eastern half of the nation. Thousands of visitors go to the park each year, but do no trout fishing. A few miles above, two creeks run into the Blackwater from what is now stripmining country. Their acid-laden waters have fouled the river so that trout can no longer live in it. It's hardly a wonder that Governor Hulott C. Smith, speaking of this and countless other examples of the consequences of strip mining in his state, says flatly. "The rape of West Virginia has occurred." And West Virginia is by no means alone. In eastern Ohio, Wills Creek Reservoir--part of the famed Muskingum chain that was once considered a model conservation project for all America--was one 3598 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, of the best fishing lakes in that area. It had flathead catfish up to 40 pounds and some of the best muskie fishing in the state. But fishing there is a thing of the past. Old shaft mines were opened by strip mining, and their reservoirs of poisonous wastes poured into Wills Creek. The water, the banks, and even the trees along shore are stained red, and the muskies, the big flatheads, and the other fish are gone. Due for the same fate, in all likelihood, is nearby Piedmont Lake, 4,000 acres of fine fishing water now being encircled by stripping operations. In Tennessee, strip-mine pollution has destroyed sport fishing in 235 miles of stream, including some top-notch smallmouth-bass and muskellunge water, and fishery biologists say that the future looks dismal. For another example, take the Tradewater River in western Kentucky. Dis cussing the grave problems resulting from strip mining, Governor Ed Breathitt of that state told the authors how he once fished the Tradewater for its bass, crappies, goggle-eyes, bream, and catfish, and how his father and grandfather had rated it one of the best streams in Kentucky. "It's gone now," the governor said, "Strip-mine pollution killed it. That's one place I'll never be able to take young Edward fishing." He was referring to his eight-year-old son, who is being brought up as a chip off the old block. It's easier to find examples of stream and lake damage by strip miners than cases in which game and hunting lands have suffered, but instances of damage to hunting lands are far from lacking. The Bennetts Valley region in Pennsylvania is one. Much of it state-owned. It is one of the few wilderness areas left in the state and is the only place in Pen nsylvania where elk can be found. Yet it is being gouged from end to end by strip mining. "The forests, mostly on public land, are being torn and gashed, mile upon mile," says Roger Latham, outdoors editor of the Pittsburgh Press. "The opera tors don't even have to pay for the trees they destroy. Because the terrain is steep, they terrace their diggings, and the scars will be there almost forever." Meigs County in southeastern Ohio is another example. It once was scenic hill country with excellent hunting for bobwhites, cottontails, deer and grouse. Then strip mining began, and almost overnight 3,000 acres of ridges and meadows were wrecked and the game was gone. Next, silt and pollution destroyed 25 miles of good bass and catfish water. Paul Bowers, head of the Meigs County Farm Bureau, angrily called those pol luted streams "roadside signs that the industry's hands are dirty." In the last 50 years, and mostly in the last 25, this eyesore industry--which few sportsmen (or, for that matters, few Americans apart from those living in the affected areas) know anything about--has left its blighting scars on more than 5,000 square miles of land, much of it game cover, from Florida to Alaska. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3599 As of January 1, 1967, surface mining had damaged 1,700,000 acres of wild life habitat (some game species move out as soon as the equipment moves in). 13,000 miles of stream. 103,000 surface acres of natural lake, and 41,000 surface acres of impoundment. The affected areas are scattered over the entire county. Of these staggering totals, some 29,000 acres of impoundment and 5,800 miles of stream had been made totally unfit for fish. Actually, it is doubful whether anyone knows exactly the extent of the devas tation wrought by this mining. Last winter, while introducing in the U. S. Senate a bill aimed at bringing all surface mining under federal regulation, Senator Frank J. Lausche (D.-Ohio) spoke of 3,000,000 ravaged acres. And last July, in a detailed and lavishly illustrated report to the President and the nation entitled Surface Mining and Our Environment. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall put the figure at 3,200,000 acres. The report, based on an intensive two-year study, is available from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 20402, at $2 per copy. Secretary Udall's figure is two or three times that indicated by previous of ficial estimates. And the total is rising by close to 200,000 acres a year. "Surface mining is a hell of a mess," OUTDOOR LIFE was told by an Interior official who asked that his name not be used. "And probably it's worse than it ap pears. I highly mistrust the surface-disturbance figures supplied by the states. Prom my knowledge of one state, the totals are estimated very low." The consequences to hunting and fishing have been disastrous in many states. "Strip mining unquestionably has serious effect on fish and wildlife in West Virginia," T. R. Samuel, director of that state's Department of Natural Resources, told OUTDOOR LIFE. Minor Clark, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, says, "You can't have strip mining without damage to land and water. As long as such mining is allowed, streams will be degraded." And Jack Hoffman, chief of Virginia's Fish Division, adds, "In the areas af fected, strip mining constitutes a serious threat to fish and wildlife." Strip mining produces, in addition to direct damage to land and water, side effects including soil erosion, destruction of forests, abandonment of farms (when their water supply falls or their fields can no longer be reached), severe loss of scenic values, and hazards to public health and safety. Secretary Udall puts a price tag of $757-million on the basic reclamation needed to restore "to use and beauty" the nation's surface-mined areas. This huge sum covers only the minimum treatment that will be required to return the mined lands to an acceptable condition. "A land of scenic grandeur had been changed into a land of devastation," Udall says bluntly, "and a useless aftermath is left." 3600 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Though many materials--including iron, aluminum, copper, clay, sand, gravel, and phosphate--are mined by the strip method, it is coal that creates most of the problems. The big acreages of stripped land are located chiefly in the coal-mining states. To understand the kind of destruction this mining leaves in its wake, you have to know something about how it is done and about the coal it removes. Under the earth of West Virginia, for example, there are 117 named beds or seams of coal. Some are only a foot thick, many are six to eight feet thick, and a few are even thicker. Of the 117, sixty-two are now being mined by either sur face or deep-mining methods. It is the seams lying closest to the surface that stripping can remove--and do so far more profitably than shaft mining can. The strip operation is done entirely on the surface. The overburden of soil and rock that covers a coal seam is scalped off by power shovels or draglines and piled to the rear or dumped over a hillside. The coal is then removed, either by shovels or by huge augers having drills up to seven feet in diameter. Such augers can bore more than 200 feet into the seam and ream out the black mineral at a rate as high as 15 tons per minute. The coal-recovering machines follow the seam around the hill. If the formation is not too deep, more dirt may be dug away and a second seam taken out. In some cases even a third is uncovered and mined. With today's equipment, strip mining can go as deep as 150 feet. In relatively level country, for each acre of coal mined at least one additional acre is left buried under huge windows of subsoil, broken rock, and sulfur-laden earth. And the land looks as if a monstrous plow had furrowed it. In mountains or rugged hill country the destruction is even greater and more difficult to repair since the over-burden is dumped own hillsides. The giant piles of rubble that result lie on steep slopes, and they often slide or are washed onto the flat land below, burying fields, choking streams, blocking roads, and destroying buildings. What is left when the coal is out looks like a landscape on the moon. Pennsylvania has 370,000 acres of "disturbed" land, Ohio 275,000, West Vir ginia 200,000, Kentucky 130,000, Alabama 135,000, Tennessee 10,000, Virginia 60,000. In coal-mining areas outside the Appalachian region, there are 143,000 ra vaged acres in Illinois, 125,000 in Indiana, 60,000 in Missouri, and 22,000 in Arkansas, California has 175,000 acres, mostly from gold mining; Florida 190,000, chiefly phosphate areas, and Minnesota 115,000, from the removal of iron ore, sand, and gravel, New York has 60,000 acres of land mined for sand, gravel, and stone; Texas 160,000 acres of the same origin. Secretary Udall estimates that of the 3,200,000-acre total of torn-up land, only one-third has been adequately reclaimed, either by man's efforts or by natural forces. At least 2-million acres, equivalent to a belt one mile wide and running all the way from New York to San Francisco, lie partly or wholly unreclained, he says. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3601 Of that huge area, Indiana is the only state in which the reclaimed acreage exceeds the unreclaimed, according to the Udall report. In most of the states in volved, two-thirds or more of the stripped lands lie ruined and derelict, out of cir culation so far as game and other wildlife are concerned. "What remains is not only ugly but also dangerous," Kentucky's Governor Breathitt told the Southern Governors' Conference in September 1968. U. S. Senator Lausche points out that large areas have been abandoned out right as a result of stripping operations. Boyd Wallace, a former field assistant in the Ohio Division of Reclamation who has battled the bad practices of this headstrong industry for many years, told Outdoor Life. "Strip mining may enrich an individual, but it always impoverishes the community in the end." The mining town of Jackson, in the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania, is a classic example of Wallace's thesis. A UPI story in the Pittsburgh Press in December 1966 told that story. Fifty years ago Jackson was a tidy community with 100 families, a school, and a tree-lined main street. Its men worked in shaft mines nearby. But in the 1930's the coal corporations, lured by the higher profits of strip mining, began to close the pits and turn to surface equipment. Close to 3,000 part-time or unemployed miners picketed the new operation, and when the first shovel dug into the ground, many tried to storm it, but state police turned them back. In less than 30 years an estimated 35-million tons of coal were mined there by stripping, and the town died. Its main street became a rock-littered canyon, and the one remaining house was left an island in a bleak wasteland. The last family moved out last winter. Strip-mine operators often invite criticism by claiming that they are despoil ing only marginal land--land that is worth little for anything save mining. Boyd Wallace runs a farming operation on 800 acres near Cadiz., in the heart of the Ohio strip-mine area, and he refutes that claim by pointing out that he grows as much as 45 bushels of wheat and 100 bushels of corn to the acre. "The land's worthless when they leave it, but not when they start," he says. One of the most spectacular features of the ravaged landscape is the highwall left where stripping has cut a bench into it and along the side of a hill or mountain. These highwalls, vertical cliffs of earth and rock, rise 40 to 100 feet. There are 34,500 miles of them in this country, 20,000 miles in the Appalachian states alone, and along 1,400 of those miles massive landslides have already oc curred. Highwalls often actually isolate a hill or mountaintop completely, and they make millions of acres of game cover difficult or impossible of access. Matching the destruction of the land, and of far greater concern to fisher men, is the water pollution that follows strip mining. 3602 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, Above or below many of the coal seams lies a layer of rock or earth impreg nated with pyrites--iron-sulfur compounds that are the source of sulfuric acid. When these are exposed to air and rain, the deadly acid seeps out and is carried into streams, ponds, and lakes, fouling them until they are unfit for fish. Often the water becomes so acid that it can not be used for household purposes, and neither livestock nor wildlife can drink it. In 1962 the U. S. Public Health Service estimated that 3,200,000 tons of these acid wastes were being discharged each year into the streams of Appalachia. Not all of it comes from strip mines, however. Deep mines, many of them long aban doned, are the source of much acid waste. But strip mining aggravates the problem in a peculiar way. In many instances the stripping operation breaks through into an abandoned and sealed mine, re leasing its accumulated load of acid. "Strip mining has punched thousands of such holes in our hills," the reclama tion director of a mountain state told the authors, "and almost every one of them became a running sore on the land." Another major source of acid pollution are gob piles, mountainous heaps of refuse resulting from the coal-cleaning process. Consisting of impure coal, rock, pyrites, and other waste material, gob piles often cover many acres like dirty gray scabs. Sulfuric acid leaches from them into nearby streams, and mining men say the process can continue for as long as a century. On their face, the figures showing unreclaimed strip-mining acreage do not sound too alarming. "A hundred thousand acres?" the reader may ask. "Why, that's only about four townships. Out of an entire state, that isn't enough to worry about." In West Virginia, for example, the total area of ravaged land is only about the size of a single county. But as Secretary Udall has said, "Although the amount of pits and spoil banks is relatively small, the effects mar vastly larger areas. The derelict acreage is made up of tens of thousands of separate patches. Where one acre in ten is laid waste, the whole landscape is disfigured. The face of the earth is riddled with abandoned workings, gashed with quarries, littered with abandoned structures, and piled high with spoil and slag." The fact is, the figures by themselves do not tell the story. This mining, as Udall says, shocks the sensibilities. To understand the full magnitude of this blight on the land, you have to see what Senator Lausehe calls "the abominable and grotesque scars"--the tormented earth, the choked creek beds, the farm lands and game cover laid waste, the streams running foul and lifeless. When you match the giant machines gashing terraces of sheer ugliness for miles along the steep sides of a mountain, or lacerating half a township of rolling green hills; when you look at tumbling creeks turned flithy yellow with mine-born acid, with no minnows in the shallows and not even a dragonfly hovering over the water--then the picture begins to take on its true dimension. Two other factors must also be taken into account. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3603 First, the operations today are only a beginning. The estimated coal reserves in Kentucky alone are 66-billion tons. One county, Harlan, has 2-billion tons, enough to supply the industry for the next 150 years. Much of this huge tonnage can be mined profitably by stripping. The Udall report estimates that lands left despoiled will mount to 5 million acres by 1980. Unless proper regulations are enforced the consequences of strip mining up to now are no more than a drop in the bucket compared with what the future holds. The second factor is the fantastic improvement in equipment. As the shovels, draglines, and augers grow in size--and they have already reached levels that are almost beyond belief--the work will be done faster, more profitably, at greater depths, and over vastly increased areas. The rate of destruction will rise, and so will the damage. Strip mining got its start back in the 1800's, but it was a humble beginning. Where the coal outcropped, it was dug by pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow and was drawn away by oxcart. Later, horse-drawn plows and scrapers came into use. An old picture shows a power shovel at work in 1886. It was built entirely of wood and was driven by an upright steam engine. Until well into this century, the shovels had a bucket capacity of only one cubic yard. Today there is a shovel in operation in eastern Ohio that moves 70 cubic yards of each at a time and can handle 81,000 tons of overburden each hour. If parked in the center of a football field, it could pick up earth from one end zone and dump it into other. Another shovel in Kentucky has a bucket that scoops up 115 cubic yards. Two cars can park in it side by side, and there is enough head room for a man to stand on their tops. And these shovels are not the biggest. In the southwest corner of Illinois, the world's largest earth-moving machine is stripping overburden from a coal seam day and night, seven days a week. It reaches 400 feet ahead, gobbles 250 tons in one bite, and dumps it 400 feet to the rear. The immense shovel weighs 18,500,000 pounds and is the height of a 20story building, making it taller than the Statue of Liberty or Niagara Falls. It is wider than an eight-lane highway contains over 100 electric motors, and requires enough power to supply an average city of 15,000. One man operates the shovel from an air-conditioned cab at the five-story level. The dragline is another efficient piece of equipment for tearing up landscape. There is one operating in southern Indiana that scoops away 75 cubic yards of overburden at a time. Another in Kentucky is even bigger, and one now being built will have a bucket capacity of 220 cubic yards. As for augers, there is talk now of a giant that will drill 1,000 feet in to a coal seam. Taking all this into account, it is painfully clear that unless strip mining is properly controlled, altered to repair the damage it does to the land and thus made to prevent the ruin of streams and lakes, the ultimate harm will be beyond calculating. "Strip mining looms as the greatest rape of the land in our history," one offical told the author. "If thought is given to our fast-growing population, to the 3604 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, short work week, and to the soaring demand for greater opportunities for hunt ing, fishing, boating, camping, and other forms of outdoor recreation, it becomes self-evident that the final price of unregulated stripping is greater than we can afford to pay." "If left unchecked, the problems will continue to expand," warns Secretary Udall. "Those of today must be identified and those of tomorrow anticipated, and solutions must be found." The surprising truth about this destructive industry is that, save in areas where the mined slopes are too steep to be restored, the wreckage it leaves behind is not necessary. In most cases strip-mined lands can be put back into use or farm ing, as forests, and for wildlife production. Their barren ugliness can be cured and most or all of their pollution abated. And the whole job can be done at a cost that does not impose a prohibitive burden on the mine operators. There are three basic steps in the reclamation process. First, all sulfur-laden material must be dumped where it can later be covered completely with nontoxic earth. Second, the spoil heaps must be graded and leveled to restore, as nearly as possible, the natural contours of the land. In mountain country, however, this is difficult and often impossible. Third, the mined area must be replanted with grass, trees, or both. That adequate reclamation is both possible and feasible in most cases has been proven conclusively in states where reclamation is required by law as part of the mining operation and where that law has been enforced. Except in areas where natural conditions make reclamation impossible, no state has undertaken, or wants, to outlaw strip mining outright. Rather, the need is for regulation--for well-enforced laws guaranteeing that the damage will be repaired pollution controlled, and things put back as they were. The laws must have teeth. Ideally, they should fix severe penalties for relating without a permit and should require a bond sufficient to insure reclamation. Most important of all, they should provide that unless the work is completed in ac cordance with the law and to the satisfaction or state authorities, and the bond released, the operator can not be given a permit to begin another job. Up to now, strip mining in most states has proven to be an unruly problem child. Few operators take kindly to the idea of regulations of any kind, and many of them have been arrogant and defiant. Time after time they have resorted to political influence, money, threats, and even violence to defeat or water down stripmining bills in state legislatures, or to flout the law. But control is bound to come. In his 1968 report to the Appalachian Regional Commission. Interior Secretary Udall spelled out two things that are needed. First, a costly long-range reclamation program to redeem the acreages rav aged and abandoned in the past. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3605 Next, in UdalFs own words, "To prevent future devastation and to avoid sweeping up after tomorrow's miners, it is essential that effective regulations be established." Isn't it time that sportsmen, in every state being scarred by strip mining, demand that both these things be done and done now? TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE TEACHER CERTIFICATION POLICIES STUDY COMMITTEE (House Resolution No. 280) ****** THE COMMITTEE Honorable George D. Busbee, Chairman Representative, 79th District Honorable Robert H. Walling, Secretary Representative, 118th District Honorable Henry Bostick, Member Representative, 93rd District Honorable Daniel K. Grahl, Member Representative, 52nd District Honorable Grace T. Hamilton, Member Representative, 137th District January 1968 I. INTRODUCTION The Teacher Certification Policies Study Committee was created pursuant to the authority of House Resolution 280. The Speaker of the House appointed the following members of the House to the Committee: Honorable Henry Bostick Representative, 93rd District Honorable George D. Busbee Representative, 79th District Honorable Daniel K. Grahl Representative, 52nd District Honorable Grace T. Hamilton Representative, 137th District Honorable Robert H. Walling Representative, 118th District 3606 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, At the organizational meeting of the Committee held on May 26, 1967, at the State Capitol, Representative George Busbee was duly elected Chairman of the Committee and Representative Robert H. Walling was elected Secretary. The creating resolution charged the Committee with the responsibility of making a thorough study of the teacher training programs and teacher certifica tion policies and practices of the State Board of Education of Georgia. The re solution also provided that the Committee should "... pay particularly close attention to said policies and practices as they relate to the Professional Educa tion credits required by the State Board of Education for certification". In carrying out its responsibilities, the Committee heard testimony from many knowledgeable people in the general field of education and in the particular field of teacher education and certification. Included among those giving testimony before the Committee were key personnel of the State Department of Education, School Superintendents, officials of education associations, teachers and others. The Committee also drew on available research materials concerning the subject under consideration. The following pages of this report set forth the Committee's findings and its conclusions and recommendations based on those findings. II. FINDINGS The Committee found that there are many and varied complaints concerning teacher education and certification practices and policies which are expressed by laymen as well as professional educators and others knowledgeable in the field of education. These complaints fall into several categories, and the discussions surrounding them are many and varied. It would lengthen this report unneces sarily to attempt a detailed analysis of these discussions, but a brief summary of the major complaints that the Committee heard are set forth below. A. Professional Education Courses versus Substance Courses in Teacher Training Programs. For many years now there has been a continuous debate among laymen and in education circles concerning the value of so-called "profes sional education" courses as opposed to "substantive" or "content" courses. The Committee found that the subject still generates thoughful discussion in Georgia, and heard many complaints that too much emphasis has been and still is placed on professional education courses at the expense of courses in general education and the subject matter that is to be taught. The opposition to the professional education courses takes many forms, but the main point that is often made is that the value of these courses is debatable and yet to be proven. It seems to many, therefore, including some educators as well as laymen, that until and unless the value of each education course is proven, it is very questionable for our schools of education and our certification policies to insist that the same be a part of the teacher training program. At the present time between 20 and 25% of the educa tion programs of a teacher is devoted to professional education courses. It was pointed out to the Committee on several occasions that many persons who are considered well educated by most standards could not qualify to teach in our public schools, except under provisional certificates, because they have not had the required professional education courses. For example, a professor of mathe matics at Georgia Tech could not teach math at a Georgia high school, nor could INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3607 a professor at the law school at the University of Georgia teach high school commerical law except under provisional certificates, which penalize their holders through lower salaries than the salaries authorized by the professional certifi cates. While most educators were in accord in expressing their feelings that profes sional education courses are essential, many of them agreed that an in-depth study should be made of the courses now being offered. The Committee also found that the approved teacher training colleges in Georgia usually require more professional education courses in their teacher training programs than is required by the State Board of Education for certi fication. B. The Requirement of Five Consecutive Years Teaching for a Lifetime Certificate. Under present regulations of the State Board of Education, a teacher must teach five consecutive years before becoming eligible for a lifetime certi ficate. According to testimony heard by the Committee, this requirement leads to many hardships and frequently drives teachers from the profession. For example, young women teachers often marry and become pregnant during their first five years of teaching after graduation from college and find it necessary to temporarily leave the profession. Under present regulations, such teachers find that they must go back to school for additional courses if they wish to teach. This requirement places a considerable burden on these young wives and mothers who would like to continue to teach, even when they are fortunate enough to live near an approved teacher training college, but for others, who would have to leave their families to go back to college, it seems to be asking too much, and they fre quently seek employment out of the teaching profession. There are many other cir cumstances, other than pregnancy, that cause young teachers to temporarily stop teaching before completing five consecutive years. C. Teacher Education Courses Available Only at Approved Teacher Training Institutions. The fact that under present regulations, approved teacher education courses are available only at a limited number of institutions throughout the State is also a source of hardship and many complaints. It can be readily seen how this problem would be directly related to the teacher who had to return to college for additional courses for the reasons discussed in "B" above, and there are additional circumstances where this factor is of considerable importance. The Committee found, for example, that many people who finally decide they want to teach did not reach that decision until they had completed college, and as a result, they had not taken an approved teacher training program while in college. This late decision to teach might be made for a variety of reasons ranging from purely economic considerations to a genuine desire to become a career teacher. Whatever the reasons, many people have pointed out that the shortage of teachers demands that this source of teachers not be neglected. Many, if not most, of the potential teachers falling into this category are married and have children, and like the teachers described in "B", they find it very difficult to return to college to take additional courses, particularly, when attending the nearest approved teacher training institution would require them to leave their families. The teachers in this category, however, are limited to the provisional certificate until they can return to college to take the necessary courses to qualify them for the profes sional certificate. D. Lack of Standardization of Courses. The Committee found that there is no coordination or standardization of courses in the teacher training programs 3608 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, offered by the approved teacher training institutions located both within and without the State. The courses offered at these institutions differ not only in name and designation from one school to another but also in content. As a result, there are many problems associated with transferring credits from one institution to another. E. Reciprocity. Closely related to the matter of standardization of courses, particularly with regard to institutions located without the State, is the lack of any assurance that a teacher trained in an out-of-State institution will be eligible for certification in Georgia. For example, a student who has completed an ap proved teacher training program at an out-of-State institution may discover that he must go back to school at an approved teacher training institution in this State if he wishes to qualify for a Georgia professional certificate. F. Confusion Relating to the Requirements for Certification. The Certifica tion Unit of the State Department of Education was requested to furnish the Committee with copies of all rules and regulations pertaining to teacher certifica tion. The Committee was constantly supplied with amendments, revisions and supplements to pamphlets and advised that some of the material previously fur nished to the Committee was out of date. Not only were the members of this Committee unable to follow the technicalities of these numerous pamphlets and publications, but also many principals, superintendents, and teachers themselves had the same problem. The Committee found that because of the confusion relating to certification requirements, there was often a complete breakdown of communi cation between the Teacher Certification Unit and applicants for certification. III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Conclusions. Based on the testimony it has heard and its investigation, the Committee is of the opinion that there is considerable validity to the many com plaints that have been presented to it, and remedial measures could and should be undertaken. The Committee is of the further opinion that the basic source of these problems and complaints is traceable to the Composition of the Georgia Council on Teacher Education. The Committee recognizes that the Georgia Council on Teacher Education has a long and honorable history of dedication to the improvement of the quality of education in our State, but for several years now, the Council has been the determining factor in matters of teacher preparation and certification, although the law provides that this responsibility belongs to the State Board of Education. The Council is a voluntary organization and is not controlled either by the law or the State Board of Education, but the Board, recognizing that it needed knowl edgeable advice in the area of teacher training and certification, has relied heavily on the Council's recommendations on this important subject. In fact, the Com mittee's investigation reveals that with very few quite recent exceptions, the Council's recommendations on teacher training and certification have been ac cepted by the Board without change or even amendment. This entire procedure was recently formalized when the Board designated the Council as the official advisory body on matters of teacher education, though the Board of Education has not delegated any authority to this body to act. However, it should be noted that the Honorable Jack P. Nix, State Superin tendent of Schools, did recommend to the State Board of Education that the num- INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3609 ber of required education courses be reduced from three to two courses at the fifth and sixth year levels. The State Board of Education accepted this recom mendation at their regular March meeting. This reduction was opposed by the Georgia Council on Teacher Education. The Committee has concluded, therefore, that the Council is the de facto organization setting requirements for teacher preparation and certification, and the question now arises as to how the composition of the Council relates to many of the complaints the Committee has heard. An analysis of many of these complaints reveals that they revolve around an emphasis on the function of our approved teacher preparation colleges. For example, the continued emphasis on "profession al education" courses; the requirement that teachers, or would be teachers, re turn to these college campuses for additional courses is the source of several of these complaints. When one examines the composition of the Council, the emphasis on colleges of education is not surprising: of a total membership of 99 members, 31 are the heads, or members of the faculty, of the approved colleges of education and an additional 31 are appointed by the presidents of institutions having an approved college of education. Thus, the colleges have 62 or almost two-thirds of the mem bership of the Council. The bulk of the remaining members are representatives from GEA, GTEA and the State Department of Education. The "consumers" of teachers, that is, superintendents and principals, and teachers themselves are sadly underrepresented on the Council. During the course of its study, the Committee was informed several times that teaching is a profession and that the requirements relating to teacher prep aration and certification are matters that should be determined by the profes sion itself and not by the legislature. The Committee agrees that teaching is a profession, and in fact, the General Assembly is formally on record to that effect through the adoption of the "Professional Teaching Practices Act" at the 1967 session (Ga. Laws 1967, p. 840). The Committee also agrees that teacher prep aration and certification are matters of primary concern to the profession, but would like to point out, however, that while the legal and medical professions, for example, make recommendations that are normally followed by the legislature, the legislature itself is the ultimate body to determine the qualifications required of all professions, because the qualifications are directly related to the public welfare. The welfare of our citizens, of course, including the children of our State, is a matter that properly addresses itself to the General Assembly. The Committee has concluded, however, that the measures that need to be taken to correct the complaints outlined in this report would not require legislative action but can be accomplished by implementation of the recommendations set forth below. B. Recommendations. In view of the findings of this Committee and the foregoing conclusions, the Committee makes the following recommendations: 1. That the Georgia Teacher Education Council take the necessary steps to reorganize itself so as to include substantially more proportional representation for school superintendents, principals and teachers, and that the various committees of the Council also reflect this reorganization once it is completed. Comment. The Committee found that the Teacher Education and Profession al Standards Committee of the Georgia Education Association has considerably 3610 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, more members from classroom teachers, principals and superintendents and sug gests the composition of this Committee as a guideline for the reorganization of the Council. 2. That the State Board of Education, in cooperation with the Board of Regents and the Georgia Teacher Education Council, after its reorganization, undertake an in-depth study of the respective roles of professional education courses and general education and teaching field courses and content of both and that the professional education courses that are not proven to be of value be elim inated and general education or teaching field courses be substituted therefor. Comment. The Committee has been advised that such a study is already con templated and urges that it be initiated and carried out with all speed that tho roughness and the importance of the subject permits. 3. That the State Board of Education consider changing the validity date of T-4 and T-5 certificates to eight years beginning July 1, 1968, so that teachers who teach five years during an eight year period would be eligible for the life certificate. Comment. This recommendation is in keeping with the practices of several of our neighboring states. 4. That the State Board of Education consider issuing a one-year T-4 certi ficate in one established teaching field to applicants who hold the highest current professional certificate based on a bachelor's degree issued by a sister state in which the teacher's training was obtained from an accredited institution. Comment. This recommendation is in keeping with North Carolina's practice and certification compacts of the New England States and Middle Atlantic States. 5. That the State Board of Education consider issuing the B-4 Provisional Certificate without evidence of employment and the superintendent's recommenda tion. Comment. It is believed that such evidence and recommendation is not neces sary since the certificate is valid for a three-year period. 6. That the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents jointly take the necessary steps to establish a satellite program for teachers training whereby teacher education courses can be offered throughout the State by utilizing the facilities of junior colleges, senior colleges and other colleges during the summer months and at other times during the year as might be necessary or desirable. Comment. Such a satellite program would make teacher education courses available within commuting distance to students and teachers throughout the State enabling students needing additional courses to obtain their professional certificates and teachers to upgrade their current certificates without undue hardship. The Committee is advised that such a program is currently being con sidered by the Board of Education and Board of Regents and urges that it be fully implemented at the earliest possible time. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3611 7. That the Certification Bulletin of the State Department of Education and other literature dealing with teacher preparation and certification be systemati cally reviewed by the Board of Education and the Department for improvement in style and content. Comment. The development of a simplified brochure on teacher preparation and certification, containing accurate and current information, and its wide distribution to students entering college under a teacher training program and to all applicants for certification would be of great value in eliminating the present confusion regarding the requirements for teacher certification in Georgia. 8. That a new interim committee be created at the 1968 session of the Gen eral Assembly to follow up on the implementation of the foregoing recommenda tions and to make such further recommendations to the 1969 session of the Gen eral Assembly as such committee shall determine. Comment. Suggested language for a resolution creating the interim committee is included in this report as Appendix "A". Respectfully submitted, /s/ George D. Busbee George D. Busbee Representative, 79th District Chairman /s/ Robert H. Walling Robert H. Walling Representative, 118th District Secretary /s/ Henry Bostick Henry Bostick Representative, 93rd District /s/ Daniel K. Grahl Daniel K. Grahl Representative, 52nd District /s/ Grace T. Hamilton Grace T. Hamilton Representative, 137th District APPENDIX "A" A RESOLUTION Creating an interim committee to study the Teacher Certification policies and practices of the State Board of Education of Georgia; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, the Teacher Training and Certification Study Committee sub mitted a report to this session of the General Assembly setting forth certain rec ommendations regarding changes that should be made in teacher training and certification policies and practices; and WHEREAS, there is a continued need for legislative review of teacher train ing and certification policies and practices; and 3612 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, WHEREAS, said Teacher Training and Certification Study Committee rec ommended the creation of a new interim committee to follow up on the implemen tation of its recommendations. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRE SENTATIVES that there is hereby created the Teacher Training and Certifica tion Study Committee to be composed of five members of the House of Represen tatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Said com mittee shall be authorized to study and evaluate the implementation of the recom mendations contained in the Report of the Teacher Training and Certification Study Committee presented to the 1968 session of the General Assembly, and shall be further authorized to make such other studies as it deems necessary or desir able relating to teacher training and certification policies and practices of the State Board of Education of Georgia. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the committee shall select a chairman from among its members and may hold such meetings at such places and at such times as it considers expedient, and may do any other things consistent with this resolution that are necessary or convenient to enable it to fully and adequately exercise its powers, perform its duties and accomplish the objectives of this resolution. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the committee shall receive the same expenses and travel allowances authorized for legislative mem bers of interim legislative committees, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved March 16, 1966 (Ga. Laws 1966, p. 544). The members of the com mittee shall receive such expenses and allowances from the funds appropriated to or available to the legislative branch of government. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the committee shall make a report of its findings and recommendations, which report shall be accompanied by such proposed legislation as might be recommended by said committee. Such report shall be made on or before December 1, 1968, on which date the committee shall stand abolished. TO: THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO OF THE SENATE AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE (Senate Resolution No. 119) THE COMMITTEE Honorable Roscoe E. Dean, Jr., Chairman Senator, 6th District Honorable Frank Eldridge, Jr. Senator, 7th District INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3613 Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District Honorable Ford B. Spinks Senator, 9th District REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO OF THE SENATE AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE (Senate Resolution No. 119) INTRODUCTION The Subcommittee on Tobacco of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Re sources Committee was appointed by the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee pursuant to the authority vested in him under Senate Resolution No. 119. The Chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee appointed the following members to the Subcommittee on Tobacco: Honorable Roscoe E. Dean, Jr. Senator, 6th District Honorable Frank Eldridge, Jr. Senator, 7th District Honorable Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District Honorable Ford B. Spinks Senator, 9th District The Chairman designated Senator Roscoe E. Dean, Jr., as Chairman of the Subcommittee. RECOMMENDATIONS The Subcommittee on Tobacco of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Re sources Committee recommends: 1. That the Georgia General Assembly pass legislation prohibiting the un loading, receiving or weighing of tobacco on Sunday. 2. That the Georgia General Assembly endorse and support the proposed legislation now before Congress that will allow Georgia farmers to sell and lease acreage allotments across county lines and to delete or drop acreage as a means of controlling flue-cured tobacco production or surplus. 3. That the Georgia General Assembly pass legislation to remove the sales tax on excise tax which is currently being collected on cigars and cigarettes. 4. That the Georgia General Assembly support a movement to create a mar keting association and establish a trade name for Georgia tobacco or amend the "Georgia Agricultural Commodities Promotion Act" to accomplish this goal. 3614 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, 5. That the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Georgia Tobacco Commodity Commission publish the 1963 through 1967 statistics relative to out-of-state tobacco sold on each Georgia market on a yearly basis. 6. That the Georgia General Assembly pass legislation giving the Commis sioner of Agriculture authority to control the expiration date of warehouse licenses. 7. That the United States Department of Agriculture employ as many grad ers as possible from the state in which they are grading tobacco and that in formation on how to become a grader be widely publicized. 8. That labels on tobacco be placed so buyers cannot see the government grade. 9. That our Congressional delegation in Washington and particularly mem bers of the Senate and House Agricultural Committees increase their coopera tion and continue their cooperation with the Georgia tobacco farmers. 10. Attached as Exhibit "A" are the statistics on out-of-state tobacco sold on the Georgia market from 1963 through 1967. EXPLANATORY REMARKS THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASS LEGISLATION PROHIBIT ING THE UNLOADING, RECEIVING, OR WEIGHNG OF TOBACCO ON SUNDAY. The Subcommittee feels very strongly that receiving, unloading, and weighing of tobacco in Georgia on Sunday is unnecessary and unethical and does not con form to the higher moral standards of tobacco warehouse operations in other fluecured tobacco belts. Testimony before the Subcommittee revealed that some ware housemen in Georgia remain open and receive tobacco on Sunday. This is a com pelling force on other Georgia tobacco warehouse operators, who prefer to close, to remain open on Sunday due to the highly competitive nature of the tobacco warehouse business. Receiving tobacco on Sunday is not necessary, essential or fundamental to the successful operation of a tobacco warehouse nor the orderly marketing of flue-cured tobacco in Georgia and shows disrespect for the Sabbath day. The Subcommittee recommends to all Tobacco Warehousemen operating in Georgia that they refrain from receiving, unloading, or weighing tobacco on Sunday. The Subcommittee further recommends that the Georgia General Assembly pass legislation prohibiting the unloading, receiving, or weighing of tobacco from 12:00 o'clock midnight Saturday to 12:00 o'clock midnight on Sunday. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3615 (2) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDORSE AND SUPPORT THE PROPOSTD LEGISLATION NOW BEFORE CONGRESS THAT WILL AL LOW GEORGIA FARMERS TO SELL AND LEASE ACREAGE ALLOT MENTS ACROSS COUNTY LINES AND TO DELETE OR DROP ACREAGE AS A MEANS OF CONTROLLING FLUE-CURED TOBACCO PRODUCTION OR SURPLUS. In view of the rapid decrease of labor on the farms, and the rising cost of the labor that is left on the farm, it is becoming more apparent each year that the tobacco grower must mechanize his tobacco operation if he is to survive as a tobacco producer. Tobacco has the highest labor requirement (350 hours from seedbed to market) of any crop produced in Georgia. Our tobacco allotments are very small with no acreage increase in sight, and with larger acreage necessary for an economical mechanized unit. The Subcommittee endorses and supports the proposed legislation before Con gress that will allow Georgia farmers to sell and lease acreage allotments across county lines and recommends that the United States Congress pass this pro posed legislation. The Subcommittee recommends that the United States Department of Agri culture drop acreage as a means of controlling flue-cured tobacco production or surplus in order to permit wider row spacing and drill spacing. This would enable a farmer to use fertilizer and yet produce poundage quota. The wider row spacing and wider drill spacing will permit more sunlight to shine down through the plants. (3) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASS LEGISLATION TO REMOVE THE SALES TAX ON EXCISE TAX WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING COL LECTED ON CIGARS AND CIGARETTES. Cigarette and cigar users are taking the brunt of increased tax collections by the states in the United States to the detriment of flue-cured and shade tobacco producers. The Tobacco Tax Council shows in figures how this burden on smokers has pyramided by leaps and bounds the past few years and statistics prove that it is hurting the sale of tobacco and in turn hurting our tobacco farmers. The total taxes collected on tobacco in Georgia are more than those collected on wine and whiskey combined. The tobacco industry is being made a "whipping boy" in our tax structure at the expense of our tobacco growers. The Subcommittee recommends the removal of the sales tax on the excise tax currently being collected on cigarettes and cigars. (4) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT A MOVEMENT TO 3616 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, CREATE A MARKETING ASSOCIATION AND ESTABLISH A TRADE NAME FOR GEORGIA TOBACCO OR AMEND THE "GEORGIA AGRICUL TURAL COMMODITIES PROMOTION ACT" TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL. In order for Georgia tobacco to maintain its good name and keep its favorable position in domestic and foreign trade channels and to provide a means for those who wish to know the source of origin or state the tobacco is produced in, the Subcommittee supports a movement to create a Georgia Tobacco Marketing As sociation for Georgia farmers or amend the "Georgia Agricultural Commodities Promotion Act," to accomplish this goal. (5) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND THE GEORGIA TOBACCO COMMODITY COMMISSION PUBLISH THE 1963 THROUGH 1967 STATIS TICS RELATIVE TO OUT-OF-STATE TOBACCO SOLD ON EACH GEORGIA MARKET ON A YEARLY BASIS. The Subcommittee feels that Georgia's tobacco farmers would be very inter ested to know the pounds of out-of-state tobacco sold by each warehouse each year from 1963 through 1967. The Subcommittee recommends that the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Tobacco Commodity Commission publish these statistics. (6) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASS LEGISLATION GIVING THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AUTHORITY TO CONTROL THE EXPIRATION DATE OF WAREHOUSE LICENSES. To prevent future tobacco cleanup sales from being jeopardized the Subcom mittee recommends that the Georgia General Assembly pass legislation giving the Commissioner of Agriculture authority to control the expiration of warehouse licenses. (7) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EMPLOY AS MANY GRADERS AS POSSIBLE FROM THE STATE IN WHICH THEY ARE GRADING TOBACCO AND THAT INFORMATION ON HOW TO BECOME A GRADER BE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. In view of only two Georgia residents employed by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture to grade tobacco in Georgia, the Subcommittee recommends that the U.S.D.A. employ as many graders as possible from Georgia to grade tobacco in Georgia and that steps necessary to become a grader be widely publi cized. INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS 3617 Persons interested in becoming tobacco graders should write to Mr. Eugene C. Jirak oi the Inter-Agency Board, U. S. Civil Service Examiners for Illinois, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60604, and request an application form and announcement No. CH-7-03 Agriculture Commodity Grader (Tobacco). This is a U. S. Civil Service position with a GS-5 rating. (8) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT LABELS ON TOBACCO BE PLACED SO BUYERS CANNOT SEE THE GOV ERNMENT GRADE. The Subcommittee feels that the practice of labeling tobacco where the grade is visible to the buyers might be some inducement to stop bidding at a price slightly above the support price for that grade. The Subcommittee recommends to the grading service of the U.S.D.A. that the grade on tags be placed in such a manner that buyers cannot see the grade until after they have bought the tobacco. (9) THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO RECOMMENDS THAT OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION IN WASHINGTON AND PARTICU LARLY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE AGRICULTURAL COM MITTEES INCREASE THEIR COOPERATION AND CONTINUE THEIR CO OPERATION WITH THE GEORGIA TOBACCO FARMERS. (10) ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "A" ARE THE STATISTICS ON OUT-OFSTATE TOBACCO SOLD ON THE GEORGIA MARKET FROM 1963 THROUGH 1967. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The members of the Subcommittee wish to express their sincere appreciation to those persons who appeared and testified before the Subcommittee during its deliberations. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Roscoe E. Dean, Jr. Roscoe E. Dean, Jr. Chairman Senator, 6th District /s/ Frank Eldridge, Jr. Frank Eldridge, Jr. Senator, 7th District /s/ Robert A. Rowan Robert A. Rowan Senator, 8th District /s/ Ford B. Spinks Ford B. Spinks Senator, 9th District 3618 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE, B < "z 0 co ra TJ 4J rH OO O a U) i-H -O T3 ra c i-H" 4-> 3 O o o to o w ra ,c o 4-> 4J O O o?. 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Twin Brick New Planters Total for Market 2 72^,662 n*ne 2 556/324 l!J7,78unty Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ..... . ... 1508, 1661, 1800, 1832, 2565 HB 1271 --Dooly County; Ordinary's salary. 931, 981, 1100, 1172, 1673 INDEX 3727 HB 1273 --Dooly County; Small Claims Court; create ..... .... . .. 931, 981, 1110, 1172, 1673 HB 1654 --Dougherty County; Ordinary's salary . . 2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 HR 607-1295--Dougherty County and City of Albany; merge and consolidate; amendment to the Constitution .........._......... 974, 1095, 1099, 1187, 1667 HB 1384 --Douglas County; Board of Education; appoint Superintendent ......... 1303, 1438, 1447, 1547, 2240 HB 1149 --Douglas County; Board of Education; members and districts ...... ........ ... 595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 HB 1148 --Douglas County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts ...._......._...._...._....._....._....._._.._. 595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 HB 1147 --Douglas County; certain employees' salaries ..................... .............. ....... 595, 662, 668, 750, 1235 HB 1146 --Douglas County; law library; establish ....... ...... ... .................... ... 594, 661, 667, 749, 1235 HR 687-1477--Douglas County; water, sanitation, sewerage and fire protection districts; establish; amendment to the Constitution .... 1655, 1792, 1800, 2017, __ __ __ 2850 HB 852 --Early County; Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election ..... 22, 133, 137,_166, 500 HR 406-912 --Early County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ...... .................. 157, 193, 198, 237, 1668, 1849 HB 1526 --Echols County; Board of Commissioners of Road and Revenues; terms of office .... .. ....................................1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 3415 HB 1528 --Echols County; Board of Education members; election . .............. 1786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 HB 1529 --Echols County; Judge; term of office ............... 1786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 HB 1527 --Echols County; Superior Court Clerks; salary ....... 1786, 1982, 2235, 2249, 2996, 3039, 3040, 3255 HR 632-1401--Effingham County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ... ... ... .. . 1306, 1440, 1448, 1558, 2244, 2394 HR 377-853 --Elbert County Industrial Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ...... 23, 134, 137, 226, 1668, 1849 HB 873 --Elbert County; Sheriff's budget ........128, 162, 198, 223, 500 HB 1448 --Emanuel County; Board of Education; create five SB 342 member Board ............ ............1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2358 --Evans County; Board of Commissioners; compensation ........._..... 1238, 1242, 1318, 2593, 2597, 3406 SB 341 --Evans County; Clerk of Superior Court; salary ........... ... ......1238, 1242, 1318, 1448, 1455 SB 340 --Evans County; Deputy Sheriff's salary ................._...._.......... .. 1238, 1242, 1317, 1448, 1455 3728 INDEX HR 631-1401--Evans County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .__.___.__..__...___.__.1306, 1440, 1448, 1554, 2244 SB 414 --Fannin County Board of Commissioners; election ,__._.._...._._.._.__.____..__________.__._.__._.....__ 2852, 2902, 2988 HB 1129 --Fannin County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; salaries _.._-591, 659, 667, 745, 2898, 3050 HB 1128 --Fannin County; Deputy Sheriff; car allowance ..,,.___.__.__..____._._.__..._..__ 591, 659, 667, 744, 2560 HB 951 --Fannin County; Law Library; establish and maintain __.____._..______...__.._..._.._ 215, 294, 298, 395, 1524 HR 432-952 --Fannin County; Ordinary's Court; furnish certain law books ___.__.._____________._____..____.__.__.__. 216, 294, 339, 863, 1527 HR 431-952 --Fannin County; Superior Court Clerk; furnish certain law books . . . . . 216, 294, 298, 397, 738 SB 372 --Fannin County; Tax Collector's salary .__...___._____.___.____._____..1805, 1809, 1986, 1989, 2134, 3429 HB 1623 --Fayette County; Ordinary's compensation _...__ 2225, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3004, 3063 HB 1624 --Fayette County; Sheriff's compensation _.___.____-.___.2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3063 HB 1625 --Fayette County; Superior Court Clerk; salary .....__ _ _ _ . . 2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 HB 1626 --Fayette County; Tax Commissioner's compensation __...-_,,._._._. 2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 HR 593-1241--Fayette County; water, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution ..._..._.,,_.,,..,, 876, 936, 941, 1021, 1667 SR 207 --Floyd County Board of Education; staggered terms for members; amendment to the Constitution .... ........ 1666, 1677, 1797, 2593, 2610 SR 182 --Floyd County Board of Education; Workmen's Compensation; amendment to the Constitution ,,..,,..,,.,,.,,..._...__._.-. 886, 887, 938, 1448, 1467 HB 533 --Floyd County; Contractors Bond; solvent security _...__.---._.,,-..,,.,,._.__--_._.._--_.._.--. --__._..--..942 SB 406 --Floyd County; Coosa Valley Area Vocational Technical School system; create _.......-- 2613, 2621, 2698, 2843, 2869, 3407 HB 1466 --Floyd County; Solicitor-General Office employees; Merit System -- -...-- 1509, 1662, 1800, 1820, 2616, 2931 HB 1133 --Forsyth County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; chairman's salary .........._..-.-- .... 592, 659, 667, 746, 1169 HR 679-1465--Fulton County; ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ......_..._..._1509, 1661, 1799 HB 622 --Fulton County; Airport Authority; create .._._....,,____---.__._._.-_--..-,,_...__..-.-___ (No action in 1968) HR 234 --Fulton County; Airport Authority Study Committee; create _--..--_------_,,.--.(No action in 1968) INDEX 3729 HB 1027 --Fulton County; amusement tax __._____._._.___- 326, 391, 471, 510 HB 759 --Fulton County; amusement tax __..........(No action in 1968) HB 1141 --Fulton County; Atlanta, City of; city taxes; collection _____,,.______,,___.___._____._ 593, 661, 667, 748 HB 1139 --Fulton County; Atlanta, City of; Tax Commissioner; tax returns Fulton and DeKalb County - .,, . . 593, 660, 667, 747 HB 1140 --Fulton County; Atlanta, City of; Tax levy ___.___..__.. __..._...._........_.....__.._.._._.._. 593, 660, 667, 747 SB 193 ---.Fulton County; authorize use of radar for traffic safety __,,______..____..___._.________________....__.________.___.____,,_._____ 668 HB 953 --Fulton County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; pensions ._.__. 217, 295, 298, 395, 3004, 3058 HB 1224 --Fulton County; Board of Elections; sample ballots ._.. .._._......._________ 823, 882, 1227, 1230, 3410 SB 277 --Fulton County; Civil Court Judge; filling of vacancies _._____. 1993, 1994, 2083, 2990, 2992, 3406 HB 1540 --Fulton County; Civil Service Board; salary per diem _______________________________________________________ 1788, 1984 HR 493-1063--Fulton County; conveyance of certain real property ._..___.___..____.._._..._.._.381, 466, 1101, 1945, 3402 HR 520-1103--Fulton County; conveyance of a certain tract of land .......--..,,--... 490, 599, 943, 1946, 3402 HB 1143 --Fulton County; court reporters' compensation ............,,...__......_...,,.__. 594, 661, 667, 749, 1806 SB 274 --Fulton County; Criminal Court; Judge and Solicitor- General; filling of vacancies ....1993, 1993, 2083, 2990, 2992, 3405 HB 1507 --Fulton County; Criminal Court; method of trial and correction of errors .-..._. 1782, 1979, 2235, 2249, 3414 HR 26 --Fulton and DeKalb County Delegations; vote required for local legislation ___,,___ (No action in 1968) HB 956 --Fulton County; Employees' Pension; maximum amount _...._....._......_......__ 218, 296, 667, 671, 1806 SB 319 --Fulton County; execution of warrants _-______-____.___.___._____..____.1167, 1240, 1316, 2353, 2403 SB 308 --Fulton County; Joint City-County Board of Tax Assessors; abolish office manager's position ___.________._______1167, 1239, 1315, 2236, 2246 HB 955 --Fulton County; Judges and Solicitor-General; retirement fund .___..._-......_-....__.,,...........__..,,.__.._....__,,.. 218, 296 HB 971 --Fulton County; Judges' and Solicitor-Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members ..__._.____,,_._.__. 285, 330, 2235, 2248, 3004, 3081 HB 972 --Fulton County; Judges' and Solicitor- Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members; public defenders .__-._..__.._..__._..._._.___._................___.__..._. 286, 330 HB 1513 --Fulton County; local education commission; re-establish .___.__.....:.._.........._..1659, 1795, 2235, 2258, 3415 3730 INDEX HB 1029 --Fulton County; lodgings; excise tax 2% _.____.______._..._._.___...__..__...__..__.327, 391, 471, 511 HR 66-153 --Fulton County; motor vehicle license tags; idemnification to Tax Commissioner; amendment to the Constitution _._._. ..._......._.... (No action in 1968) HB 282 --Fulton County; Ordinary's compensation ... 1670, 1676, 1795, 2353, 2404 SB 190 --Fulton County Planning Commission; eliminate certain exceptions ....1526, 1528, 1663, 2353, 2576 HB 1142 --Fulton County; planning and zoning; hearings ___._. ..... ......................._.....594, 661, 667, 748, 3409 HB 954 --Fulton County; Public Defender; retirement fund _._..__..___.._._..__..._.. 217, 295, 1227, 1229, 2999 HR 724-1550--Fulton County; public parking facilities; establish; amendment to the Constitution ........__....____.. ...__..-___..__..-1789, 1985, 2235, 2272 SR 53 --Fulton County; purchase of license plates by check ..... ............ . ......... ............. ..... .. 2703, 2721 SB 236 --Fulton County; Sheriff's salary ............................ 1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2872, 3405 SR 63 --Fulton County; Solicitor-General; change name to District Attorney ...........................2619, 2709, 2840, 2842, 3333, 3430 HB 1067 --Fulton County; Superior Court Clerk; salary __.. .._.__... ........382, 466, 472, 515, 1803, 1845 SB 312 ---Fulton County Tax Commissioner; collection of taxes due City of Atlanta situated in DeKalb County .-1670, 1676, 1796, 2235, 2247 HR 731-1589--Fulton County; tax levies; amendment to the Constitution ....... _.............. ................1976, 2083, 2593, 2626 SB 310 --Fulton County; tax returns due City of Atlanta located in Fulton and DeKalb County ..... ..... .-___..____ 1740, 1741, 1797, 2235, 2262, 3405 HB 1643 --Fulton County; Teacher's tenure ................._. ....... 2345, 2558 HR 197-652 --Fulton County; transfer certain property ..............__...._........ ........ ... .. (No action in 1968) HB 1395 --Fulton County; trucks hauling gravel or stone; prohibited on streets without protective covering ..... ...... ._...__.__ 1305, 1439, 1569, 1665, 1688, 3412 SB 309 --Fulton County; zoning changes; notification to tax assessing officials .... . ..... ..._-_............ 1167, 1239, 1315, 2235, 2247 HR 717-1522--Gilmer County; Courthouse Library; Georgia Supreme Court Reports and Court of Appeals Reports; State Librarian to furnish certain volumes .... ......... _. ......... ............ 1785, 1981, 2844 HR 719-1522--Gilmer County; Tax Commissioner; authorization to collect tax fi. fas.; amendment to the Constitution .... . ..... ...............1785, 1982, 1989, 2139, 2850 INDEX 3731 HB 1522 --Gilmer County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices ................... 1785, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 HB 1305 --Glascock County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' compen sation .. .. ..................................977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 2560 HB 1306 --Glascock County; Tax Commissioner's compensation . . .... ................ 977, 1097, 1100, 1175; 1675 HB 1304 --Glascock County; Treasurer's compensation .. ... .... .........._...... 977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 1674 HB 1611 --Glynn County; Brunswick-Glynn County Charter Commission; create .... ...... ... 2074, 2230, 2843, 2856, 3417 HR 636 --Glynn County-Brunswick Optimist All Stars Football Team; commend ............ .... ............... ....._...._1248 HB 1398 --Glynn County; Juvenile Court; judges' salary ..... ...... ........... 1306, 1439, 1447, 1549, 3413 HB 1580 --Glynn County; Sheriff's deputies; additional ...... ..... ...... .......... 1974, 2081, 2089, 2256, 3416 HB 845 --Gordon County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; create ... ... ....... ..21, 132, 137, 165, 736 HB 844 --Gordon County, Development Authority; members' terms and appointments ....... ............ ....... 21, 132, 137, 165, 1528, 1843 HB 922 --Gordon County; Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; salary ......_....._......._._.159, 195, 198, 225, 1170, 1196 HB 1385 --Grady County; Board of Education; create new Board .... ....... ........ 1303, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2240 HB 1595 --Grady County; Chief deputy and clerk; salary .. . ... ....... ...... ...... . 2071, 2228, 2235, 2400, 3163 HB 1285 --Greene County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members' compensation ..... ........................ 933, 983, 989, 1114, 1674 HB 1281 --Greene County; officials' salaries and mileage allowances ... . .... ... .. ........... 933, 983, 989, 1112, 1674 HB 1288 --Greene County; Tax Commissioner's compensation .......... ... ............934, 984, 989, 1115, 1674 HB 404 --Gwinnett County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; create ................. 340, 373, 429, 429 HR 806-1653--Gwinnett County Board of Education; filling of vacancies; amendment to the Constitution _ .. ............. ....... 2589, 2697, 2702, 2873, 3427 HR 785-1636--Gwinnett County; employees and officials; create Merit System; amendment to the Constitution .... ..... ............. 2343, 2557, 2593, 2603, 3427 HB 1652 --Habersham County; City Court governed by Superior Court ...... ..... ...... 2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 HB 1657 --Habersham County; Ordinary's salary .........__....._._......._........ ....... ............_............._.....2838, 2987 HB 1218 --Hancock County; Small Claims Court, establish ..... ...... ....... ...... ....... 822, 880, 1100, 1171, 1672 HB 582 --Hancock County; Superior Court Sheriff, Ordinary and Clerk; compensation ............1988, 2103, 2994 3732 INDEX HB 581 --Hancock County; Tax Commissioner; employ clerical help . . ......... ....1988, 2090, 2845 HB 1432 --Haralson County; Airport Authority; establish . . .......... ........... 1431, 1511, 1518, 1682, 2561 HB 1437 --Harris County; Small Claims Court; commencement of actions .._._... 1432, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2357 HB 1013 --Heard County; additional deputy . .. ._ 323, 388, 471, 513, 885 HB 1426 --Henry County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts -.---1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3161 HB 1425 --Henry County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' elections .._._.. _........._..._._.........._..._.1429, 1510, 1518, 1681, 3161 HR 663-1427--Henry County; County manager form of government; provide; amendment to the Constitution _......_............._. 1430, 1510, 1519, 1689, 3425 HB 1427 --Henry County; Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; compensation ... ----------.-1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3162 HR 662-1427--Henry County Water Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution -..--....----1429, 1510, 1519, 1689, 3425 HR 681-1473--Henry County; water and sewerage; additional indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution -------------------- 1654, 1791, 1799, 1999, 3425 HR 894 --Henry County Water Study Commission; create ----...__. ........_......._.....___.. -----------------3207 SR 261 --Houston County Building Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution ...... ........._._......... 2708, 2710, 2841, 3112, 3120 HB 1418 --Houston County; City Court; jurisdiction --------------------1310, 1443, 1448, 1554, 2614 SR 250 --Houston County; create Special Court; amendment to the Constitution -----------2708, 2710, 2840, 3112, 3117 HB 1417 --Houston County; Ordinary; arbitration committee __..... .._.._..._......... 1310, 1443, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2929 HB 1416 --Houston County; Sheriff; arbitration committee -----------------1310, 1443, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2928 HB 1415 --Houston County; Superior Court Clerk; arbitration committee----.1309, 1442, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2927 HB 1414 --Houston County; Tax Commissioner; arbitration committee ----.1309, 1442, 1448, 1552, 2898, 2926 HR 742 --Irwin County; 150th Anniversary; commemorating 2153, 2616 HB 1641 --Irwin County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices ..------------ 2344, 2353, 2558, 2596, 3163 HB 1642 --Jackson County; City Court's Judge and Solicitor; salary ----------------2344, 2558, 2702, 2712, 3418 SR 209 --Jackson County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ----....1666, 1677, 1797, 2842, 2876 INDEX 3733 HB 838 --Jackson County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices . . . . 14, 2702, 2713, 3408 HB 1560 --Jasper County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; posts ...... 1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 HR 627-1367--Jasper County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ---.--.--1219, 1313, 1448, 1456, 2243 HB 1531 --Jefferson County; Board of Education; add two members . 1786, 1983, 1989, 2133, 2996 HB 1138 --Jefferson County; tax collector and receiver; consolidate offices .------ 593, 660, 667, 747, 1169 HB 1524 --Jenkins County; Board of Education; create new Board .........................------..1785, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2996 HB 1523 --Jenkins County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues members; increase --.1785, 1982, 1989, 2098, 2995 HB 1188 --Jenkins County; Ordinary's supplemental compensation -.----------..--------------655, 731, 735, 835, 1170 HB 1187 --Jenkins County; Superior Court Clerk's salary ____------,,_____.------..655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 HB 1202 --Johnson County; deputy sheriff's salary.--.------725, 826, 830, 890, 1237 HB 1557 --Jones County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; posts.----1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 HB 1558 --Jones County; Sheriff's deputies; two additional _--------._------------.1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 HB 893 --Laurens County; State Court name changed from City Court of Dublin ........................_.149) 189, 223, 501, 501 HR 407-912 --Lee County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ._....._ 157, 193, 198, 243, 1666 HR 548-1200--Lincoln County and City of Lincoln Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ----------...--------724, 826, 830, 891, 1669, 1856 HB 1183 --Long County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election of county attorney------------ -- -------------- 654, 730, 735, 833, 1524 HB 1212 --Long County; Sheriff's compensation.--..821, 879, 940, 946, 1234, 1845 HB 1060 --Lowndes County; City Court of Valdosta; Judge and Solicitor; election----.--..-380, 464, 471, 514, 886 HR 617-1345--Lowndes County; conveyance of a tract of State owned property _.----------..--....._----..--..--------..1155, 1223 HB 1131 --Lowndes County; deputy sheriff's salary--..----591, 659, 667, 745, 2355 HR 682-1473--Lowndes County; governing authority; merge with City of Valdosta; amendment to the Constitution......................------... 1654, 1791, 1799, 2002, 2849 HB 1364 --Macon County; Ordinary's salary .......1219, 1313, 1319, 1452, 2239 HB 1435 --Macon County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices ....................... 1431, 1512, 1518, 1684, 2357 3734 INDEX HB 1604 --Madison County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; clerk's salary... 2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 HB 1605 --Madison County; Sheriff's deputies' compensation .........._..... .......... 2073, 2229, 2236, 2409, 3417 HB 1603 --Madison County; Superior Court Clerk; allowances .. ...... ...................... 2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 HB 1298 --Meriwether County; certain officials; salaries'...-------------..-975, 1096, 1100, 1173, 1674 HR 386-880 --Milledgeville-Baldwin County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution . ............................... __ .130, 163, 198, 232, 1666 HB 1601 --Miller County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; checks drawn on county funds . ..... ----__..------.----__------__ 2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3163 HB 1602 --Miller County; Board of Education members' selection .......... ................ ....... 2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3334 HB 1525 --Mitchell County; Tax Commissioner's term and compensation . . .............. . 1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2847 HB 1493 --Montgomery County; Tax Commissioner's compensation ...... .._...._.... 1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2849, 2931 HB 1284 --Morgan County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; appoint depositories for county funds--...--.----.--.------. 933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 HB 1287 --Morgan County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman, Vice-Chairman and members' compensation....----934, 983, 989, 1114, 2358, 3050 HB 1282 --Morgan County; certain officials' salaries ----------_----..__......................933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 HB 1283 --Morgan County; tax receiver and collector offices; consolidate ......... --............933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 HR 487-1050--Muscogee County Airport Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution....... 378, 463, 472, 556, 1669, 1853 HR 544-1191--Muscogee County; charter commission to study consolidation with City of Columbus; amendment to the Constitution....--. .._..--------_. 656, 732, 735, 845, 1323 HR 488-1050--Muscogee County; garbage disposal system; amendment to the Constitution.--........380, 463, 472, 562, 887 HR 623-1354--Muscogee County; ordinances for policing public property and airport; amendment to the Constitution .............. ............. 1158, 1226, 1227, 1344, 2243 HB 1040 --Muscogee County; tax payment; late penalty .... ......___...._..----..___ --------....375, 461, 471, 513, 885 HB 1175 --Mclntosh County; ordinary's compensation............652, 728, 735, 833, 1236 HB 1345 --Mclntosh County; sheriff's expense allowance .___----------------._......... 1155, 1223, 1227, 1325, 1808 HB 1365 --Newton County; Sheriff's salary ...1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 HB 1210 --Paulding County; Board of Education members' elections . ......_._................. ----..____----..820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 INDEX 3735 HB 1211 --Paulding County; Sheriff's deputies; increase number ------..... ------..820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 HB 1473 --Paulding County; sewerage system maintenance ----------.----.---1653, 1791, 1799, 1997, 2846 HB 1444 --Peach County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; terms of office-.-1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2615 HB 1443 --Peach County; Ordinary's salary--1434, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 HB 1442 --Peach County; Superior Court Clerk's salary and personnel ......_.___....___....._.__........._.. 1433, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 HB 1441 --Peach County; Tax Commissioner's salary and personnel ..__------__----_----. 1433, 1513, 1518, 1685, 2614 HR 718-1522--Pickens County; Clerk of Superior Court; State Librarian to furnish certain law books----- 1785, 1981, 2844 HB 1372 --Pierce County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; chairman's compensation-------1220, 1314, 1448, 1454, 2357 HB 1410 --Pierce County; Board of Education; members' election . -.1308, 1441, 1447, 1552, 2561 HB 1369 --Pierce County; deputy sheriffs' salaries ..__-___._ ----1220, 1313, 1447, 1453, 2356 HB 1151 --Pike County; Superior Court terms---. --.-595, 662, 735, 751, 1671 HB 1571 --Polk County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; conduct annual audit---1972, 2080, 2352, 2568, 3162 HB 1573 --Polk County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; employees' compensation ------.-1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 HB 1572 --Polk County; Sheriff's salary-- .........._.._....__._......... 1973, 2080 HB 1574 --Polk County; Uniform Central Accounting and Bookkeeping System; adopt- ....1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 HR 447-973 --Pulaski County-Hawkinsville Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ... ... ........... 286, 330, 394, 404, 1667 HR 735-1608--Putnam County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution--...------2073, 2230, 2236, 2424, 3426 HR 421-932 --Quitman County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution--.--.--.185, 220, 298, 397, 1668, 1850 SB 374 --Rabun County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts--------.2241, 2245, 2348, 2842, 2863, 3038, 3039, 3226, 3227, 3315, 3336, 3337, 3342 HB 1252 --Rabun County; certain officials; compensation ......... ...................... ..928, 978, 988, 1107, 1525 HR 546-1200--Rabun County; Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books- ...... ........ 724, 825, 990 HR 547-1200--Rabun County; Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books- -- -- ........... ..... ....724, 825, 990 3736 INDEX HB 1408 --Richmond County; additional deputy sheriffs....-_...1308, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2241 HR 531-1156--Richmond County; adoption of ordinances; amendment to the Constitution .__.___________._.___..___.597, 663, 667, 757, 1323 HB 776 --Richmond County; Board of Education members; date of election ...._..-_..,,..__..___._..._.. 2353, 2572, 3408 HB 1614 --Richmond County; Board of Education; vacancies _-_........_......-..._.....-....2075, 2231, 2353, 2402, 3163 HR 686-1477--Richmond County; public agencies; General Assembly's powers to create, etc; amendment to the constitution _____._,,_._____.__...__._.________. 1655, 1792, 1800, 2013, 3425 HB 1200 --Richmond County; Sanitary landfills; dumping of trash; garbage, etc.~-_--..~-_-724, 825, 1025, 1227, 1229, 3005, 3055 HR 458-1013--Richmond County; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ...__...-..._...___......-...-.._ 323, 388, 394, 522 HR 740-1616--Rockdale County Board of Education; debts incurred; amendment to the Constitution ...... 2076, 2232, 2353, 2601, 3426 HB 1301 --Rockdale County; Sheriff's deputies; increase number .....__...._....___........__..........__976, 1096, 1227, 1231, 1807 HR 671-1446--Screven County-Sylvania Airport Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution._..-.1434, 1514, 1800, 1824, 2564 HB 1446 --Screven County; Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; create .._._._._..._...._..._.._.^._._____...____..1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2358 HB 1153 --Spalding County; establish Law Library._-.._._.. 596, 662, 1990 HR 592-1241--Spalding County; sanitation, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution __.______._._________.__._.876, 936, 1100, 1179, 2564, 2579 HB 1192 --Spalding County; Tax Commissioner's office hours-..--..---...----..--..--_.---..656, 732, 735, 836, 1671 HB 1599 --Stephens County; City Court Judge's salary _------_----------------2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3163 HR 603-1280--Stephens County; convey certain tract of land---------.-------------------.933, 983, 1801, 2529, 3403 HR 734-1600--Stephens County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution---- 2073, 2229, 2236, 2418, 3426 HB 1538 --Stephens County; Development Authority; issue revenue bonds ------------.1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 2848 HB 1539 --Stephens County; Ordinary's salary........ 1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 2996 HB 1535 --Stephens County; Sheriff's compensation .-...1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 HB 1537 --Stephens County; Superior Court Clerk's salary ------------------------.1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 HB 1482 --Stewart County; Clerk's and Ordinary's fees----1657, 1793, 1799, 1997, 2615 INDEX 3737 HB 1500 --Stewart County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; compensation.......-- 1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 HR 476-1020--Stewart County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.---- 325, 390, 394, 537, 1669, 1852 HB 1485 --Stewart County; Sheriff's salary.------1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 HB 1484 --Stewart County; Tax Commissioner's fees.-.----------------------------1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 HB 161 --Sumter County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman's salary......----(No action in 1968) HB 1126 --Sumter County; Board of Education members; election.------------------------.591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 HB 1127 --Sumter County; Clerk of Superior Court, clerks or deputies; salaries......................... 591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 HB 1469 --Talbot County; additional deputies' compensation.-------------_-.1510, 1662, 1665, 1815, 2562 HB 1468 --Talbot County; Tax Commissioner; compensation __------_------_------.1509, 1662, 1665, 1814, 2563 HB 1255 --Taliaferro County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; member's salaries -928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 HB 1254 --Taliaferro County; Sheriff's salary--928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 HB 918 --Tattnall County; Board of Commissioners of Roads Revenues; election -.----------159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 HB 1279 --Tattnall County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of members...-- 932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 HB 919 --Tattnall County; Board of Education; election of members ----------_----_----------.159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 HB 1278 --Tattnall County; Board of Education; members and districts ----------.------------.. 932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 HR 484-1037--Tattnall County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution------------_375, 460, 507, 544, 1669, 1852 HR 765 --Taylor County; High -School Boys' Basketball Team; commend------------------------------------------ 2173 HB 764 --Taylor County; High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend -------------------------------- ------------------2172 HR 641 --Taylor County; Howard Community; commend...----------1259 HR 622-1352--Taylor County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.-1157, 1225, 1227, 1339, 2243 HR 642 --Taylor County; Taylor High School Chapter of Future Business Leaders .------------.------__--------__------1260 HB 1249 --Telfair County Hospital Authority members' appointment ----.......------ ......... 927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 HB 1326 --Tift County; Airport Authority; establish-1092, 1162, 1799, 1810, 2560 3738 INDEX HB 1209 --Tift County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Vice Chairman's office.-.--726, 827, 830, 891, 1807 HB 1449 --Tift County; building permits--- 1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2358 HB 1532 --Toombs County; Board of Education members' election--------------------~--1787, 1983, 1989, 2100, 2848 HB 1272 --Toombs County; officials' salaries-- 931, 981, 989, 1110, 1673 HB 1274 --Toombs County; Sheriff's salary....... 931, 981, 989, 1111, 1673 HB 1265 --Toombs County; Tax Receiver and Collector offices; consolidate ........_.......----....__......... 930, 980, 989, 1109, 1673 SB 388 --Toombs Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ------.......--.__..----___---- ____----____. 2613, 2621, 2698 HB 135 --Towns County; Clerk of Superior Court; traffic law violations _--___----------.----. (No action in 1968) HR 538-1179--Towns County; Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books.--------.653, 729, 990 HR 539-1179--Towns County; Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books.------.----------.654, 730, 990 HB 924 --Troup County; Officials; salaries........... 160, 196, 198, 226, 501 HB 1460 --Union County; Sheriff's salary __. ----------. 1508, 1660, 1664 1813, 2562 HR 459-1013--Upson County; Board of Tax Assessors; consolidate with City of Thomaston; amendment to the Constitution .----------._------....__ 324, 388, 472, 526, 887 HB 1003 --Upson County; Thomaston-Upson County Office Building Authority; members --..------------321, 386, 471, 512, 885 HB 1576 --Upson County; Law Library; funds to establish and maintain----..------------1790, 1985, 2089, 2103, 2848 HB 1007 --Upson County; Upson-Thomaston Board of Tax Assessors; combine .--------.---------- 322, 387, 605, 671, 1169 HB 1543 --Walker County; Board of Education member's election .. ----------_--.----_..--. 1788, 1984, 2088, 2105, 2848 HB 1270 --Walker County; fox hunting; illegal methods ............----..------...--.......... 931, 981, 986, 1575, 2994 HB 1552 --Walker County; Rural Water and Sewer Authority; members' appointments ------.1969, 2077, 2089, 2251, 2997 HB 968 --Walton County; Board of Education; members' election ----....__.----_ 285, 330, 338, 396, 737, 3279, 3341, 3347 HR 730-1585--Ware County; consolidation with City of Waycross; amendment to the Constitution 1975, 2082, 2235, 2282, 2850 HR 782-1631--Ware County; Sheriff's responsibility, United States Criminal Laws; amendment to the Constitution ._......_. 2227, 2348, 2702, 2718 HB 1399 --Washington County; Airport Authority; create ----------..... ----...----......-. 1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2561 HB 1459 --Washington County; Sheriff's compensation ..----1507, 1660, 1664, 1812, 2616, 2930 HB 1515 --Washington County; Superior Court Clerk's salary ......_........................----..1783, 1980, 1988, 2096, 2847 INDEX 3739 HB 1392 --Wayne County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue; members' terms of office _._ 1305, 1439, 1447, 1549, 2357 HB 1391 --Wayne County; Board of Education; members' election .............._............._. 1304, 1438, 1447, 1549, 2358, 2640 HR 715-1515--Wayne County; convey certain real property----1783, 1980, 2237, 2479, 3404 HB 732 --Wayne County; Sheriff and deputies; compensation __.___._.------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 1400 --Wayne County; Superior Court Judge; empanel grand jury _..._....... --------------.1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2995 HB 1428 --Webster County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; salaries -------------- 1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2357 HR 668-1435--Webster County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.---------.1432, 1512, 1665, 1696, 2245, 2394 HB 1429 --Webster County; private property; remove public nuisance----._----.----------.--.1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2614 SB 401 --White County; Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; State depositories ..----.----------.2613, 2621, 2698, 3112, 3115 SR 164 --White County; Ordinary; furnish certain law books--------------------------.------------. 741, 743, 829, 990 HB 1251 --Whitfield County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; compensation __------------.--... 927, 978, 1100, 1171, 1672 HR 670-1440--Whitfield County-Dalton County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.,.......----. 1433, 1513, 1519, 1715, 2244 HB 1503 --Whitfield County; Sheriff, Clerk and Ordinary; compensation -------- -..--------1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 HB 1504 --Whitfield County; Tax Commissioner; compensation......----..----.----.1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 SR 193 --Wilkes County; conveyance of certain State owned property.------.------------.1102, 1106, 1164, 1989, 2134, 3406 HB 1362 --Wilkes County; ordinary's salary........--------1218, 1312, 1319, 1452, 2239 HB 1521 --Wilkes County; Superior Court deputy clerk; compensation.------..------------ 1784, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 HB 1088 --Worth County; Clerk of Superior Court; collect fines ----------...___.----------....._...456, 495, 507, 672, 1169 HB 1256 --Worth County; Ordinary's salaries; effective date ----........____.------------._......----.._ 928, 979, 988, 1108, 1525 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HB 1439 --Strike "Roads and Revenues" from official name .......... ----.---- 1433, 1513, 1519, 2806, 3414 3740 INDEX COUNTY OFFICERS HB 1547 HB 890 --Personnel; authority to employ 1968, 2076, 2353, 2683, 3416 --Fee system of compensation; abolish __ ..... ....... 149, 189 COURTS HB 1044 --Appellate Practice Act of 1965; re-enact _____ ....376, 461, 666, 1489, 3375, 3383, 3392, 3394, 3432 HB 566 --Appellate and Superior Courts; notices of appeal --------_.------_.------------_---- (No action in 1968) HR 672-1448--Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Georgia Supreme Court Reports; State Librarian to furnish certain volumes _.__.. 1435, 1515, 1520 HB 1158 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation __________________ ______..____------598, 664, 668, 752, 1806 SB 415 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ______ ............. ... ___________ 2613, 2622, 2699, 3112, 3114 HB 1190 --Atlantic Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's secretary; salary ._.............._... 656, 731, 830, 835, 1203, 1236 HB 797 ---Attachment affidavits; be sworn before Clerk of Court ..................................... __________ 199, 369, 3164 HB 1163 --Attachments; grounds; non-residents .__............._........... .._........._.... 599, 665, 2090 HB 19 --Attorney's fees; method of giving notice for the purpose of collecting ....... ..... ....... ....... ----______ .... ... ____1282 HB 1450 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; Judges' salary; supplemental payments ............1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2705 HB 1649 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary _________ .... . _______________________ 2555, 2590, 2842, 2860 HB 1115 --Capital offense; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time ............ _________________ ....... 493, 602, 1990 HB 1095 --Capital punishment; abolish __________ _________ _________________ 458, 497 HB 325 --Civil cases; advance court cost --... ........ --.199, 279, 2298 SB 330 --Civil matters; Executive Secretary and Calendar Clerk _______________ 1168, 1240, 1316, 1839, 2354, 2577 HB 1230 --Civil Practice Act; amend; service of publication .... ..... 875, 935, 1099, 1493, 3384, 3391, 3432 SB 334 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Chief Judge's salary _----_..__. _______________ ___ __ _________ ........1168, 1241, 1317 HB 1181 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Judge's term _.__--__.--___,,.------.---..------ .. 654, 730, 830, 950, 1671 HB 891 --Clerks; Georgia Civil Practice Act; service by publication _._._..,.._ 149, 189, 299, 346, 3039, 3091 HB 930 --Clerks; service by publication of summons --......... ______ __..____ ............._....____..___.....184, 219, 666 HB 1125 --Cobb Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; practice of law .____ ______________ _______ 590, 658, 947, 1799, 1809, 2616, 2737 HB 1144 --Collection of debts; prohibit use of simulated court process ............ _------___....... .,,...___._ 594, 661, 830 INDEX 3741 HR 833 --Committee to study inferior courts .__.. ..._....._._.....,,-..__-.... _._ 2740, 3112, 3188 HB 1519 --Conasauga Judicial Circuit; Judge's salary _____.._..__._...._.___._._.1784, 1981, 1988, 2097, 2847 HR 420-932 --Condemnation proceedings; airports; relocation of occupants; amendment to the Constitution ___._,, 185, 220, 341, 1099, 1425, 1496, 1570, 2499 HB 989 --Condemnation proceedings; appeals by owner of land ____....___._._......._.___..-......._..._..___......__-__.....-__..._-290, 334 HR 536-1179--Condemnation proceedings; fair market value; amendment to the Constitution .........__. . ........._....._._......_.._._.._..... 653, 729, 1446 HB 1291 --Condemnation proceedings; payment of costs and fees .__.................... .... 973, 1094 HB 1363 --Condemnation proceedings; private ways by individuals and corporations; amend procedure ... . 1218, 1312, 1446 HB 880 --Condemnation proceedings; responsibility for payment of court costs -.-..--. 130, 163, 1446 HB 1019 --Cordele Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ....... 325, 389, 605, 672, 1234 HB 1436 --Court of Inquiry; examination within 24 hours ......._..... 1432, 1512, 2090 SB 180 --Court Reporters; compensation by counties . . 944, 949, 984, 1518, 2973, 3404 HB 38 --Criminal cases; instructions to jury _,,.___. (No action in 1968) HB 1280 --Criminal cases; jury must return verdict of guilty or not guilty __,,.________... .......... 932, 982, 1517 HB 5 --Criminal Code of Georgia; revise ...._._..-..___.___....._-..--____...-_.18, 27, 146, 171, 3169, 3293 HB 400 --Dangerous offenders; provide for incarceration ____.........,,_________._____.,,(No action in 1968) HR 413-923 --Death sentence; abolish; amendment to the Constitution ....... ___._______.__..___.....____160, 196, 471, 1963, 1964 HR 411-917 --Death sentence; commuted to life imprisonment; parole eligibility; amendment to the Constitution ................___..........._.__......,,..___. 158, 195, 299, 450 HB 916 --Death sentence; commuted to life imprisonment; parole eligibility ___............ ___.,,_______. 158, 194, 299, 454, 582 SB 219 --Divorce; clarify practice and procedure ....... 1167, 1239, 1315 HB 145 --Divorce; conduct of both parties .____....._. (No action in 1968) HB 146 --Divorce; incurable insanity; grounds ...... 199, 370, 410 HB 1309 --Divorce; service of process; waiver . _ 977, 1098, 1165 HB 1480 --Eastern Judicial Circuit; Judges' salary .._.....___._.....__.........._.__...._.1656, 1793, 1799, 1997, 3414 HB 958 --First bail, matter of right ___......_..... 218, 296, 339, 2052, 2186 HB 401 --First offenders; probation ....._.......__.___..__.197, 361, 3366, 3367 HB 1430 --Georgia Civil Practice Act; summons in cases involving less than $200 ._ . 1430, 1511, 1799 HB 884 --Grand Jurors; county or municipal officials not allowed to serve ___.___.,,..____._________._________,,. 130, 164, 1520 3742 INDEX SB 360 --Grand jurors; method of selecting ------.-- .---- 1670, 1676, 1796, 1799, 3278, 3429 HB 1259 --Grand and traverse jurors; method of selecting .... .._......__.... ............ .............. 929, 979, 988, 1108 HB 1228 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Court Reporter; compensation ................................... Bli, 934, 940, 992, 1672 HB 1227 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation ...... ....... -... ........ 874, 934, 1100, 1815, 2994 HB 1598 --Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's salary ...... .... ...... -2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3417 HB 624 --Habeas corpus cases; transcripts of proceedings ......... ...... .. ...... .... ..--. .... .. .. ...... --.. - -199 HB 1136 --Improper interrogatories; attorneys' fees and expenses for filing objections .--___..--..... 592, 660, 831 HB 1658 --Indictments and acusations for any criminal offense; regulations ...... ... .. .................... -.-2838, 2987 HB 1107 --Indictments; foreman of grand jury shall sign to have legal effect ............. .... .. ..... ....... -----492,600 SB 79 --Judges and other personnel allowed to attend seminars ............ ....... ....... ............................ . .... . -393, 813 HR 401-912 --Judiciary Commission; establish; amendment to the Constitution ....._...._......_.... ..... ...... ----------156, 193 HB 796 --Jurors; compensation for wage loss ....._. (No action in 1968) HB 917 --Jury; recommend death penalty .._._...........__.....__......_........... ............ 158, 194, 299, 586 HR 379-853 --Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; create _._.......__...._._....._..... ................ 23, 134, 988, 1570, 3420 HB 853 --Juvenile; jurisdiction and procedure relating to rights of offenders ----------------22, 133, 471, 717, 3408 HR 111-257 --Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit; furnish certain law books ............. ....... ._............._._....._.. .------199, 275, 499 HB 1164 --Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General; compensation ----.----599, 665, 668, 752, 1840 HB 883 --Name change; clerk of court to issue certificate _...._.._-..... --... .__... -........ 130, 163, 299, 368, 1234 HB 1165 --Non-residents; jurisdiction ....._......___.........__......650, 726, 1320 SR 393 --Non-residents; personal jurisdiction; torts -----------------2566, 2567, 2591, 2842, 3149, 3430 HB 220 --Non-resident plantiff; deposit ---- --------------942, 1210 HB 1422 --Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit; add one Judge ----------------1311, 1444, 1517, 2031, 3349, 3356 HB 1569 --Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms -- .-------------1972, 2079, 2089, 2255, 2998 HB 153 --Payment of jurors included in bill of costs __..._...._.._.....___ 990 SB 420 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation ...................... --2899, 2903, 2988, 3112, 3116 HB 1258 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms ...._...___... ------_.--------------__.-- 929, 979, 1988, 2091 HB 870 --Practice of law; educational requirements -- ..._...--128, 162, 394, 578, 1322 HB 130 HB 277 HB 85 SB 250 HB 1213 HB 1355 SB 364 SB 254 SB 265 HB 506 HB 920 HB 1463 HB 1577 HB 1617 SB 324 HB 367 HB 889 SB 246 HB 509 HB 1340 SB 276 HB 69 SB 31 HB 690 INDEX 3743 --Public Defender; establish for defense of indigents ______..___.. ______________ 26, 348, 2851, 2937, 3006, 3106, 3107, 3349, 3432 --Searches and seizures; motion to suppress illegally seized evidence shall be made before trial __________________..199 --Senior Superior Court Reporters' Retirement Fund of Georgia; establish _____ ,,.___ ____ ____________________ 199 ---Sheriffs; civil and criminal cases; enumeration of fees .______________.1167, 1239, 1315, 2626, 2844, 3143, 3430 --Solicitors-General; compensation _______________ 726, 829, 879, 989 --Solicitors-General; increase contingent expense allowance ___________________ 1158, 1226, 1799, 2209, 3412 --Solicitors-General; salary payable from State funds ___ ........1992, 1994, 2084, 2090, 3006, 3407 --Solicitors-General, Emeritus; Computation of service . ............................. ...._________ _.._.._____ 884, 887, 938 --Solicitors-General, Emeritus; credit for service in the armed forces __________________________ ....... 739, 741, 828, 1990 --Solicitors-General, Emeritus; minimum salary, 65 years of age or over ._............_.__..__. (No action in 1968) --Solicitors-General, Emeritus; minimum salary, 65 years of age or over ........159, 195, 1101, 1297, 1362, 2485 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Court terms _______ .___ ______________ ..... 1508, 1661,1799, 1813, 2846 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Judges' supplemental salaries ____......... .... ................ _______ 1973, 2080 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; SolicitorGeneral's salary _____ ________...___.________....____._____. _______ 2076, 2232 --Superior Courts; alternate jurors may be substituted for original jurors ....... 2618, 2622, 2699, 2703, 2953, 3405 --Superior Court Clerks; appoint as Jury Clerks _____________ ________..___. _______ __..______________....._____199, 371 --Superior Court Clerks; fees for recording liens, mortgages and deeds ______ ____._______149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 --Superior Court Clerks; retirement benefits ....._.._...._...__.1991, 1994, 2084, 2237, 2951 --Superior Court Clerks; retirement benefits; exemptions ........................____._...._....._...__............_ 199, 687, 3408 --Superior Court Clerks; use of microfilm .............. ______.....___1154, 1223, 1320, 2483, 3168 --Superior Court Judges' Emeritus; credit for service in armed forces ____.._ ___ _______.________740, 742, 828, 1990 --Superior Court Judges' Emeritus; retirement; credit for service _--............_............_.. .(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges; additional benefits ........................................1099, 3275, 3430 --Superior Court judges' compensation .____ _................__.._.._..._._.._..(No action in 1968) 3744 HB 925 HB 691 HB 49 HB 689 SB 357 HB 572 HB 1486 SB 214 HB 959 HB 1116 HB 432 INDEX --Superior Court, Judges, Emeritus; annual salary if 70 years or over __-.....-_____..--_...._-_._......--..--.----.._. 160, 196 --Superior Court Judges; group life insurance .___.._-...__.....__..--..__._----.._ (No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges' Retirement System; create new system ......................... (No action in 1968) --Superior Court; Judges' secretarial service ............__--._.__..(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges; serve in other Superior Courts .....____....__.____._.____._..-_...._.___.1527, 1529, 1663 --Supreme Court, Chief Justices Emeritus, Justices Emeritus; Court of Appeals; Judges Emeritus; may serve in other courts .__...._._.. (No action in 1968) --Toombs Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General's salary .....___.__..._.1657, 1794, 2593, 2710, 3005, 3074 --Torts; statute of limitations -.__. - 669, 670, 733, 1099, 1728, 1799, 2583, 2899 --Traverse jury boxes; each county allowed only one _.__.._...............-....-- .... 218, 296, 666 --Trials; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time ._..-- ... 493, 602, 1990 --Unliquidated damages; interest ..................................................197, 641, 3384, 3387 COURTS OF APPEALS HR 409-912 --Judges; retirement age; amendment to the Constitution --...._. .... . .... -----157, 194 COURTS OP INQUIRY HB 1436 --Misdemeanor; examination within 24 hours ........__...._..__......_.._._.....__..........1432, 1512, 2090 COURTS REPORTERS SB 180 --Compensation by counties ......__.....__._._..._._...._. 944, 949, 984, 1518, 2973, 3404 COVINGTON, CITY OF HB 1509 --Officials' conduct; certain limitations _...._..______..___.1782, 1979, 1988, 2096, 2995 COVINGTON, J. B. HR 194-604 --Compensate __........_.........___.._-.--. 2234, 2299, 3420 INDEX 3745 COWETA COUNTY HR 557-1216--School system; merge with independent system of City of Newnan; amendment to the Constitution ............... 821, 880, 941, 1007, 1670, 1857 HR 486-1050--Water and sewerage; additional indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution --.-378, 463, 507, 552, 887 COX, LIEUTENANT JACKSON ELLIOTT HR 392 --Express sympathy for passing of ....... ........ .....141, 257 CRAWFORDVILLE, CITY OF SB 95 --New charter . . .. . ......(No action in 1968) CREDIT UNIONS HB 1241 --Amend laws ..... .... ..... . . ...876,936,1798,2812,3411 CRIMES HB 663 HB 781 HB 851 HB 1038 HB 901 HB 1300 HB 401 HB 904 SB 225 HB 836 HB 1328 HB 1329 --Bribery; unlawful to bribe candidates for public office ................. .... ..................(No action in 1968) --Conspiracy; create the criminal offense ........................ 339 --Conspiracy to commit a crime shall be a crime .. . 22, 133, 393, 483, 1104 --Cross burning; unlawful on public or private property . . . .. --..-.375, 460, 943 --False invoices; solicitation of money; misdemeanor ....................................... 153, 190, 338, 441, 737 --False reports; unlawful ................976, 1096, 1165, 2201, 3412 --First offenders; probation ........................197, 361, 3366, 3367 --Gambling; felony .................................................. .......153, 191 --Gambling; felony ............ 2706, 2708, 2839, 2842, 3230, 3428 --Obscene telephone calls; criminal penalties ...... .............. ........................393, 481, 886 --Uniform Narcotic Drug Act; penalties for violations .................... ............ ....... 1092, 1162, 1664 --Worthless checks; felony to pass if more than $300 ...................... . ..................1092, 1162, 1228 CRIMINAL CODE HB 5 --Revise, supersede and consolidate ... 18, 27, 146, 171, 3169, 3293 3746 INDEX CRIMINAL RECORDS HR 289 SR 110 --Central Computerized Criminal Records System Study Committee; create ........ (No action in 1968) --Study committee; create ......................................... 2843, 3277 CRIMINAL STATISTICS HB 1656 HR 838 --Bureau of Criminal Statistics; create .............................. .............. ....... -. .... - 2838, 2987 --Create committee to study feasibility of establishing -.----..--- ........... .-. .-2745,3112,3188 CRISP COUNTY HR 674-1450--Crisp County-Cordele Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .-.--.-.-.-1435, 1515, 1519, 1721, 2245, 2935 CROSBY, REV. CARROL --Prayer offered by ............ ..... ..... ..... .... .... ...... --...320 CROSS BURNING HB 1038 --Unlawful to burn on public or private property .................................. .... 375, 460, 943 GUMMING, CITY OP HB 1386 --Corporate limits __......_._... ----..1303, 1438, 1447, 1530, 2357 CUSSETA, TOWN OP HR 667-1435--Charter Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution ..... ....... ...... ..... .... - -1432,1512, 1665 D DAISY, CITY OP SB 380 --Charter ............................ 2242, 2246, 2349, 2593, 2596 INDEX 3747 DALTON, CITY OF HR 669-1440--Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution __._____._ 1433, 1513, 1519, 1702, 2245, 2647, 3035 HB 1215 --Corporate limits ................................821, 880, 1100, 1171, 1671 HR 670-1440--Dalton-Whitfield County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _........_..__......___...__....1433, 1513, 1519, 1715, 2244 HB 1214 --Mayor and Council Employees' Pension Plan; clarify .__._....._..._.__.._...........__..._.__...... ......._...._.....821, 879 HB 246 --Payroll tax ,,_..........._--....-..-..-.__..__._....._._.._.__._..__._..567 DALTON FOOTBALL TEAM HR 562 --High School football team: commend .................................763 DANIEL, J. C. (MOODY) HR 893 --Commend _....__...-..___._...-_-..-___..-_.-....-__.._._.__.._._._..--.___3206 DARDEN, L. D. HR 528-1156--Compensate ._..-_...._......__.....__.__596, 663, 1798, 2027, 3423 DASHER, TOWN OF HB 1130 --Corporate limits; redefine ....._.___._..-.591, 659, 667, 745, 2355 DATA PROCESSING HB 1206 --State Communications and Data Processing Management Board; create .............................725, 826, 1321 DA VIS, S. R. HR 554 --Expressing appreciation ..........................................................687 DAVISON, HONORABLE FRED HR 575 --Commend _____.__._ -- -.__________..__.._._._________ 775 DAWSON COUNTY HB 1134 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; compensation ....._...._.._.592, 659, 667, 746, 1169 3748 INDEX DAY CARE CENTERS HR 353 --Mentally retarded; create committee to study ... ......................................... .....(J^Q action in 1968) DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME HB 915 HB 1431 HR 580 HR 652 --Abolish ....... ............. ..................158, 194, 338, 950, 951, 1025 --Abolish within the State ...... .............................1430, 1511, 2234 --Georgia Congressional Delegation; requested to initiate federal legislation to shorten .......-......-...--.--.-780 --Schools; delay opening if Georgia remains on Daylight Savings Time ..............._................ .............1268 DEATH CERTIFICATES HB 1253 --Increase fee of local registrars . ............ --.-928, 978, 987 DEATH SENTENCE HB 1095 --Abolish ........................................ ..................... ..........458, 497 HR 413-923 --Abolish; amendment to the Constitution .. ...................................160, 196, 471, 1963, 1964 HB 917 --Jury; recommendation of death penalty ....158, 194, 299, 586 HR 411-917 --Sentence commuted to life imprisonment; parole; amendment to the Constitution ................158, 195, 299, 450 HB 916 --Sentence commuted to life imprisonment; parole ... ...... .............. ........ .. ........ 158, 194, 299, 454, 582 DEBTS HB 1144 SR 215 SB 384 HB 1472 --Collection; prohibit use of simulated court process .............._......_...._._._._.......-_._.._..__-..594, 661, 830 --State Government; amendment to the Constitution ... ...... ......................... ..........2619, 2623 --State Government; aggregate shall not exceed 11% of total revenue received ... ............_..... .......2707, 2709, 2839 --Unincorporated organizations or associations; liability . ......................... .........................1653, 1790, 2592 DECATUR, CITY OP HB 1366 --Parking Authority; create ..........1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 HR 559-1220--Revenue obligations; authority to issue and sell; amendment to the Constitution ... ............................822, 881, 989, 1018, 1667 INDEX 3749 DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL HR 389 --Football Team, Coach; commend .138 DECATUR COUNTY HR 613-1309--Bainbridge-Decatur County Beverage Control Board; create; amendment to the Constitutions-978, 1098 HR 684-1477--Bainbridge-Decatur County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _____ ....______. ....1655, 1792, 1800, 2006, 2850, 3052 HB 902 --Board of Education; expenditures _____.153, 190, 198, 224, 501 HB 1096 --Board of Education; members' elections __________________________459, 497, 502, 507, 1518, 1677, 2560 HR 408-912 --Justices of the Peace; increase jurisdiction; amendment to the Constitution _.......157, 194, 198, 249, 887 DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT, UNIFORM HB 850 --Adopt ________ ...................... _______ 22, 133, 337, 483, 1803, 1844 DEEDS HB 301 HB 335 HB 1077 HB 889 --Conveyance of lands; require inclusion of address of maker .. . _ (No action in 1968) --Recording; include reference to last recorded instrument ..... ........ .............. (No action in 1968) --Secondary security instruments; clarify ___._. ..____ ______________________ ___.384, 468, 1446, 2537, 3409 --Superior Court Clerks; fees for recording _______ ______________ _________ 149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 DEER HB 595 HB 1483 --Hunting at night; increase penalty ______..(No action in 1968) --Minors; 15 years or younger, supervision of adult ....... ........ .............................. ____1657, 1794, 1987 DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HR 286 --To function after adjournment _ ______ ____(No action in 1968) DEKALB COUNTY HB 1620 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and Executive Assistant's duties; reconstitute districts ... ... 2224, 2346, 2573, 2843, 2856, 3418 3750 INDEX HB 1542 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members; compensation ......_.........1788, 1984 HB 191 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election ----------------------.(No action in 1968) HB 1621 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election _-.-.---------------------------2225, 2346 HB 1097 --Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; increase membership --------_.__--------------------459, 497 HB 403 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Number of members; increase --------(No action in 1968) HB 824 --Board of Education; Chairman and members; compensation ___--_--.--____. (No action in 1968) HB 1638 --Board of Education; expenditures _------------------2344, 2557 HB 1099 --Board of Education members; elections ...----_ --.--.459, 497 HB 193 --Board of Education members; method of electing _______ __----__--_--..--__ (No action in 1968) HB 192 --Board of Education members; terms of office ___..__.._...._--._.__._._._._._..__.._ (No action in 1968) HB 250 --Bond procedure .._.-_ 1319, 1324, 2900, 3082 HB 751 --Civil and Criminal Court; procedure _..__. (No action in 1968) HB 962 --County Manager form of government; election ----..284, 329 HB 211 --County-Manager form of government; referendum _....__.__--..-_.---------------- (No action in 1968) SB 347 --County-manager form of government; referendum ___..__ .-.-_-.-------_--------------1238, 1242, 1318 HR 26 --Fulton and DeKalb County Delegations; vote required for local legislation __..___.._...__. (No action in 1968) SB 312 --Pulton County Tax Commissioner; collection of taxes due City of Atlanta situated in DeKalb County ----------------1670, 1676, 1796, 2235, 2247 HB 1098 --Governing authority; members' elections .__.--.__..--__ 459, 497 HB 1208 --Juvenile Court Judge's salary -------726, 827, 830, 890, 1525 SB 155 --Local Government Study Commission; establish _--..------------.--------------------1237, 1241, 1317 HB 1257 --Merit system; no discrimination ----928, 979, 988, 1108, 1672 SR 85 --Official organ ... . _ _ _ 2902, 2903, 2989 HR 236-768 --Official organ .......------.------------------..(No action in 1968) HB 241 --Official Organs; selection procedure ----(No action in 1968) SB 328 --Planning Commission; public transportation for hire --------------------------.1168, 1240, 1316, 2354, 2577 HR 29-79 --Police forces; reimbursement to municipalities for maintenance; amendment to the Constitution .--.---------------------------- (No action in 1968) SB 183 --Political campaign posters --------..------------------3112, 3113 HB 1632 --Recorder's Court Clerk; issuance of warrants ------.-------------- 2342, 2353, 2556, 2595, 3418 HB 1458 --Solicitor's salary ._--------..------...1507, 1660, 2843, 2852, 3414 HB 1637 --Teacher's tenure -------------------------------------- 2344, 2557 HB 1467 --Zoning and rezoning; improve regulations -.------.1509, 1662, 1665, 1814, 3005, 3259, 3335 INDEX 3751 DEKALB PATRIOTS HR 748 --Commend _________________ ________._______.__.__..____..___.___..__. ..__..2157 DELAGUE, THEUS EVERETT HR 829 --Express sympathy for passing of ............ __________....__..__..2769 DEMING, DUANE E. HR 513 --Congratulate ______ ............................ _____________..__..____.........__. 424 DENTAL TECHNICIANS HB 834 --Impressions of the mouth and repair of dentures; allow __ ._...._._.(No action in 1968) DENTISTS SB 210 --Cruel treatment of children; included among parties permitted to repoi't cases of cruelty ____________ ______ 339, 474, 498, 987, 1275, 1991, 2188, 2508, 3040, 3107 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HB 1334 --Citrus fruit; promulgate grades and standards of quality ....................................1153, 1222, 1318, 2475, 3412 HR 609-1296--Commissioner; elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution _________________________________ 975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1333 --Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs; eliminate inspection fees ______ ______ _________ 1153, 1222, 1318, 2474, 3161 HB 1332 --Private seed testing laboratories; licenses ._______...__________..____-._..._.._.____...____1153, 1221, 1318, 2474 DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TOURISM HR 398-912 --Create in lieu of Department of Industry and Trade; amendment to the Constitution . ...___..__...__..._..__..___....... .______156, 192, 2592, 2958 DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE HB 1636 --Employees; reimbursement of expenses incurred while on official business _._..___2343, 2557, 2592, 2796, 3168 HR 784-1636--Reimbursement of certain expenses; amendment to the Constitution ___._...____....___ 2343, 2557, 2592, 2802, 3404 3752 INDEX DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HB 419 --Inspection Division; boilers and unfired pressure vessels; regulations .............. .... ................ 1098 DEPARTMENT OP MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY HR 891 HB 969 --Reorganization; create committee to study _.___.....-____..--.3204 --Surface Mined Land Use Board; establish ..... . ... ... .... ......... 285, 330, 605, 709, 1102, 1196 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SB 286 SB 287 HB 1026 HR 645 HB 871 HB 1101 HB 1024 HB 1586 HR 775 HB 1253 --Birth certificates; certified copies, governmental agencies ...... ............,,...._..... 670, 670, 733, 987 --Birth certificates; name change; issuance of new certificate ... ..... ..... ....... ...................-670, 671, 733, 987 --Clinical laboratory personnel; licenses _..........._...........326, 391 --Dr. B. W. Forester, Chairman of Mental Health Committee, State Board of Health; inaugurate a program recommended by ..................._-.__.___._.__1262 --Immunization of school children ....................... .......128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 --Medical or dental health; promote measures for early detection ......... ........... .... ......490, 599 --Medical laboratory personnel; licensing and regulating .... ... ........._............. ..........326, 390 --Radioactive waste; acquire suitable sites for storage .......................1975, 2082, 2237, 2782, 3416 --Submit certain information to the General Assembly ... .... ...... ..........................2183, 2352, 2753 --Vital Records; increase fee of local registrars ... ... ..... . .... ..... .._._...____...._.__.._.___....._.928, 978, 987 DEPARTMENT OP PUBLIC SAFETY HB 1545 HB 1634 HB 1367 HB 840 HB 139 SB 259 HB 314 HB 174 --Director's salary ...... ...... ......................._.._........._.._..1789, 1985 --Driver's license; certain information may be shown on reverse side ........ .___..__._._______.______..___.2343, 2556 --Driver's licenses; classification .....................1219, 1313, 1519 --Driver's license; expiration date ..........................20, 132, 1801 --Driver's license; expiration date ...... ... (No action in 1968) --Driver's licenses; honorary; requirements ......... .... .............. .....884, 888, 939, 1519, 2666 --Drivers' license; minors 18 or less must complete Driver Education Course before obtaining operator's license .. . ... .__.....__ --_.__----_._.__.-.-___....-_.__. 1800 --Drivers' license; prohibit marking in place of issuing warning tickets .........._............. (No action in 1968) HB 1009 HB 308 HB 304 HB 881 HB 882 HB 931 HB 886 HB 843 HB 1245 HB 1050 SB 417 HB 4 INDEX 3753 --Drivers' license; reexamination after suspension ___.322, 387 --Drivers' license; suspension or revocation; notification _____..._______.________.._______. ............. (No action in 1968) --Drivers' license; suspension of revocation; proof of required deposit ..................... (No action in 1968) --Drivers' licenses; suspension, violation point count system _____27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 --Financial Responsibility Law; proof maintained for year period after reinstatement of driver's licenses ......... 27, 136, 137 --Georgia Bureau of Investigation; clothing allowance .........._.........._....__...... __184, 219, 943, 1202 --Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation; court fees _______._______.131, 164, 830, 909, 3408 --Radar; use of ............... ................21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 --Security Guard Division; create _____877, 937, 1519, 1952, 3411 --State Employees' Retirement System; disability allowance ________________....____377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 --Traffic laws; Governor's powers ..........................................2901, 2903, 2988, 3113, 3289 --Use of timing devices and radar equipment . .._._____--______._668 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PARKS HB 1394 SB 329 --Director's compensation ___________________ 1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 --Director's salary _ ........................2707, 2709, 2839, 2843, 3316 DEPENDENT CHILDREN ACT HB 385 --Dependent child; define . .............. ...(No action in 1968) DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES HR 399-912 --Counties and municipalities; creation; amendment to the Constitution ______ _________.._______156, 193, 832, 2981, 3420 DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF TOURISM --Interim Study Report . _________ ........................._______..______.._._3623 DEWBERRY, J. H. HR 443 --Commend ..................... ........ ___......._.....261 DEYOUNG, MR. RAY HR 850 --Expressing appreciation ......--..-._........... _ ............_...,,........2913 3754 INDEX DISCRIMINATION HB 1079 --State government employees .... . .. ....... ...--..384, 469 DISPOSSESSORY WARRANTS SB 57 --Relating to property removed . - ......739, 741, 827, 1227, 1233 DIVORCE HB 145 HB 146 SB 219 HB 1309 --Conduct of both parties be considered .. .(No action in 1968) --Incurable insanity; grounds ......_......_........_......._..199, 370, 410 --Practice and procedure; clarify ....._...._._._.....1167, 1239, 1315 --Service of process and appearance; waiver . -977, 1098, 1165 DOALE, HONORABLE JOE HR 855 --Commend- .............. ............. ........__....._...............----..2916 DOBBS, MARK RUSSELL HR 439 --Congratulations on birth of .... ................................__...__.258 DOBBS, TIM HR 851 --Expressing appreciation ........__..._.._. ......--__._.--..--.------___.2913 DOCTORS HB 1477 HB 393 --Confidential communication; privileged information --.--------------------.----1655, 1792, 2088 --Confidential communication; privileged information ...._................._....._..._........_.. (No action in 1968) DODD, HONORABLE ED HR 895 --Commend ............_....._.__..._......_....._......_.._....-._...._.._....---....--.3207 DODGE COUNTY HR 543-1183--Dodge County-Eastman Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .....-..-..-.-..-517, 655, 730, 735, 839, 1669, 1855 INDEX 3755 DOERUN, CITY OP HB 1011 --Recorder's Court; establish ...__.___________.322, 388, 394, 475, 738 DONALSONVILLE, CITY OP HB 1495 --Mayor and Aldermen; compensation _._.____.__.___-.____....____.1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2846 DOOLEY, COACH VINCE HR 281 --Republican Delegation; honorary member ......._.------_-.-.._....___....__..-_(No action in 1968) DOOLY COUNTY HR 678-1464--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ______._____________1508, 1661, 1800, 1832, 2565 HB 1271 --Ordinary's salary __.____.________._.._.__.__.931, 981, 1100, 1172, 1673 HB 1273 --Small Claims Court; create _.._______.931, 981, 1110, 1172, 1673 DORAVILLE, CITY OF HB 1173 --Corporate limits; redefine _.__.___651, 728, 940, 945, 2564, 2729 DOUGHERTY COUNTY HR 607-1295--Albany, City of; merge and consolidate; amendment to the Constitution -974, 1095, 1099, 1187, 1667 HB 1654 --Ordinary's salary ______.._____.__.___.____.2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 DOUGLAS, CITY OP HB 1343 --Board of Commissioners; members' election .______.___________._________.__________1154, 1223, 1227, 1324, 2238 DOUGLAS COUNTY HB 1148 HB 1384 HB 1149 --Board of Commissioners; districts ....._...._._....._._._....._....._........__595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 --Board of Education; appoint Superintendent .__.___.______..___.______1303, 1438, 1447, 1547, 2240 --Board of Education; members and districts ...__...-..-......_.............. 595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 3756 INDEX HB 1147 --Employees' salaries _____ .... . .................595, 662, 668, 750, 1235 HB 1146 --Law library; establish ........... _ ____ _____..594, 661, 667, 749, 1235 HR 687-1477--Water, sanitation, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution _ ... ___. ______ ___________1655, 1792, 1800, 2017, 2850 DOUGLASVILLE, CITY OF HB 1150 --Mayor and Councilmen; salaries __ ....595, 662, 668, 751, 1236 DRIVER EDUCATION HB 140 --Curriculum of high schools ........._...____.-- (No action in 1968) HB 842 --Curriculum of high schools ......................................21, 132, 137 HB 314 --Minors; operator's license ________..._____...___.-__._.--_______.___ ______ 1800 HB 654 --Secondary schools; financial responsibility .... ..._. . .... ............ .... ...... .(No action in 1968) HR 319 --Study Committee; create ___________..._____._..___ (No action in 1968) HR 800 --Study Committee; create .............................. ...2462, 2990, 3186 HR 378-853 --Traffic fines and forfeitures; allocation; amendment to the Constitution __..._..__._ ........23, 134 DRIVER'S LICENSE HB 1634 HB 1367 HB 139 HB 840 ( HB 882 HB 1080 SB 259 HB 174 HB 314 HB 420 HB 1009 HB 308 HB 304 HB 881 --Certain information shown on reverse side ........... 2343, 2556 --Classification _____ ____ _____ ______ _____._______._______________1219, 1313, 1519 --Expiration date _____._..____ _____ ............_.___..__. (No action in 1968) --Expiration date ....................................................... 20, 132, 1801 --Financial responsibility law; proof maintained for 3 year period after reinstatement ....................27, 136, 137 --Honorary; requirements _ _______...______-.....___._...___.__._385, 469, 829 --Honorary; requirements _________.._________884, 888, 939, 1519, 2666 --Marking of; traffic violations ________________ (No action in 1968) --Minors 18 or less; Driver Education Course Required--_1800 --Motor driven cycle; special permit, 14 years of age or over ....._....._..,,.._._... (No action in 1968) --Reexamination after suspension .._._....._....._.....__......_. 322, 387 --Suspension or revocation; notification __._(No action in 1968) --Suspension or revocation; proof or required deposit .._....._.........._.......... __.(No action in 1968) --Suspension; violation point count system ___ 27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 DRIVER TRAINING SCHOOLS HB 967 --Private; compliance with standards prescribed by State School Superintendent _ ___ __.._____-_____....__-.___285, 330, 831, 912, 1450 DRUGS HB 118 HB 1660 HB 1091 HB 469 HB 1328 INDEX 3757 --Lysergic Acid Di Ethylamide (LSD) ; regulate sale, etc. _____-..-.__-._______..______.____ (No action in 1968) --Prescription; exempt sales tax _____.___.________________________.________3111 --Prescription; exempt sales tax ___.__________________..______________458, 496 --Sales tax; exempt ..... _____ _.... .... __...._.___.._._____ (No action in 1968) --Uniform Narcotic Drug Act; penalties for violations ........................_.__...___._____..___.__.1092, 1162, 1664 DRUNK DRIVING --Interim Study Report .... .............__......_...._........_.___..._._.....__3460 DUBLIN, CITY OF HB 893 --City Court; change name to State Court of Laurens County ...... .........149, 189, 223, 501, 501 DUNLOP COMPANY HR 762 --Commend ._......._..___.........................._......_......._...__...__....__......___..2170 E EARLY COUNTY HB 852 --Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election ...................... ............_...........__..22, 133, 137, 166, 500 HR 406-912 --Early County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ............................157, 193, 198, 237, 1668, 1849 EASTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1480 --Judges, salary; supplemental payments ........__......._........_......_..1656, 1793, 1799, 1997, 3414 EASTERN STANDARD TIME HB 16 --Designated for all State governmental agencies ........__...---_--.._---.__-.-._... (No action in 1968) 3758 INDEX EASTMAN, CITY OF HB 1262 --Councilmen; election .__.__..______._.._..__.__.929, 980, 988, 1109, 1673 HR 543-1183--Dodge County-Eastman Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ..__._.....-_.._.517, 655, 730, 735, 839, 1669, 1855 EAST POINT, CITY OF HB 226 --New City Charter; establish ......,,.._._.._..(No action in 1968) EAST THOMASTON, VILLAGE OF HB 1005 --Abolish charter ._....._..-.._...-..._.....__...__.321, 387, 471, 512, 885 EATONTON, CITY OF HB 1536 --Council members' salaries ._._______.1787, 1983, 2235, 2249, 2996 EAVESDROPPING HR 333 --Committee to study invasion of privacy _. (No action in 1968) ECHOLS COUNTY HB 1526 HB 1528 HB 1529 HB 1527 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; terms of office ._.._......__.__..._.......1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 3415 --Board of Education members; election _...___.._....__.._..-..__..._..._._1786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 --Judge; term of office __.__..___.._-._.__.1786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 --Superior Court Clerks; salary -______.1786, 1982, 2235, 2249, 2996, 3039, 3040, 3255 ECHOLS, MARGARET MISS HR 542-1183--Compensate __..___-_.-.-__._.__-__.-._..__...__..654, 730, 1798, 2027, 3424 EDUCATION (See Schools, Taxation, Teachers) HB 749 --Athletic functions, dances, etc.; unlawful to possess or consume alcoholic beverages if under 21 .__.___._._____,,_-,,..-__--__.__,,_.-_--_ (No action in 1968) SB 41 --Compact for Education; Georgia be party to __._____._____..__-________.1526, 1528, 1662, 2841, 3325 HB 1092 --Compulsory school attendance; change age _____-458, 496 HR 433-952 --County Boards of Education; members' election; amendment to the Constitution _,,._.--___----_------216, 295 INDEX 3759 HB 330 HB 842 HB 140 --County Superintendent of Schools; classification ------...671 --Driver Education Course included as part of curriculum of all public high schools by 1968-69 school year ........................................_...21, 132, 137 --Driver Education Course; curriculum of high schools ............._..............._......_... (No action in 1968) HR 378-853 --Driver education; traffic fines and forfeitures; allocation; amendment to the Constitution ........_.....23, 134 HB 7 --Educational organizations; limit amount of estate left to religious organizations ......_._.....(No action in 1968) HR 191-597 --Educational tax levy; change millage limitation; amendment to the Constitution ........._..(No action in 1968) HB 899 --Equalized school property tax digest; 1969 shall be the same as 1968 ....................153, 190, 298, 444, 1449, 2646 HB 453 --Exceptional children; educational programs ....470, 692, 1450 HR 656 --First grade teachers; create study committee to study method for providing additional incentives ........................_.__.._..__.....................1271, 2592, 2628 HB 255 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; use of State funds by banks ............... -(No action in 1968) Education Committee --.--........-----..........--...... ..............3474 HB 1065 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Committee; create __--------.------381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 HB 1066 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; student loans, federal requirements ..................................... 382, 466, 606, 815, 1450 HB 360 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; selection of State depositories __...___.._...(No action in 1968) HR 845 --High school graduates and University System of Georgia; create study committee ....................................2910 HB 1357 --Income tax; deductions from gross income for school expenses ....................!..--.----...... 1158, 1226, 1521 HB 1648 --Independent school systems; merger ........... 2555, 2590, 2592 HB 871 --Immunization of pupils ..........128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 HB 892 --Local boards of education; monthly summary of all receipts and expenditures ................._............_._..... 149, 189 HR 711-1479--Local school systems; particular tax shall be allocated; amendment to the Constitution __.________.___...-.........1656, 1793 HB 544 --Lunchroom personnel; minimum wage ....(No action in 1968) HB 900 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; lapsed funds __.._...___.__............_.....153, 190, 298, 446, 737 HB 498 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; transporting of pupils; calculation of costs ________________-___-___,,--__.__________--------(No action in 1968) HB 33 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; Assistant principals included within term "certificated professional personnel" __(No action in 1968) HR 599-1247--Non-profit schools; suspend sales tax on sales of food ............................ 878, 938, 1802, 2527, 3403 3760 INDEX HR 288 --Pre-School Children Study Committee; create .._......._._ (No action in 1968) HB 795 --Private business schools; provide for regulation, inspection and approval .........._._._______.__ (No action in 1968) HB 967 --Private driver training schools; regulate _.... ...._..._.___..__.___.____._.__..__..__.285, 330, 831, 912, 1450 HB 846 --Private elementary; exempt sale of food on premises _._.___.._..._.___..21, 133, 990, 1487, 3168, 3367 HB 1315 --Private schools; exempt sales tax, property sales ._.., ......_........_....1090, 1160, 1321, 1573, 3167 HB 331 --Professional personnel; separate classification ___.__--_--____671 HB 17 --Public Schools Employees' Retirement System; create _.__.-___-___-_.,,_.---_--_--_.--..(No action in 1968) HB 909 --School consolidation; authorization ..___._____.__..__ .154, 191, 2234 HR 714-1514--School drop-outs; create interim study committee ._......................_-.._-...............1783, 1980, 2592 HB 545 --School lunchroom personnel; specific appropriations _._...__._....._...____._._._.___..... (No action in 1968) HB 654 --Secondary schools; Driver Education Course; financial responsibility ______..__._._.._........(No action in 1968) HB 1375 --State Board; contracts ..................1221, 1315, 1319, 2475, 3165 HR 229 --State Board; create Committee to act as liaison between State Board of Education and House of Representatives ................_....._.._....,,. (No action in 1968) HB 1424 --State Department of Education; create Industrial Services Advisory Committee ..___._.___._..--.------1311, 1444, 2592, 2796, 3413 HR 217-712 --Student loans; issuance of revenue bonds; amendment to the Constitution .._.....-......._...831, 1207, 3000 HB 546 --Student's voting rights; appraisal at age 17 ....470, 867, 3170 HB 721 --Superintendent's office; minimum standards and salaries, clerical personnel .,,.....-.----...(No action in 1968) HB 711 --Superintendent's office; salaries for clerical personnel ....................__..................._.....-...-....,,..,,..-...------..2592 HR 38-106 --Taxation; allocation to local units of school administration; amendment to the Constitution_----------.------------------(No action in 1968) HR 181-555 --Taxation; school lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution ...................._....._....... (No action in 1968) HR 41-131 --Taxation for school lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution .._.................,,.......... (No action in 1968) HB 682 --Taxation of school property; redemption, certain conditions ................................... ...........736, 895, 949 SB 247 --Teacher allotment; change provisions . ...... ..._.........-....._..........._.669, 670, 733, 2234, 2891 HR 479-1029--Teacher Certification Policies Study Committee; adopt report ..............327, 391, 470, 910, 1804 SR 227 --Teacher Hall of Fame; provide . ............ ............2708, 2710, 2840, 2841, 3099, 3431 HB 298 --Teachers; declare legally recognized profession - ..........-._.-__..._...__,_,,__.__..__. (No action in 1968) INDEX 3761 HB 1103 --Teacher allotment; Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act ___________________ .._______490, 599, 986, 1419, 3165 HB 121 --Teacher Tenure Act; create --___________.__.___________________.._________2234 HB 94 --Teachers' Retirement System; additional member of the Board of Trustees __________________________ (No action in 1968) HB 1180 --Teachers; board of three examiners may classify; certain counties -_----.._.__--____.....______.__654, 730, 2592, 2805 HB 1244 --Teachers' sick leave; accumulation when transferred .. .__._-_._...... .................................................SIT, 937 HB 1021 --Teachers' Retirement System; adjustment of post-retirement benefits ..........................B25, 390, 944, 2955 HR 608-1295--Teachers Retirement System; allowances to beneficiaries ....._........ ..........--._......-974, 1095, 1101, 2480 HB 713 --Teachers' Retirement System; appointment of additional members ________________________________ (No action in 1968) HB 65 --Teachers' Retirement System; conditions of membership .__.__________._____________________________'_________... _______ 199, 359 SB 266 --Teachers' Retirement System; credit for service in the armed forces ___._______.__.. ___...________._____________739, 741, 828 HB 671 --Teachers' Retirement System; creditable service, certain cases ___..____.___._..._____.______1445, 2585, 3273, 3310, 3431 HR 142-403 --Teachers' Retirement System; create for all school employees; amendment to the Constitution ____________199, 314, 1166, 1283 HB 952 --Teachers' Retirement System; earnable compensation, University System of Georgia _._.________216, 294, 2592, 2813, 3371,3371,3432 HB 78 --Teachers' Retirement System; full service allowance after 40 years' service __________________________ (No action in 1968) SB 14 --Teachers' Retirement System; leaves of absence __________,,____.--_-----________(No action in 1968) HB 995 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor.._.291, 335, 2592 HB 87 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor of $5.00 for each year of service up to 40 years ____(No action in 1968) HB 86 --Teachers' Retirement System; payment of minimum benefits to certain members _______________________________________.________199 HB 1000 --Teachers' Retirement System; transfer of service credits ...._________.___________.___....__.__292, 336, 986, 2529, 3035, 3070 HB 1359 --Teachers' sick leave; 3 days may be used for personal leave upon proper notice _____________ .______________1218, 1312, 1319 HR 773 --Teachers Tenure Study Committee; create.___2181, 2592, 2753 SR 183 --University System of Georgia, Board of Regents; scholarships; amendment to the Constitution ___________ 2708, 2710, 2840, 2991, 3217, 3431 HB 1089 --Venereal diseases; blood tests to all students prior to entering 8th grade ______--__.----__.___-_.._456, 495 EDWARDS, HON. FRANK H. --Communication ______,,__.___-_- __________506 3762 INDEX EFPINGHAM COUNTY HR 632-1401--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ........1306, 1440, 1448, 1558, 2244, 2394 ELBERT COUNTY HR 377-853 --Industrial Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ......................... 23, 134, 137, 226, 1668, 1849 HB 873 --Sheriff's budget ......................................128, 162, 198, 223, 500 ELECTION BILLS HR 283 --Committee to study bills pending in the House .____.___._.___.__.-___._-_--_._-_-._------.-_-_-(No action in 1968) ELECTION BOARD, STATE (See Elections, Voting) HB 1057 HB 1058 HB 874 --Additional powers ___.__..._.__..__.__..379, 464, 509, 628, 3395, 3398 --Members' salaries ...... ...... 379, 464, 509, 626 --Members' compensation ........................128, 162, 200, 509, 509 ELECTION LAWS STUDY COMMITTEE HR 490-1060--Create ........ ............................................380, 465, 509, 633, 1804 ELECTIONS SB 304 HB 771 HB 1178 HB 1051 HB 315 HB 1052 HB 1055 HB 134 HB 253 --Automatic recount of votes cast ............2706, 2708, 2839, 2845 --City employees presiding as manager of election; repeal act prohibiting .._..._.-.__-..._-.........._.._...._._. (No action in 1968) --Conventions; regulations governing conduct ... ..............................652, 729, 736, 1470, 3039, 3084 --Deputy Registrars ..........378, 463, 509, 630, 2563, 2641, 2899, 2922, 3034, 3169, 3175 --Disqualification lists; file with election registrars and Secretary of State ..._..._......._..........__.._...(No action in 1968) --Electors; additional methods for casting vote -___.-.__.-___.-_.._-.._-_...-.--_.-__.378, 463, 508, 621, 1322, 2190 --Election districts; number of electors ................379, 464, 508, 616, 1234, 1365, 1528, 1865, 2242, 2314, 2339 --General elections; prohibit voting of a straight party ticket .__.____--_----,,---_.._.--_.--.._-- (No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; amend _-.--._...(No action in 1968) INDEX 3763 HB 28 --Georgia Election Code; unlawful campaign practices; literature ._._..__..,,._.............._...(No action in 1968) --Election Laws Interim Study Report ____________________.____.___3478 HB 1087 --Municipal elections; eligibility _----456, 495, 736, 1293, 2566 SB 151 --Municipal primaries -...-.__.-._.___....___...._._.669, 1116, 1872, 3406 HB 1172 --Municipalites; public notices outside all polling places ...._,_...___....-....__._.___....._...__.........651, 728, 2237 SB 76 --Nomination petitions; candidate shall pay cost .__...._--_.__---____-_,,___-___________________ (No action in 1968) HB 429 --Nomination petitions; cost incurred ....__..(No action in 1968) HB 1313 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ......_....._........_....___.__........__...__..1089, 1159, 1228, 2325 HB 1155 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors _......._.....__...._........._..._....._....._:596, 663, 669, 796, 3167 SB 181 --Notice of candidacy by incumbent ______..._..___..509, 636, 704, 798 HB 1054 --Notice of candidacy; 60 days prior to General Election __._______.____._...._____..____._____.._______.379, 463, 508, 625, 1234 HB 638 --Party registration ________..,,.____..,,____._..____.___ (No action in 1968) HB 271 --Party registration, voting machines; provide for _...__._...._.___....___......_...._..........(No action in 1968) HB 1023 --Petitions to nominate candidates; filing of __.._.___-_________-__.._.___-.__..326, 390, 508, 614, 1803, 2189 HB 1053 --Presidential electors; procedure ._____.378, 463, 508, 623, 1450 HR 653 --Presidential Elections; United States Congress requested to provide proportional counting of electoral vote ____._____________,,__,,______,,____---_____-_..__._-_____1269, 1449 HE 216-712 --Primaries; power of taxation; amendment to the Constitution .._.-__.._....___.._.__._...__.......__.......(No action in 1968) HB 539 --President and vice-president; residence requirements _,,______,,___.,,,,_...._,,__............_(No action in 1968) HB 75 --Solicitation of votes; unlawful in or near polling places ----,,---_,, _______...... (No action in 1968) HB 546 --Student's voting rights; appraisal at age 17 ____470, 867, 3170 SB 359 --Unlawful campaign practices; prohibit _._.______________.__.___.___.1527, 1529, 1663, 1990, 2965, 3406 HB 1056 --Voter recorders; number required -379, 464, 508, 622, 1235 HB 837 --Vote recorders; vote party ticket or for individuals __.......____.,,.._,,--.-_..----..___.,,-(No action in 1968) HB 248 --Voter registration requirements, certain elections _..._____..._.__._._-_.__.__.....______.509, 638, 1238, 1367, 1740 HB 1189 --Voting machines; designating letter or number of the counter __...........__-..-.-...__.___.____...-..___.665, 731, 736, 1870 HB 483 --Voting machines and vote recorders; voiding of votes ____.--.,,--,,...----,,_.__ -- (No action in 1968) ELECTRICITY HB 1166 HB 1512 --Electrical contractors; performance bonds _____....___.._ 650, 727 --Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions; distribution of electricity ________1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 3764 INDEX ELIZABETH, CITY OF HB 1406 HB 1618 --Corporate limits ........................ 1307, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2240 --New charter ............................................ZZZ^, 2346, 2353, 2569 ELKS, BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF HR 753 --Commend and congratulate ...... ........ ...__._.. .-.- ....2162, 2617 ELLIOTT, WILLIAM A. "BUBBA" HR 751 --Express sympathy for passing of ............_.,,.... ... .... ......2161 EMANUEL COUNTY HB 1448 --Board of Education; create five member Board ..........................................1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2358 EMINENT DOMAIN HR 420-932 --Airports; relocation of occupants; amendment to the Constitution ........185, 220, 341, 1099, 1425, 1496, 1570, 2499 HB 989 --Appeals by owner of land .........................._._..........._.........290, 334 HB 880 --Court costs; responsibility for payment ... ....... 130, 163, 1446 HR 536-1179--Fair market value; amendment to the Constitution _________.____________._.________._____._____.________._653, 729, 1446 HB 1291 --Payment of costs and fees _.._______.__.___.____.__._._____.__.___._.._973, 1094 HB 1363 --Private ways by individuals and corporations; amend procedure .._................................-__..1218, 1312, 1446 EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, STATE (See Retirement) HB 1016 HB 81 SB 278 HB 1050 HB 20 HB 1020 HB 291 SB 263 --Amend Act to correct typographical and technical errors _...._......_........._.__-_........__.._..._._._.__..._.......__._...324, 389, 943 --Creditable service; change provisions ....(No action in 1968) --Credit for service in armed forces ___._._____.740, 742, 828, 1521 --Department of Public Safety; disability allowance _-...._-..__....-..._._....__...._......377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 --Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind, Inc.; credit to certain members ...................... (No action in 1968) --Involuntary separation from employment with prejudice; expand definition .__.325, 389, 1101, 1994, 2237, 2509, 3256 --Mandatory retirement, exempt certain employees ......--. ... .......(No action in 1968) --Notice to certain employees prior to retirement ...._______...__.__..__.______--..__.___.__.__.__739, 741, 827, 2991 HB 963 HB 1025 HR 651 HB 1033 HB 1037 HB 1051 HB 1032 HR 707 SB 208 HB 1001 INDEX 3765 --Prior service credit; Armed Services ...._.--__._-...__....284, 329 --Prior service credit; Armed Forces ____._________________________326, 390 --Prior service; requested to conduct a study --... ......._........ 1267 --Prior service credit; municipal or county retirement systems . ......,____......_...__328, 392 --Prior service credit .............. ............329, 392, 1101, 1486, 3227 --Retirement allowances; inclusion of interest in computing _____ _______ _ ...........324, 389, 943, 2216, 3166 --Retirement benefits prior to January 1, 1967 _..._......_328, 392 --Study committee; create _________ ________________ 1582, 2704 --Suspension of benefits under certain conditions __.__.____. ____________ __......_._............ 2086, 2087, 2232 --Transfer of service credits _ 292, 336, 986, 2531, 3035, 3072 EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AGENCY; BOARD OP APPEALS HB 758 --Replace Unemployment Compensation Law, Board of Review ............._.. ...... ....(No action in 1968) EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW HB 601 --Unemployment compensation for waiting period . _._--. _._.--._ ............_.. ........_,,.__._--. (No action in 1968) ENGINEERS HB 83 HB 1321 HB 1312 HB 1559 HB 1508 HB 1508 HB 1219 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; members' examination .... . ..... .. ....--. .___..__._.,,_. (No action in 1968) --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; examination ____ ._.._.... .--1091, 1161 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; examination ............_......_.. 1089, 1159 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; license; certain persons,. 1970, 2078, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; licenses ______________ 1782, 1979, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; licenses __ ______________ _1782, 1979, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; rosters available upon request ___.822, 880 ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS SB 154 --Regulate .. _____ ......_..... ...... ____ ______________2234 3766 ESTATES HB 7 HB 1132 HB 897 SB 371 HB 1031 HB 1043 HB 1042 SB 332 HB 868 INDEX --Charitable, religious and educational organizations; limit amount of estate left to ..,,_._.__...... (No action in 1968) --Death of a husband intestate; wife's application for dower __.___..___ -___.____.._____...__.592, 659, 830, 919, 1803, 1859 --Minors; bond requirement of guardians __.____..___152, 190, 339, 646, 2566 --Minors; property conveyances; consensual transactions, 18 years of age or older ......................1805, 1809, 1986 --Property appraisement; filing of request ______________ ___.____._____.__.__..___.___.328, 392, 606, 817, 3164 --Residuary bequest or devise, surviving widow; taxes and expenses of administration __.._.___ 376, 461, 666, 1574, 3167 --Trusts, testamentary additions __.__...._376, 461, 666, 861, 3165 --Widow's dower; how barred ...............1168, 1240, 1316, 1990, 3216,3429 --Wife's estate; debts of husband _____ ... _._______127, 161, 988 ETHICS, CODE OF SR 25 --Government service employees; establish . ..________. 338, 576 EVANS COUNTY SB 342 --Board of Commissioners; compensation _________..___.___._1238, 1242, 1318, 2593, 2597, 3406 SB 341 --Clerk of Superior Court; salary ___ 1238, 1242, 1318, 1448, 1455 HR 631-1401--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ______ __._____.__1306, 1440, 1448, 1554, 2244 SB 340 --Sheriff; Deputy's salary __ .___.__.1238, 1242, 1317, 1448, 1455 EVICTION HB 911 --Warrants; number of days' notice to tenant ___ . . . _________ . _ 155, 192, 393, 786, 2614 EXAMINING BOARDS, STATE SB 316 HB 1169 HR 659 HR 351 --Additional class of applicants ___ 1526, 1529, 1663, 2704, 2967 --Applicants; additional class __.________._.___.._____.____._ 651, 727, 939 --Study committee; create ___._._____... ______ .___.___.__._____.____._____.__._1264 --Study committee .___._____.___________._____.___.._.__.__ (No action in 1968) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN HB 453 HR 700 --Educational programs .____.___.__.._._. ____..__.._._______._..470, 692, 1450 --Conference of the Council for Exceptional Children; Speaker of the House to authorize certain named Representatives to attend ________._..._..........._...1577, 3113, 3184 INDEX 3767 EXCISE TAX HB 1041 --Municipalities; amusements; accommodations rented to transients _.....______.._________________________________.._______376, 461, 1521 EXECUTIVE CENTER HR 600-1247--Designate as official residence of Governor ..___.__..___..._.__-....______..._____.879, 938, 1665, 2496, 3403 F FAIR MARKET VALUE HB 439 --Taxation on tangible property; method of assessment ........ .. ........ ... ...... ----(No action in 1968) FALES, ROBERT M. HR 685-1477--Compensate . ... .... ............. ...--1655, 1792, 2233, 2303, 3425 FALLOUT SHELTERS HR 278 HB 555 --Create study committee - ._..__.._._.____-..._.. (No action in 1968) --Georgia Fallout Shelter Commission; create ....... ....... ........ ..... ...... ............ (No action in 1968) FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES HB 1085 HB 1260 --Authorized agencies to provide services to anyone requesting ........................_..._._._......_..... ............386, 470, 1664 --Services provided to any person requesting assistance .. ____.._._._.__._....___._..______.929, 979, 1522, 1954, 3411 FANNIN COUNTY SB 414 HB 1129 HB 1128 HB 951 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; elections . .._....._..............__.._....___....__......___.....2852, 2902, 2988 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; salaries ............ ............ ..._...._.591, 659, 667, 745, 2898, 3050 --Deputy Sheriff; car allowance --......591, 659, 667, 744, 2560 --Law Library; establish and maintain . ..............................__.__.....215, 294, 298, 395, 1524 3768 INDEX HR 432-952 --Ordinary's Court; furnish certain law books _._._.__.___..__-_.-_._.___._-...-._.-.__-216, 294, 339, 863, 1527 HR 431-952 --Superior Court Clerk; furnish certain books ... .......___.___.__._.__...__...____.__.___._..__.216, 294, 298, 397, 738 SB 372 --Tax Collector's salary ..,.1805, 1809, 1986, 1989, 2134, 3429 FARMER, HONORABLE LEON, JR. HR 867 --Commend- .. . .. ..............-..._....__..........._......._...-_....-._.......3044 FARMS HB 683 --Machinery; exempt sales tax . ................................ 3040, 3084 FAYETTE COUNTY HB 1623 --Ordinary's compensation ....2225, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3004, 3063 HB 1624 --Sheriff's compensation ....2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3063 HB 1625 --Superior Court Clerk; salary .........._..___._.._._.2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 HB 1626 --Tax Commissioner's compensation _._..__.........2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 HR 593-1241--Water, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution ...................... --876, 936, 941, 1021, 1667 FEDERAL TAX LIEN ACT OF 1966 HB 1341 --Registration .. ... .............................1154, 1223, 1320, 2191, 3412 FEDERAL WAGERING OCCUPATIONAL TAX STAMP ACT SB 134 --Amend. ...........__..._........................_.... .-- (No action in 1968) FEEDING STUFFS HB 1333 --Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs; eliminate inspection fees .. ... ...... ...........1153, 1222, 1318, 2474, 3161 FEMALES HB 1198 --Equal Pay for Women Act of 1966; amend .......657, 733, 940, 1286, 3170, 3250, 3315, 3324, 3342, 3382, 3383, 3389, 3433 FERGUSON, MRS. J. E. HR 483-1037--Compensate .........._........... ..........375, 460, 2234, 2302, 3423 INDEX 3760 FERTILIZERS HR 561-1220--Joint committee to study standards; procedures and laws _______ ____ _______.------823, 881, 1098, 2749 FIELD, HENRY S. HR 646 --Express sympathy for passing of .--.------..--.------------1262 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW HB 882 --Reinstatement of driver's license; proof maintained for 3 year period ________ ___________ _______ ____ ____________ 27, 136, 137 FIREARMS SB 240 HB 865 HB 1438 HB 856 HB 1094 SB 51 SB 50 HB 866 HR 774 HB 857 --Discharging on Sunday; allow under certain circumstances _ _ ____________ _____________669, 670, 733, 2234, 3151 --Felony; unlawful to possess during attempt to commit _____________________,,________ 25, 136, 606, 804, 2706, 2735 --Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act; create _____ _____ _____ 1432, 1513, 1517, 2201, 2209, 2209, 2293, 2674, 3413 --Identification of persons qualified to acquire or possess -._... ---24, 135, 736 --Permits to acquire; provide for ______________________ __------_458, 497 --Pistols; bond to carry; raise fee --____---- (No action in 1968) --Pistols; license fee ------ -.___....___..-(No action in 1968) --Riots; unlawful possession ------------__.._.--------_25, 136, 1100 --Safety study committee; create __----__------_2182, 2593, 2630 --Unlawful sale and possession; define offense ------24, 135 FIRE BOMBS HB 907 HR 445 --Possession prima facie evidence ,,..... _----------154, 191 --Georgia Firemen Training Center; create study committee ....... ___________ ____________________________ ----264, 508, 761 FIREMEN, TRAINING ACADEMY, GEORGIA --Interim Study Report .--------------------.._----_------ __.----_3482 FIREMEN HB 1010 HB 191 --Pension Fund; eligibility for membership .... . ____________ __322, 387, 943, 1374, 3001, 3222 --Settlement of employment disputes _ _____ ___ 2085, 2086, 2232 3770 INDEX FISH AND FISHING (See Game & Fish) HB 1111 --Commercial fishing boats; license fees .-492, 601, 604, 792, 1804, 2645 HR 507 --Rockfish Study Committee; create .-....-... ........419, 604, 762 HB 1489 --Sales tax; exempt commercially fry and fingerling channel catfish ..._..... .__._____..__.__.___...__.1658, 1795, 1991, 2810 HR 655 --Shad Fish Study Committee; create __.___.__._.___.1271, 1987, 2148 HR 455-1013--Shad Fish Study Committee; create .....323, 388, 470, 689 FITZPATRICK, CLYDE N. HR 478-1029--Compensate .. .. . ........... ... ----.-327, 391, 2233, 2301, 3422 FLO YD COUNTY SR 182 SR 207 HB 533 SB 406 HB 1466 --Board of Education; Workmen's Compensation; amendment to the Constitution ....886, 887, 938, 1448, 1467 --Board of Education; staggered terms for members; amendment to the Constitution ..1666,1677, 1797, 2593, 2610 --Contractors Bond; solvent security _._..____.___._____.._..________.__. 942 --Coosa Valley Area Vocational Technical School System; create ...............................2613, 2621, 2698, 2843, 2869, 3407 --Solicitor-General Office employees; Merit System ............ .......1509, 1662, 1800, 1820, 2616, 2931 FLOYD, HONORABLE JAMES H. "SLOPPY" HR 901 HR 612 --Commend ... ... ........................................... ......... ... ... ......... 3212 --Congratulate ... .............................. ..........._...__..._...._._.___.__._.__._.960 FC-LKSTON, CITY OF HB 1112 HB 1114 HB 1113 --City Manager's appointment ... 492, 601, 667, 675, 2563, 2924 --Close certain streets and alleys .. .... 493, 601, 667, 675, 2355 --Corporate limits; extend ......................493, 601, 667, 675, 2560 FOOD HB 846 HB 887 HB 469 --Private elementary schools; exempt sale of on premises . .......... ... ..... ... ......21, 133, 990, 1487, 3168, 3367 --Sales tax; exempt ._........_...__._...._....._........_..__....__....___...___131, 164 --Sales tax; exempt .. .......................... .......... (No action in 1968) FORESTERS HB 1561 --State Board of Registration for Foresters; licenses as registered foresters ....... ........................ ......__..._. 1971, 2078 INDEX 3771 FOREST PRODUCTS HR 803 --Study committee to study transportation; create _..__________.__________.____.___._________.__.2465, 2594, 2759 FORSYTE COUNTY HB 1133 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; chairman's salary ----------------592, 659, 667, 746, 1169 FORT OGLETHORPE, TOWN OF HB 1440 --Mayor and aldermen; terms of office ^___^__1433, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2359, 3151 FORTSON, HONORABLE BEN W. JR., --Communication ___,,________.____________,,_______________----____5, 6, 7 FORWARD GEORGIA COMMISSION HR 530-1156-- Create ---------------------- ------597, 663, 1099, 2549, 3421 FRANKLIN SPRINGS, CITY OF HB 848 --Mayor and Council; terms ----------------22, 133, 137, 166, 500 FREDRICKS, DOUGLAS WINDSOR HR 831 --Commend -------------- --- FRUIT HB 1334 -- Citrus; promulgate grades and standards of quality ___.._____._..._._____.__________1153, 1222, 1318, 2475, 3412 FULFORD, LT. C. W., JR. HR 569 --Commend . .--------------------_________________....____._..__769 FULLILOVE, HONORABLE W. TOM HR 690 --Commend _________________________________.__..___._..__________.___1591 3772 INDEX FULTON COUNTY HR 679-1465--Ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ___________ _____________ _____________ ._____.1509, 1661, 1799 HB 662 --Airport Authority; create ................ .(No action in 1968) HR 234 --Airport Authority Study Committee; create .____.___. ___________ ____________ .........(No action in 1968) HB 759 --Amusement tax _ ________ ______ ______________________ (No action in 1968) HB 1027 --Amusement tax ____________________________ ____________ .326, 391, 471, 510 HB 1141 --Atlanta, City of; city taxes; collection ___.593, 661, 667, 748 HB 1139 --Atlanta, City of; Tax Commissioner; tax returns Fulton and DeKalb County ______ _ _._.__ _______ __593, 660, 667, 747 HB 1140 --Atlanta, City of; Tax levy ___________________________593, 660, 667, 747 HB 953 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; pensions ______ ____ . . ... ____217, 295, 298, 395, 3004, 3058 HB 1224 --Board of Elections; sample ballots 823, 882, 1227, 1230, 3410 SB 277 --Civil Court Judge; filling of vacancies _________ 1993, 1994, 2083, 2990,2992,3406 HB 1540 --Civil Service Board; salary per diem __._ ___________ 1788, 1984 HR 493-1063--Conveyance of certain real property _______________ ... _______ ____ 381, 466, 1101, 1945, 3402 HB 1143 --Court reporters' compensation ________ 594, 661, 667, 749, 1806 HR 520-1103--Conveyance of a certain tract of land ___ _________________ __________ __490, 599, 943, 1946, 3402 SB 274 --Criminal Court; Judge and Solicitor-General; filling of vacancies __ . .... .... 1993, 1993, 2083, 2990, 2992, 3405 HB 1507 --Criminal Court; method of trial and correction of errors . ______ ... __ ... 1782, 1979, 2235, 2249, 3414 HB 956 --Employees' Pension; maximum amount --... .-218, 296, 667, 671,1806 HR 26 --Fulton and DeKalb County Delegations; vote required for local legislation . ... .......... ........... (No action in 1968) SB 308 --Joint City-County Board of Tax Assessors; abolish office manager's position _ _____.______._1167, 1239, 1315, 2236, 2246 HB 971 --Judges' and Solicitor-Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members .... ____________ .__ 285, 330, 2235, 2248, 3004, 3081 HB 972 --Judges' and Solicitor-Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members; public defenders ............................ .... 286, 330 HB 955 --Judges and Solicitor-General; retirement fund ___ ...218, 296 SR 53 --License plates; purchase by check ..____ ___________ .2703, 2721 HB 1513 --Local Education Commission; re-establish _ . _____ _____ _. 1659, 1795, 2235, 2258, 3415 HB 1029 --Lodgings; excise tax 2% _ . _ . . 327, 391, 471, 511 HR 66-153 --Motor vehicle license tags; idemnification to Tax Commis sioner; amendment to the Constitution __(No action in 1968) SB 190 --Planning Commission; eliminate certain exceptions _____ ___ __ _____ ___.1526, 1528, 1663, 2353, 2576 HB 282 --Ordinary's compensation _ 1670, 1676, 1795, 2353, 2404 HB 1142 --Planning and zoning; hearings ____ 594, 661, 667, 748, 3409 HB 954 --Public Defender; retirement fund 217, 295, 1227, 1229, 2999 INDEX 3773 HR 724-1550--Public parking facilities; establish; amendment to the Constitution ............. ..................1789, 1985, 2235, 2272 SB 193 --Radar; authorize use for traffic safety .......... .....................668 SB 236 --Sheriff's salary ....................1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2872, 3405 SR 63 --Solicitor-General; change name to District Attorney ........2619, 2709, 2840, 2842, 3333, 3430 HB 1067 --Superior Court Clerk; salary ___...382, 466, 472, 515, 1803, 1845 HR 731-1589--Tax levies; amendment to the Constitution . ......................................1976, 2083, 2593, 2626 SB 310 --Tax returns due City of Atlanta located in Fulton and DeKalb County ........1740, 1741, 1797, 2235, 2262, 3405 SB 312 --Tax commissioner; collection of taxes due City of Atlanta situated in DeKalb County ........1670, 1676, 1796, 2235, 2247 HB 1643 --Teacher's tenure ......__............_..._..........._._..........._.._...__.2345, 2558 HR 197-652 --Transfer certain property ...._.._......_........... (No action in 1968) HB 1395 --Trucks hauling gravel or stone; prohibited on streets without protective covering _____._.____1305, 1439, 1569, 1665, 1688,3412 SB 319 --Warrants; execution ....................1167, 1240, 1316, 2353, 2403 SB 309 --Zoning changes; notification to tax assessing officials ........................... ........1167, 1239, 1315, 2235, 2247 FUNERAL SERVICE, STATE BOARD HB 1496 --Board members; increase ....................1780, 1977, 2088, 2672 FURNITURE HR 434-952 --Household and kitchen; exempt ad valorem tax; amendment to the Constitution _._......._.___.__..._..216, 295, 2627 GAMBLING SB 134 HB 904 SB 225 HR 337 --Federal Wagering Occupational Tax Stamp Act; amend - ...... ....-...--...................._(No action in 1968) --Felony; punishment ... .........._..........................._._.........___.153, 191 --Felony; punishment ............2706, 2708, 2839, 2842, 3230, 3428 --Parimutuel Betting Study Committee; create ......._....................--.._...._......_...._...(No action in 1968) GAME AND FISH COMMISSION, STATE HB 1289 HB 1293 --Alligator farms; licensing ...........972, 1093, 1165, 1576, 2705 --Alligator hunting and trapping; open season .....__....._._.....................973, 1094, 1165, 2046, 3411 3774 INDEX HR 425-941 --Boating and fishing facilities; motor fuel taxes; amendment to the Constitution _.------__.--___--__----___187, 222 HR 422-932 --Create a new Commission; amendment to the Constitution ------------------185, 220, 2351, 2686, 3384, 3384 HR 397-912 --Create new Commission; amendment to the Constitution ----------____. ----------__----_.___----------..155, 192 HR 415-923 --Create five member Commission; amendment to the Constitution __--_----------. _____--------___----------__160, 196 HB 595 --Deer hunting at night; increase penalty .......... --___(No action in 1968) HB 1483 --Deer hunting; minors 15 years or younger prohibited to hunt unless under direct supervision of adult .--1657, 1794, 1987 HR 49-133 --Director shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner as Governor; amendment to the Constitution --__----------------------(No action in 1968) HB 997 --Outboard motors; certificate of title ...............291, 335, 470 HR 786-1643--Reimbursement of certain employees; amendment to the Constitution ----------------2345, 2558, 2593, 2807, 3427 HB 1302 --Revise laws . . 976, 1097, 1165, 2192, 2900, 3171 HR 282 --Study committee ------------------------.-- (No action in 1968) HB 998 --Watercraft; maximum capacity ----------------------292, 335 GAME AND FISH COMMITTEE --Enforcement officers Interim Study Report ----------.--3490 GARDNER, REV. MILTON C., JR. --Prayer offered by --__--__--,,-----.------_.------.----------------488 GARNISHMENT HB 1163 --Grounds of attachment; non-residents ._-_----599, 665, 2090 GARRETT, MRS. REBECCA L. HR 382-867 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; impeachment charges ......----------121, 161, 502, 3435, 3442 GASOLINE HB 885 HR 354 HB 982 --Aircraft motors; exempt excise tax --------_____131, 164 --Committee to study purchase by State agencies __----------_------_----,,.--_(No action in 1968) --Motor Fuel Tax Law; excise tax; distributors _.----.__----_-___-- 288, 332, 1521, 2308, 2468, 2650 HB 854 HB 983 HB 1478 HB 124 HB 1179 HB 123 HB 984 INDEX 3775 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt excise tax-.,23, 134, 1321, 2317 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt sales tax __.____...____..___.___.288, 332 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; motor carriers; impose tax for use of streets and highways ___________.1655, 1792, 1802, 2670, 3166 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; raise gasoline tax to 7^' per gallon _.......__--...____.._____.___.____ (No action in 1968) --Motor Fuel Tax Law; refunds to counties and municipalities ___._.___..____.__..__..__..________......__.._...._._653, 729, 1521 --Sales tax; exempt ____._______.____.._......_______________ (No action in 1968) --Tax; increase if purchased in other states ___._____.288, 333, 1521 GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT HB 23 HB 960 HB 961 --Budgetary authorization relating to certain highway contracts ........._........_........._..... (No action in 1968) --Provide for; 1968-69 ...._.... 218, 296, 1600, 1600, 1622, 1741, 2360, 2360, 2505, 2506, 2508, 2892, 3002 --Supplement .. . ...._._.__.............. .......219, 297 GENERAL CONTRACTORS HB 1196 --State construction; must submit list of all subcontractors and sub-contractors ...........----657, 732, 831 GENERAL: LOCOMOTIVE HR 188 --Requested to be returned to Ringgold, Georgia .. ............. ._.__.__-- _.___.-- ._._.___--. (No action in 1968) HR 495-1071--Withhold lease of Western and Atlantic Railroad until "General" has been returned to Georgia ........383, 467, 1165 GENERAL ASSEMBLY HR 418 --Adjournments; January 19, 1968 and February 9, 1968 ............ .___._.__..___.__.._.____......___._..._.___....-. ........169, 472 HB 1152 --Bills affecting salaries must be introduced during first 10 days of any session ..............__._........ 595, 662, 1098, 1418 SB 293 --Bills affecting salaries of State officials must be introduced during first 10 days of any Session__884, 888, 939, 990, 2326 SR 223 --Congressional Delegation; promote closer liaison .... . ............ . ... ............ ............. . 2851, 2902, 2988 HB 1404 --Constitutional amendments; statutory interpretations _............_......__..1307, 1440, 1517, 2797, 3413 HB 1412 --Effective dates of laws ............... 1309, 1442, 1517, 1947, 3413 HR 725-1550--Election; four-year terms; amendment to the Constitution ............................ -1789, 1985, 2089, 2476, 3426 HR 375 --Joint session to hear address by Governor ............ 12, 26, 109 3776 INDEX HR 376 --Joint session to hear address by Governor _._____.___.____13, 27, 204 HR 381-866 --Legislative branch of government study commission; create ... .._..___.__._____.._.__..____.__..___....................._._..__.________25, 136 SB 322 --License plates ____ ____ _____ _____.._________1103, 1105, 1164, 1800, 3221 HB 1220 --Lobbyists; identification badges . ________________ _____________ 822, 881 SR 205 --Meetings; amendment to the Constitution _____________ ____._______._______.______1666, 1677, 1796, 1801 HR 372 --Notify Governor that General Assembly has convened ___.___._._._._.. __.....__...._......._.. ..11, 26 SB 267 --Pension plans; certain persons employed by political subdivisions shall receive credit for time served as member of General Assembly _____ 1103, 1105, 1163, 1521 SR 231 --Relative to adjournment _______________________ ________1740, 1741, 1776 HR 863 --Relative to adjournment ........................................ ___________ 3042 HR 780 --Relative to adjournment; Saturday, March 2, 1968 ________________ _____________________________ ......2177, 2565 SR 141 --Russell, Senator Richard A.; Invite to address ._________._26, 144 HR 905 --Sine die; adjournment _........................_............3374, 3433, 3434 SB 231 --Subpoenas shall not be issued to members while in Session ___________ _____________.___832, 832, 883, 990, 3221 SR 142 --Talmadge, Senator Herman; Invite to address ... .26, 145, 265 GEORGIA ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT SB 299 SB 199 SB 202 --Solicitors-General, Superior Courts; Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia ....................884, 888, 939, 1099, 2582 --State Board of Corrections; place under provisions of Act ................................200, 257, 297, 508, 3098 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; place under for making purposes _ _____ ______ _____ 200, 258, 297, 1101, 3220 GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES PROMOTION ACT HB 1346 --Marketing procedures, certain agricultural commodities ___ ___ _ _______ ... 1155, 1224, 1445, 1957, 2999 GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION HB 931 --Clothing allowance ............................ ______ _184, 219, 943, 1202 GEORGIA BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT SB 230 --Create .......... ...........2360, 2398, 2559, 2703, 2984, 3013, 3428 GEORGIA CIVIL PRACTICE ACT HB 891 HB 1430 --Court clerks; service by publication.- ____ .149, 189, 299, 346, 3039,3091 --Summons; cases involving less than $200 ... ....1430, 1511, 1799 INDEX 3777 GEORGIA COMMISSION ON CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT HB 941 --Create ..................._._...._.-_..._......_..........._._......_..187, 222 GEORGIA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS SB 218 --Create .... ........_.1103, 1104, 1163, 1321, 2581, 2638, 2971 GEORGIA ELECTION CODE HB 253 SB 304 HB 771 HB 1051 HB 315 HB 1055 HB 1052 HB 134 SB 151 HB 429 HB 1155 HB 1313 SB 181 HB 1054 HB 638 HB 271 HB 1023 HB 1178 HB 1053 HB 539 HB 28 SB 359 HB 1056 --Amend ....... ............__.................. (No action in 1968) --Automatic recount of votes cast .._.____.___2706, 2708, 2839, 2845 --City employees presiding as manager of election; repeal act prohibiting _________.__________.,,___ (No action in 1968) --Deputy Registrars .......__...........___..378, 463, 509, 630, 2563, 2641, 2899, 2922, 3034, 3169, 3175 --Disqualification lists; file with election registrars and Secretary of State _......_..___._.___..._... (No action in 1968) --Election districts; number of electors __..____..379, 464, 508, 616, 1234, 1365, 1528, 1865, 2242, 2314, 2339 --Electors; additional methods for casting vote _j_.._.._________.__.____378, 463, 508, 621, 1322, 2190 --General elections; prohibit voting of a straight party ticket -- ......._._... (No action in 1968) --Municipal primaries _._.-______.__________..__________669, 1116, 1872, 3406 --Nomination petitions; cost incurred ...--..(No action in 1968) --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ..........596, 663, 669, 796, 3167 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ____..__.._____...______..._____.____.__.______.1089, 1159, 1228, 2325 --Notice of candidacy by incumbent ..___...__..-..509, 636, 704, 798 --Notice of candidacy; 60 days prior to General Election _____._._____.__._____..._______379, 463, 508, 625, 1234 --Party registration ................ (No action in 1968) --Party registration, voting machines; provide for __.__________.____________,,______________,,. (No action in 1968) --Petitions to nominate candidates; filing of .._______.________-_____________.__.326, 390, 508, 614, 1803, 2189 --Political conventions; regulations governing conduct ___._____._______.-..__...-_..___.652, 729, 736, 1470, 3039, 3084 --Presidential electors; procedure _._._.. 378, 463, 508, 623, 1450 --Residence requirements; presidential and vice-presidential elections ......... (No action in 1968) --Unlawful campaign practices; literature .........._...__.__......._-_--..--. (No action in 1968) --Unlawful campaign practices; prohibit _....._.__..... _.__..........1527, 1529, 1663, 1990, 2965, 3406 --Vote recorders; ^number required ............... 379, 464, 508, 622, 1235 3778 HB 837 HB 248 HB 1189 HB 483 INDEX --Vote recorders; vote party ticket or for individuals __.-------..--._--.....--(No .action in 1968) --Voter registration requirements, certain elections _______----........509, 638, 1238, 1367, 1740 --Voting machines; designating letter or number of the counter ____._.__________..____._655, 731, 736, 1870 --Voting machines and vote recorders; voiding of votes ___.--._.----------------(No action in 1968) GEORGIA FALLOUT SHELTER COMMISSION HB 555 --Create ...... .-..--..-.___._.._(No action in 1968) GEORGIA FIREARMS AND WEAPONS ACT HB 1438 --Create ......1432, 1513, 1517, 2201, 2209, 2209, 2293, 2674, 3413 GEORGIA GIFTS TO MINORS ACT HB 966 --Create; life insurance policies and annuity contracts .....---- ..... .... ............ 285, 329, 942 GEORGIA GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS SB 17 --Provide for publishing ............._..____... 2594, 3180, 3427 GEORGIA HEALTH CODE HB 1352 SB 100 HB 1135 HB 1176 HB 1177 SB 339 SB 338 HB 1167 HB 1065 --Board of Health; increase membership __--,,_. 1157, 1225, 2352 --County Boards of Health; filling of vacancies ___.._--_._.__._.----___------------..----..393, 806, 859 --Examination hearing; notice ----..... 592, 660, 967, 1488, 3285 --Hospital Authorities Law; revenue certificates ------__-____------.652, 728, 987, 1956, 3366, 3369 --Hospital Authorities Law; use of general funds or tax revenues ___------.____--652, 728, 987, 1957, 3410 --Sewage discharge; change provisions ............. .--......2707, 2709, 2839, 2841 --Tourist courts; "public lodgings" ..--1237, 1241, 1317, 2701 --Water wells; drilling regulations ------650, 727, 1664, 2060 --Create ....__......_._..-.-___-__________ 381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 GEORGIA HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION HB 255 HB 360 --Banks; use of State funds ........................ (No action in 1968) --State Depository Board; selection of State depositories ...............________--_ (No action in 1968) HB 1066 INDEX 3779 --Student loans; federal requirements relating to guaranteed loans .__..........._......._.......382, 466, 606, 815, 1450 GEORGIA HOME IMPROVEMENT ACT HB 108 --Create _._......_..._.._....._....._...__...._......_..._.,,......(No action in 1968) GEORGIA HOUSING ADMINISTRATION HB 802 --Create study committee ....................___..............._......_...........__2464 HR 594-1241--Joint committee to study feasibility of establishing _.__.______._________________________________876, 936, 1101 GEORGIA HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION HB 923 --Create __................._.........._.._.............-..._._..........._.-....-...-_.160, 195 GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL LOAN ACT HB 696 HB 565 --Maximum premiums on loans of $100 or less ...._....__.....__.._._____,,___________,,_________. (No action in 1968) --Regulation on certain loans -_..------....._(No action in 1968) GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HR 587 --Georgia Tech-Clemson Basketball Game; expressing appreciation .._._..._......__.............____,_....___........._855 GEORGIA INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL ON THE HANDICAPPED HB 1063 HB 1012 --Create _..._._..............__.__..___........._...._-...381, 465, 987, 2044, 3409 --Credit for military service; clarify provisions _____ 323, 388, 1101, 1481, 3034, 3069, 3169, 3180, 3233, 3234, 3279 GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT SYSTEM HB 1008 --Employees' Retirement System; transfer of creditable service __,,_.__ ...___.-__..__........._...__.._...._322, 387, 944 GEORGIA MILK STABILIZATION COMMISSION HB 945 --Create ._-_-....._-....__-_.--_-.-_......_.........._.188, 222, 336, 1201, 1516 3780 INDEX GEORGIA MOTORBOAT NUMBERING ACT HB 1193 --Extend provisions to cover certain additional watercraft _..._.. ............656, 732, 1987, 2772, 3410 GEORGIA POLICE ACADEMY ACT HB 402 --Georgia Police Academy Board; abolish ..._...._........._........_...._....... .....(No action in 1968) GEORGIA POST MORTEM EXAMINATION ACT SB 386 HB 1068 --Medical Examiners; appointment .... 2619, 2623, 2699, 2990 --Medical examiners; fees for certain services ....... .____._. 382, 466, 1664, 2044 GEORGIA PRISON INDUSTRIES ACT HB 743 --Compensation of certain inmates ........................201, 201, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 GEORGIA PRISON INDUSTRIES ADMINISTRATION HB 1121 --Create ...... 494, 603, 1101, 2207 GEORGIA PSYCHODRAMA PRACTICE ACT SB 174 --Create ... 1025, 1104, 1163, 2701 GEORGIA PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT HB 620 --Additional definitions _....__..._.._.......... .. (No action in 1968) GEORGIA PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1965 HB 1156 --Acceptance of payment after certain date shall constitute a debt of the recipient _...__..__.____..___._____..___.596, 608, 663, 1522, 2330, 3165 GEORGIA REAL ESTATE COMMISSION HB 386 SB 315 --Membership ___.___.,,___.._.______....____._...._..____..___. (No action in 1968) --Staggered terms of office for members .....__.........__.._._.....1167, 1240, 1316, 1519, 2509, 2612 INDEX 3781 GEORGIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT BOARD HB 1216 --Abolish .......... _.,,__,,_. ___..___.. ..821, 880 GEORGIA RECREATION COMMISSION HB 849 --Board of Recreation Examiners; create __...___.______..______.22. 133, 393, 567, 608, 1212, 3034, 3059 GEORGIA SAFETY FIRE COMMISSIONER HB 1074 --Anhydrous Ammonia; classification ____._.____..____._.____..______..384, 468, 1446, 1955, 3165 GEORGIA SECURITIES ACT SB 397 --Insurance, endowment or annuity contracts ___.___....._._____...__._.._.___..______._____._._______.2901, 2903, 2989 HB 1361 --Create __-._-_.__..______.____-___-_-__-______-._____..______.___.._...____1218, 1312, 1664 GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF NURSING HOMES HB 1492 --Create; provide for licensing of nursing home administrators ___________ ._.1779, 1977, 2088, 2508, 3279, 3310 GEORGIA STATE SCHOLARSHIP COMMISSION HB 1064 --Public relations and information programs; authorized to conduct _._.____..___._.________381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 GEORGIA STATE WAREHOUSE ACT HB 697 --Bond requirements for fungible goods --(No action in 1968) GEORGIA STATE WAR VETERANS' HOME HB 1049 SB 245 --Veterans' benefits ___.___..__.____.__.____._____________.__.._______._____..._..377, 462 --War veterans; redefine ____.___.___604, 607, 665, 939, 2665, 3406 GEORGIA STUDY COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STANDARDS AND EDUCATION HR 661-1420 --Create ___-_____________________.__..___1311, 1443, 1518, 2047, 3424 3782 INDEX GIDEON, MAJOR GENERAL FRANCIS C. HR 816 --Address by _----_________._--_..__...___....___..._,_..._______.._.._.__.._......_____.2882 --Invite to address House of Representatives .._._..-....__........2637 GIFTS TO MINORS ACT, GEORGIA HB 966 --Create; life insurance policies and annuity contracts ...........------_...-..._-...---------.285, 329, 942 GILBERT, HONORABLE LOUIS H. HR 743 --Express sympathy for passing of ------..__----...--._-_.--...2154 GILLESPIE, REV. JACK --Prayer offered by --.------...--...------........--.----_.._._.______--.147 GILMER COUNTY HR 717-1522--Courthouse Library; Georgia Supreme Court Reports and Court of Appeals Reports; State Librarian to furnish certain volumes ..----1785, 1981, 2844 HR 719-1522--Tax Commissioner; authorization to collect tax fi. fas.; amendment to the Constitution _--..._._...__..._------.1785, 1982, 1989, 2139, 2850 HB 1522 --Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices --_------..-.1785, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 GLASCOCK, CITY OF HR 738-1616--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution --------.--2075, 2232, 2236, 2429, 3314, 3345 GLASCOCK COUNTY HB 1305 HB 1306 HB 1304 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' compensation --------...977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 2560 --Tax Commissioner's compensation ----------------.-.977, 1097, 1100, 1175, 1675 --Treasurer's compensation ----------977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 1674 GLENWOOD, CITY OF HB 1491 --Mayor and councilmen; qualifications ._...,,......................1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2846 INDEX 3783 GLUE, MODEL SB 205 --Intentional inhaling of fumes; prohibit ___.___._____...____.____.___.._.__.499, 511, 603, 1165, 2975, 3405 GLYNN COUNTY HB 1611 HB 1398 HB 1580 --Brunswick-Glynn County Charter Commission; create ......__...__._._..2074, 2230, 2843, 2856, 3417 --Juvenile Court; judges' salary __..__...._........._........._....._..._...1306, 1439, 1447, 1549, 3413 --Sheriff's deputies; additional ..... 1974, 2081, 2089, 2256, 3416 GOLDEN, DOCTOR CHARLES F. HR 694 --Commend .........._............-......-......-...-..-.-.-._-...-_-_.1594, 1805 GORDON COUNTY HB 845 HB 844 HB 922 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; create ........_..._._.__...._.._..._......21, 132, 137, 165, 736 --Development Authority; members' terms and appointments ................__..21, 132, 137, 165, 1528, 1843 --Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; salary ._..........__..........__.._...__..._..159, 195, 198, 225, 1170, 1196 GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS, GEORGIA SB 17 --Provide for publishing ...._........__........_._..._._.....2594, 3180, 3427 GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY HR 103 --Create study committee .___--..___.___-_______,,__ (No action in 1968) GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY STUDY COMMITTEE HR 585 --Create _._._....._..__........._...._...._..._..._._............._...._..._784, 1101, 1246 GOVERNOR SR 157 SR 223 --Appointments submitted to State Senate for confirmation; amendment to the Constitution ....._......._....._.......__......._...2565, 2566, 2590, 2704 --Congressional Delegation; promote closer liaison ._........___._____.________.__.____--_____._____..__.... 2851, 2902, 2988 3784 INDEX HR 322-838 --Election of; amendment to the Constitution ................14,, 736 HE 600-1247--Executive Center; designate as official residence --_.------------------.----879, 938, 1665, 2496, 3403 SB 251 --Investigation of presentments or charges against a sheriff; create committee to conduct ----------------------1103, 1105, 1163, 2844, 3141, 3430 HR 728-1570--Mansion in Ansley Park; name of grantee --------------------.1972, 2080, 2354, 2515, 3426 HB 1246 --Purchase of motor vehicles ------ 877, 937, 1990, 2515, 3411 HB 908 --Rewards for information; apprehension and conviction of a felon ------------------------------.154, 191 HR 6-1 --Runoff elections between two persons receiving highest number of votes; amendment to the Constitution _----__..__ 197, 341, 3169, 3173, 3234, 3236, 3315, 3378, 3433 HB 905 --State of Emergency; powers _----.--._,,.----_._.----__--__ 154, 191 HR 42-131 --Succession; amendment to the Constitution --.------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 618-1345--Succession; amendment to the Constitution --------1155, 1224 GOVERNOR'S TRAFFIC SAFETY STUDY COMMITTEE SR 253 --Create _--.-.._----._------------------------2620, 2710, 2840 HR 781-1631--Create ._----------------------... 2227, 2348, 2354, 2449, 3426 HR 729-1582--Create --------____--------.__.------------------------------_1974, 2081 --Interim Study Report .----..----.----.........--------.----------3626 GRADE CROSSINGS HB 633 --Automatic signalling devices at grade crossings; installation --------------(No action in 1968) GRADY COUNTY HB 1385 HB 1595 --Board of Education; create new Board .--------------------.1303, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2240 --Chief deputy and clerk; salary -.2071, 2228, 2235, 2400, 3163 GRAIN STORAGE FACILITIES HR 871 --Study committee ----------___------............_------------3049 GRAND OLE OPRY, FAMOUS STARS HR 1706 --Invite ------------------._------------------ (No action in 1968) INDEX 3785 GRANT, A. H. HR 482-1037--Compensate ...............__....__....._____......375, 460, 1798, 2026, 3423 GRANT PARK ZOO HR 601 --Rural legislators urged to contribute toward purchase of an "urban" rhinoceros ________________._________________.888 GRANTHAM TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO., INC. HR 82-209 --Compensate __..._..__.._...........__........__.____....__.. (No action in 1968) GRANTS HB 869 HB 1533 HB 862 HR 804 HR 708 --Counties; disbursement on quarterly basis . ._ . 128, 161, 736, 961, 1027, 2208, 3274, 3348 --Minimum grants; certain municipalities .....__._....._._....._._...1787, 1983, 2236, 2798, 3415 --Municipalities; disbursement on quarterly basis ._______. 24, 135, 736, 1273, 1360, 2207, 3273, 3318, 3342, 3347, 3366, 3375, 3433 --Municipalities; study committee to study merit of basing distribution; create __..__.-.___...-__.__...___......____...2466 --State; create study committee to examine methods of distribution .._.____....__..........._.......__._......_1583, 2752 GRAVES, HONORABLE CHARLES E. --Oath of office _____,,_..-_____________--_______-_________________________7 GREEN, MRS. LOUIE MAE HR 615-1320--Compensate ....._.........._._.._.___..._.___.1091, 1161, 1798, 2030, 3424 GREENE COUNTY HB 1285 HB 1281 HB 1288 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members' compensation _._.________.____.__________._______933, 983, 989, 1114, 1674 --Officials; salaries and mileage allowances ___.___________.______.____.____________933, 983, 989, 1112, 1674 --Tax Commissioner's compensation _.._____.______.,,,,__.__,,_____,, 934, 984, 989, 1115, 1674 3786 INDEX GRIFFIN, CITY OF HR 430-952 --Conveyance of certain real estate -.--------...._..--.....-...--...216, 294, 298, 571, 1804 GRIFFIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1228 HB 1227 --Court Reporter; compensation ...--.....874, 934, 940, 992, 1672 --Solicitor-General; compensation ......874, 934, 1100, 1815, 2994 GRIFFIN, RALPH W. HR 695 --Express sympathy for passing of ...--._--...--_..--. ..............1595 GROW, MISS ROSEMARY HR 854 --Commend ....._...._.............-..._-....-......_....._.........._...._.._....._....._..2916 GUARDIANS HB 897 --Minors; bond requirement ....................152, 190, 339, 646, 2566 GUNS SB 240 HB 865 HR 774 HB 1438 HB 856 HB 1094 SB 51 SB 50 HB 866 HB 857 --Discharging firearms on Sunday; allow under certain circumstances _____________.___._.__669, 670, 733, 2234, 3151 --Felony; unlawful to possess during attempt to commit ..._.._...._._...._.25, 136, 606, 804, 2706, 2735 --Firearms safety study committee; create .. .........._...._..._....__..........._.............._..2182, 2593, 2630 --Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act; create ..........1432, 1513, 1517, 2201, 2209, 2209, 2293, 2674, 3413 --Identification of persons qualified to acquire or possess __._.___..____..__--._--____...__...__.-__....24, 135, 736 --Permits to acquire; provide for ._____,,___.._,,____-.,,--.__._-__458, 497 --Pistols; bond to carry; raise fee ----.--..--.(No action in 1968) --Pistols; license fee ...._...--.....-.....--..-_....-..(No action in 1968) --Riots; unlawful possession ..__.__-_______.__------..25, 136, 1100 --Unlawful sale and possession; define offense --.----24, 135 GUNTER, HONORABLE JACK N. --Oath of office _.___------_---..------------.-------.--------... .5 INDEX 3787 GUYTON, TOWN OF HB 1546 -^Voters' qualifications and elections ----,,_____------___1968, 2076, 2088, 2250, 2997 GWINNETT COUNTY HB 404 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; create ----____.____.340, 373, 429, 429 HR 806-1653--Board of Education; filling of vacancies; amendment to the Constitution _______________..__.2589, 2697, 2702, 2873, 3427 HR 785-1636--Employees and officials; create Merit System; amendment to the Constitution _____----__.,,____--____.2343, 2557, 2593, 2603, 3427 GWINNETT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1598 --Superior Court Judge's salary ... 2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3417 GWYN, CHARLES R., SR. HR 752 --Express sympathy for passing of _.______--___.____--2161, 2617 H HABEAS CORPUS HB 624 --Transcripts of proceedings ____.------.-_-__------------_...----199 HABERSHAM COUNTY HB 1652 HB 1657 --City Court governed by Superior Court . .,,. . 2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 --Ordinary's salary ......__..-___.-_--.-_._..__-_._ ....2838, 2987 HACKNEY, DOCTOR RICHARD C. HR 637 --Express sympathy for passing of --._,,_____----.___--..1251 HAHN, DR. STANLEY --Prayer offered by -__..--._....___._._____------_----1504 HAINS, SOLICITOR GENERAL GEORGE HR 842 --Commend --.__.------_.___-..___.___....._..___..._.-..___.. ..-.2908 3788 INDEX HAIRDRESSERS HB 1505 --Rules and regulations _--.___ . ._ ... 1781, 1978 HALL, REV. CARL F. --Prayer offered by _____ ______________._______..__.____._..____.__.___.-__.___-...2069 HAMBY, W. B. HR 454-1013--Compensate .. . .,, ... 323, 388, 1798, 2025, 3422 HAMILTON, REV. C. S. --Prayer offered by ___..... -- -----... 2986 HANCOCK COUNTY HB 1218 HB 582 HB 581 --Small Claims Court, establish .,,_____.822, 880, 1100, 1171, 1672 --Superior Court Sheriff, Ordinary and Clerk; compensation -- ..--_-. _______1988, 2103, 2994 --Tax Commissioner; employ clerical help ._____..____________......________._____.. ..1988, 2090, 2845 HAND, DR. G. OTHELL --Prayer offered by _.._....... _....__......_..... __..__..126 HANDICAPPED PERSONS HB 652 HB 1063 SB 73 HB 180 --Allowed to park on public streets without penalties .___.____-._------__.__ _...____ (No action in 1968) --Georgia Inter-Departmental Council on the Handicapped; create ____.__.__...______. 381, 465, 987, 2044, 3409 --Public buildings constructed with ramps ._______._______..--___..--________ ________.________(No action in 1968) --Public buildings; construction requirements to make accessible ___:__..____.._.__..________..________.._._______.__ 508, 865 HAPEVILLE, CITY OF SB 378 --Corporate limits .....___...__.._^...._....2241, 2245, 2348, 2353, 2578 HAPEVILLE HIGH SR 166 --School Band; commend __....._______.....____.......__..__________._._.__ 473, 777 INDEX 3789 HARALSON COUNTY HB 1432 --Airport Authority; establish _____.. 1431, 1511, 1518, 1682, 2561 HARDIN, IRA H. COMPANY HR 498-1089--Conveyance of a certain tract of land ._..______.__________-_._.______.___456, 493, 495, 1945, 3402 HARDY, FATHER JERRY --Prayer offered by ..........................-..-. .-1087 HARGRETT, DR. McKEE --Oath of office ...... ...... ._....,,-.....-.-... 8 HARRIS COUNTY HB 1437 --Small Claims Court; commencement of actions _._.__.-____.__-_.-___..____.-____-1432, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2357 HARRIS, HONORABLE ROBIN --Remarks by .... ._._._.--.___..._._-.---___..__.___.760 HARRISON, MRS. GENEVA J. HR 428-941 --Compensate __...._..._._...._...._.._..__..__..__.188, 222, 1797, 2024, 3421 HAWKINSVILLE, CITY OF HR 447-973 --Pulaski County-Hawkinsville Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .......__.._. 286, 330, 394, 404, 1667 HAYES, PROFESSOR FRAiIK ALFRED HR 558 --Commend _.____.___._____....__..____..____________________.________.__________._______763 HEALEY, KENNETH HR 417 --Commend ---....____.__.__..____.........._...._.._......._...._._168 3790 INDEX HEALTH AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT HB 1330 HB 1352 SB 100 HB 1026 HB 1024 HR 645 HB 1260 HB 1135 SB 339 SB 338 HB 1167 SB 413 HB 1176 HB 1177 HB 871 HB 1101 SB 295 HR 285 HB 1253 --Board of Examiners for Certified Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators; create _--_----,,--,,------,,_--._----.------------------1093, 1162 --Board of Health; increase membership ....... 1157, 1225, 2352 --County Boards of Health; filling of vacancies _---_-__.__,,------..._--------- 393, 806, 859 --Department of Public Health; clinical laboratory personnel; licenses _....._.._.....----.------ 326, 391 --Department of Public Health; medical laboratory personnel; licensing and regulating ... 326, 390 --Department of Public Health; urged to inaugurate program by Dr. B. W. Forester ------__.__._------_.------.1262 --Family planning services provided to any person requesting assistance --_. 929, 979, 1522, 1954, 3411 --Georgia Health Code; examination hearing; notice __------------.._.__.._-- 592, 660, 967, 1488, 3285 --Georgia Health Code; sewage discharge; change provisions _.___2707, 2709, 2839, 2841 --Georgia Health Code; Tourist courts; "public lodgings" __--------------._._---- 12S7, 1241, 1317, 2701 --Georgia Health Code; water wells; drilling regulations _------------._.__..., 650, 727, 1664, 2060 --Hospital Advisory Council; Indigent Care .__----------._.,--__ 270r, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3141 --Hospital Authorities Law; revenue certificates ._..----------._.._..... 652,728, 987, 1956, 3366, 3369 --Hospital Authorities Law; use of general funds or tax revenues __.------._-- 652, 728, 987, 1957, 3410 --Immunization of school children _.__----------------__._..__ 128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 --Medical or dental health; promote measures for early detection -- --------__----.__-- 490, 599 --Mental health; hospitalizatiou; procedure for transfer from another State -..1449, 1451, 1516, 2701 --Mental Health Study Committee; create _.(No action in 1968) --Vital records; increase fee of local registrars _.._...-.._-._--.--------.-----.---.--928, 978, 987 HEARD COUNTY HB 1013 HB 1361 --Additional deputy ..----...-----.------ 323, 388, 471, 513, 885 --Georgia State Board of Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters; create ------........1218, 1312, 1664 HEATING HB 1166 HB 18 --Contractors; performance bonds ------__,,_--____.----.650, 727 --Warm Air; Board of Ecaminers; members' qualificatirfis _----_____. (No action in 1968) INDEX 3791 HENDERSON, DR. ZACH S. HR 693 Commend -- _-.-- . ._,,_...__--.. --.---- ..-...._. 1593 HENRY COUNTY HB 1426 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts -.--.1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3161 HB 1425 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' elections --1429, 1510, 1518, 1681, 3161 HR 663-1427--County manager form of government; provide; amendment to the Constitution __...__..._......__.......-.._. 1430, 1510, 1519, 1689, 3425 HB 1427 --Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; compensation ----------.--------1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3162 HR 662-1427--Water Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution .........--...-.1429, 1510, 1519, 1689, 3425 HR 681-1473--Water and sewerage; additional indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution ..1654,1791, 1799,1999, 3425 HR 894 --Water Study Commission; create --------------------------3207 HENRY McNEAL TURNER HIGH SCHOOL HR 847 --Basketball Team; congratulate _...-.------------------...2911 HERSHEY, GENERAL LEWIS B. HR 577 Commend ..,. ........_..........----------...-.._.-776, 1803, 2396 HEWELL, ANITA L. HR 437-952 --Compensate ...._....--_.......................----..----.._....._....-..217, 295 HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION, GEORGIA HB 255 HB 1065 HB 360 HB 1066 --Banks; use of State funds ............,,_.........(No action in 1968) --Create --------------------------------------381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 --State Depository Board; selection of State depositories .--............_.._.._._..__...__. (No action in 1968) --Student loans; federal requirements relating to guaranteed loans _._.._..__..__..__----,382, 466, 606, 815, 1450 HIGHWAY GRANTS --Interim Study Report ----------------------.--------------3495 3792 INDEX HIGHWAY LAWS -Interim Study Report ._... -- .. 3498 HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT HB 979 --Automatic signal devices at railroad crossings; procedure for installation ...... 288, 332, 734, 897 HB 994 --Bridges across streams on State line; authority to purchase transferred to Highway Department ............. ........................ 291, 335, 987 HB 978 ---Claims and obligations against; repeal Act authorizing auditing .......... 287, 332, 734, 2205, 3167 HB 1363 --Condemnation proceedings; private ways by individuals and corporations; amend.._....,, 1218, 1312, 1446 HB 880 --Condemnation proceedings; responsibility for payment of court costs ... __..,,._.-_-._......._. 130, 163, 1446 HB 989 --Eminent domain; appeals by owner of land .--.--..-290, 334 HR 536-1179--Eminent domain; fair market value; amendment to the Constitution ......... 653, 729, 1446 HB 1291 --Eminent domain; payment of costs and fees __..._____. 973, 1094 HR 451-994 --Interim Study Committee; enactment of new laws __. - -........- 291, 335, 986, 2033, 3402 SR 251 --Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway; clarify and change ................... 2901, 2903, 2989, 3111, 3285 HB 646 --Limited-Access Highway, Free-Access Highway; define _,,...---------_,,._-..--._- (No action in 1968) HR 518-1100--Motor fuel taxes; appropriations; amendment to the Constitution ............ 459, 498 HB 1322 --Municipal grants . . . ... .. . ..........1091, 1161 SR 173 --National System of Interstate and Defense Highways; signs ... 1102, 1106, 1164, 1446, 1599 HB 119 --Negotiation of contracts with municipalities .......-..-....-..-1445 HB 986 --Public utilities; rules and regulations relating to removal of equipment .____.____.___.__. 289, 333, 987 HB 843 --Radar; use by Department of Public Safety to enforce traffic regulations ._...__.._..__. .. 21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 HR 320 --Request State Highway Department to link Interstate 75 at Macon with Interstate 85 at Commerce __________________.(No action in 1968) HB 999 --Right-hand traffic lane; slow-moving traffic _.... ._...._..._..._.._.._.. ...... 292, 335, 507, 808, 1667, 2295 HB 1061 --Rights-of-way; power to grant permits to utilities ................ 380, 465, 734, 2582 HB 977 --Size and weight limits; scales -287, 331, 734, 1422, 3000, 3065 SB 209 --Speed restrictions; certain highways ....472, 474, 498, 508, 806 HB 841 --Speed restrictions; four-lane limited access highways ........___.........._ 20, 132, 299, 414, 2084, 3357 HB 974 --State-aid Road Fund; transfer control from Highway Board to State HB 988 HB 990 HB 980 HB 987 HB 991 HB 976 HR 581 HB 4 HB 993 SB 417 HB 985 HB 424 SB 220 HB 992 HB 981 HB 144 SB 363 HB 1159 HB 975 INDEX 3793 Highway Director ....... __..... ___......_.________._______..__ 287, 331, 734 --State-aid system of roads; transfer duties to State Highway Department --,,._..-. 289, 333, 986 --State Highway Board; report of opsrations ....... 290, 334, 986, 2206, 3167 --State Highway Board; transfer duties of of State Highway Engineer to Stats Highway Director ..... ..... 288, 332, 734, 1276 --State Highway Department; eligibility of Director ...... ... ... ... 289, 333, 734, 1276, 2999 --State Highway Department; legal expenses ............... 290, 334, 734, 967, 1671 --State Highway Engineer; traveling expenses incurred in Fulton County ...._._.__:.__...___.___....... 287, 331, 734 --State Highway Department; urge to complete certain highway projects _____________.781, 1445, 1586 --Timing devices and radar equipment; use to enforce traffic regulations .......... 668 --Traffic control devices; conform to specifications ............................290, 334, 734, 2814, 3408 --Traffic laws; Governor's powers ........ 2901, 2903, 2988, 3113, 3289 --Trucks carrying lumber and lumber products and concrete; special permits .....__ 289, 333, 474 --Trucks hauling gravel, rock, etc.; prohibited on highways without protective cover ........._.._.,,--...._.............. (No action in 1968) --Trucks hauling gravel or stone; prohibit on highways without protective covering ___.___..-_.______,,_.,,_____________________ 473, 474, 499 --Trucks hauling lumber and lumber products; length and weight permits ... 290, 334, 604, 1116, 1242, 1524, 1729 --Unattended vehicles; remove provisions exempting sellers of fruits, nuts and vegetables ....................288, 332, 734, 969, 1675, 1841, 2900 --Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways; intersections; driving on left side of roadway .__..__.._..._.._._._......... (No action in 1968) --Utility lines; cost of relocating ........._..._.__._..._. 1805, 1808, 1986, 2087, 2582, 2900 --Vehicles transporting pulpwood; chains or cables . 598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620 2649, 3001, 3256 --Weight limits; special permits ._..._.._ 287, 331, 734, 2203, 3166 HINELY, JOSEPH E., JR. HR 380-855 --Compensate ..........................................23, 134, 1797, 2021, 3420 3794 INDEX HITT, HONORABLE ED B. HR 868 --Commend ... .... - .... --...-.. 3045 HODGES, REV. CECIL A. --Prayer offered by _._.___.____.._.___,,...___....._..._._.._........ .. ____ 972 HOGANSVILLE, CITY OF HB 1499 --Public Utility; sale of ....__...__..... 1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 HOLBROOK, MRS. RUBY ODELL AND ROBERT ANDREW HR 532-1156--Compensate .......__..._....__....__......._....._.597, 664, 2234, 2302, 3423 HOLIDAYS HB 929 HB 947 --Memorial Day, April 26; change name to Confederate Memorial Day ___.____________.__..___184, 219, 299 --National Memorial Day; May 30; declare public and legal holiday ..___... 215, 293, 337, 412, 1806 HOME IMPROVEMENT ACT, GEORGIA HB 108 Create _..__.._____.,,_ (No action in 1968) HOMELAND, CITY OF HB 927 HB 1078 --Territorial limits __..__.__.... _.___..__.184, 219, 298, 395, 2563, 2923 --Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales Act; amend _.._._.___,,__ 384, 468, 1115, 1446, 2539, 3409 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION HR 537-1179--Ad valorem tax; $4,000 exemption for persons 65 or older; amendment to the Constitution ___________ 653, 729, 1802, 2784, 3315, 3319 HR 400-912 --Ad valorem tax assessments; exemptions; amendment to the Constitution _____ 156, 193 HR 83-209 --Ad valorem tax; change from $2,000 to $4,000; amendment to the Constitution_ (No action in 1968) HR 491-1063--Ad valorem tax; municipalities; amendment to the Constitution ._----------_ 381, 465, 1521 INDEX 3795 HR 263-801 --Disabled veterans; certain exemptions; amendment to the Constitution _..._...-- (No action in 1968) HR 436-952 --Disabled veterans; extend; amendment to the Constitution _..-_... 217, 295, 2595, 2798, 3421 HR 156-453 --Disabled veterans; increase; amendment to the Constitution ____________ (No action in 1968) HR 405-912 --Increase; amendment to the Constitution .__..._ _____....._. 157, 193 HONESTY, CODE OF SB 74 --State officials and employees __._.____________.___.__.._______.__,,_______ 2991 HOOKS, ELDER V. H. --Prayer offered by ... _.......-.._-,,..--__._.. 873, 924 HOPE, BOB HR 576 --Commend and Congratulate ... ___._..__._._____._.__.___.._________.__776, 945 HORSE BACK RIDING FACILITIES --Interim Study Report .._.._,,.__,,_.....,,.....___....,,__.__...__..__... .________3504 HORSES HB 1339 HB 1338 HB 1336 HB 1348 HB 1337 HB 1335 --Auctions; expand definition of livestock ......1154, 1222, 1318 --Buying and selling; expand definition of livestock ..........__._.......__._........_._.._.._...........1153, 1222, 1318 --Crimes concerning; expand definition of livestock ....__.__....._...... ..__._......____.........._..____1153, 1222, 1318 --Feeding of garbage; expand definition of livestock ___________.____..__...___.__.__________1156, 1224, 1318, 2552 --Loading or handling; expand definition of livestock .....__.._.._...___......_.......__.......__...__......1153, 1222, 1318 --Quarantine and inspection; expand definition of livestock ____...______..___._...__1153, 1222, 1318, 2550 HORTON, WILLIAM FRANK HR 429-944 --Compensate .....__.-..-__.._...__...__.___.._.__.2141 293, 1797, 2024, 3421 HOSPITAL ADVISORY COUNCIL SB 413 --Indigent Care; provisions __...____.2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3141 3796 INDEX HOSPITAL AUTHORITY LAW HB 1176 HB 540 HB 1177 --Revenue certificates ....._....... 652, 728, 987, 1956, 3366, 3369 --Revenue; how used .._-__..----_...----_....---- (No action in 1968) --Use of general funds or tax revenues _...,,.,,. 652, 728, 987, 1957, 3410 HOSPITALS HR 1104 --Civil liability; emergency treatment _...__.._.__-... 491, 600, 2088 SB 387 --Non-profit; personnel; compensation ... 2565, 2566, 2590, 3112 HR 598-1247--Non-profit; sale of tangible personal property; suspend sales tax .._-__.878, 938, 1802, 2525, 3403 HB 527 --Non-profit service corporations; advertising material on premises; Insurance Code of 1960 ____.__.____.__________.. (No action in 1968) HB 528 --Non-Profit hospital corporations; authority to contract and operate; Insurance Code of 1960 ..___.___________._.___.___.___.___._______. (No action in 1968) HB 526 --Non-profit service corporations; directors; amend Insurance Code of 1960 _._.........(No action in 1968) HOTELS HB 698 HB 1041 --Crime of defrauding; change penalty --.(No action in 1968) --Excise tax; municipalities .._.....__.....___..._.__--____... 376, 461, 1521 HOUSCH, ROBERT A. HR 424-941 --Compensate _____....._.__..-_...__.._..._._..._.___ 187, 222, 1797, 2023, 3422 HOUSING HR 836 --Committee on Private Financing of Student and Faculty Housing; create .--_--.----______--__ 2743 HR 254 --Committee to study needs ._______--______--.____(No action in 1968) HR 231 --Fair Housing Laws Study Committee; create -.....---._..----...._.__.......__....______......... (No action in 1968) HR 802 --Georgia Housing Administration; create study committee ____.---___.......____.._____.______________.______ 2464 HB 923 --Georgia Human Relations Commission; create ___,,..--160, 195 HR 594-1241--Georgia Housing Administration; joint committee to study feasibility of establishing ._...._.....____._......__........_...._.._____.......... 876, 936, 1101 HR 578 --Public housing study committee; create __.___._____-779 HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW HB 1223 --Amend ._......_....._...___....._._-..-_......-_-..__.-.........823, 882, 988, 991 INDEX 3797 HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES HR 834 HR 770 HR 395 HR 701 HR 586 HB 1226 HB 218 HR 229 HB 380 HR 816 SR 138 HR 373 HR 371 HR 230 HR 374 HR 869 --Allow certain subcommittees to function after final adjournment ___.____.___.2741, 2844, 2905 --Amend H.R. 3 ----I.----------------------------.2179, 3113, 3185 --Amend Rules __.._.._._..._--_-_---------__---------------------- 146 --Amend Rules .------_._.--------------_____--____..1677, 2354, 2448 --Amend Rules; add standing committee on Public Utilities and Transportation ------__----___785 --Apportionment; amend ... 824, 882, 940, 971, 1030, 1740, 1846 --Apportionment; Chatham County; Representative districts ----------_-- (No action in 1968) --Create Committee to act as liaison between State Board of Education and House of Representatives.----------(No action in 1968) --Fiscal Affairs Sub-Committees; create --.__...,,--._..__.--.----..------_------(No action in 1968) --Gideon, Major General Francis C.; invite to address ----------------------------------------------_.2637 --House of Representatives; notify that Senate convened _,,. 15 --House Resolution No. 3; amend _------------_------_----_----12 --Notify Senate that House has convened.--------------__-__--11 --Public Utilities and Transportation; request Speaker to appoint standing committee --_-.--.--_------__--.--------..(No action in 1968) --Rules of House; adopt ....... _..._... ... 12 --Stenographers, expressing appreciation _------._----.------.3046 HOUSTON COUNTY SR 261 HB 1418 HB 1417 HB 1416 SR 250 HB 1414 HB 1415 --Building Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution _______.--2708, 2710, 2841, 3112, 3120 --City Court; jurisdiction ___..._.._....._. 1310, 1443, 1448, 1554, 2614 --Ordinary; arbitration committee ...--..1310, 1433, 1448, 1553 2898, 2929 --Sheriff; arbitration committee _.__---- 1310, 1443, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2928 --Special Court; create; amendment to the Constitution .------------ 2708, 2710, 2840, 3112, 3117 --Tax Commissioner; arbitration committee _------__----------. 1309, 1442, 1448, 1552, 2898, 2926 --Superior Court Clerk; arbitration committee ----------..----.1309, 1442, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2927 HOWARD, HONORABLE G. ROBERT (TIGER) HR 754 --Wishing a speedy recovery ----_------_--_____------___.,,..2163 HOWINGTON, HONORABLE KELSEY D. HR 805 --Express sympathy for passing of -_----------------------__ 2630 3798 INDEX HUGHES, HONORABLE FRANK M. HR 841 --Commend ..... .---------------------____................2907 HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION, GEORGIA HB 934 --Create ...... .... _..._.__.____._.._..------.----.--.-----. --.160, 195 HUNTING (See Game and Fish) HB 595 HB 1483 --Deer; increase penalty for night hunting ........._........._.................._....._......... (No action in 1968) --Deer; minor 15 years or younger prohibited to hunt unless under direct supervision of adult ....__--_..._... _......__.1657, 1794, 1987 I IMMUNIZATION HB 871 --Public and private school children.............._128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 INCOME TAX HB 514 HB 896 HB 1659 HB 36 HB 1357 HB 1476 HR 778 SB 368 HB 1296 --Church contributions; additional deduction..--...--.....1321, 2049, 3040, 3088 --Dependent students; additional exemptions...--_..--..152, 189, 1521, 2666, 3408 --Income Tax Act of 1931; deductions by selfemployed individuals --.--._.---_--._----__-.--......2839, 2988 --Political contributions __..._.--.._..--__............. (No action in 1968) --School expenses; deductions from gross income..----.----.------.--..---------.--1158, 1226, 1521 --State; Armed Forces Commissioned Officers ......----------...__.....--------.----.1654, 1791, 1802, 2535 --State; create study committee.----------.--...2185, 2238, 2449 --State; increase exemption for certain commissioned officers ....------------_------------------------2617, 2620, 2697 --State; transfer of property by corporations.------... 974, 1095, 1165, 1417, 2705 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES HR 399-912 --Counties and municipalities; creation; amendment to the Constitution ------..................156, 193, 832, 2981, 3420 INDEX 3799 INDUSTRIAL LOAN ACT, GEORGIA HB 696 HB 565 --Maximum premiums on loans of $100 or less--------------------------------------(No action in 1968) --Regulation on certain loans.__--_--_--------. (No action in 1968) INDUSTRIAL SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE HB 1424 --Create to assist the State Board of Education --_._--------------------.1311, 1444, 2592, 2796, 3413 INDUSTRY AND TRADE, DEPARTMENT OF HB 1636 --Employees; reimbursement of expenses incurred while on official business ----..2343, 2557, 2592, 2796, 3168 HR 784-1636--Reimbursement of certain expenses; amendment to the Constitution--------.-----2343, 2557, 2592, 2802, 3404 INDUSTRY AND TOURISM, DEPARTMENT OF HR 398-912 --Create in lieu of Department of Industry and Trade; amendment to the Constitution.--...........156, 192, 2592, 2958 INSANE PERSONS HB 1405 --Minors; ordinaries authorized to act as legal custodians----------------------1307, 1441, 1448, 2220, 3413 INSANITY (See Mental Health) HB 244 --Medical treatment; authorization.--------.(No action in 1968) INSECTICIDES HR 561-1220--Joint committee to study standards, procedures and laws -------- 823, 881, 1098, 2749 INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES HB 492 --Certificate; no vehicle shall be operated without certificate _----.....--...--------,,.._..--_----_._.--.------------1800 HB 876 --Certificates of inspection----------.----......--_......----129, 162 HB 1378 --Increase fee.__...--.........-----------------..---- 1302, 1437, 1800 HR 125-312 --Study Committee; create-.-....---..--.-- (No action in 1968) HB 973 --Trailers and semi-trailers; inspection stickers...----.286, 330 3800 INDEX INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS HB 1078 --Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales Act; amend-..-_-..-.--.-..-..-_-__ 384, 468, 1115, 1446, 2539, 3409 INSTITUTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH --Interim study report _------------------------------ -- --3506 INSURANCE HB 1075 --Casualty insurance; creditor's interest--- 384, 468, 1517, 1727 SB 117 --Code of 1960; contents of policies-------1526, 1528, 1662, 2702, 2980, 3407 HB 1076 --Code of 1960; credit life insurance; prohibit sale on any installment loan less than a certain amount.------------.--------------- 384, 468, 1517, 1728 HB 747 --Code of 1960; group life; dependent children.------------..1987 HB 1106 --Code of 1960; hospitalization; freedom of choice ------491, 600 HB 42 --Code of 1960; insurers must notify insured of factors upon which any cancellation is based --(No action in 1968) HB 529 --Code of 1960; Non-profit medical service corporations; Board of Directors.------------------(No action in 1968) HB 528 --Code of 1960; non-profit hospital service corporations; authority to contract and operate.------.(No action in 1968) HB 527 --Code of 1960; non-profit hospital service corporations; advertising material on premises;.------(No action in 1968) HB 526 --Code of 1960; non-profit hospital service corporations; directors ----------.------.(No action in 1968) HB 240 --Code of 1960; unfair practices, lenders on real property .----.------..------------.--...----.--------.--.-- 942 HB 808 --Fire and extended coverage on real property; mandatory.-.--.----_----------------------.(No action in 1968) HB 966 --Georgia Gifts to Minors Act; life insurance policies and annuity contracts---------------------------- 285, 329, 942 SB 397 --Georgia Securities Act; insurance, endowment or annuity contracts..----..----------------------.2901, 2903, 2989 HR 277 --Health and Hospitalization Insurance Study Committee; create --------------------.(No action in 1968) HR 251-783 --Hospitalization; create study committee to investigate..--.----.--------------------------.(No action in 1968) HR 579 --Insurance rating laws; create study committee--.---------------------------.781, 942, 1245 HB 1222 --Liability; insurer's responsibility------ ------------823, 881 HR 560-1220--Liability; special assessment fees; amendment to the Constitution .------..._.......--------__----------------------823, 881 SB 320 --Liability; uninsured motor vehicles------------1237, 1241, 1317, 1987, 3231, 3378, 3378 HB 1549 HB 1360 HR 505 HB 1090 SR 187 HB 803 HB 408 SB 396 INDEX 3801 --Life insurance companies; tax on gross direct premiums --____._____----_____._____________1968, 2077, 2701, 2890, 3416 --Motor vehicles; cancellation ________ 1218, 1312, 1446, 1866, 3412 --Motor vehicle liability; create committee to study ...----------_.--.--------------418, 502, 2702, 2747 --Motor vehicles; liability insurance; insolvent companies _....----..----..--------457, 495, 942, 1203, 3170, 3251 --Motor vehicle liability; special assessment fees for owners who do not carry; amendment to the Constitution .------------ 1102, 1106, 1164, 1229, 1800, 2297 --Podiatry; discrimination of premiums by counties and municipalities------------------------(No action in 1968) --Podiatrists; non-profit medical service corporations ________--_----------------------__(No action in 1968) --Variable Annuity Contract; define~--.--.~-2901, 2904, 2989 INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES HB 311 --State shall be a party to___ ________ _________________ (No action in 1968) INVASIONS OF PRIVACY --Interim Study Report ________------------__------------------..3513 INVOICES HB 409 HB 949 --False invoices; solicitation of money; misdemeanor ___._...._153, 190, 338, 441, 737 --Goods or services not rendered; unlawful to solicit payment _________________ ..----....------------------------_ 215, 294 IRON CITY, TOWN OF HB 1591 --Mayor and Aldermen; election date----------2071, 2227, 2235, 2399, 3162 IRVIN, THOMAS T. HR 758 --Confer title of "Dr. of Education"---------------- ______________ 2167 IRWIN COUNTY HR 742 HB 1641 --150 Anniversary; commemorating _________ _____ _______ _ 2153, 2616 --Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate -.--...--..--------.2344, 2353, 2558, 2596, 3163 3802 INDEX IRWINTON, TOWN OF HB 1376 --Charter---.--------------------1302, 1436, 1447, 1545, 2239 IVEY, TOWN OP HB 1123 --Corporate limits; change-----.------590, 658, 667, 743, 1235 J JACKSON COUNTY HB 1642 SR 209 HB 838 --City Court's Judge and Solicitor; salary__..... 2344, 2558, 2702, 2712. 3418 --Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution-------------1666, 1677, 1797, 2842, 2876 --Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices....._....14, 2702, 2713. 3408 JASPER COUNTY HB 1560 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; posts..-------,----.----------1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 HR 627-1367--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution--------------1219, 1313, 1448, 1456, 2243 JEFFERSON COUNTY HB 1531 HB 1138 --Board of Education; add two members-----1786, 1983, 1989, 2133, 2996 --Tax collector and receiver; consolidate offices -.---------------.----------..593, 660, 667, 747, 1169 JEFFERSON DAVIS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY SR 251 --Clarify and change--------------.2901, 2903, 2989, 3111, 3285 JEKYLL ISLAND-STATE PARK AUTHORITY ACT HB 353 --Change name to Georgia Parks Authority; change membership.--_..----.------_(No action in 1968) JENKINS COUNTY HB 1524 --Board of Education; create new Board...---.1785, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2996 HB 1523 HB 1188 HB 1187 INDEX 3803 --Commissioner of Roads and Revenues members; increase.------------------1785, 1982, 1989, 2098, 2995 --Ordinary's supplemental compensation.....--......--........655, 731, 735, 835, 1170 --Superior Court Clerk's salary..............655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 JENKINS, MRS. SARAH G. HR 823 --Express sympathy for passing of--.....--.......--..--...............2765 JESUP, CITY OP HB 1390 --Mayor and commissioners; elections.--....--1304, 1438, 1447, 1534, 2357 JOHNSON, DOCTOR B. J., SR. HR 696 --Commend .......--._.----------------......--...........------------_.. 1596 JOHNSON COUNTY HB 1202 --Deputy Sheriff's salary.-..--....----..--725, 826, 830, 890, 1237 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL HR 820 --Players and Coaches; commend ......._----...--------.............2763 JOHNSON, HONORABLE WILLIAM L. HR 689 --Commend ............--.....--...........--....------.--..__...----------1590 JOINT MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM HB 970 --Vested rights..--....----......------...........285, 330, 338, 1293, 3164 JOINT SESSIONS HR 375 HR 376 --To hear address by Governor..--______--____--._.._--....__.12, 26, 109 --To hear address by Governor......---- ...__----....._....__ 13, 27, 204 JONES COUNTY HB 1557 HB 1558 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; posts .......--...--....--1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 --Sheriff's deputies; two additional...._...1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 3804 INDEX JONES, LAURIE M. HE 605-1295--Compensate ..__.. _____._.____.._____....__... __._974, 1095, 1798, 2028, 3424 JONES, MILES A. JR. HE 404-912 --Compensate ________________________________________ 157, 193, 1798, 2023, 3421 JUDGES SB 330 --Civil matters; Executive Secretary and Calendar Clerk --..--_...__....__._._..1168, 1240, 1316, 1839, 2354, 2577 SB 276 --Emeritus; Superior Court; credit for service in armed forces . -740, 742, 828, 1990 SB 79 --Seminars; allowed to attend -..-._- 393, 813 SB 31 --Superior Court; additional benefits ___________ 1099, 3275, 3430 HB 690 --Superior Court; compensation ___._.____..___. (No action in 1968) HR 409-912 --Supreme Court; retirement age; amendment to the Constitution __..._.......__..__._....__.... 157, 194 HB 925 --Superior Court; Emeritus; annual salary if 70 years or over ______ _...._......._. 160, 196 HB 691 --Euperior Court; group life insurance __..(No action in 1968) SB 357 --Superior Courts; may serve in other Superior Courts ._____.,,____________..._______..._ 1527, 1529, 1663 HB 69 --Superior Court Judges' Emeritus; retirement; credit for service ____________ (No action in 1968) HB 49 --Superior Court Judges' Retirement System; create new system ....__.....______.,,.(No action in 1968) HB 689 --Superior Court; secretarial service _______ (No action in 1968) SB 30 --Trial Judges and Solicitors Eetirement Fund; create ___.__..____- 340, 341, 1099, 2969, 3036, 3237, 3430 JUDICIAL CIECUITS (See Named Circuit) HB 1158 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation __ 598, 664, 668, 752, 1806 HR 672-1448--Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Georgia Supreme Court Reports; State Librarian to furnish certain volumes ___._____.._ _________ _..._._.1435, 1515, 1520 SB 415 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; SolicitorGeneral's salary ______________________ 2613, 2622, 2699, 3112, 3114 HB 1190 --Atlantic Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's secretary; salary ... 656, 731, 830, 835, 1203 1236 HB 1450 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; Judges' salary; supplemental payments __________ 1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2705 HB 1649 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; SolicitorGeneral's salary ......_.........._....._......_. 2555, 2590, 2842, 2860 INDEX 3805 SB 334 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Chief Judge's salary ....._,,.____..........__......__._. 1168, 1241, 1317 HB 1181 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Judge's term _.-..__._..__-_..___-...__..___..__ 654, 730, 830, 950, 1671 HB 1125 --Cobb Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; practice of law .._.._.... 590, 658, 947, 1799, 1809, 2616, 2737 HB 1519 --Conasauga Judicial Circuit; Judge's salary ... .. . . ._ 1784, 1981, 1988, 2097, 2847 HB 1480 --Eastern Judicial Circuit; Judges' salary; supplemental payments __-.____....1656, 1793, 1799, 1997, 3414 HB 1019 --Cordele Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ___.___.___.___ 325, 389, 605, 672, 1234 HB 1228 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Court Reporter; compensation . . . . 874, 934, 940, 992, 1672 HB 1227 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General; compensation .__._._._._..___874, 834, 1100, 1815, 2994 HB 1598 --Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's salary . ....._._...._. 2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3417 HR 111-257 --Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit; furnish certain law books .... _..._....._....._...._........ 199, 275, 499 HB 1164 --Lookout Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General; compensation .. ... 599, 665, 668, 752, 1840 HB 1422 --Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit; add one Judge __... . ...... ........... 1311, 1444, 1517, 2031, 3349, 3356 HB 1569 --Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms -_.._._-..__-_-_--__-._-_-._-.1972, 2079, 2089, 2255, 2998 SB 420 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General; compensation ............. 2899, 2903, 2988, 3112, 3116 HB 1258 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms _.......... ..... ........................... 929, 979, 1988, 2091 HB 1617 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ......... .........._......._...__._...2076, 2232 HB 1577 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judges' supplemental salaries ...... ...-....-1973, 2080 HB 1463 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms .....__..__.... 1508, 1661, 1799, 1813, 2846 HB 1486 --Toombs Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General's salary ..... ....... 1657, 1794, 2593, 2710, 3005, 3074 JUDICIARY ARTICLE IN CONSTITUTION HR 250-779 --Revise relating to Attorney General and Solicitors-General....___.._...._.__......... (No action in 1968) JUDICIARY COMMISSION HR 401-912 --Provide for establishment; amendment to the Constitution ..____.......__._..._..._..._._.__.__..._____..____..___.156, 193 3806 INDEX JURIES AND GRAND JURIES HB 153 --Court costs; payment of jurors included in bill of costs ................... .. .. 990 HB 38 --Criminal cases; instructions to jury; conditions of appeal .__.__...___...____.___----. (No action in 1968) HB 1280 --Criminal cases; verdict of guilty or not guilty ....... ... 932, 982, 1517 HR 413-923 --Death sentence; abolish; amendment to the Constitution _,,_ 160, 196, 471, 1963, 1964 HB 916 --Death sentence commuted to life imprison ment; not eligible for parole before serving 15 years .......... ___.___._...._____..___.158, 194, 299, 454, 582 HR 411-917 --Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment; not eligible for parole before serving 15 years; amendment to the Constitution 158, 195, 299, 450 HB 884 --Grand Jurors; county or municipal officials not allowed to serve --...... 130, 164, 1520 SB 360 --Grand jurors; method of selecting .. -..,,..... 1670, 1676, 1796, 1799, 3278, 3429 HB 1107 --Indictments; foreman of grandjury shall sign to have legal effect -.----...._.. 492, 600 HB 917 --Jury must include in its verdict recommendation of death penalty if convicted person is to be sentenced to death ____._._.___...___.._..___.______..______.._____.___.___158, 194, 299, 586 HB 1259 --Method of selecting ___________.______..__._______._______.929, 979, 988, 1108 SB 324 --Superior Courts; alternate jurors may be substituted for original jurors .....__..._.__..........__..__. 2618, 2622, 2699, 2703, 2953, 3405 HB 959 --Traverse jury boxes; each county allowed only one .._......_.__.._..._.... 218, 296, 666 HB 796 --Wage loss; compensation ._._.....__.........__._ (No action in 1968) JUSTICE OF PEACE HR 93-219 --Civil cases; jurisdiction; amendment to the Constitution ...._........___....._...,,........_._..,,. 1448, 2521, 3419 HR 110-252 --Jurisdiction; amendment to the Constitution ._.,,.......... (No action in 1968) JUVENILE COURT LAWS --Interim Study Report --........_.....__...._____._.____......___....._......___.3514 JUVENILE COURTS HB 853 --Jurisdiction and procedure relating to rights of offenders ....... .......... 22, 133, 471, 717, 3408 HR 379-853 --Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; create ...-.--_.----.---.----...-23, 134, 988, 1570, 3420 INDEX 3807 JUVENILES HR 137-390 --Crime; create study committee .___..._.._.. (No action in 1968) HR 772 --Crime; create study committee .....--..-__.-...------.. ... 2181 HB 311 --Interstate Compact on Juveniles; State shall be party to ....-_...._....,,...___.,,.. (No action in 1968) K KAMMER, MUKRIS & IRENE HR 614-1320--Compensate ._......_._.........__....._.___.__.__._______._____._.___.____.__.1091, 1161 KELLY, LEE E. HR 511 --Wishing speedy recovery ..... ..._...__..._....._....__..__......___....._...__..423 KENNEDY, HENRY C. SR 197 --Compensate .._______._.__._____........_.-.___---____..___.___.___.1804, 1809, 1987 KEY, HONORABLE WILLIAM HICKS HR 783 --Express sympathy for passing of ........ ..............2297 KEYS SB 385 --Master key duplicates; unlawful to make ........__.......___....__.__.2617, 2621, 2697, 2841, 3290, 3323 KICKLIGHTER, REV. BOB --Prayer offered by ....__._.___........_.......____....--.____...._____...___.___.....1652 KIMMONS, MRS. ELIZABETH JANE BURNETT HR 572 --Express sympathy for passing of ...............--------..772 KING, DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER, JR. HR 796 --Commend ............____-.-_.-----._---.____..2457 3808 INDEX LABOR (See Unemployment Compensation, Workmen's Compensation) HR 609-1296--Commissioner; elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution .__._._________._._____._.__.._.__975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1198 --Commissioner; Equal Pay for Women Act of 1966; amend ....657, 733, 940, 1286, 3170, 3250, 3315, 3324, 3342, 3382, 3383, 3389, 3433 HB 1423 --Commissioner; tenure salary increase _..._.1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3339 HB 926 --Unemployment Compensation Law; benefit payments if laid off work ._...._._...__...._..__.161, 196, 198, 317 LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF HB 419 --Inspection Division; boilers and unfired vessels; regulations ___..___.-____..__--_.-_.__--.__.--_--_ .-_,,_,,__.,,.1098 LABOR UNIONS HB 1314 --State employees; unlawful to deduct membership dues from salaries ._..............._...._...... 1090, 1160 LABORATORIES HB 1026 HB 1024 --Clinical; licensing of personnel __._____..___.___._______.________326, 391 --Medical; licensing and regulating of personnel ___.______326, 390 LABORATORY LICENSING STUDY COMMITTEE HR 771 --Create __......_.-.........._.___...__-._.....__.__-..._-_-..--2180, 2352, 2629 LABORERS' LIENS HB 1263 HB 444 --Depreciation ... ......_............._........__._...__...._..._.._._,, 929, 980, 1320 --Must be enforced within 12 months after delivery of material, labor, etc. ............_........_.._.......197, 312 LAGRANGE, CITY OF HB 1490 --Corporate limits ....._.._..._...__..._-.._.1658, 1795, 1799, 1998, 2615 INDEX 3809 LAITE, REV. W. W. HR 790 --Commend ___..__.___._..._...__...__.___.._____..._________..___.___..__..___._.____.___.___.2453 LAITE, REV. WILLIAM W. --Prayer offered by _._......._.. ......___._..._.__..-...............___..._._....._.2222 LAITE, WILLIAM E., Ill HR 541 --Express sympathy for passing of .. ...........609, 738 LAKE CITY, CITY OF SB 362 --Elections; change date ..... ........1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2863 LAKE LANIER ISLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HB 1377 --Amend Act creating _____._._._..._.______1302, 1436, 1989, 2475, 3166 LAMB, REV. W. JACK --Prayer offered by __.......____....._..................._._...__.__.__._._..2587 LANDLORDS HB 911 --Warrant for eviction; number of days' notice ....._.._.._.........._.._._.....__.....155, 192, 393, 786, 2614 LANDOWNERS HB 1596 --Tax assessment; owner may challenge assessment value by county tax assessor .........__............._.........2072, 2228 LAND SURVEYORS HB 1321 HB 1508 HB 1559 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; examination ___._______________._._.1091, 1161 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; licenses .................._...1782, 1979, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers an.d Land Surveyors; license; 3810 HB 83 HB 1219 INDEX certain persons -.....-_,,--..--._...__..,,.-_--,,.--....1970, 2078, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; members' examination ._._.._.......__-._..,,.._._--..__________ (No action in 1968) --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; rosters available upon request .__.___--__.--_.____....822, 880 LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND ACT HB 786 --Create within State ....,,..__..._._......_...,,.._.. (No action in 1968) LANE, HONORABLE W. JONES HR 807 --Commend _,,.__________________._______._______.._._._._._..._....-_2631 LANGDALE, HONORABLE HARLEY HR 568 --Commend _.____..__.__-----_._.,,_.____.___--_,,__..___._-..........__.......768 LARCENY HB 22 --Tangible personal property; criminal sanctions if rented or leased ._-.._...,,.--.-.,,_...-.,,--.-.,,-..._.--.----__--__.989 LASSETER, HONORABLE R. L. HR 866 --Commend .._.._-..__._.__.._.....-.._.._.._..__...._..._...-_....-.-_....__...3043 LAURENS COUNTY HB 893 --State Court name changed from City Court of Dublin _____._..___._.._..__.___149, 189, 223, 501, 501 LAW HB 870 --Practice of; educational requirements _...._-..._-_.....-._....___._...__..128, 162, 394, 578, 1322 LAW DEPARTMENT HB 1236 --Attorney General; subpoena powers .._..__,,......__.__..._-.._-._----.....-_-.--825, 883, 988, 1949 INDEX 3811 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SR 77 --Assistance to children in case of disability or death _...._..........__._._......740, 742, 828, 990, 3285 HB 1300 --False reports of crimes; unlawful ....._.........._..._..._._.__..........976, 1096, 1165, 2201, 3412 HB 886 --Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation; court fees ____._______.___131, 164, 830, 909, 3408 HR 661-1420--Georgia Study Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education; create ......,,_.. ......._. 1311, 1443, 1518, 2047, 3424 HB 944 --High speed chases; unlawful _.________..__..._._____..__.__.214, 293, 508 HB 512 --Indemnification of private citizens for personal injury or death while assisting in crime prevention ....___....._.,,__.._._...... (No action in 1968) HB 44 --Immunity from civil liability for any person rendering assistance .....----,,,,.....--.___._--__.__--__.471 HB 912 --Unlawful to physically abuse or injure any person when unnecessary .........._........._........ .......155, 192 LAWRENCE, HONORABLE ALEXANDER ATKINSON HR 860 --Expressing appreciation _______________..__________._._____.____.________._____2919 LAWRENCEVILLE, CITY OF HB 1590 --City limits .._....... ......_.... ____..__._..___.2071, 2227, 2353, 2408, 3162 LEARD, DR. L. TYLER HR 573 --Express sympathy for passing of _______________________________._____.____773 LEARY, CITY OF HB 1002 --Mayor and Councilmen; term of office _._.. ... 321, 386, 394, 474, 884, 1844 LEASE AGREEMENTS HB 921 --Personal property .. ._..._._............. 159, 195, 393, 810, 3000, 3054 LEE COUNTY HR 858 --High School Girls' Basketball Team; congratulate ....._....2918 HR 407-912 --Lee County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ______.___.__._____.._._____..._...157, 193, 198, 243, 1666 3812 INDEX LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS HB 1122 --Rates allowed publishers; change ..590, 658, 1520, 2517, 2999 LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COMMITTEE HB 381 --Create ____,,___.___,,..______._.___.__,,.,,.___,,____-__ (No action in 1968) LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT HR 381-866 --Study commission; create ..-...-.----...................... 25, 136 LEGISLATIVE BUILDING STUDY COMMITTEE, STATE HR 60 --Create ........._......._.._._..._._...........,,.._...__......._.. (No action in 1968) LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, GEORGIA HB 1012 HB 1008 --Credit for military service; clarify provisions ........323, 388, 1101, 1481, 3034, 3069, 3169, 3180, 3233, 3234, 3279 --Employees' Retirement System; transfer of creditable service _...._......_....._................ ---322, 387, 944 LEIGH, MRS. MARY PINDAR HR 756 --Express sympathy for passing of ........_..__..__........- 2165, 2617 LENOX, TOWN OF HB 1199 --Lease certain property ....... ...---------724, 825, 830, 889, 2356 LEONARD, HONORABLE GERALD H. HR 857 --Commend .-._.. ---.,,...----......-. 2917 LEWIS, HONORABLE E. BROOKS HR 644 --Express sympathy for passing of ... . .------..-.-..-..-1261 LEWIS, HONORABLE PRESTON B. HR 809 --Commend ... ......... ......2633 INDEX 3813 LICENSES (See Named License, Taxation) HB 1289 HB 775 HB 1026 HB 294 HB 1111 HB 1634 HB 1367 HB 139 HB 840 HB 882 HB 1080 SB 259 HB 314 HB 420 HB 174 HB 1009 HB 308 HB 304 HB 881 HR 771 HB 895 HB 74 HB 894 HB 1024 HB 431 HB 1342 HB 932 --Alligator farms; provide ............... 97Z, 1093, 1165, 1576, 2705 --Clinical Laboratories, Blood Banks, Tissue Banks; license required __.._................_......_...._..___. (No action in 1968) --Clinical laboratory personnel ____.__.___..._____..._._.__________._..326, 391 --Collection agencies; provide for licensing and regulation _______________________________________ (No action in 1968) --Commercial fishing boats; fees ...........................................A92, 601, 604, 792, 1804, 2645 --Drivers; certain information may be shown on reverse side ....._..-..._....._._...._........._.._...._..2343, 2556 --Drivers; classification _...._........_.........__....___._..1219, 1313, 1519 --Drivers; expiration date ........_._......_......___.(No action in 1968) --Drivers; expiration date _..___.....___.._._........____20, 132, 1801 --Drivers; Financial Responsibility Law; proof maintained for 3 year period after reinstatement ..... ................................................Zl, 136, 137 --Drivers; honorary; change requirements _.......... 385, 469, 829 --Drivers; honorary; requirements .....884, 888, 939, 1519, 2666 --Drivers; minors 18 or less must complete Driver Education Course before obtaining operator's license ...._................._..............._._.__.._.._......___..__............._....._.1800 --Drivers; motor driven cycle; special permit, 14 years of age or over ....._......_._.______.... (No action in 1968) --Drivers; prohibit marking in place of issuing warning tickets ....__-.....__...__......-_._...._...-.(No action in 1968) --Drivers; reexamination after suspension _.._-___......._...322, 387 --Drivers; suspension or revocation; notification _........._....._...,,_..._,,_.......___._.._..(No action in 1968) --Drivers; suspension or revocation; proof of required deposit ................... ---...(No action in 1968) --Drivers; suspension, violation point count system .... 27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 --Laboratory Licensing Study Committee; create .._.__..._..__...._..__.....__..___._......___..........._.___.2180, 2352, 2629 --Marriage; parental consent for underage applicants not necessary when proof of pregnancy presented ___..____________._.____________.__.____.._________.___.._____________._150, 189 --Marriage; minors may be married without parental consent, certain cases ._.,,..._.___._.._.._._..._. (No action in 1968) --Marriage; underage applicants; alternative methods for obtaining parental consent ................_.................._..._._.... 150, 189, 471, 707, 2566 --Medical laboratory personnel _................__._................__.326, 390 --Pecan Processors and Wholesalers; requirements _____--_____-------___--_.-.---....(No action in 1968) --Plates; allow SOe1 for mailing to applicants ........_,...._._...__._......._._.1154, 1223, 1321, 2044, 3412 --Plates; citizens' band radio stations _........_..._..____._............__.__..._....185, 220, 507, 700, 1806 3814 HB 1171 HB 179 SB 258 HB 839 SB 322 HB 293 HB 903 HB 137 HB 664 SB 109 HB 1319 HB 863 INDEX --Plates; disabled veterans --------------.----_----.------..651, 727 --Plates; issuance to certain disabled veterans _._.----_.----___.__..____.___..--..___.--_ (No action in 1968) --Plates; issuance to certain veterans . .. . 604, 607, 665, 760, 939, 2968, 3406 --Plates; reflective material _------20, 131, 137, 201, 1322, 1371 --Plates; members of the General Assembly ----------------_----._ 1103, 1105, 1164, 1800, 3221 --Plates; special issuance to citizens' band radio stations _-- ....--_...--..._----------------..507 --Plates; special personalized plates ._.-_.-.- ----------------153, 190, 299, 416, 3273, 3356 --Plates; treated with reflective material ,,___.----...__._____..__668 --Privately owned aircraft; levy fee _____..... (No action in 1968) --Trucks; refund certain fees ........._......... -(No action in 1968) --Trucks used for well digging purposes; annual fee .. -1090, 1160, 1800 --Veterinarians; educational programs prior to renewal ..... ......... ._...... .....--...25, 135, 1664 LIENS HB 1039 HB 1341 HB 1263 HB 444 HR 657 HB 395 HB 928 HB 1077 HB 889 --Appliance repair ..._............ .... 375, 461, 2236 --Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966; registration .. ... ..... .............. 1154, 1223, 1320, 2191, 3412 --Laborers' and materialmens'; depreciation ..929, 980, 1320 --Laborers and materialmen; enforced within 12 months after delivery ................_.._................-.._......197, 312 --Mechanics' and Materialmen's; create study committee - - ..__.._. ........1272, 1448, 1587 --Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act; filing of liens ......._..... ..........-....._......................._..__.... -.1100 --Personal property; foreclosure ... ..............184, 219, 338, 790 --Secondary security instruments; clarify __._----.._.-__----__-._._._.-._.. - 384, 468, 1446, 2537, 3409 --Superior Court Clerks; fees for recording ....... ...... .. _----.._------.....149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HR 489-1050--Elect; succeed to Governorship in the event of the death of the Governor-Elect; amendment to the Constitution _.----___---- 380, 465, 509, 618, 1322, 2932 LINCOLNTON, CITY OF HR 548-1200--Lincolnton and Lincoln County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution -..----.--_._...--724, 826, 830, 891, 1669, 1856 INDEX 3815 LINCOLN COUNTY HR 548-1200--Lincolnton, City of and Lincoln County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ......_._._....-724, 826, 830, 891, 1669, 1856 LITERATURE COMMISSION, STATE HB 1247 HB 703 --Obscene literature; definition _------------_......_..878, 937 --Obscene literature; determination of guilt ..----197, 310, 886 LIVESTOCK (See Agriculture) HB 1339 HB 1338 HB 1225 HB 1336 HB 1348 HB 1337 HB 1335 SB 390 --Auctions; expand definition to include horses .. _........___.._------......... ...... ......1154, 1222, 1318 --Buying and selling; expand definition to include horses _.------.------_--_,,_--_____.--______.1154, 1222, 1318 --Capture; unlawful to construct devices on lands of another person __..._.__.......___.--.......__.. 824, 882, 1318 --Crimes concerning; expand definition to include horses ,,..----......................... ..-1153, 1222, 1318 --Feeding of garbage; expand definition to include horses _..._....._._...__......-......._._.1156, 1224, 1318, 2552 --Loading or handling; expand definition to include horses ________...------ ...___.....-......1153, 1222, 1318 --Quarantine and inspection; expand definition to include horses ...._----..,,....._....-.....1153, 1222, 1318, 2550 --Traps; unlawful to set or construct on lands of another person _------_._______.___.2618, 2623, 2699 LOANS HB 936 HB 696 HB 565 HB 1077 --Banks; warehousing .............___._--....----186, 221, 337, 581 --Georgia Industrial Loan Act; maximum premiums on loans of $100.00 or less __------__._--(No action in 1968) --Georgia Industrial Loan Act; regulation on certain loans _____--_____,,_--_--__----___--_.( No action in 1968) --Secondary security instruments; clarify __.__----____.----__.-_____________384, 468, 1446, 2537, 3409 LOBBYISTS HB 1220 HR 777 --Identification badges ....... .................... 822, 881 --Regulations; create study committee _------------- ....2185 LOCKHEED, GEORGIA SR 239 --Commend _------_.----_--______.....__.........-..2085, 2177 3816 INDEX LOCOMOTIVE: GENERAL HR 188 --Requested to be returned to Ringgold, Georgia .. .. ......... ... .. .. ......................(No action in 1968) HR 495-1071--Withhold Western and Atlantic Railroad lease until "General" has been returned to Georgia -.-383, 467, 1165 LONG COUNTY HB 1183 HB 1212 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election of county attorney .............654, 730, 735, 833, 1524 --Sheriff's compensation .............821, 879, 940, 946, 1234, 1845 LONG, HONORABLE OSCAR L. HR 567 --Commend... ...... .... .. . . ........................----.......... .-768 LOOKOUT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1164 --Solicitor-General; compensation ....... .. . .. .599, 665, 668, 752, 1840 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HR 111-257 --Furnish certain law books . . ..... .......... ... .199, 275, 499 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, CITY OF HB 1105 --Incorporate ... . ... 491, 600, 605, 673, 1675, 1857, 1992 LORD, JAMES C. HR 403-912 --Compensate .... ...... .. ..... .. .. .----.156, 193, 1798, 2022, 3420 LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY HR 387-884 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; accept bid - ...._-- ...... ....----... .....131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 LOVEDAHL, ODELL HR 24-56 --Compensate ...-.............._.......-....----..--.(No action in 1968) INDEX 3817 LOVEJOY, TOWN OP HB 186 --Incorporation; repeal ............_..........._. _..... (No action in 1968) LOVETT, HONORABLE W. H. HR 795 --Commend- .... ...... ... ........... .... ................... 2456 LOWNDES COUNTY HB 1060 --City Court of Valdosta; Judge and Solicitor; election .. ......... ...... ..... ............ 380, 464, 471, 514, 886 HR 617-1345--Conveyance of a tract of State owned property _.....1155, 1223 HB 1131 --Deputy Sheriff's salary . ....... .... ... 591, 659, 667, 745, 2355 HR 682-1473--Governing authority; merge with City of Valdosta; amendment to the Constitution _....._.........._..............1654, 1791, 1799, 2002, 2849 LUMBER AND LUMBER PRODUCTS HR 803 HB 1470 SB 314 HB 992 HB 985 HB 1159 --Forest products; study committee to study transportation; create ...._............ ..... ...-2465, 2594, 2759 --Sales tax; exempt shavings and sawdust used for tilling soil or animal husbandry .. .. ..... ....1653, 1790 --Shavings and saw dust from wood used directly in animal husbandry; exempt Sales Tax ..... ...... 1323, 1324, 1444, 1991, 2954, 3003 --Trucks hauling; length and weight permits ..... ....... . 290, 334, 604, 1116, 1242, 1524, 1729 --Trucks transporting; special permits .._... ........ 289, 333, 474 --Vehicles transporting pulpwood; chains or cables . ... 598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620, 2649, 3001, 3256 LUMPKIN, CITY OF HB 1471 --Corporate limits .... . .. 1653, 1790, 1799, 1996, 2615 LYONS, CITY OF HB 1502 HB 1266 --Corporate limits; change ..... .....1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2846 --Mayor and Councilmen; qualifications ..... ........ .... ... ....... 930, 980, 989, 1110, 1673 LYSERGIC ACID DI ETHYLAMIDE (LSD) HB 118 --Regulate sale, possession, prescribing and dispensing .._.._..... ........................ .....(No action in 1968) 3818 INDEX M MACHINERY CITY HB 1619 --Repeal Act to incorporate .. ...._...2224, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3163 MACON, CITY OF HR 779-1627--Ad valorem property tax; assessment; amendment to the Constitution _..._.....___...._.._.__...2226, 2347 HR 519-1103--Compensate ......_.........._-......._..-....-........_._........-...-..._._490, 599 HB 1267 --Firemen and policemen; dependent's benefits ,,-...._-.....-....-._..._.._-..._-_.._--....__..........930, 980, 989 HR 853 --Ingleside Community, Piedmont District; Boy Scout Troop No. 5; commend ,,--__..__---___..._._.--2915 HB 1481 --Mayor and aldermen; time of taking office _..._.._-..._.................1656, 1793, 2235, 2248, 2995 MACON COUNTY HB 1364 HB 1435 --Ordinary's salary .._.........-..._.........1219, 1313, 1319, 1452, 2239 --Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices -_..._....._.....-...1431, 1512, 1518, 1684, 2357 MADDOX, GOVERNOR LESTER --Address By __._._.__._______._.__..__________.__________.____._____.109, 204, 265 --Communication ........._..._..._.._....._...._....15, 702, 703, 1522, 2591 MADDOX, J. W. HR 449-973 --Compensate ___._______..___--___._____._.._____-._.__.___.______._______________.286, 331 MADISON COUNTY HB 1604 HB 50 HB 1605 HB 1603 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; clerk's salary _...________.__._______.__.2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 --Penalty for magazine wholesaler to refuse to sell to retailer because of refusal to purchase other periodicals -__--_---_--------_----..--._.--_..--_..,,--...2851 --Sheriff's deputies' compensation ._........._....-..._-.-.2073, 2229, 2236, 2409, 3417 --Superior Court Clerk; allowances __.___-__._._-_...-.-~~_2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 INDEX 3819 MAGNETIC TAPES HR 835 --Create committee to study effect on juveniles ..-._._... 2742 MALT BEVERAGES (See Alcoholic Beverages) HB 1584 HB 1451 --Airports; authorize sale within boundaries ....__......_....._._...._........1974, 2081, 2090, 2307, 2848 --Seizure by revenue agents; disposition ___..__._..________.________._____1436, 1515, 2090, 2534, 3414 MANCHESTER, CITY OF HB 1299 --Municipal elections ....._....................975, 1096, 1100, 1174, 1674 MANN, HELEN REBEKAH (BECKY) HR 747 --Commend ....................2157 MANN, VIRGINIA ANNE HR 745 --Commend _........_..__...._........._...._..____....___......_......_..._._......_._....._..2156 MANUFACTURED HOMES HB 1479 --Standards of construction ....._____..1656, 1793, 1800, 2487, 3166 MARIETTA BLUE DEVILS, THE HR 441 --Commend ..____.._..-__.._..._.__.....-_...-.-............_..__......_......_..__.........260 MARIETTA, CITY OF SB 355 --Board of Education; sale of certain property .___.._..______...._._........_...._.1527, 1529, 1663, 2702, 2717 HB 1579 --Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority; maturity date of revenue bonds -_______--.1973, 2081, 2089, 2256, 2999 SB 365 --Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority; revenue bonds .___....._._......_.....__.1805, 1808, 1986, 2703, 2718 HB 1445 --Corporate limits ..-.._..__......-........1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2615 HB 1578 --Corporate limits ....__-_.....__......_._......1973, 2081, 2089, 2256, 2999 HR 501-1090--Homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution ..............................457, 496, 605, 676, 1669, 1854 HR 706 --Hospital Authority; urge consolidation with Cobb County Hospital Authority _-.__.- ..1579, 1800, 2151, 3404 3820 MARRIAGE HB 74 HB 895 HB 894 INDEX --License; minors may be married without parental consent, certain cases ._......__.._._._.,,........ (No action in 1968) --Licenses; parental consent for underage applicants not necessary when proof of pregnancy _^___.___--__150, 189 --licenses; underage applicants; alternative methods for obtaining parental consent ___..__.__._____._.____.___.__..___..__.___._._.150, 189, 471, 707, 2566 MASTER KEYS SB 385 --Duplicates; unlawful to make ............_.....____....._2617, 2621, 2697, 2841, 3290, 3323 MATERIALMENS' LIENS HB 1263 HB 444 HR 657 --Depreciation __...._......_..._......_....._..-..._-.._.._...........__ 929, 980, 1320 --Must be enforced within 12 months after delivery of material, labor, etc. _.....-...-_......__._...__..._.197, 312 --Study committee; create _..........._..................__..1272, 1448, 1587 MATTHEWS, HONORABLE CHAPPELLE HR 892 --Commend .___._._______.___._____.-___...____..-___.__-__________.-___._____.___.____.____3205 MAYORS SR 167 HR 522 --Tenth Annual Georgia Mayors' Day; pay tribute --.473, 778 --Tenth Annual Georgia Mayors' Day; tribute to municipal officials and employees .-- ---.--------.___.480, 603 MECHANICS' LIENS HR 657 --Study committee; create . .........______._........._.....1272, 1448, 1587 MEDICAL EXAMINERS SB 386 HB 1068 --Georgia Post Mortem Examination Act; appointments ..____.-____-_____-._.-.____.__-.-_-.2619, 2623, 2699, 2990 --Georgia Post Mortem Examination Act; fees for certain services _...__...-......_.._-.-._._...._..._..382, 466, 1664, 2044 MEDICAL LABORATORIES HB 1024 --Personnel; licensing and regulating __...__.._._._________._._.__326, 390 INDEX 3821 MEDICAL PERSONNEL HB 1104 --Civil liability; emergency treatment _______________ 491, 600, 2088 MEDICAL RESEARCH HB 1294 --Promote facilities by exempting from building and zoning restriction _._.._.___._973, 1094, 1229, 1447, 1451, 2707 MEDICAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS, NON-PROFIT HB 529 --Insurance Code of 1960; composition of Board of Directors __________________________________ (No action in 1968) MEDICAL STUDENTS HR 521-1103--Scholarships; repayment of loans; amendment to the Constitution _______________._______.491, 600, 832, 1288, 3421 MELTON, HONORABLE QUIMBY, JR. HR 634 --Congratulate _....__ _______ _._.____.__.___________...____________._____.._____...________1247 MEMORIAL DAY HB 929 HB 947 --April 26; change name to Confederate Memorial Day ___________.___.____.._____________________._..._____.__184, 219, 299 --National Memorial Day; May 30; declare public and legal holiday ________.....___.._._.._____._..215, 293, 337, 412, 1806 MENTAL HEALTH HR 353 HB 1135 SB 295 HB 244 HR 645 --Day Care Centers; create committee to study __.__----_.-_-_-____ (No action in 1968) --Examination hearing; notice ____.____._. 592, 660, 967, 1488, 3285 --Hospitalization; procedure for transfer from another State _________--___.__._.________1449, 1451, 1516, 2701 --Medical treatment; authorization ______.._.(No action in 1968) --State Department of Public Health; urged to inaugurate program recommended by Dr. B. W. Forester, Chairman of Mental Health Committee, State Board of Health _____________________1262 MENTAL HEALTH STUDY COMMITTEE HR 285 --Create _____.__-__-_._--__________________________ (No action in 1968) 3822 INDEX MENTAL RETARDATION --Interim Study Report _____..____.,,_._..__.._._.,,.___.__._....__._.-_.___.--.3525 MERCHANTS HB 1612 --Uniform Commercial Code; liability of commission merchants of security interest ......._...-....-......-.._...__...._...-....-1976, 2083, 2236, 2888 MERIWETHER COUNTY HB 1298 --Certain officials' salaries ........__....975, 1096, 1100, 1173, 1674 METRO ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY SB 353 SB 111 --Clarify costs _...._.._._ 1675, 1676, 1796, 2702, 2984, 3100, 3104, 3133, 3429 --Publication of activities ......_...._.._............_(No action in 1968) METROPOLITAN AIRPORT COUNCIL HR 704 --Study Committee; create to study feasibility of establishing in certain areas .._.,,_........1579, 1800, 2150 METROPOLITAN TAX STUDY COMMISSION HR 702 --Create _...._...__._____,,.___.___...._...__...___.___.___.... _._._.__...__.1578, 1800, 2149 MIDDLE GEORGIA EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES STUDY COMMITTEE HR 884 --Create .........._.....__......_...._.._..._._.._...__.._......__.._......._...__...._.._..._._3200 MIDWAY, CITY OF HB 1653 --Mayor and Council; compensation __._.__________..__..____..___2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 MILAN, CITY OF HB 1261 --Corporate limits .._..._.___...__..___..._..__._929, 980, 988, 1109, 1673 INDEX 3823 MILK (See Agriculture) HR 879 HR 839 SR 213 --Agricultural Commodities Commission for Milk; Georgia Milk Producers Association; expressing appreciation ...._..___..---,,.-- ...._.. ........3195 --Milk control and distribution; create study committee ._._2746 --Sales regulated by General Assembly; amendment to the Constitution __.____.___________.1840, 1840, 1987, 2087, 2962 MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS HB 945 --Georgia Milk Stabilization Commission; create ......._..,.._ ........188, 222, 336, 1201, 1516 MILLEDGEVILLE, CITY OF HR 386-380 --Milledgeville-Baldwin County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .___._._..._. ....130, 163, 198, 232, 1666 HB 1551 --Sanitary services to county ..........1968, 2077, 2089, 2250, 3179 MILLEN, CITY OP HB 1186 --City Court Judge and Solicitor; compensation _.,,...___._.___._.__._, 655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 MILLER COUNTY HR 828 --1967-68 High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend ..,,.._.--..............._.._._-.____.._....,, ............_....__ ....2768 HB 1601 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; checks drawn on county funds .._._.......-_...._____.__....-.._.........2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3163 HB 1602 --Board of Education members' selection ___..._.__..____..........__.___.......2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3334 HR 535-1179--Colquitt and Miller County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution . .. ..__..--.-._.----,.---653, 729, 735, 836, 2243 MILLER, DOCTOR JOEL HERMAN HR 769 --Express sympathy for passing of ......_...________.___._._.____._......2176 MILLER, POLLY HR 750 --Commend ........_________________________...2160 3824 INDEX MILKER, CITY OF HR 810 HR 812 --1967-68 Milner High School Boys' Basketball Team, commend ................_............. --1967-68 High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend ................._...-...._...-_...... .......... ... 2633 2635 MINCEY, CARROLL J. HR 534-1179--Compensate _..........._....................... ...653, 729, 1797, 2027, 3423 MINES HB 969 --Surface Mined Land Use Board; establish ........................... ........285, 330, 605, 709, 1102, 1196 MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OP HR 891 --Reorganization; create committee to study . ... . . . 3204 MINIMUM FOUNDATION PROGRAM OF EDUCATION ACT (See Education, Schools) HB 33 HB 900 HB 331 HB 546 HB 1103 SB 247 HB 1180 HB 498 --Assistant principals included within term "certificated professional personnel" ........-....._..--.....-_(No action in 1968) --Lapsed funds ............_..._...........................153, 190, 298, 44t>, 737 --Professional personnel; separate classification ...... ... 671 --Student's voting rights; appraisal at age 17 ........_........-........_..............._...........-.......470, 867, 3170 --Teacher allotment .._..._._.....-...._..__...490, 599, 986, 1419, 3165 --Teacher allotment; change provisions ..........................................669, 670, 733, 2234, 2891 --Teachers and certificated professional personnel; board of 3 examiners may classify; certain counties ........_............_..................654, 730, 2592, 2805 --Transporting of pupils; calculation of costs __.._..___......_.--__--_.--.---__--.......... ...(No action in 1968) MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE HB 1203 --State employees .._..._._____-___.-_.-_.-..-..--..----_.-..-. ...725, 826 MINIMUM WAGE HB 694 --State employees .............-............--.........-.-.(No action in 1968) HR 30 HR 584 INDEX 3825 --State Minimum Wage Law Study Committee; create --._______.--._____._.___.__..._..(No action in 1968) --Create committee to study _........_..........___..-.._...._._...._.___...._.__784 MINING OPERATION--SURFACE --Interim Study Report ........ ...._......._........._.._...__....._______.___.3586 MINORS (See Courts) HB 756 --Abandonment; service of demand before invoking penalty ......... ....__...._........._...._... ._______.199, 440, 606 HB 385 --Aid to Dependent Children Act; define dependent child ................. ._..._........_.._._.(No action in 1968) HB 213 --Alcoholic beverages; unlawful to falsely represent age, drink or possess ...._..._._...................._.......1802 HB 245 --Alcoholic beverages; unlawful to possess ................. ..._._............ .............. (No action in 1968) HB 217 --Children under 10, unlawful to leave unattended in parked motor vehicle ............,,......._.. (No action in 1968) HR 772 --Crime among juveniles; create study committee ...._.......2181 SB 210 --Cruel treatment; dentists included among parties permitted to report cases of cruelty ...... 339, 474, 498, 987, 1275, 1991, 2188, 2508, 3040, 3107 HB 966 --Georgia Gifts to Minors Act; life insurance policies and annuity contracts __-..--.__._.----..._. 285, 329, 942 HB 897 --Guardians; bond requirement ...____.____152, 190, 339, 646, 2566 HB 1405 --Insane persons; ordinaries authorized to act as legal custodians ................... 1307, 1441, 1448, 2220, 3413 HB 311 --Interstate Compact on Juveniles; State shall be party to .. -........._............-------(No action in 1968) HB 853 --Juvenile Courts; jurisdiction and procedure relating to rights of offenders __.._..._.22, 133, 471, 717, 3408 HR 379-853 --Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; create ............__..._...__..._._.____._............_...23, 134, 988, 1570, 3420 HB 74 --Marriage license; minors may be married without parental consent, certain cases _..._._.....(No action in 1968) SB 371 --Property conveyances; consensual transactions, 18 years of age or older _........_..._.._.__........._..1805, 1809, 1986 SB 366 --Solicitation of money; unlawful to employ ...........................__.....__...._._...1992, 1994, 2084, 2592 MITCHELL COUNTY HB 1525 --Tax Commissioner's term and compensation ..............................1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2847 3826 INDEX MODEL GLUE SB 205 --Intentional inhaling of fumes; prohibit ........___.....___........_..._.499, 511, 603, 1165, 2975, 3405 MOLNAR, MAC HR 846 --Commend ---,,-------------------__------------------2911 MOLOTOV COCKTAILS HB 907 --Possession prima facie evidence ----------------------154, 191 MONCUS, EUGENE G. HR 402-912 --Compensate --..__----__-----._-------_156, 193, 2233, 2299, 3420 MONEY SOLICITATION HB 901 HB 949 --False invoices; misdemeanor ._----..--..153, 190, 338, 441, 737 --Goods or services not rendered; unlawful to solicit payment --...----.--------------......... 215, 294 MONROE, VAUGHN HR 527 --Expressing Appreciation _.--____--.----------__--------------.--566 MONTGOMERY COUNTY HB 1493 --Tax Commissioner's compensation ----------.1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2849, 2931 MOODY, M. K. HR 604-1288--Compensate ------------------------934, 984, 1798, 2028, 3424 MOORE, HONORABLE DON C. HR 859 --Commend ----------------------__----__..__....-.__...2919 MOORE, SENATOR ALBERT F. HR 464 --Wishing speedy recovery ._..............--.....................................302 INDEX 3827 MORAN, HONORABLE CHARLES A. HR 814 --Commend __.._._.______________..,,____-._.______-______._--_-._____._______..____________ 2636 MORGAN COUNTY HB 1284 HB 1287 HB 1282 HB 1283 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; appoint depositories for county funds ..__________....______..__.________.933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman, Vice-chairman and members' compensation ........934, 983, 989, 1114, 2358, 3050 --Certain officials' salaries __.____.___._._..933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 --Tax receiver and collector offices; consolidate ._-_............-___-...___-_.....933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 MORRIS, DEAN JOHN TOLLIVER HR 508 --Express sympathy for passing of ._..------_.--________---...______._420 MORROW, CITY OF HB 1627 HB 1615 --Annexation, referendum __..___...__..2226, 2347, 2353, 2575, 3418 --New Charter ___..____...___....... 2075, 2231, 2353, 2410, 3004, 3055 MORTGAGES HB 889 --Superior Court Clerks; fees for recording- .............._..__.__._.______.___.......149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 MOTELS HB 1041 --Excise tax, municipalities .._._._.______.........._...........376, 461, 1521 MOTORBOATS HB 1193 HB 998 HB 997 SB 325 --Georgia Motorboat Numbering Act; extend provisions _...____._..___..._______.656, 732, 1987, 2772, 3410 --Maximum capacity; State Game and Pish Commission _____________._.__.______._____._._____________.__._______292, 335 --Outboard motors; certificate of title; State Game and Fish Commission ........__.._.____._...._.....291, 335, 470 --Torts; owner's liability ....._..........2617, 2622, 2699, 2701, 2978 3828 INDEX MOTORCYCLES HB 15 HB 1516 --Crash helmets required during lawful contests of speed or endurance --.------------..--(No action in 1968) --Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways; safety devices .----------__----_._.____.___. 1783, 1980 MOTOR FUEL HB 885 HB 984 --Aircraft motors; exempt excise tax --.---- --------.131, 164 --Tax; increase if purchased in other states ----,.288, 333, 1521 MOTOR FUEL TAX LAW HR 425-941 --Boating and fishing facilities; proceeds appropriated to State Game and Fish Commission; amendment to the Constitution --_---.----------------------------187, 222 HB 1179 --Counties, municipalities; refunds --------_ 653, 729, 1521 HB 854 --Excise tax; exemptions -- .. 23, 134, 1321, 2317 HB 982 --Excise tax upon all distributors; increase ------ .------ . 288, 332, 1521, 2308, 2468, 2650 HB 1478 --Motor carriers; impose tax for use of streets and highways -.----1655, 1792, 1802, 2670, 3166 HB 984 --Purchase in other states ---------------------- 288, 333, 1521 HB 983 --Sales tax; exempt-.--.---- --------.--------------. .288, 332 MOTOR SCOOTERS HB 420 --Driver's license; special permit, 14 years of age or over ------------..--...(No action in 1968) MOTOR VEHICLES (See Highways) HB 276 HB 627 HB 120 HB 760 HB 1290 HB 259 HB 51 HB 1421 --Abandoned; power of law enforcement officers to remove _._..._.------------------------(No action in 1968) --Additional millage; bonded indebtedness ----------_--------.....----- (No action in 1968) --Ad valorem tax; classification and method of assessment --------------_._.--------___--(No action in 1968) --Ad valorem tax; establish values if held for resale -------.------------------ (No action in 1968) --Ad valorem tax; method of taxation -.-...---973, 1094, 1801 --Ad Valorem Tax Act of 1966; allow counties to hire additional personnel to administer -_.------_-668, 1276, 2704 --Certificate of Title Act; amend relating to models antedating 1963 --------------------.----(No action in 1968) --Certificate of Title Act; exempt if horsepower 3.5 or less --------.----._----_.----._------------------1311, 1444 INDEX 3829 HB 395 --Certificate of Title Act; filing of liens -------..-..------1100 HB 875 --Certificate of Title Act; origin of vehicle ... .............. 129, 162, 299, 611, 1806, 2618, 2618, 2623 HB 394 --Contract carriers and common carriers; exempt certain vehicles from regulations -.____.____.__,,_______.--________ 1800 HB 1059 --Dealers; ad valorem tax; due date ......................380, 464, 1991 HB 855 --Defects and imperfections; breach of warranty ......_...................__..__.._.........23, 134, 941, 1201, 1517 HB 652 --Disabled persons allowed to park on public streets without penalties .-....-..._...,,__._...(No action in 1968) HB 314 --Driver Education Course; minors; operator's license .--..1800 HB 654 --Driver Education Course; secondary schools; financial responsibility ........_.__..____.._._...(No action in 1968) HR 378-858 --Driver edcuation; traffic fines and forteitures; allocation; amendment to the Constitution ...._______________....___.___ 23, 134 HB 1367 --Driver's licenses; classification -__..._...........____1219, 1313, 1519 HB 840 --Driver's license; expiration date .._...__._.._..._....._.....20, 132, 1801 HB 1080 --Drivers' licenses; honorary; change requirements _______.____.__.._.._._________._____________._______.____385, 469, 829 HB 1009 --Driver's license; reexamination after suspension ----322, 387 HB 308 --Drivers', license; suspension or revocation; notification ______________________________________________ (No action in 1968) HB 304 --Drivers' license; suspension or revocation; proof of required deposit ___....._.........___...(No action in 1968) HB 881 --Drivers' license; suspension, violation point count system ....... 27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 SB 120 --Drunk driving; punishment __.____.____472, 473, 498, 831, 2034, 2242, 2297, 2507, 2507, 3035, 3040 HB 882 --Financial responsibility law; proof maintained for 3 year period after reinstatement of driver's license ---27, 136, 137 HB 813 --Illegal parking; removal and storage by " property owner ....._..............._...._......_......_.. ......831, 1202, 1670 HB 1378 --Inspection Law; increase fee ____.._______________._._.__1302, 1437, 1800 HR 125-312 --Inspection Law Study Committee; create ........ ............_....__.....__._...._._...----.-(No action in 1968) HB 876 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; certificates of inspection .............._......_......_......_._................_._.._..__._..__.129, 162 HB 492 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; no vehicle shall be operated wtihout certificate ......__..... ........... ------1800 HB 973 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; trailers and semi-trailers ............ ..............................._......._......._. 286, 330 HB 1360 --Insurance; cancellation ................1218, 1312, 1446, 1866, 3412 --Interim Study Report ._.........._........_........_................ ... ------3529 HR 505 --Liability insurance; create committee to study ........ ......... .........................----418, 502, 2702, 2747 HB 1090 --Liability insurance; insolvent companies ... ----457, 495, 942, 1203, 3170, 3251 SR 187 --Liability insurance; special assessment fees for owners who do not carry; amendment to the Constitution ---------------1102, 1106, 1164, 1229, 1800, 2297 3830 INDEX SB 320 --Liability insurance; uninsured motor vehicles .......1237, 1241, 1317, 1987, 3231, 3378, 3378 HB 1342 --License plates; allow 50<: for mailing to applicants -...-.......... 1154, 1223, 1321, 2044, 3412 HB 932 --License plates; citizens' band radio stations .._._................._........_...._._..__.._.. 185, 220, 507, 700, 1806 HB 1171 --License plates; disabled veterans ..........-.-...--.-----...651, 727 SB 322 --License plates; members of the General Assembly ......_._.__.-_..-..-........_. 1103, 1105, 1164, 1800, 3221 HB 839 --License plates; reflective material -...-.....-.. 20, 131, 137, 201, 1322,1371 HB 293 --License plates; special issuance to citizens' band radio stations ........... .-.__--_-_--.---._..--_--507 HB 903 --License plates; special personalized plates .._.-...........-..._....-........._. 153, 190, 299, 416, 3273, 3356 HB 137 --License plates; treated with reflective material .....-_...-_.--668 HB 1073 --Motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce shall be registered with Public Service Commission .... 383, 468, 831, 923, 2086 HB 1072 --Motor common carriers engaged in interstate commerce shall be registered with public Service Commission . . . . . 383, 467, 831, 921, 2086 HB 15 --Motorcycles; crash helmets required during lawful contests of speed or endurance -- ..--...-(No action in 1968) HB 1516 --Motorcycles; Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways; safety devices ....................................1783, 1980 HB 982 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; excise tax; distributors ..................... 288, 332, 1521, 2308, 2468, 2650 HB 854 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt excise tax ....23, 134, 1321, 2317 HB 983 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt sales tax .................. 288, 332 HB 1478 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; motor carriers; impose tax for use of streets and highways ... ....... 1655, 1792, 1802, 2670, 3166 HE 799 --Motor pools; create committee to study advisability of State establishing ...................... ........... 2461, 2704, 2757 HB 420 --Motor scooters; driver's license; special permit, 14 years of age or over . ...... .. ......... (No action in 1968) HB 126 --Non-Resident Motorist's Act; service of process; method of determining ............__....__..... (No action in 1968) HB 942 --Reckless driving; tire marks .......-............_.._....... 214, 293, 507 HB 999 --Right-hand traffic lane; slow-moving traffic .................... ........... 292, 335, 507, 808, 1667, 2295 HB 977 --Size and weight limits; scales ... 287, 331, 734,1422, 3000, 3065 HR 560-1220--Special assessment fees; liability insurance; amendment to the Constitution ._...._..-.._._._........._. 823, 881 HB 841 --Speed restrictions; four-lane limited access highways . . . 20, 132, 299, 414, 2084, 3357 SB 209 --Speed restrictions on certain highways ,...472, 474, 498, 508, 806 HB 898 --State Board of Registration for Used Car Dealers; "Established Place of Business" .............152, 190, 299, 573, 1166,1195 INDEX 3831 HB 110 --State Board of Registration for Used Car Dealers; membership and appointments ..____---______.____________________.___668 HR 63-141 --State Department of Motor Vehicles; create study committee -...._...-.-__-...-....__...._..(No action in 1968) HR 703 --Study committee; create ~--__._-___--.-___-______.1581, 2593, 2751 HB 593 --Taxicabs; registration and licensing ______ (No action in 1968) HR 815 --Truck license Study Committee; create ,,_,,___. 2638, 2990, 3186 HB 424 --Trucks hauling gravel, rock, etc.; prohibited on highways without protective cover _____......___..(No action in 1968) SB 220 --Trucks; prohibit from hauling gravel or stone on highways without protective covering ___________________________473, 474, 499 SB 109 --Trucks; refund, certain license fees __._._...(No action in 1968) HB 1319 --Trucks used for well digging purposes; annual license fee ....... ...... ... ..,,.-.1090, 1160, 1800 HB 981 --Unattended vehicles; remove provisions exempting sellers of fruits, nuts and vegetables ...._.___._....-..288, 332, 734, 969, 1675, 1841, 2900 HB 144 --Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways; intersections; driving on left side of roadway ...._______(No action in 1968) HB 217 --Unlawful to leave children under 10 unattended in parked vehicle ..........._._..--...__..__.--.(No action in 1968) HB 1159 --Vehicles transporting pulpwood; chains or cables __..___._.______.__.598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620, 2649, 3001,3256 HB 975 --Weight limits; special permits _,,________ 287, 331, 734, 2203, 3166 HB 1022 --Wrecking companies; disposition after 6 months' custody _.........-._......._._........._.-..__._.___.....325, 390, 831, 900, 2086 MOULTRIE, CITY OP HB 1168 HB 774 --Elections; notification ______________.__.____,,_. 650, 727, 735, 832, 1807 --Elections; time of giving notice ............._..(No action in 1968) MOUNT VERNON, CITY OF HB 1494 --Corporate limits ........_.._........___... 1779, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2846 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (See Named City) HR 611-1301--Acworth, City of; homestead exemption for residents 62 years of age or over; amendment to the Constitution ..__.......__.._.........._....._.976, 1096, 1099, 1192, 1667 HB 1388 --Albany, City of; Commissioners' absences excused; employ city physician ..... 1304, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2241, 2578 HB 1347 --Albany, City of; employees' pension; amount levied ........._.____..__........._1156, 1224, 1447, 1452, 2238 3832 INDEX HR 607-1295--Albany, City of and Dougherty County; merge and consolidate; amendment to the Constitution . . 974, 1095, 1099, 1187, 1667 HB 1124 --Allentown, Town of; corporate limits; change ... 590, 658, 667, 743,1235 HB 1380 --Ambrose, City of; treasurer; file statement with superior court clerk ___...___...___..__.__.___.__..__.1302, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 HB 1548 --Americus, City of; Judge's compensation ..1968, 2077, 2089, 2250,2997 HB 1034 --Americus, City of; retirement system; participation ... ......................_................. ....... .. ... ..... 328, 392 HR 529-1156--Athens, City of; ad valorem tax procedure; amendment to the Constitution ............................597, 663, 667, 753, 2849 HB 524 --Athens, City of; Athens-Clarke County Charter Commission; create ,,.__,,______._,,,,--.--.-._. (No action in 1968) HB 1647 --Athens, City of; municipal elections; time for holding ._.._._...............................2346, 2559, 2593, 2596, 3164 HB 1616 --Atlanta, City of; Aldermen's elections ....................2075, 2231 HB 761 --Atlanta, City of; amusement tax . ........ (No action in 1968) HB 763 --Atlanta, City of; amusement tax; collection ... ...._.............. . ...... ....... ....._...(No action in 1968) HB 1633 --Atlanta, City of; annexation; population basis ....2342, 2556 HB 1027 --Atlanta, City of; amusement tax .............. 326, 391, 471, 510 SR 180 --Atlanta, City of; bonds; issuance with referendum, certain conditions ..................-..-.1804, 1809, 1986, 2353, 2441, 3002 SR 218 --Atlanta, City of; bonds for school facilities; referendum; amendment to the Constitution ... ........... 2243, 2246, 2349, 2703, 2724, 3000 HB 303 --Atlanta, City of; Building Ordinances -.........-...-..-.............._....... ....(No action in 1968) HB 1141 --Atlanta, City of; city taxes; collection ... ..................... ... ... ...... 593, 661, 667, 748 SB 405 --Atlanta, City of; increase corporate limits .. 2359, 2398, 2559 HB 1609 --Atlanta, City of; corporate limits ..... . 2074, 2230, 2236, 2467, 2702,2717 SB 241 --Atlanta, City of; employees' pension rights . .. ...... .... ...... ......... ...... 1992, 1993, 2083, 2353, 2576 HB 766 --Atlanta, City of; employees; housing ..... (No action in 1968) SB 242 --Atlanta, City of; fire department; tax on insurance premiums _..._....-......__.._...._._........1992, 1994, 2084, 2354, 2576 HB 76 --Atlanta, City of; Fire Departments; reduce pension benefits .. ..... ......... ................ .............. .(No action in 1968) HR 26 --Atlanta, City of; Pulton and DeKalb County Delegations; vote required for local legislation ....... (No action in 1968) HR 713-1512--Atlanta, City of; Historic /one; amendment to the Constitution ......................... .... 1659, 1795, 2235, 2263, 3425 SB 248 --Atlanta, City of; Housing Authorities Law; increase membership ................... 2241, 2245, 2348, 3112, 3116, 3428 SB 308 --Atlanta, City of; Joint City-County Board of Tax Assessors; abolish office manager's position ..................._....-...._..._.1167, 1239, 1315, 2236, 2246 INDEX 3833 SB 311 --Atlanta, City of; Mayor and Board of Aldermen; jurisdiction over sanitation facilities _________ 1237, 1241, 1317, 2235, 2247 HB 1513 --Atlanta, City of; local education commission; re-establish -___.-_._____________.....___1659, 1795, 2235, 2258, 3415 HB 1587 --Atlanta, City of; Mayor and Board of Aldermen; governing authority ________________________________________________1975, 2082 SB 111 --Atlanta, City of; Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority; publication of activities ......_.,,.--_____.___...(No action in 1968) HB 1396 --Atlanta, City of; municipal zoo; General Assembly to appropriate funds ____________________________ ____1305, 1439, 1989 HB 1644 --Atlanta, City of; open housing _________________________________ 2345, 2558 HB 1028 --Atlanta, City of; lodgings; excise tax 2% __ _____ _______ ________ _______ ____________________327, 391, 471, 510 HB 1407 --Atlanta, City of; Region Metropolitan Planning District; increase membership ____________ 1308, 1441, 1518, 1681, 3413 SR 179 --Atlanta, City of; property tax; incur debt of 14% of assessed value ____ __________ 1323, 1324, 1444, 2235, 2288, 3001 SB 313 --Atlanta, City of; slum clearance; non-residents; provide service by certified mail _________ 1167, 1239, 1316, 2235, 2248 HB 1139 --Atlanta, City of; Tax Commissioner; tax returns Fulton and DeKalb County ____________________________________ 593, 660, 667, 747 HB 1140 --Atlanta, City of; Tax levy _____________ ______..____.._ 593, 660, 667, 747 SB 310 --Atlanta, City of; tax returns due City of Atlanta located in Fulton and DeKalb County ...... ________1740, 1741, 1797, 2235, 2262,3405 HB 1100 --Atlanta, City of; Taxicab franchise license fees _ ___________________ . _______________.______459, 497, 605, 673, 3409 SB 243 --Atlanta, City of; teachers' pension ________ 1993, 1993, 2083, 2354, 2577 HB 1608 --Atlanta, City of; teacher tenure ... 2074, 2230, 2592, 2712, 3417 HB 1592 --Atlanta, City of; wards _______________________ 2071, 2227, 2353, 2404 SB 309 --Atlanta, City of; zoning changes; notification to tax assessing officials _____________ _.______1167, 1239, 1315, 2235, 2247 HR 458-1013--Augusta, City of; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution _____________________ __________ ______________ 323, 388, 394, 522 HB 821 --Augusta, City of; Mayor and Council; election ........... _____ . ......_................ . ... (No action in 1968) HB 835 --Augusta, City of; Police Department rules ... 1988, 2091, 2845 HB 1356 --Augusta, City of; pension fund; invest 1158, 1226, 1227, 1326, 2239 HB 1014 --Augusta, City of; police department; title rules _________ ________________________ 324, 389, 394, 475, 738 HB 1018 --Augusta, City of; Sale of Alien Park ____324, 389, 394, 475, 738 HB 1475 --Austell, Town of; corporate limits _________ ______1654, 1791, 1988, 2092,3414 HB 1631 --Austell, Town of; corporate limits _______ 2226, 2348, 2353, 2575 HR 684-1477--Bainbridge, City of-Decatur County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____________ 1655, 1792, 1800, 2006, 2850, 3052 HR 613-1309--Bainbridge, City of-Decatur County Beverage Control Board; create; amendment to the Constitution . 978, 1098 3834 INDEX HB 1402 --Bainbridge, City of; Aldermen; number and election HB 1242 method --------------------------1221, 1315, 1799, 1811, 2561 --Baldwin, Town of; Mayor; term of office _------. 877, 936, 941, HB 1433 HB 965 993,1807 --Baxley, City of; Mayor's vote before council --------------------1431, 1511, 1518, 1683, 2563, 3053 --Blakely, City of; special and municipal elections ------------------------ 284, 329, 338, 396, 737 HE 722-1544--Blue Ridge, City of; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution -- ----------- _ 1789, 1984, 2089, 2142, 2850 HB 1465 HB 872 --Boston, City of; Police Chief-Marshal; election ---------- .---------- 1509, 1661, 1665, 1813, 2562 --Bowman, City of; Clerk and Treasurer; HB 1310 HB 1570 election _---------------------------- 128, 162, 198, 222, 500 --Bremen, City of; sanitary needs; condemn land -- -- ---------- 1089, 1159, 1799, 1810, 2560 --Brooklet, Town of; ordinance violations; fines ---------------------------1972, 2080, 2089, 2255, 2999 HB 1382 --Broxton, City of; Treasurer; file statement with HB 1086 HB 1611 superior court clerk --------------1303, 1437, 1447, 1547, 2240 --Brunswick, City of; Brunswick Port Authority ----------------------456, 494, 605, 672, 3041, 3085 --Brunswick, City of; Brunswick-Glynn County Charter Commission; create ----------2074, 2230, 2843, 2856, 3417 HB 1646 HB 1541 HB 1461 --Brunswick, City of; corporate limits ._..__..._. 2345, 2559, 2843, 2861,3418 --Brunswick, City of; primary candidate; nominating petition ____,,_------ 1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 3415 --Brunswick, City of; Revenue; requirements HB 1581 HR 766 HB 1594 for raising ----------------- 1508, 1661, 2843, 2854, 3414 --Brunswick, City of; Sheriff; employ additional deputies ------------------------1974, 2081, 2089, 2257, 3416 --Butler, City of; volunteer fire department; commend ...--2173 --Cairo, City of; City Court Judge, Solicitor and Clerk's salaries --------- -- 2071, 2227, 2235, 2399, 3163 HR 768 --Cartersville, City of; Jaycees; commend ___...____ _____________ 2175 HB 765 --Cartersville, City of; New Charter; create ----....._.__...- 1988, 2106, 2845, 3003, 3003, 3256, 3274 HR 553 --Cedartown, City of; Merchants' Association; commend --686 HB 1419 --Centerville, City of; Mayor and Council; qualifications .....-.._..-......_....1310, 1443, 1448, 1554, 2614 HB 1174 --Chamblee, City of; Sanitary tax; millage levied ---- ----------------------652, 728, 940, 945, 2356 HB 1610 --Chattahoochee Plantation; corporate limits.-2074, 2230, 2236 2402, 3417 SB 407 --Claxton, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; compensation ---------------- 2613, 2621, 2698, 2843, 2862 HB 1517 --Clermont, Town of; mayor and councilmen; election ..._----------.------1783, 1980, 1988, 2096, 2847 INDEX 3835 HB 1389 --Cleveland, City of; corporate limits; polls opening and closing _____..._.________..______.._____. 1304, 1438, 1799, 1811, 2561 HB 1520 --Cochran, City of; Corporate limits; change by referendum ._..____________________.________.1784, 1981, 1988, 2097, 3365 SR 194 --Cochran, City of; school system; merge with Bleckley County; amendment to the Constitution _.1323, 1324, 1444, 2354,2606 HB 1575 --College Park, City of; Councilmen; residence qualifications ...._......_........___.__.._ 1790, 1985, 2353, 2404, 3416 HB 1232 --Colquitt, City of; certain areas; services and taxes .. ......__._......_.-........_.._._...._.875, 935, 941, 992, 1525 HR 544-1191--Columbus, City of; create charter commission to study consolidation with Muscogee County; amendment to the Constitution _______._.__________________656, 732, 735, 845, 1323 HR 570 --Columbus, City of; High School Athletic Department; congratulate .....___.--.._.___-....___...,,__......_____.__........___.....__......____770 HR 571 --Columbus, City of; Spencer High School Greenwave Football Tean; commend ......_--.. ._................__. _______......... ____771 HB 1070 --Columbus, City of; Municipal Court; dismissal of suits . .. __. 382, 467, 472, 515, 886 HR 674-1450--Cordele, City of-Crisp County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ...........__.......,...1435, 1515, 1519, 1721, 2245, 2935 HR 564 --Cordele, City of; 1967 Cordele Senior Little League Team; commend ......_............._...__....._,,... ..._.._.........--........._._.766 HR 624-1354--Cordele, City of; Office Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution __.._...1158, 1226, 1227, 1348, 2244, 2934 HB 1509 --Covington, City of; Officials' conduct; certain limitations .... . 1782, 1979, 1988, 2096, 2995 SB 95 --Crawfordville, City of; new charter __..(No action in 1968) HB 1386 --Gumming, City of; corporate limits __............. 1303, 1438, 1447, 1530, 2357 HR 667-1435--Cusseta, Town of; Charter Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution ...................._._....... ..._.. 1432, 1512, 1665 SB 380 --Daisy, City of; Charter _........._.....2242, 2246, 2349, 2593, 2596 HR 669-1440--Dalton, City of; Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ______ 1433, 1513, 1519, 1702, 2245,2647,3035 HB 1215 --Dalton, City of; Corporate limits ... 821, 880, 1100, 1171, 1671 HR 562 --Dalton, City of; 1967 Dalton High School Football Team; commend ....._...._._....__._....-..._____._...._..-.........,,..........._._763 HB 1214 --Dalton, City of; Mayor and Council Employees' Pension Plan; clarify ._...._._._.._.._.........._......__..._....... 821, 879 HR 670-1440--Dalton, City of-Whitfield County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ._.... 1433, 1513, 1519 1715, 2244 HB 246 --Dalton, City of; payroll tax _ ..._...._._...._.._._.._.._.._........ ......._._.567 HB 1130 --Dasher, Town of; corporate limits; redefine ........._...........__.......___.....__.....591, 659, 667, 745, 2355 3836 INDEX HB 1366 --Decatur, City of; Parking Authority; create _________.__._..___._._________...____ 1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 HR 559-1220--Decatur, City of; revenue obligations; amendment to the Constitution _______________________ 822, 881, 989, 1018, 1667 HB 1011 -- Doerun, City of; Recorder's Court; establish .............. 322, 388, 394, 475, 738 HB 1495 HB 1173 HB 1343 --Donalsonville, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; compensation ..._______._.._______...____1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2846 --Doraville, City of; corporate limits; redefine ...._._...._.___.......__......_..... 651, 728, 940, 945, 2564, 2729 --Douglas, City of; Board of Commissioners; members' election ____..______...._______...____._-___..-1154, 1223, 1227, 1324, 2238 HB 1150 --Douglasville, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; salaries __.____.________.______.__._..___.______________595, 662, 668, 751, 1236 HB 893 --Dublin, City of; City Court; change name to State Court of Laurens County ___._.___....-.__..______.___....149, 189, 223, 501, 501 HB 1262 --Eastman, City of; councilman; election ________ _ 929, 980, 988, 1109,1673 HR 543-1183--Eastman, City of; Dodge County-Eastman Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____________________ 517, 655, 730, 735, 839, 1669, 1855 HB 226 --East Point, City of; New City Charter; establish ... ... .....(No action in 1968) HB 1005 --East Thomaston, Village of; abolish Charter .______________...._..___..____._________.. 321, 387, 471, 512, 855 HB 1536 --Eatonton, City of; Council members' salaries . 1787, 1983, 2235, 2249, 2996 HB 1406 --Elizabeth, City of; corporate limits ______________ 1307, 1441, 1447, 1551,2240 HB 1618 --Elizabeth, City of; new charter ...________ 2224, 2346, 2353, 2569 HB 1113 --Folkston, City of; City Manager's appointment ___....._____-...__________..492, 601, 667, 675, 2563, 2924 HB 1113 --Folkston, City of; corporate limits; extend ......... _______________________________________ 493, 601, 667, 675, 2560 HB 1114 --Folkston, City of; close certain streets and alleys __..____..._._____...____......_______........._493, 601, 667, 675, 2355 HB 1440 --Fort Oglethorpe, Town of; Mayor and aldermen; terms of office ______ _______._1433, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2359, 3151 HB 848 --Franklin Springs, City of; Mayor and Council; terms .......... 22, 133, 137, 166, 500 HR 738-1616--Glascock, City of; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ______ 2075, 2232, 2236, 2429,3314,3345 HB 1491 --Glenwood, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualifications ___...______.._____________.1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2846 HR 430-952 --Griffin, City of; conveyance of certain real estate ...... ........ 216, 294, 298, 571, 1804 HB 1546 --Guyton, Town of; voters' qualifications and elections .........._........_........._.._._._.. 1968, 2076, 2088, 2250, 2997 INDEX 3837 SB 378 --Hapeville, City of; corporate limits .... . 2241, 2245, 2348, 2353,2578 HR 447-973 --Hawkinsville, City of; Pulaski County-Hawkinsville Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution __------------___----.286, 330, 394, 404, 1667 HB 1499 HB 927 --Hogansville, City of; Public Utility; sale of ----.-.--------------1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 --Homeland, City of; territorial limits -.--184, 219, 298, 395, HB 1591 HB 1376 HB 1123 2563, 2923 --Iron City, Town of; Mayor and Aldermen; election date .-------.----------2071, 2227, 2235, 2299, 3162 --Irwinton, Town of; Charter ---- 1302, 1436, 1447, 1545, 2239 --Ivey, Town of; corporate limits; change _..................... ..-.......__.-_........ 590, 658, 667, 743, 1235 HB 1390 --Jesup, City of; Mayor and commissioners; elections ----------------------1304, 1438, 1447, 1534, 2357 HB 1490 --LaGrange, City of; corporate limits ... ......... 1658, 1795, 1799, 1998,2615 SB 362 HB 1590 HB 1002 HB 1199 --Lake City, City of; elections; change date ----------------------------1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2863 --Lawrenceville, City of; city limits ................2071, 2227, 2353, 2408, 3162 --Leary, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; term of office .------------------------321, 386, 394, 474, 884, 1844 --Lenox, Town of; lease certain property ........724, 825, 830, 889,2356 HR 548-1200--Lincolnton, City of; Lincolnton and Lincoln County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ..-.-.-.--..-.-724, 826, 830, 891, 1669, 1856 HB 1105 --Lookout Mountain, City of; incorporate...--..491, 600, 605, 673, 1675,1857,1992 HB 186 --Lovejoy, Town of; Incorporation; repeal -----------------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 1471 --Lumpkin, City of; corporate limits --------1653, 1790, 1799, 1996,2615 HB 1502 --Lyons, City of; Corporate limits; change --------------___.--------1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2846 HB 1266 --Lyons, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualifications ........_............._...--..... 930, 980, 989, 1110, 1673 HB 1619 --Machinery City; repeal Act to incorporate ... 2224, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3163 HR 779-1627--Macon, City of; ad valorem property tax; assessment; amendment to the Constitution ___...._.__...--,_----.2226, 2347 HR 519-1103--Macon, City of; compensate ._----___.------_ 490, 599 HR 853 --Macon, City of; Ingleside Community, Piedmont District; Boy Scout Troop No. 5; commend ------------.______....._ 2915 HB 1267 --Macon, City of; firemen and policemen; dependent's benefits --.._..._------------.--------930, 980, 989 HB 1481 --Macon, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; time of taking office _...__----------------1656, 1793, 2235, 2248, 2995 3838 INDEX HB 1299 SB 355 HB 1445 --Manchester, City of; municipal elections _........ ............ 975, 1096, 1100, 1174, 1674 --Marietta, City of; Board of Education; sale of certain property __.____.____.______.____1527, 1529, 1663, 2702, 2717 --Marietta, City of; corporate limits .._.______...___ 1434, 1514, 1518, HB 1578 1686,2615 --Marietta, City of; corporate limits _---...--.1973, 2081, 2089, 2256,2999 HR 501-1090--Marietta, City of; homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution ._........_...._..457, 496, 605, 676, 1669, 1854 HR 706 --Marietta, City of; Hospital Authority; urge consolidation with Cobb County Hospital Authority ________________ 1579, 1800, SB 365 HB 1579 2151, 3404 --Marietta, City of-Cobb County Water Authority; revenue bonds ______-._._..-_._...__-__.1805, 1808, 1986, 2703, 2718 --Marietta, City of; Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority; maturity date of revenue bonds . 1973, 2081, 2089, 2256, 2999 HB 1497 --McDonough, City of; recreational facilities ... . .......... ..........1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 3162 HR 723-1549--Mclntosh, City of; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ._..._.._..._._...._ 1968, 2077, 2235, 2266, 3314, 3345 HB 1250 --McRae, City of; corporate limits ....... 927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 HB 1320 --McRae, City of; election laws ___._._____.___.___.___.1091, 1161, 1227, 1232,1807 HB 1653 --Midway, City of; Mayor and Council; compensation _...._...__......._.....,....2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 HB 1261 --Milan, City of; corporate limits -....929, 980, 988, 1109, 1673 HR 386-880 --Milledgeville, City of; Milledgeville-Baldwin County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .__.__...........__......__ 130, 163, 198, 232, 1666 HB 1551 --Milledgeville, City of; sanitary services to county ........_.......__.....-........__..1968, 2077, 2089, 2250, 3179 HB 1186 --Millen, City of; City Court Judge and Solicitor; compensation _...__.._.....___...._......_._._.... 655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 HR 810 --Milner, City of; 1967-68 Milner High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend ....._...._..._..__._....._._.....__........__. 2633 HR 812 --Milner, City of; 1967-68 High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend ..--__----__.........___._...._..,,_....2635 HB 1627 --Morrow, City of; annexation; referendum ....2226, 2347, 2353, 2575, 3418 HB 1615 --Morrow, City of; new charter ............. 2075, 2231, 2353, 2410, 3004, 3055 HB 1168 --Moultrie, City of; Elections; notification ..........650, 727, 735, 832,1807 HB 774 --Moultrie, City of; elections; time of giving notice __..._._..._..__...._-.-._..-__.--._--... (No action in 1968) HB 1494 --Mount Vernon, City of; corporate limits . .. . . 1779, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2846 INDEX 3839 SB 400 --Nashville, City of; corporate limits ______,___._2613, 2621, 2698, 3112,3115 HR 557-1216--Newnan, City of; independent school system; merge with Coweta County System; amendment to the Constitution ----------__----.__.821, 880, 941, 1007, 1670, 1857 HB 1464 --Nicholls, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; compensation ----__------.__.----__ 1508, 1661, 1665, 1813, 2562 HB 1381 --Nicholls, Town of; Treasurer file statement with superior court clerk ____---------- 1303, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 HB 1295 --North High Shoals, Town of; corporate limits -.____----------._----___._------.974, 1094, 1100, 1173, 1674 SB 382 --Rayle, Town of; new Charter ----_ 2242, 2246, 2349, 3112, 3114 HR 763 --Reynolds, City of; Kiwanis Club; commend _____.----------.2171 HB 1556 --Riverdale, City of; certain officials' salaries _...__._. 1969, 2078, HB 1613 2089, 2251, 2997 --Rockmart, City of; new charter ___ 2075, 2231, 2236, 2402, 3163 HB 1160 --Rossville, City of; Fire and Police Chiefs; appointment ........ .__..___ 598, 664, 988, 991, 1675 HB 1162 --Rossville, City of; Mayor, councilmen and tax assessor; compensation ___----------. 598, 665, 988, 993, 1675 HB 1161 --Rossville, City of; Recorder's Court; establish . _. - - 598, 665, 988, 991, 1675 HB 1630 --Roswell, City of; Mayor and council; term of office ... 2226, 2348, 2353, 2575, 3418 HB 1286 --Rutledge, Town of; change to City of __-------- 934, 983, 989, 1114,2356 HR 665-1435--Savannah, City of; ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ------1431; 1512, 1519, 2135, 3314, 3336 HB 1353 --Savannah, City of; Board of Education; members' election ....__._...__..__.........___...__...__ 1157, 1225, 1518, 1538, 2560 HB 1645 --Savannah, City of; employees; organization ------____._-. 2345, 2558, 2593, 2712, 3179, 3182 HB 1157 --Savannah, City of; municipal court; Justice of the Peace; jurisdiction ......... 597, 664, 668, 752, 1236 HR 13-16 --Savannah, City of; planning and zoning ordinances for historic purposes; amendment to the Constitution ----__----------------------------__----__----886, 1199 HB 1351 --Smyrna, City of; corporate limits; increase . 1157, 1225, 1227, 1325, 2849, 3172 HB 1628 --Sparta, City of; New Charter ___.._..._.._._ 2226, 2347, 2353, 2570, 3004, 3135 HB 1184 ---Springfield, City of; City Court Judge's salary _--------------------___.------__-_655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 HB 858 --Springfield, City of; Mayor and Aldermen election ....... 24, 135, 137, 166, 500 HR 902 --Statesboro, City of; High School "Blue Devils"; commend ____------.___._...__--._....., __...._....._._.--.3213 HB 1568 --Statesboro, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualify for elections -._______._------------.1972, 2079, 2235, 2255, 2998 HB 1487 --Swainsboro, City of; corporate limits; municipal elections ._..------.----------,,...___ 1658, 1794, 1988, 2114, 2995 3840 INDEX HR 671-1446--Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ........_......... 1434, 1514, 1800, 1824,2564 HB 1446 --Sylvania, City of; Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; create .____.___.____ .........1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2358 HB 1004 --Thomaston, City of; ad valorem taxes; levy ___-___-.-_..__.-___ ................__...__..........321, 387, 471, 512, 885 HR 459-1013--Thomaston, City of; Board of Tax Assessors; consolidate with Upson County; amendment to the Constitution ........._..._.__.._................... 324, 388, 472, 526, 887 HB 1006 --Thomaston, City of; extend corporate limits __......-___..___.____..__..__.-._._..__-._..-___..322, 387, 471, 512, 885 HB 1003 --Thomaston, City of; Thomaston-Upson County Office Building Authority; members ............321, 386, 471, 512, 885 HB 1145 --Thomasville, City of; Board of Education; vacancies .__,____..__...___._._.._._.____...__.___.__..594, 661, 667, 749, 1170 HB 1047 --Tifton, City of; Chairman and City Commissioners; salaries . 377, 462, 471, 514, 885 HB 1046 --Tifton, City of; City Commissioners; residents ...............................................ST?, 462, 471, 514, 885 HB 1045 --Tifton, City of; Police Court; certain provisions ,....,, 376, 462, 471, 513, 1104 HB 964 --Trenton, City of; eminent domain _.......284, 329, 338, 396, 737 HB 1275 --Trenton, City of; Mayor, Councilmen and Recorder; compensation ___.___..._._._..___.___.._..._._._.931, 982, 989, 1111, 1525 HB 1269 --Tunnell Hill, Town of; city ordinance fine; increase ...._.......-......_.-_..__......-........930, 981, 989, 1110, 1525 HB 1488 --Twin City, City of; Municipal elections; registration of voters .__...__............._.............._.1658, 1794, 1988, 2123, 2995 SB 379 --Union City, City of; incorporate - 2242, 2245, 2349 HR 682-1473--Valdosta, City of; governing authority; merge with Lowndes County; amendment to the Constitution ... 1654, 1791, 1799, 2002, 2849 HB 371 --Valdosta, City of; Judge and Solicitor; method of selecting ____,,_.__.._______.--..-___--_--_------__ (No action in 1968) HB 1268 --Varnell, City of; charter ....... 930, 981, 1100, 1172, 2849, 2924 HB 1518 --Vidalia, City of; new charter; create ..._.._.....1784, 1980, 1988, 2097,2899,3051 HB 1639 --Warner Robins, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; compensation .__._............._..._.._.-..2344, 2353, 2557, 2595, 3402 HR 739-1616--Warren, City of; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ...._...__...__.... 2076, 2232, 2236, 2435, 3314, 3346 HR 727-1560--Waverly Hall, Town of; create Development Authority; amendment to the Constitution _...._....1970, 2078, 2089, 2279, 2851,2936 HB 1651 --Waverly Hall, Town of; Mayor and Council; term of office ................-.2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 HR 730-1585--Waycross, City of; consolidation with Ware County; amendment to the Constitution .__......_..._......1975, 2082, 2235, 2282, 2850 INDEX 3841 HB 847 --Waynesboro, City of; Judge and Solicitors salary .......--------..... ... 21, 133, 137, 165, 500 HB 1434 --West Point, city of; sale of certain property _.._..-.--._...___.._--_..._.__.1431, 1511, 1518, 1683, 2561 HB 1368 --Whitesburg, Town of; Mayor and council; election date __.----------....--_._--_----...1220, 1313, 1988, 2091, 2845 HR 619-1345--Woodbine, City of; Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution --------------1155, 1224, 1227, 1322, 2244 HR 545-1196--Woodland, City of; create Development Authority; amendment to the Constitution..----..----657, 732, 735, 851, 1669,1856 HB 1194 --Woodland, City of; election date; change ______________...--._....._----_______..657, 732, 735, 836, 1236 HB 1201 --Wrightsville, City of; Mayor's court recorder; appointment ....... ......--.725, 826, 830, 890, 1237 MUNICIPALITIES (See Named Subject) HB 258 --Allow to adopt 1% sales tax _......_.............. (No action in 1968) HR 625-1354--Annexation of contiguous areas; referendum; amendment to the Constitution .................................. 1093, 1163 SB 272 --Annexation by petition; change percentages _----__._._.......944, 949, 984, 1800, 1995, 2236, 3177 HB 1238 --Audits; rules and regulations ......875, 935, 1319, 1575, 3410 SR 184 --Bonds; issuance without referendum, certain conditions _._......_.........._._..1804, 1809, 1986, 2353, 2445, 3002 HR 862 --City and County governments; merging of; create study committee ....... ..... .................. 2921, 2990, 3189 SB 151 --Election primaries ______--_...,,--._.._,,_.----...669, 1116, 1872, 3406 HB 1172 --Elections; public notices outside all polling places .... -,,-..- ...,,._... 651, 728, 2237 HB 1240 --Employees; prohibit strikes ....___......_.._.......__...._.876, 936, 1292 HB 1041 --Excise tax; amusements; accommodations rented to transients ..------__--------______._--____--.._..----.--376, 461, 1521 HB 862 --Grants; disbursement on quarterly basis ___.....__._. 24, 136, 736, 1273, 1360, 2207, 3273, 3318, 3342, 3347, 3366, 3375^ 3433 HR 804 --Grants; study committee to study merit of basing distribution; create .__._..__.__..----_----.....--------.2466 HB 119 --Highway contracts; negotiation ___--____._____--__----____----1445 HR 491-1063--Homestead exemption; ad valorem tax; amendment to the Constitution ....... ....... 381, 465, 1521 HR 399-912 --Industrial Development Authorities; creation; amendment to the Constitution __----.______.--_____156, 193, 832, 2981, 3420 HB 970 --Joint Municipal Employees' Retirement System; vested rights ...._...............................285, 330, 338, 1293, 3164 HB 1533 --Minimum grants', provide, certain municipalities _._..........._...__._._......1787, 1983, 2236, 2798, 3415 HB 1179 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; refunds ........ ..........653, 729, 1521 3842 INDEX HB 1420 --Planning Commissions; establish planning department '____----_.-_----.-1311, 1443, 1448, 2817, 3413 HB 1277 --Planning Commissions; rezoned property; publication and hearings _------__----------..----932, 982, 1320, 1576, 3411 HB 1185 --Occupational or professional tax; certain professions ----___----_----__----.--_--------------..655, 731, 1321 HB 252 --Planning Commission; powers in unincorporated territory _--_------___--_----__----._----____(No action in 1968) HB 1217 --Planning commissions; remove certain restrictions ............... 822, 880, 940, 2473, 3410 HB 1071 --Public transit facilities; exempt sales tax __----_ -_-__----_-_----.-..383, 467, 1521, 2062, 2191, 3234 HB 996 --Publication statements of financial condition; deadline ----_--------_------_--._----_--291, 335, 338, 811, 1322 HB 1322 . --State Highway Department; grants ..._.._..._.._...__.._...1091, 1161 HR 295-835 --Slum clearance; revenue bonds .._------._----....859, 1227, 1327 HB 1087 --Voting; eligibility ___--------.----..--456, 495, 736, 1293, 2566 MUSCOGEE COUNTY HR 487-1050--Airport Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution __.._.----_----_.-_----378, 463, 472, 556, 1669, 1853 HR 544-1191--Charter commission to study consolidation with City of Columbus; amendment to the Constitution ------_-____-_------...656, 732, 735, 845, 1323 HR 488-1050--Garbage disposal; system; amendment to the Constitution ----__------__----_.----___----380, 463, 472, 562, 887 HR 623-1354--Ordinances for policing public property and airport; amendment to the Constitution ._.._....._.._..1158, 1226, 1227, 1344,2243 HB 1040 --Tax payment; late penalty .------..----.375, 461, 471, 513, 885 MUTIMER, HONORABLE GEORGE C. HR 566 --Express sympathy for passing of ------.----------------767 Me MCCARTHY, MR. j. p. HR 850 --Expressing appreciation __.._..._..._.....__--.......... _. ... _. 2913 McCLURKIN, L. C. HR 517 --Commend __....__._--------_-___--.----------------..........428 INDEX 3843 McCORKLE, MRS. ZACK HR 741 --Commend _-_._._._..,,_..__._.._...____..__._..____......_...._..__-.,,_...__....._.______.2152 McDONOUGH, CITY OP HB 1497 --Recreational facilities .__.._..._....._. 1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 3162 McGAHEE, R. M. HR 481-1037--Compensate _._ __...__.._...._..._.._..-._...___.____.___.. 375, 460, 1798, 2025 McGEE, S. RUSSELL, III SR 151 --Express sympathy for passing of ......__.........__...__.--___165, 170 McGOWAN, REV. CHARLES E. --Prayer offered by _____._.___...____._______._..____..___.._____..____..._.__..___.._1427 McINTOSH, CITY OF HR 723-1549--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ......1968, 2077, 2235, 2266, 3314, 3345 McINTOSH COUNTY HB 1175 HR 1345 --Ordinary's compensation _....__........_...._.6B2, 728, 735, 833, 1236 --Sheriff's expense allowance ........1155, 1223, 1227, 1325, 1808 McRAE, CITY OF HB 1250 HB 1320 --Corporate limits __...._.....__....__......_...._.__.927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 --Election laws .........__......_....._._..__..__1091, 1161, 1227, 1232, 1807 N NAME CHANGE HB 883 --Clerk of court to issue a certificate of the change ............... 130, 163, 299, 368, 1234 3844 NARCOTICS HB 1328 INDEX --Uniform Narcotic Drug Act; penalties for violations ..... ..... 1092, 1162, 1664 NASHVILLE, CITY OF SB 400 --Corporate limits _,,_.__,,_____..__..______. 2613, 2621, 2698, 3112, 3115 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS HR 887 --Request Speaker to send representative --....._.-__.__._____3202 NATIONAL NEGRO HISTORY WEEK HR 630 --Designate week of February 11-17 ___._.____--_-._._.__-._.______1247 NATIONAL ORDER OF WOMEN LEGISLATORS HR 888 --Request Speaker to send representative _.. ..--_....--_...,,.... 3202 NATURAL AREAS HB 1248 --State Council for the Preservation of Natural Areas; create -..-.--. 927, 978, 1520 NATURAL RESOURCES --Interim Study Report ...--.-- ..,,...._ 3531 NEWNAN, CITY OF HR 557-1216--Independent school system; merge with Coweta County system; amendment to the Constitution ....821, 880, 941, 1007, 1670, 1857 NEWSPAPERS HB 888 HB 1122 --County official organs; annual certification certifying requirements __.._._________.._____ 148, 188 --Legal advertisements; change rates allowed publishers ___.__..___.___.______.590, 658, 1520, 2517, 2999 INDEX 3845 NEWTON, HONORABLE ALBERT SIDNEY HR 767 --Commend ..--..-----.----.-.-,--.--.-..-- .-----.-.2174 NEWTON, HONORABLE AND MRS. A. SID HR 808 --Congratulate .------- - ------2632 NEWTON COUNTY SR 263 HB 1365 --High School Basketball Team; commend _----__.--2618, 2771 --Sheriff's salary __.._..._._...___....._ -- 1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 NICHOLLS, CITY OF HB 1464 --Mayor and Aldermen; compensation .................. __....... 1508, 1661, 1665, 1813, 2562 NICHOLS, TOWN OF HB 1381 --Treasurer file statement with superior court clerk ._._......_..... 1303, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 NON-RESIDENT HB 1165 SB 393 --Court's jurisdiction ........ -- .---- . 650, 726, 1320 --Personal jurisdiction; torts ...._....._...... 2566, 2567, 2591, 2842, 3149, 3430 NON-RESIDENT MOTORIST'S ACT HB 126 --Service of process; method of determining --.-.--.----------------(No action in 1968) NORMAN, REV. HOWARD --Prayer offered by .._.._.._...._..._...__.._...,,...._.._..._.........__......_...__.__183 NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS AUTHORITY SB 409 --Members'terms of office-.-2619, 2623, 2699, 2844, 3138, 3429 NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS COMMISSION SB 408 --Create ..--.-....--.-...-.-.--.-2619, 2623, 2699, 2844, 3137, 3429 3846 INDEX NORTH HIGH SHOALS, TOWN OF HB 1295 --Corporate limits - - . . 974, 1094, 1100, 1173, 1674 NUCLEAR COMPACT HB 1233 --Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact; appropriations . ,, . . 824, 882, 1798, 2781, 3410 NUNN, HONORABLE SAM, JR. HR 898 --Commend -.----- ..............._..._.._...._.......__..,...__..._-._.__._...-...3209 NURSERIES SB 343 --Ornamental shrubbery; rights of enterprise; State competition ...,,.,,. 1168, 1241, 1317 NURSING HOMES HB 1492 --Georgia State Board of Nursing Homes; create -.----..-1779, 1977, 2088, 2508, 3279, 3310 HR 438-952 --Vendor contributions; increase for blind, disabled and old-age benefit recipients -.......--------------..217, 295, 298, 370, 738 o OBSCENE LITERATURE HB 1247 HB 703 HB 1311 --State Literature Commission; change definition for obscene literature -- -- ---- -- 878, 937 --State Literature Commission; determination of guilt --,,---.------.----.-------.--197, 310, 886 --Unlawful to sell to any person under 18 years of age . -- . 1089, 1159, 1517, 2955 OCCUPATIONAL TAX HB 1185 HB 599 SB 134 --Certain professions ----------.--.-------655, 731, 1321 --Equalize --..---- ...----.----.--(No action in 1968) --Federal Wagering Occupational Tax Stamp Act; amend ------.._----------------.(No action in 1968) INDEX 3847 OCEAN SCIENCE CENTER OF THE ATLANTIC AUTHORITY HB 597 --Create .-------_._----_----_-_----.........-- (No action in 1968) OCEAN SCIENCE CENTER OF THE ATLANTIC COMMISSION SB 212 --Create, in executive branch of government ....1102, 1104, 1163 OCEANOGRAPHIC STUDY --Interim Study Report __--..........__.._........ 3534 OCMULGEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1422 --Add one Judge ----------1311, 1444, 1517, 2031, 3349, 3356 OFFICIAL ORGANS HB 888 --Counties; annual certification certifying requirements __----------__--.--,,--------_ 148, 188 OGEECHEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1569 --Superior Court terms ------_...... 1972, 2079, 2089, 2255, 2998 OKEFENOKEE PARKWAY HR 784-556 --Designate ------._.._------------.----.------ (No action in 1968) HR 525-1114--Georgia State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95; designate --.---...493, 601, 2352, 2479, 3366, 3368 OPEN MEETINGS SB 143 --Meetings must be open to public if public funds used ._..._.----.-.....------(No action in 1968) ORDINARIES HB 272 HB 1405 HB 416 HB 1035 --Fees allowed, certain services _--....__.._ (No action in 1968) --Insane persons; ordinances authorized to act as legal custodians .._. ....1307, 1441, 1448, 2220, 3413 --Private ways; power to grant ___------__(No action in 1968) --Retirement Fund; benefits for Secretary-Treasurer ... 328, 392, 990, 1496, 1739, 3034, 3064 3848 INDEX ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS PRACTICE ACT HB 216 --Create -.-- .--........................... -.,,-.... 2841 OUTBOARD MOTORS HB 997 --Certificate of title; State Game and Fish Commission ....... 291, 335, 470 P PAGE STAFF HR 865 --Members of; expressing appreciation _____ __ . ._ ......._.... 3043 PAROLES HB 916 --Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment; not eligible for parole before serving 15 years ...- ___________ 158, 194, 299, 454, 582 HR 411-917 --Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment not eligible for parole before serving 15 years; amendment to the Constitution ___.__._..__.__.__..__.____..__..__.- 158, 195, 299, 450 PARDONS AND PAROLES HB 1234 --State Board of; Board members' written opinions ......_._..........._....... ....... .. ..--...----.824, 882 HR 383-867 --State Board of; Claxton, J. W.; impeachment charges .__._..__.._127, 161, 609, 760, 3434, 3437 HR 716-1518--State Board of; Committee to nominate 3 nominees to fill vacancies; create amendment to the Constitution _____ ..1784, 1981, 2089, 2457 SB 201 --State Board of; licensed attorneys only may appear before for for remuneration .... 339, 473, 498, 830, 3279, 3428 SB 202 --State Board of; place under Georgia Administrative Procedure Act for rule making purposes _ .._...... ..... 200, 258, 297, 1101, 3220 SB 200 --State Board of; public hearings .. ... 339, 473, 498, 830 HB 1235 --State Board of; rule-making authority; promulgate rules _...__..___.__.____.._._____...__..._ 824, 883, 1099, 1951 PARDONS AND PAROLES, STATE BOARD OF HR 794 --Constitutional Commission; investigation of appointments .____._ ..... .___.____ 2456, 2616 INDEX 3849 HR 382-867 --Garrett, Mrs. Rebecca L.; impeachment charegs _-...._-....-__..-_..-__-.-___..._-..--_-127, 161, 502, 3435, 3442 HR 797 --Study committee ....... -- --.. 2459, 2704, 2755 PARI-MUTUEL BETTING HR 337 --Interim Study Report . .. . ..__-..__.--.___-..--_..._.3538 --Study committee .__....._...___._.___...__...____._____...__(No action in 1968) PARKER, HONORABLE H. WALSTEIN HR 789 --Commend . . . ......_............._.........-- .--.._.-. 2452 PARKS HR 582 --State Department of Parks; safety programs and standards; adopt ........782, 1228, 1245, 1805 PARKS, BILLY W. HR 595-1243--Compensate .......... ........._.....-_......._._.. 877, 937, 1798, 2029, 3424 PARKS, STATE HR 37-106 --Black Rock Mountain State Park; persons entitled to obtain water ._.._.._. (No action in 1968) HR 252-783 --Horseback riding facilities; create committtee to study desirability ........... (No action in 1988) PARRISH, HONORABLE JUNE J. HR 830 --Commend ....__.._..._..__...._......_.._........_............_..........._._.. ...........2769 PAULDING COUNTY HR 1210 HB 1473 HB 1211 --Board of Education members' elections __ .........._.........._..._...._.._.......__. 820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 --Sewerage system maintenance ... 1653, 1791, 1799, 1997, 2846 --Sheriff's deputies; increase number _...._..__..._......._.._._..__._...._..._.._._ 820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 PAYNE, CHARLES HR 849 --Commend .............._.__.._._...-_...._..._......-....__.-._.._....._..-_...__..._.._..2912 3850 INDEX PEACE OFFICERS HB 1635 HB 886 HB 944 HB 912 --Board of Examiners; create ..................................... 234:S, 2556 --Georiga State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation; court fees ...........131, 164, 830, 909, 3408 --High speed chases; unlawful .,,.............__..........._. 214, 293, 508 --Unlawful to physically abuse or injure any person when unnecessary ._..__......_____------_________155, 192 PEACE OFFICERS' ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND HB 1017 HB 950 --Member after 10 years shall not be dropped .___..............------------------------------.... 324, 389 --Rights and benefits .._.----215, 294, 606, 704, 943, 2512, 3408 PEACH COUNTY HB 1444 HB 1443 HB 1442 HB 1441 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; terms of office ........1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2615 --Ordinary's salary ._.1434, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 --Superior Court Clerk's salary and personnel ....__._----.....------_ 1433, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 --Tax Commissioner's salary and personnel .........._.........._.....__.__..._. 1433, 1513, 1518, 1685, 2614 PEACOCK, HONORABLE ROBERT CARROLL HR 643 --Commend ...--------------------..------ _. --1261 PEANUTS HR 666-1435--Tax exemption; amendment to the Constitution ..........--_...._..--....._...__.----....... 1432, 1512, 1516 PECANS HR 666-1435--Tax exemption; amendment to the Constitution _------.__. ......__.... .------------.....1432, 1512, 1516 PECAN PROCESSORS AND WHOLESALERS HB 431 --License ....------__.......--__.._......__._.___.........___.(No action in 1968) PENAL INSTITUTIONS --Interim Study Report ----------------------------------.3545 INDEX 3851 PENAL AND REHABILITATION ACT, STATE HB 1374 --Bond limitation ________ .___...___..__ ____...___1221, 1314, 1801, 2783 PEPPER, DOCTOR HENRY C. HR 844 --Expressing appreciation _.__.-.._...._-..._..__-._.--_ 2909 PERSONNEL BOARD, STATE HB 456 --Merit System; salary adjustments ....--_(No action in 1968) PHILLIPS, JAMES E., JR. HR 621-1348--Compensate .. . ........ 1156, 1225 PHOENIX AIR CONDITIONING HR 456-1013--Compensate .-.-..... ___........... 323, 388, 2233, 2300, 3422 PHONOGRAPH RECORDS HR 835 HB 867 --Create committee to study effect on juveniles .._._,,...--__.. 2742 --Restrict sales ..___._.____...._____.._..._...___.._..___.__...___....___ 127, 161, 338 PICKENS COUNTY HR 718-1522--Clerk of Superior Court; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ....... 1785, 1981, 2844 PIEDMONT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SB 420 HB 1258 --Solicitor-General; compensation ... 2899, 2903, 2988, 3112, 3116 --Superior Court terms ........_.__._ 929, 979, 1988, 2091 PIERCE COUNTY HB 1372 HB 1410 HB 1369 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; chairman's compensation ............___............_.. 1220, 1314, 1448, 1454, 2357 --Board of Education; members' election _ __.__.____.__._._...__...___...__...1308, 1441, 1447, 1552, 2561 --Deputy Sheriffs' salaries ._.._.-__._1220, 1313, 1447, 1453, 2356 3852 INDEX PIKE COUNTY HR 811 HB 1151 --1967-68 High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend ______________--------------_______.....--------2634 --Superior Court terms ------..-------.595, 662, 735, 751, 1671 PISTOLS (See Weapons) SB 51 HB 865 HB 856 SB 50 HB 866 HB 857 --Bond to carry; raise fee .--------------(No action in 1968) --Felony; unlawful to possess during attempt to commit ----...----.-25, 136, 606, 804, 2706, 2735 --Identification of persons qualified to acquire or possess ----__------.------.--------.24, 135, 736 --License fee ._--.--.------..--_--------------(No action in 1968) --Riots; unlawful possession --------_--------_----.25, 136, 1100 --Unlawful sale and possession; define offense ------..24, 135 PITTS, GLAWER HR 549-1200--Compensate ._..___.--------------------.724, 826, 2234, 2303, 3424 PLANNING COMMISSIONS HB 252 HB 1420 HB 1217 HB 1277 HB 1447 --Counties, municipalities; powers in unincorporated territory--------------(No action in 1968) --Planning department; establish ..1311, 1443, 1448, 2817, 3413 --Remove certain restrictions ....----822, 880, 940, 2473, 3410 --Rezoned property; publication and hearings -.--------------------932, 982, 1320, 1576, 3411 --Sales tax; exempt ----------------------------1434, 1514, 1840 PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING BUREAU, STATE SB 419 --Powers, duties and responsibilities --------.2902, 2904, 2989 PLUMBING HB 1166 --Contractors; performance bonds .--------------------...-650, 727 PLUMBING CONTRACTORS HB 557 --State Board of Examiners; create ----1098, 1473, 3001, 3092 PODIATRISTS HB 408 HB 803 --Add to coverage of non-profit medical service corporations ------_--------_(No action in 1968) --Insurance premiums; discriminations by counties and municipalities --_.--__(No action in 1968) POLICE SR 77 HB 402 HB 944 HB 512 HB 44 HB 912 INDEX 3853 --Assistance to children in case of disability or death ..______________________740, 742, 828, 990, 3285 --Georiga Police Academy Board; abolish.__.(No action in 1968) --High speed chases; unlawful ......._....._.__.__........_.214, 293, 508 --Idemnification of private citiezns for personal injury or death while assisting in crime prevention -_____.-__..__--____________ (No action in 1968) --Immunity from civil liability for rendering assistance _______-----.--.--,,.-__-..___.._...._..._-_...,,.. 471 --Unlawful to physically abuse or injure any person when unnecessary ._..-_...._.._.__165, 192 POLITICAL CONVENTIONS HB 1178 --Regulations governing conduct._-_~_.___.~-652, 729, 736, 1470, 3039, 3084 POLK COUNTY HR 1571 HB 1573 HB 1572 HR 470 HB 1574 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; conduct annual audit ____._.__..__.__.__...__.____________..1972, 2080, 2352, 2568, 3162 --Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; employees' compensation __.______.1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 --Sheriff's salary ________________.__.__________________._________1973, 2080 --Sportman's Club; commend .._.,,-._._.,,...,,...___,,...._,,..,,__.306 --Uniform Central Accounting and Bookkeeping System; adopt .__.1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 POLYGRAPH EXAMINERS SB 323 --Board of Polygraph Examiners; create _____-____.._____.__._______._____.1168, 1240, 1316, 2701, 2962 POLLUTION HR 861 --Recreational Waters Pollution Study Committee; create ._.._.--..,,._..._._._,,_..._.._.._..___...._.._._2921 POPE, MRS. EURA MAE HR 480-1037--Compensate _..___.__.._...-......___._.374, 460, 2233, 2301, 3423 3854 INDEX POPE, MRS. HERSHEL V. HR 448-973 --Compensate _.__----.----------------286, 331, 2233, 2300, 3421 POPE, SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE AND MRS. MARION T., JR. HR 755 --Congratulate _---___---__.___.--,,---___.-._-_--_.--------2164 PORNAGRAPHY HB 1311 --Visual or vocal representations; unlawful to sell to any person under 18 years of age ----------------------1089, 1159, 1517, 2955 POSS, S. J. HR 416 --Express sympathy for passing of ____._----___-----__167 POSS, SUMMIE J. HR 477 --Express sympathy for passing of----.------____.~__-----309 POSTMASTER GENERAL, UNITED STATES HR 442 --Stamp commemorating historic carving at Stone Mountain; request to issue __-______260, 500 POST MORTEM EXAMINATION ACT, GEORGIA HB 1068 --Medical examiners; fees for certain services ----____------_--.----.382, 466, 1664, 2044 POTTS, MRS. BUNA REEVES HR 813 --Express sympathy for passing of _________.._------2635 POWELL, CONGRESSMEN-ELECT ADAM CLAYTON HR 232 --Request Congress to unseat ------__--_--_ (No action in 1968) POWELL, REV. WILLIAM 0. --Prayer offered by ------------------.--.------__------------723 INDEX 3855 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE HB 1044 HB 1115 HB 1230 HB 1144 HB 891 HB 153 HB 38 HB 1280 HB 5 HB 1132 HB 624 HB 1658 HB 1107 SB 324 HB 1116 HB 432 --Appellate Practice Act of 1965; re-enact ....__...........__.....376, 461, 666, 1489, 3375, 3383, 3392, 3394, 3432 --Capital offense; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time __.._--.._..493, 602, 1990 --Civil Practice Act; amend; service of publication... 875, 935,1099,1493, 3384, 3391, 3432 --Collection of Debts; prohibit use of simulated court process _........,,_._.._._..--______ 594, 661, 830 --Court clerks; service by publication ....--_... 149, 189, 299, 346, 3039, 3091 --Court costs; payment of jurors included in bill of costs ............__.........____......__..990 --Criminal cases; instructions to jury .........._.........,..._..___....______(No action in 1968) --Criminal cases; jury must return verdict of guilty or not guilty .. ..__.--_-.__.___.932, 982, 1517 --Criminal Code of Georgia; revise ..18, 27, 146, 171, 3169, 3293 --Death of a husband intestate; wife's application for dower ..._592, 659, 830, 919,1803, 1859 --Habeas corpus cases; transcripts of proceedings _.___.-...-.__-------.---.-- .--_-----......_......199 --Indictments and accusations for any criminal offense; regulations ...........-....._..._.--..-.,...2838, 2987 --Indictments; foreman of grand jury shall sign to have legal effect -- .___..________--_...--492, 600 --Superior Courts; alternate jurors may be substituted for original jurors ._-___.--.....2618, 2622, 2699, 2703, 2953, 3405 --Trials; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time __......_.-----.--.---_.-..__._.__493, 602, 1990 --Unliquidated damages; interest .....___..197, 641, 3384, 3387 PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN HR 837 --Committee on Care and Training of Pre-School Children; recreate .____..____..._..._.2744 PREFABRICATED HOMES HB 1479 --Standards of construction .........1656, 1793, 1800, 2487, 3166 PRISON INDUSTRIES ADMINISTRATION, GEORGIA HB 1121 --Create .................................._.............._...._.....494, 603, 1101, 2207 3856 INDEX PRISONS AND PRISONERS HB 742 --Confinement and rehabilitation of prisoners; new methods ___._____.2851, 2945, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 HR 413-923 --Death sentence; abolish; amendment to the Constitution ..-----.------160, 196, 471, 1963, 1964 HB 916 --Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment; not eligible for parole before serving 15 years ---_--.--.158, 194, 299, 454, 582 HR 411-917 --Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment; not eligible for parole before serving 15 years; amendment to the Constitution ... -.,,---------.-158, 195, 299, 450 HB 917 --Death sentence; jury's recommendation --.158, 194, 299, 586 HB 1655 --Federal prisoners; jurisdiction ..--._._ 2589, 2697, 2704, 2891 HB 1121 --Georgia Prison Industries Administration; create .........--..------494, 603, 1101, 2207 HB 743 --Georgia Prison Industries Act; compensation of certain inmates ------ ... 201, 201, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 HB 748 --Guards, wardens and deputy wardens; additional powers of arrest _.--..___-(No action in 1968) SB 294 --Hospital patients; continuance of care and treatment when terms has expired _..._ 944, 950, 984, 1101 HB 260 --Inmates allowed to enter into certain contracts _..___-- ---------- -- (No action in 1968) HB 1119 --Inmates; authority to hire out to Federal Government agencies ---- --494, 602, 1101, 2045 HB 1118 --Inmates; sale of certain goods .------------._----------494, 602, 1801, 2045, 3349, 3363 SB 369 --Prison-made products; submit list to Supervisor of Purchases ....... 1670, 1677, 1796, 2844, 3277, 3282, 3282 HB 1237 --State Board of Corrections define "detainer" ....................__...........825, 883, 1099, 1950, 3166 HB 1117 --State Board of Corrections; penal rehabilitation programs; federal grants --,.---....-.493, 602 HB 1234 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; Board members' written opinions; clarify certain requirements ----------------------824, 882 SB 200 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; public hearings _ --_ _------.------339, 473, 498, 830 SB 201 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; licensed attorneys only may appear before for remuneration ,,.__....._......_ 339, 473, 498, 830, 3279, 3428 HB 1235 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; rule-making authority; promulgate rules --------.----------.-824, 883, 1099, 1951 HB 1374 --State Penal and Rehabilitation Authority Act; bond limitation ----------------1221, 1314, 1801, 2783 HB 1593 INDEX 3857 --Wardens, guards and custodial officers; oath of office _______..____________.__-.2071, 2227, 2237, 2782, 3416 PRIVATE WAYS HB 416 --Ordinaries; power to grant ___________ (No action in 1968) PROFESSIONAL TAX HB 1185 --Certain Professions .. ...___.._..._--.__-________._--.655, 731, 1321 PROPERTIES CONTROL COMMISSION, STATE HR 267-829 --Negotiate for the cancellation of Leases on the property owned by state at Peachtree and Cain Streets _____________________________(No action in 1968) SR 245 --State Department of Public Health; transfer of certain property _-_____.2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3312, 3371 HB 879 --State owned real property; inventorying _._..____.___...._.._.___....._-... 129, 163, 171 HB 878 --State Properties Control Code; authorization to sell as well as lease certain State property ________________________ ______._.__._-.___129, 163, 943 HR 387-884 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; accept bid of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company ______..____________.______._._._._131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 HR 737-1616--Western and Atlantic Railroad; amend present lease ___.___..__._ 2075, 2231, 2237, 2516, 3404 HB 382 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; lease ___,,_____________________________....___..._._.._(No action in 1968) HR 673-1450--Western and Atlantic Railroad lease; jurisdiction __.____________________.__.1435, 1515, 1801, 2549, 3403 HR 495-1071--Western and Atlantic Railroad; withhold lease until "General" Locomotive has been returned to Georgia ........__._.__....___..__....__._.___............_.____ 383, 467, 1165 PROPERTY HB 301 SB 57 HB 67 HB 889 --Deed of conveyance to lands; require inclusion of address of maker _________________..._.. (No action in 1968) --Dispossessory warrants; relating to property removed ________________________739, 741, 827, 1227, 1233 --Intangible personal; tax levies upon accounts receivable _._.___----_______--_____--_-_..______ (No action in 1968) --Liens, mortgages, deeds; Superior Court Clerks' fees for recording ________.__.-___149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 3858 INDEX HB 928 --Personal; lien foreclosure ..........................184, 219, 338, 790 HB 921 --Personal; rental or lease agreements ----__.......--...__--~159, 195, 393, 810, 3000, 3054 HR 168-510 --Public improvement projects; compensation of holders if interest decline in value; amendment to the Constitution ___._._______..___________,,________(No action in 1968) HB 1197 --Real estate tax; exempt certain instruments _-..... 657, 733, 1321, 2304, 2468, 2664, 3395, 3396 HB 826 --State; authorization to declare surplus .--,,-.--.....--__.--.943 HB 1498 --Surplus State; procedure for disposal _._.___......__.__..__...__.1780, 1978, 2354, 2667, 3395, 3401 HB 22 --Tangible personal; criminal sanctions for larceny if rented or leased __.__.--.____--.--.._______.-...__--.......989 HB 1596 --Tax assessment; owner may challenge assessment value by county tax assessor _...._--__._--.--....._... 2072, 2228 HB 1607 --Tax classification; grant or conveyance by any city or county ......_......................._.........2074, 2230, 2595 HB 1303 --Tax on Transfer of Real Property Act; exempt certain instruments ............_....._..._..............._..._.._...._976, 1097 HB 406 --Taxation; determination of value by State Revenue Department ....._..--................. (No action in 1968) HB 910 --Taxation; "fair market value" ........155, 192, 2238, 2793, 3164 HB 439 --Taxation; Fair Market Value; method of assessment --._._.--.....--._....(No action in 1968) HB 686 --Taxation; potential or speculative value may not be used on returns .--._..-........-..--..._____(No action in 1968) HB 592 --Taxation; valuation shall not be increased _,,......._.._.._._.....................--..... (No action in 1968) PROPERTY EVALUATION SUB-COMMITTEE --Interim Study Report ......_.----.....,,....--.....,,_._..-._...._......--.3474 PROSTHETISTS HB 216 --Orthotists and Prosthetists Practice Act; create ....... ..............___.,,..........,,......_.........._..__.,,.... 2841 PSYCHODRAMA SB 174 --Georgia Psychodrama Practice Act; create ...........-_.._-_-_..1026, 1104, 1163, 2701 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1965, GEORGIA HB 1156 HB 620 --Acceptance of payment after certain date shall constitute a debt of the recipient ___.__...._._-_._....._596, 608, 663, 1522, 2330, 3165 --Additional definitions .........--,,.........--...(No action in 1968) INDEX 3859 PUBLIC BUILDINGS HB 180 SB 73 --Construction requirements to make accessible to physically handicapped _-.--__--__.--___--.__-_._508, 865 --Handicapped persons; buildings constructed with ramps --_--.,,__.___--____.---_._________--_ (No action in 1968) PUBLIC CONVEYANCES HB 1071 --Counties, municipalities; exempt sales tax from monies derived from public transit facilities __-_......._.___....._.___ 383, 467, 1521, 2062, 2191, 3234 PUBLIC DEFENDER, OFFICE OF HB 130 --Establish for defense of indigents _._._._._...___26, 348, 2851, 2937, 3006, 3106, 3107, 3349, 3432 PUBLIC HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HB 1586 SB 286 SB 287 HB 1026 HR 645 HB 871 HB 1101 HB 1024 SR 245 HR 775 --Acquire suitable sites for storage of radioactive waste _________-__1975, 2082, 2237, 2782, 3416 --Birth certificates; certified copies, governmental agencies ___.__-_-________-670, 670, 733, 987 --Birth certificates; name change; issuanc eof new certificate .__---____.__.___.670, 671, 733, 987 --Clinical laboratory personnel; licenses ___________________________________________________________ 326, 391 --Dr. B. W. Forester, Chairman of Mental Health Committee, State Board of Health; inaugurate program recommended by ---------__--___________-_____--____ 1262 --Immunization of school children ____.___.__________.____..128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 --Medical or dental health; promote measures for early detection __________.________....______.._490, 599 --Medical laboratory personnel; licensing and regulating ......._._.________._.________.________________326. 390 --State Properties Control Commission; transfer of certain property ............2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3312, 3371 --Submit certain information to the General Assembly ________.__._________.__..____.2183. 2352, 2753 PUBLIC HOUSING HR 578 --Study committee; create ___--_--.._--______-_._..___________779 3860 INDEX PUBLIC LODGINGS SB 338 --Georgia Health Code; amend ........_..___.......-_....__-.__--...._.__1237, 1241, 1317, 2701 PUBLIC MEETINGS SB 143 --Meetings must be open to public if public funds used ___________________________.__.--_______....(No action in 1968) PUBLIC OFFICIALS HR 331 --Interim Committee to study fees ...------(No action in 1968) PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF HB 1545 HB 1634 HB 1367 HB 840 HB 139 HB 1080 SB 259 HB 174 HB 314 HB 1009 HB 308 HB 881 HB 304 HB 882 HB 931 HB 886 HB 843 --Director's salary .__.________..__.._____._.._.___....__.....______....1789, 1985 --Drivers' license; certain information may be shown on reverse side -----.-------.-..---------...---.-.2343, 2556 --Driver's licenses; classification ._......___....___.1219, 1313, 1519 --Drivers' license; expiration date ___.___.__._--________.20, 132, 1801 --Driver's license; expiration date ___________ (No action in 1968) --Driver's licenses; honorary; change requirements ___.__._____..___....___..___._._____....385, 469, 829 --Driver's licenses; honorary; requirements ____.._....................._.884, 888, 939, 1519, 2666 --Drivers' license; prohibit marking in place of issuing warning tickets --.--.--...___.-- (No action in 1968) --Drivers' license; minors 18 or less must complete Driver Education Course before obtaining operator's license ___________________________________________________1800 --Drivers' license; reexamination after suspension ___..__.______._____.___-_____.,,.-_____._.____.____._ 322, 387 --Drivers' license; suspension or revocation; notification --.--..----.--.-...-------.--..-- (No action in 1968) --Driver's licenses; suspension, violation point count system ........_____..27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 --Drivers' license; suspension or revocation; proof of required deposit .--....-..____--..___(No action in 1968) --Financial Responsibility Law; proof maintained for 3 year period after reinstatment of driver's license ....______.__________.-.______________.____._.__.___ 27, 136, 137 --Georgia Bureau of Investigation; clothing allowance _..____........___._..____.-......184, 219, 943, 1202 --Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation; court fees ________________131, 164, 830, 909, 3408 --Radar; use of ........................_._.......21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 HB 1245 HB 1050 SB 417 HB 4 INDEX 3861 --Security Guard Division; create .__.___.._..__.-.-.-.............-.._._..877, 937, 1519, 1952, 3411 --State Employees' Retirement System; disability allowance .....____...__....._._377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 --Traffic laws; Governor's powers _.____-._____-_._..-....___-_.__.-_._.2901, 2903, 2988, 3113, 3289 --Use of radar and timing devices ._-.....,,.._..--....--....._........668 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (See Named Utility) HB 282 HB 804 HB 1423 HB 373 HB 1072 HB 1073 HB 1205 --Certificates of public convenience and necessity of radio common carrier corporations,--(No action in 1968) --Chairman and members' salaries -----(No action in 1968) --Commissioner; tenure salary increase --... 1311, 1444, 1801, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3339 --Mobile radio common carriers; rates -.-.-._---,,__...,,...__.___..._-...,,._..(No action in 1968) --Motor common carriers engaged in interstate commerce; registration -- _-- -- 383, 467, 831, 921, 2086 --Motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce; registration ......_________.._..._....._._383, 468, 831, 923, 2086 --Railroad companies; transporting of employees; safeguards ...-_,,..,,..------___________.........._._.725, 826 PUBLIC UTILITIES HR 524-1104--Ad valorem tax; examination of property to determine true fair market value -_...___..__.._-.._.___.__-..491, 600, 1099, 2220, 3383, 3386 HR 586 --Amend rules of the House to add a standing committee on Public Utilities and Transportation .-_.__,,_..___..........._.__..._..___.___.__,,___________________ ..785 HB 1511 --Mortgages and security deeds on property ...._.____________1658, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 HB 986 --State Highway Department; rules and regulations relating to removal of equipment __------_.----289, 333, 987 HB 1512 --Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions; telephone service and distribution of electricity ......___.._..._..___...__.___.1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION HR 230 --Request Speaker to appoint standing committee _...-_--.__--------...._...._._.._...._. (No action in 1968) 3862 INDEX PUBLICATIONS HB 50 --Penalty for magazine wholesaler to refuse to sell to retailer because of refusal to purchase other periodicals __------__----_------------------------2851 PULASKI COUNTY HR 447-973 --Pulaski County-Hawkinsville Development Authority; create amendment to the Constitution ----------.------..----286, 330, 394, 404, 1667 PULPWOOD HB 1159 --Vehicles transporting; chains or cables ----------598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620, 2649, 3001, 3256 PUTNAM COUNTY HR 735-1608--Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ------------2073, 2230, 2236, 2424, 3426 QUITMAN COUNTY HR 421-932 --Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution--.----------185, 220, 298, 397, 1668, 1850 R RABUN COUNTY SB 374 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts .-..-----2241, 2245, 2348, 2842, 2863, 3038, 3039, 3226, 3227, 3315, 3336, 3337, 3342 HB 1252 --Certain officials; compensation------928, 978, 988, 1107, 1525 HR 546-1200--Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books _____-.._...__...._--724, 825, 990 HR 547-1200--Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ...._._..-.._-._...._..-.......--......724, 825, 990 RADAR HB 4 HB 843 INDEX 3863 --Use by Department of Public Safety to enforce traffic regulations ----_.------.___--.------_--------------668 --Use by Department of Public Safety to enforce traffic regulations----------.21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 RADIATION CONTROL COUNCIL HB 864 --Membership; one member shall be a veterinarian----.25, 136, 298, 1418, 3166 RADIOACTIVE WASTE HB 1586 --Department of Public Health; acquire suitable sites for storage ----...._.._.------ 1975, 2082, 2237, 2782, 3416 RAILROADS HB 979 --Automatic signal devices at crossings; procedure for installation .__.__....--..-------------------- 288, 332, 734, 897 HB 633 --Automatic signalling devices at grade crossings; installation --.----__------_____...------__(No action in 1968) HB 794 --Crewmen; unlawful to operate certain trains without specified number..._--------------------.--(No action in 1968) HB 1511 --Mortgages and security deeds on property---------1658, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 HB 1205 --Transporting of employees; safeguards....----------.725, 826 HR 387-884 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; accept bid of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company ..._.._.----._----_------------131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 HR 133-383 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; accept offer of Louisville & Nashvile Railroad Company to lease _(No action in 1968) HR 709-1479--Western and Atlantic; RR approve amendment to lease contract between Western and Atlantic Railroad Commission and City Center, Inc..--------.1656, 1793, 1801, 2543, 3404 HR 673-1450--Western and Atlantic Railroad; lease; jurisdiction; State Properties Control Commission......--1435, 1515, 1801, 2549, 3403 HR 737-1616--Western and Atlanta Railroad; State Properties Control Commission; amend present lease.._--.2075, 2231, 2237, 2516, 3404 HR 126-313 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; propose lease transaction...--------------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 382 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; State Properties Control Commission; lease _------------_----_,,_---- (No action in 1968) 3864 INDEX RAINS, LT. BEN F. HR 885 --Commend .._--_.,,---- --_--_--_,,---..------_-- -------.3201 RAPID TRANSIT SB 353 SB 111 --Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority; clarify costs-----1675, 1676, 1796, 2702, 2984, 3100, 3104, 3133, 3429 --Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority; publication of activities--------------------------(No action in 1968) RAVAN, CLYDE HR 123-311 --Compensate-- --__----..-----.._-_----------(No action in 1968) HR 385-880 --Compensate ._----------------------__----.130, 163, 1798, 2022, 3420 RAYLE, TOWN OP SB 382 --New Charter ----------.------------.2242, 2246, 2394, 3112, 3114 REAL ESTATE SB 91 --Brokers and salesmen; regulate.------------------339, 476 HB 301 --Deeds; conveyance of lands; require inclusion of address of maker-- ---- .------.------_---- (No action in 1968) HB 409 --Georgia Real Estate Commission; members' appointment------------.--_----------(No action in 1968) HB 386 --Georgia Real Estate Commission; membership---- .-------------- ------.(No action in 1968) SB 315 --Georgia Real Estate Commission; staggered terms of office for members.---- 1167, 1240, 1316, 1519, 2509, 2612 HB 1216 -- Georgia Real Estate Investment Board; abolish .........__.. .._---_..----------------------_._.----... 821, 880 HB 889 --Liens, mortgages, deeds; Superior Court Clerk's fees for recording------------ ....--------.149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 HR 168-510 --Public improvement projects; compensation of holders if interest decline in value; amendment to the Constitution-----_--------.-- -------------- (No action in 1968) HB 335 --Recording of deeds; include reference to last recorded instrument------------------(No action in 1968) HB 1197 --Tax; exempt certain instruments.--..----657, 733, 1321, 2304, 2468, 2664, 3395, 3396 HB 1303 --Tax on Transfer of Real Property Act; exempt certain instruments.--------.--------------------...--.------.976, 1097 REAPPORTIONMENT HB 218 --Chatham County; change representative (No action in 1968) HB 1226 HR 335 SB 207 INDEX 3865 --House of Representatives; amend to comply with Federal court ruling.--.824, 882, 940, 971, 1030, 1740, 1846 --Request consideration of Federal Courts regarding plans for reapportionment--_....._..,,_.._._.(No action in 1968) --State Senatorial Districts----------------201, 258, 297, 394, 441, 476, 476, 477, 477, 478, 478 RECKLESS DRIVING HB 942 --Tires; black marks on road surface-.------------214, 293, 507 RECORDS HB 1253 --Vital; Department of Public Health; increase fee of local registrars----------------_--------_----928, 978, 987 RECORDS, PHONOGRAPH HB 867 --Restrict sales.--------------------__------------.----127, 161, 338 RECREATION COMMISSION, GEORGIA HB 849 --Board of Recreation Examiners; create.._______ 22, 133, 393, 567, 608, 1212, 3034, 3059 RECREATIONAL WATERS POLLUTION STUDY COMMITTEE HR 861 --Create --------......----------------........----------------....---- 2921 REDDEN, HONORABLE ROBERT HR 699 --Commend --._......_.......__....--....__----..----.--...----------------.1598 REDDING, MR. OTIS HR 788 --Express sympathy for passing of--.------------...------2451 REGENTS, BOARD OF (See University System of Georgia) HB 1062 --Teachers declared legally recognized profession; remove provisions.-----------------380, 465, 606, 861, 1450 RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS HB 7 --Wills; limit amount of estate left to religious organizations----.----.--------------------(No action in 1968) 3866 INDEX RENFROE, CLAUDE H., JR. HR 499-1089--Compensate . ..... .........._...__........._...457, 495, 1797, 2026, 3423 RENTAL AGREEMENTS HB 921 --Personal property................ ..........159,195,393,810,3000,3054 RESEARCH SB 273 --American Institute for Research in Bio-Technology; create. ... .................._...._......._......._.._..1103, 1105, 1164, 2989 RETAIL INSTALLMENT AND HOME SOLICITATION SALES ACT HB 1078 --Amend ...... ......._......._......_.....384, 468, 1115, 1446, 2539, 3409 RETIREMENT (See Named Department) SB 270 SB 267 SB 271 HR 352 HB 1010 HB 1012 HB 1008 HB 970 HB 1035 HB 1017 HB 950 HB 85 SB 252 --Advisory Committee on Retirement Systems create ......................................................1103, 1105, 1164, 2991 --Certain persons employed by political subdivisions shall receive credit for time served as member of General Assembly ................................................1103, 1105, 1163, 1521 --Clerks Superior Court; retirement benefits; credit for service in armed forces..------.-------.739, 742, 828, 1521 --Committee to study retirement and Emeritus pay .-------_----_-------------------- (No action in 1968) --Firemen's Pension Fund; eligibility for membership------------------.322, 387, 943, 1374, 3001, 3222 --Georgia Legislative Retirement System; credit for military service; clarify provisions--.----....323, 388, 1101, 1481, 3034, 3069, 3169, 3180, 3233, 3234, 3279 --Georgia Legislative Retirement System; transfer of creditable service ._.--______----____------__---- 322, 387, 944 --Joint Municipal Employees' Retirement System; vested rights ------------------------285, 330, 338, 1293, 3164 --Ordinaries' Retirement Fund; benefits for SecretaryTreasurer -------------- 328, 392, 990, 1496, 1739, 3034, 3064 --Peace Officers' Annunity and Benefit Fund; member after 10 years shall not be dropped.----------.---- 324, 389 --Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; rights and benefits .-.-.-..-.--...215, 294, 606, 704, 943, 2512, 3408 --Senior Superior Court Reporters' Retirement Fund of Georgia; establish.------------------------------.------199 --Sheriffs' Retirement Fund; Board membership.---------------1025, 1105, 1163, 2844, 3142, 3429 INDEX 3867 SB 268 --Sheriffs' Retirement Fund; credit for service in armed forces, future members.--------.----739, 742, 828, 1521 HB 1016 --State Employees' Retirement System; Amend Act to correct typographical and technical errors _____ 324, 389, 943 HB 1032 --State Employees' Retirement System; benefits prior to January 1, 1967------__--.--_----------------.328, 392 HR 707 --State Employees' Retirement System; create study committee-----_--------.--_-------.--_----_------.1582, 2704 SB 278 --State Employees' Retirement System; credit for service in armed forces -----------__._.------------.740, 742, 828, 1521 HB 81 --State Employees' Retirement System; creditable service; change provisions.--------------(No action in 1968) HB 1050 --State Employees' Retirement System; Department of Public Safety --------____.377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 HB 20 --State Employees' Retirement System; Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind, Inc.; credit to certain members for previous service --_--------_----------.(No action in 1968) HB 1020 --State Employees' Retirement System; involuntary separation from employment without prejudice; expand definition .....__.325, 389, 1101, 1994, 2237, 2509, 3256 HB 291 --State Employees' Retirement System; mandatory retirement, exempt certain employees --------------.(No action in 1968) HB 1033 --State Employees' Retirement System; municipal or county retirement systems ........----------------__---- 328, 392 SB 263 --State Employees' Retirement System; notice to certain employees prior to retirement _...............739, 741, 827, 2991 HB 1037 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service credit -.__....--_--------------------.--.329, 392, 1101, 1486, 3227 HB 1025 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service credit, Armed Forces ....--------_------------------------------326, 390 HB 963 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service credit, Armed Services ...----------------------------------.........284, 329 HB 1015 --State Employees' Retirement System; retirement allowances ----.----------------__----324, 389, 943, 2216, 3166 HR 651 --State Employees' Retirement System; requested to conduct a study on prior service _._._.__..--------.----------_._.__.--1267 SB 208 --State Employees' Retirement System; suspension of benefits under certain conditions _-------- 2086, 2087, 2232 HB 1001 --State Employees' Retirement System; transfer of service credits --------------------------292, 336, 986, 2531, 3035, 3072 SB 246 --Superior Court Clerks; benefits ......----------1991, 1994, 2084, 2237, 2951 HB 925 --Superior Court Judges, Emeritus; annual salary if 70 years of age or over ------------------------------160, 196 HB 69 --Superior Court Judges' Emeritus; retirement; credit for service ------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 409-912 --Supreme Court Justices; Supreme Court Judges; retirement age; amendment to the Constitution ...............__----157, 194 3868 INDEX HB 94 --Teachers' Retirement System; additional member of the Board of Trustees -.-._--_-...--.--__.._____--..(No action in 1968) HB 1021 --Teachers' Retirement System; adjustment of post-retirement benefits ____.....____--_._____._..325, 390, 944, 2955 HR 608-1295--Teachers Retirement System; allowances to beneficiaries; amendment to the Constitution __..._..--_.974, 1095, 1101, 2480 HB 713 --Teachers' Retirement System; appointment of additional members .._________________________________________________(No action in 1968) HB 65 --Teachers Retirement System; conditions of membership ........ (No action in 1968) HR 142-403 --Teachers' Retirement System; create for all school employees; amendment to the Constitution ...-.___._....___-___.--__-..____---__199, 314, 1166, 1283 SB 266 --Teachers' Retirement System; credit for service in the armed forces ...._-.........__...__-_--,,__.......___..._..........739, 741, 828 HB 671 --Teachers' Retirement System; creditable service, certain cases ___._......._..___..__.......__.1445, 2585, 3273, 3310, 3431 HB 952 --Teachers' Retirement System; earnable compensation, University System of Georgia __.____..._____.216, 294, 2592, 2813, 3371, 3371, 3432 HB 78 --Teachers' Retirement System; full service allowance after 40 years' service ..........-_____...---__--..,,_-. (No action in 1968) SB 14 --Teachers' Retirement System; leaves of absence ,,____._..____________________________,,_ (No action in 1968) HB 995 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor ._._._.._.._.._..._..____....__._.._._...___......__._.__....._.......291, 335, 2592 HB 87 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor of $5.00 for each year of service up to 40 years,-(No action in 1968) HB 86 --Teachers' Retirement System; payment of minimum benefits to certain members _______--__-.-----.__-----___------.199 HB 1000 --Teachers' Retirement System; transfer of service credits .........._....._.......__........_.292, 336, 986, 2529, 3035, 3070 SB 30 --Trial Judges and Solicitors Retirement Fund; createe ..._.._......_._._...__. 340, 341, 1099, 2969, 3036, 3237, 3430 HB 1048 --Veterans, World War II; seniority and retirement rights .._-_-...___._......_....._-___...._-_...___--...-..___ 377, 462, 829, 907 REVENUE BOND LAW HB 274 --Interest rates; limitation ....._....._.._...__._......_..____.._..._._2084, 2396 REVENUE DEPARTMENT, STATE HB 405 SB 189 HB 1397 HB 406 HB 1204 --Arbitrators; provisions relating to appointment ___._.___.______._____..__--________......... (No action in 1968) --Commissioner; compensation ._..___......__.__....___.___.736, 2888, 3002 --Deputy Commissioner; compensation ___.._____._1305, 1439, 1665 --Property tax; determination of value --.(No action in 1968) --Tax digests, reevaluation programs; approval by Commissioner __--_,,_-_-_--.----.._---.-.-..--._--_------_...--725, 826 INDEX 3869 REWARDS FOR INFORMATION HB 908 --Governor may pay; apprehension and conviction of a felon ___._____._...__.__..______.______.________.____.._____________.____._154, 191 REYNOLDS, CITY OF HR 763 --Kiwanis Club; commend __..._.__...__.-....___..-._.__.........._........_...2171 RICHMOND COUNTY HB 1408 --Additional deputy sheriffs ,,-------1308, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2241 HR 531-1156--Adoption of ordinances; amendment to the Constitution ___.____._.__.__-______._--_.________.597, 663, 667, 757, 1325 HB 776 --Board of Education members; date of election .._.........__......_......_...._-_..__-_.....__._..__-__.2353, 2572, 3408 HB 1614 --Board of Education; vacancies --2075, 2231, 2353, 2402, 3163 HR 686-1477--Public agencies; General Assembly's powers to create, etc.; amendment to the Constitution __.______.___.___.__.______.__._1655, 1792, 1800, 2013, 3425 HB 1200 --Sanitary landfills; dumping of trash; garbage, etc. _____________________724, 825, 1025, 1227, 1229, 3005, 3055 HR 458-1013--Tax levy; authorize; amendment to the Constitution ....._._..__...___.............._.....__.._._...323, 388, 394, 522 RIGGINS, MRS. FRANCIS B. HR 610-1297--Compensate ......_...._._-..........._-__.....-__975, 1096, 1798, 2030, 3424 RIOTS HB 906 HB 866 HB 907 HB 905 --Define offense; punishment ______________________.____________154, 191 --Firearms; unlawful possession _________________________.___25, 136, 1100 --Fire bombs; "Molotov Cocktails"; possession prima facie evidence _,,_----_._----..________-______,,_______-_----154, 191 --State of Emergency; Governor's powers __----_----_--154, 191 RIVERDALE, CITY OF HB 1556 --Certain officials' salaries ___..________.1969, 2078, 2089, 2251, 2997 ROBERTSON, REV. VERNARD --Prayer offered by _._._...,,__._-_...__...___.......___._3109 3870 INDEX ROCKDALE COUNTY HR 740-1616--Board of Education; debts incurred; amendment to the Constitution ________.________.____2076, 2232, 2353, 2601, 3426 HB 1301 --Sheriff's deputies; increase number .....__....._...976, 1096, 1227, 1231, 1807 HB 1613 --New Charter ....._...._....._._.........._.....2075, 2231, 2236, 2402, 3163 ROCKMART-ARAGON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HR 551 --Commend ..........................-..........................._..._..... ....685 RODDENBERY, ROBERT SAMUEL, SR. HR 757 --Commend ....._.._..._._..._........-..-...-.._.___._....__.......__.._.2165, 2617 ROEBLING FAMILY HR 746 Expressing appreciation -- --------------_....._........_..........__.....2156 R & R SALES COMPANY HR 500-1089--Compensate ... _..................._.._457, 495, 1797, 2026, 3423 ROSSVIIXE, CITY OF HB 1160 HB 1162 HB 1161 --Fire and Police Chiefs; appointment ....598, 664, 988, 991,1675 --Mayor, councilmen and tax assessor; compensation _._.__________._____________.______598, 665, 988, 993, 1675 --Recorder's Court; establish ---_.__._--.598, 665, 988, 991, 1675 ROSWELL, CITY OF HB 1630 --Mayor and council term of office ____....2226, 2348, 2353, 2575, 3418 HR 733-1597--Designate certain highway in Union and White Counties .... .-__-_-____...2072, 2087, 2228 RUSSELL, SENATOR RICHARD B. SR 141 --Invite to address General Assembly ,,____,,_________._,,_--__26, 144 RUTLEDGE, TOWN OF HB 1286 --Change to City of ........_...-._._-..-...........934, 983, 989, 1114, 2356 INDEX 3871 SAFETY FIRE COMMISSIONER, GEORGIA HB 1074 --Anhydrous Ammonia; classification ..............-.384, 468, 1446, 1955,3165 SALES TAX (See Taxation) HR 596-1247--Certain tangible personal property purchased outside State; suspend ________________-___._________________878, 937, 1802 HB 1514 --Charitable institutions, agencies of State, County or municipal government; exempt ___________.___-________1783, 1980 HB 1489 --Commercially fry and fingerling channel catfish; exempt ......_._..........._.__._..__.._.._..___.___...___1658, 1795, 1991, 2810 HB 1071 --Counties, municipalities; monies derived from public transit facilities _____._.___.___ 383, 467, 1521, 2062, 2191, 3234 HB 469 --Drugs and food; exempt ______________________(No action in 1968) HB 459 --Equipment used directly in manufacture of tangible personal property; exemptions _------__ (No action in 1968) HB 683 --Farm machinery; exempt __________-__-___________.______.._^____3040, 3084 HB 846 --Food; exempt sale of on premises of private elementary schools ______________ 21, 133, 990, 1487, 3168, 3367 HB 887 --Food for human consumption; exempt _____________________131, 164 HB 123 --Gasoline and other products used as fuel; exempt __,,______-_____.__,,__.____.______________________ (No action in 1968) HR 597-1247--Holy Bible; suspend ______.______.__........__878, 938, 1802, 2524, 3403 HB 105 --Increase from 3% to 4% ....____.....___.....__. (No action in 1968) HB 616 --Increase from 3% to 4% ____________________________ (No action in 1968) HB 983 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt ..,,__,,......__..__....__.._____._____ 288, 332 HB 258 --Municipalities and counties; allow to adopt 1% sales tax _________.__._..___.___....._..___...,,_......,,.... (No action in 1968) HR 598-1247--Non-profit hospitals; sale of tangible personal property; suspend ___.._..__________________878, 938, 1802, 2525, 3403 HR 599-1247--Non-profit schools; sales of food; suspend ______________..________..____..____________878, 938, 1802, 2527, 3403 HB 1660 --Prescription drugs; exempt --_.___.__-_____________________-_-__-___.__--.1311 HB 1091 --Prescription drugs; exempt __..________________._.____________.________458, 496 HB 1315 --Private schools; exempt property sales _________ 1090, 1160, 1321, 1573, 3167 SB 314 --Shavings and sawdust from wood used directly in animal husbandry ___._.._._..___._.___.___.1323, 1324, 1444, 1991, 2954, 3003 HB 1470 --Shavings and sawdust used for tilling soil or animal husbandry; exempt ________.______._____________________.___________.1653, 1790 HB 1462 --Tangible personal property; retail sales ________1508, 1661, 2089, 2328,3414 3872 INDEX SAVANNAH, CITY OP HR 665-1435--Ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution _______ ___.______...1431, 1512, 1519, 2135, 3314, 3336 HB 1353 --Board of Education; members' election _.___1157, 1225, 1518, 1538, 2560 HB 1645 --Employees; organization _______________._.2345, 2558, 2593, 2712, 3179,3182 HB 1157 --Municipal Court; Justice of the Peace; jurisdiction ___________.________._____..____.597, 664, 668, 752, 1236 HR 13-16 --Planning and zoning ordinances for historic purposes; amendment to the Constitution ..................................SSG, 1199 SCHOLARSHIPS SR 183 --Board of Regents, University System of Georgia; amendment to the Constitution ____2708, 2710, 2840, 2991, 3217,3431 HB 1064 --Georgia State Scholarship Commission; public relations and information programs _________.381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 HR 521-1103--Medical students; repayment of loans; amendment to the Constitution ___________________.491, 600, 832, 1288, 3421 SCHOOLS (See Education, Taxation) HB 749 --Athletic functions, dances, etc.; unlawful to possess or consume alcoholic beverages if under 21 (No action in 1968) SB 41 --Compact for Education; Georgia be. party to _____________._________1526, 1528, 1662, 2841, 3325 HB 1092 --Compulsory school attendance; change age ________468, 496 HB 909 --Consolidation; authorization ______________________154, 191, 2234 HR 433-952 --County Boards of Education members' election; amendment to the Constitution _____________________216, 295 HB 330 --County Superintendent of Schools; classification ____.______671 HR 378-853 --Driver education; traffic fines and forfeitures; allocation; amendment to the Constitution ________23, 134 HB 140 --Driver Education Course; curriculum of high schools ____-___,,______,,___________ (No action in 1968) HB 842 --Driver Education Course included as part of curriculum of all public high schools by 1968-69 school year __________.________________21, 132, 137 HR 714-1514--Drop-outs; create interim study committee _..________________________________1783, 1980, 2592 HR 191-597 --Educational tax levy; change millage limitation; amendment to the Constitution ________ (No action in 1968) HB 899 --Equalized school property tax digest; 1969 shall be the same as 1968 ._____-_____.153, 190, 298, 444, 1449, 2646 HB 453 --Exceptional children; educational programs ..-470, 692, 1450 INDEX 3873 HR 656 --First grade teachers; create study committee to study method for providing additional incentives .._____..________.__.________________________.______._____1271, 2592, 2628 HB 1065 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Committee; create ._-___._..-....___....-...381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 HB 360 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; selection of State depositories ______________ (No action in 1968) HB 1066 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; student loans, federal requirements ....._..........___.__.._..._.........382, 466, 606, 815, 1450 HB 255 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; use of State funds by banks ._........_....,,. (No action in 1968) HE 845 --High school graduates and University System of Georgia; create study committee _--:--__,,.-- ._.--....2910 HB 871 --Immunization of pupils ___.___.____128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 HB 1357 --Income tax; deductions from gross income for school expenses __...._..__...__:__.._...1158, 1226, 1521 HB 1648 --Independent school system; merger __....___..__.2555, 2590, 2592 HB 892 --Local boards of education; monthly summary of all receipts and expenditures ,,__--,,----..,,-...__,,--149, 189 HR 711-1479--Local school systems; particular tax shall be allocated; amendment to the Constitution _.........._,,.....___........________________ ..._____1656, 1793 HB 544 --Lunchroom personnel; minimum wage .-- (No action in 1968) HB 545 --Lunchroom personnel; specific appropriations ............__.._...--.___._____________ (No action in 1968) HB 33 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; Assistant principals included within term "certificated professional personnel"--(No action in 1968) HB 900 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; lapsed funds ........__.._._.....___.........153, 190, 298, 446, 737 HB 331 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; professional personnel; separate classification ____________________________--,,_--,,--__--_.______.________671 HB 498 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; transporting of pupils; calculation of costs _________________________________________ (No action in 1968) HR 599-1247--Non-profit; suspend sales taxes on sales of food ____.________.~_______.--_____.878, 938, 1802, 2527, 3403 HR 288 --Pre-School Children Study Committee; create ____-_._____,,_--____,,--.,,___-(No action in 1968) HB 795 --Private business schools; provide for regulation, inspection and approval __________________....(No action in 1968) HB 967 --Private driver training schools; regulate _._____._._______.______-____..__-____._-.286. 330, 831, 912, 1450 HB 846 --Private elementary; exempt sale of food on premises ___._-.._..-.._.-__..__.___21 > 133, 990, 1487, 3168, 3367 HB 17 --Public Schools Employees' Retirement System; create --.----------------_ ----...(No action in 1968) HB 1315 --Sales tax; exempt property sales, private schools ._._.............._....... 1090, 1160, 1321, 1573, 3167 3874 INDEX HB 654 --Secondary; Driver Education Course; financial responsibility ..---..._--__....._... (No action in 1968) HB 1375 --State Board of Education; contracts __-._______._.___._.___.______.._.1221, 1315, 1319, 2475, 3165 HR 217-712 --Student loans; issuance of revenue bonds; amendment to the Constitution .____._,,_.__.__.831, 1207, 3000 HB 546 --Student's voting rights; appraisal at age 17 ..._._.._........_.._.....__....__........__.......___....._470, 867, 3170 HB 721 --Superintendent's office; minimum standards and HB 711 salaries; clerical personnel ,,...__,,.._._...._.(No action in 1968) --Superintendent's office; salaries for clerical personnel-__2592 HR 38-106 --Taxation; allocation to local units of school administration; amendment to the Constitution .__..._.___.__......_,,...._._..__.__..__. (No action in 1968) HB 682 --Taxation; redemption of property, certain conditions __-____--__-.-_--___._.______._...._--_-___736, 895, 949 HR 41-131 --Taxation; school lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution .__.___.__..________-,,___,,.. (No action in 1968) HR 181-555 --Taxation; school lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution ______......._.....__....,,....__. (No action in 1968) SB 247 --Teacher allotment; change provisions .._....__...._...__........._..._....._...669, 670, 733, 2234, 2891 HB 1103 --Teacher allotment; Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act ._____-.____-_._J__.____.__490, 599, 986, 1419, 3165 HR 479-1029--Teacher Certification Policies Study Committee; adopt report ._..._........_._....__...._.._._._.__327, 391, 470, 910, 1804 SR 227 HB 121 --Teacher Hall of Fame; provide ..._....__..._..._._.......2708, 2710, 2840, 2841, 3099, 3431 --Teacher Tenure Act; create ........___..-_.________.__--_____.__.___._.__-2234 HB 1180 --Teachers; board of three examiners may classify; certain counties ___.,,__..,,__._.__._ 654, 730, 2592, 2805 HB 298 --Teachers; declare legally recognized profession ........_...__..._....._........_......_._..____(No action in 1968) HB 94 --Teachers' Retirement System; additional member of the Board of Trustees _....__..,,_.._..,,.. (No action in 1968) HB 1021 --Teachers' Retirement System; adjustment of post-retirement benefits ......... __._,,. ..,,,,,,,,._ ..325, 390, 944, 2955 HR 608-1295--Teachers Retirement System; allowances to beneficiaries; amendment to the Constitution __._._.__..___._______._..___._________-.974, 1095, 1101, 2480 HB 713 --Teachers' Retirement System appointment of additional members ,,_.--------__--_.(No action in 1968) HB 65 --Teachers' Retirement System; conditions of membership ___._.___.._____._____,_____.___________.___.___._.___________-.199, 359 HR 142-403 --Teachers' Retirement System; create for all school employees; amendment to the Constitution _______.__.___.___.____.__-__.___._._____199, 314, 1166, 1283 SB 266 --Teachers' Retirement System; credit for service in the armed forces ____.._.._...___~._._739, 741, 828 HB 671 HB 952 HB 78 SB 14 HB 995 HB 87 HB 86 HB 1000 HB 1244 HB 1359 HR 773 SR 183 HB 1089 INDEX 3875 --Teachers' Retirement System; creditable service, certain cases ___._______..___.___..____.__.1445, 2585, 3273, 3310, 3431 --Teachers' Retirement System; earnable compensation, University System of Georgia . _ 216, 294, 2592, 2813, 3371, 3371, 3432 --Teachers' Retirement System; full service allowance after 40 years' service ,,...___...____._._________. (No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement System; leaves of absence ___..-- ...--___.--___.._.-- (No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor___.291, 335, 2592 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor of $5.00 for each year of service up to 40 years .....__.....____..___._.__...__........_ (No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement System; payment of minimum benefits to certain members --__,,_--_.----__-._,,--_.--____199 --Teachers' Retirement System; transfer of service credits .... 292, 336, 986, 2529, 3035, 3070 --Teachers' sick leave; accumulation when transferred _..,,__------_,,_.__..--__...._...,,....._.877, 937 --Teachers' sick leave; 3 days may be used for personal leave upon proper notice .___....,,___ 1218, 1312, 1319 --Teachers; Tenure Study Committee; create ,,__..____..______-___.._-...--____.___.-._,, 2181, 2592, 2753 --University System of Georgia, Board of Regents; scholarships; amendment to the Constitution __.________..________2708, 2710, 2840, 2991, 3217, 3431 --Venereal diseases; blood tests to all students prior to entering 8th grade _,,---__.--__---_-_--__,,---_456, 495 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HB 1294 --Promote facilities by exempting from building and zoning restrictions ___________ 973, 1094, 1229, 1447, 1451, 2707 SCHROER, ALBERT J., JR. HB 877 --Right of suffrage and citizenship; restore _._,___.___________.___.__.__.____________.129, 163, 393, 613, 3164 SCREVEN COUNTY HB 1446 --Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; create ___._______..._____.-_____.-__._._.__ ..__1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2358 HR 671-1446--Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ___.......__.___..__..._.___....1434, 1514, 1800, 1824, 2564 SEABOARD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY HR 51-134 --Sales tax payment; refund ._.._.__..........(No action in 1968) 3876 INDEX SEARCHES AND SEIZURES HB 277 --Motion to suppress illegally seized evidence shall be made before trial __--_----------_. .A99 SECRETARY OF STATE HR 609-1296--Elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution ...................915, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1423 --Tenure; salary increase ______.1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3335, 3339 SECURITIES ACT, GEORGIA SB 397 --Insurance, endowment or annuity contracts -_.__-----.----..---._.__--_.--_,,----2901, 2903, 2989 SEEDS HB 1332 --Private seed testing laboratories; licenses .....__..,,--------..._____.....--.1153, 1221, 1318, 2474 SENATE HB 380 SR 157 --Fiscal Affairs Sub-Committee; create .... (No action in 1968) --Governor's appointments submitted for confirmation; amendment to the Constitution -.--.2565, 2566, 2590, 2704 SENATORIAL DISTRICTS, STATE SB 207 --Reapportion _.__.___....201, 257, 297, 394, 441, 476, 476, 477, 477, 478, 478 SHAD FISH HR 455-1013--Study Committee; create .......... ..............SZ3, 388, 470, 689 HR 655 --Study committee; create .--------------------.1271, 1987, 2148 SHARPE, HONORABLE T. ROSS HR 639 --Express sympathy for passing of __.__.._..__....__...1253, 1451 SHERIFFS SB 250 SB 251 SB 221 SB 252 SB 268 INDEX 3877 --Civil and criminal cases; enumeration of fees _..-__________....__1167, 1239, 1315, 2626, 2844, 3143, 3430 --Governor's investigation committee to study charges against; create -.1103,1105,1163, 2844, 3141, 3430 --Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs; Workmen's Compensation ____________________499, 511, 603, 831 --Sheriffs' Retirement Fund; Board membership _.,____._.___.._..__ 1025, 1105, 1163, 2844, 3142, 3429 --Sheriffs' Retirement Fund; credit for service in armed forces, future members ________________739, 742, 828, 1521 SHRUBBERY SB 343 --Ornamental; nursery operators; rights of free enterprise; State competition .....__.._-______..1168, 1241, 1317 SIGNALLING DEVICES HB 979 --Automatic at railroad crossings; procedure for installation __.______..______..__.____288, 332, 734, 897 SKELTON, HONORABLE HUGH HR 818 --Express sympathy for passing of _~_____.___.___________-_.___________.2760 SKIDAWAY ISLAND BRIDGE HR 877 --Commend _.._____....___.._._-_______.______.._____....___._._____..._____________._.___.._..3193 SLUM CLEARANCE HR 139-399 --Ad valorem tax on increased value; amendment to the Constitution ,,_____.-__.__,,-___________.____ (No action in 1968) HR 295-835 --Revenue bonds ___.__.._._.__..____..__.______.___________.___.___..__.859, 1227, 1327 SMITH, GEORGE L., II HR 900 --Expressing appreciation; commend ____,,___.._______,,.___________.3211 --Remarks by ____________________,,______________._._...__________.610 --Address by .___.._...__-._..__..__._.._._.._._.___.__...___.10 SMITH, HONORABLE KYLE D. HR 647 --Express sympathy for passing of ....______..._____.______1263 3878 INDEX SMITH, ROY CLYDE HR 721 --Express sympathy for passing of --_----_.__------___1838 SMOKE RISE JUNIOR LEAGUE FOOTBALL TEAM HR 683 --Commend ._....__-_.__.._..._-__._-_---..--._-.._.__.________-..1588 SMYRNA, CITY OF HB 1351 --Corporate limits; increase^.1157, 1225, 1227, 1325, 2849, 3172 SOLICITATION OF MONEY HB 901 HB 949 SB 366 --False invoices; misdemeanor ----._._,,_153, 190, 338, 441, 737 --Goods or services not rendered; unlawful to solicit payment _._--_--------------------..------216, 294 --Minors; unlawful to employ ----.----.1992, 1994, 2084, 2592 SOLICITORS-GENERAL HB 1213 HB 1355 SB 265 SB 254 HB 506 HB 920 SB 299 SB 364 SB 30 --Compensation .._...__..._----..__..__..._..._----...__.._..726, 829, 879, 989 --Contingent expense allowance; increase -_.._..__..__...._......_._......._...1168, 1226, 1799, 2209, 3412 --Emeritus; credit for service in the armed forces ...................................----.739, 741, 828, 1990 --Emeritus; member of General Assembly and service in armed forces may be computed in number of years service required _--_..----884, 887, 938 --Emeritus; minimum salary, 65 years of age or over .............__.__------.--_--.(No action in 1968) --Emeritus; minimum salary, 65 years of age or over .._._.159, 195, 1101,1297, 1362, 2485 --Georgia Administrative Procedure Act; Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia ._-._..._...----..--_------884, 888, 939, 1099, 2582 --Salary payable from State funds .._..._.._..----.-----.--1992, 1994, 2084, 2090, 3006, 3407 --Trial Judges and Solicitors Retirement Fund; create --------._.----340, 341, 1099, 2969, 3036, 3237, 3430 SOUTHEAST RIVER BASINS STUDY COMMITTEE HR 903 --Endorse recommendations --.------_--------------_._--.3213 SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY HR 744 --Commend --_._..--.______--__..__.._..___..__..__-.2155 INDEX 3879 SOUTHERN INTERSTATE NUCLEAR COMPACT HB 1233 --Appropriations ....._..__....-..................824, 882, 1798, 2781, 3410 SOUTHERN RAILROAD SYSTEM HR 516 --Commend -__......__....._.._...._.._._._.___..._._....._.,,_.._,,__427 SPALDING COUNTY HB 1153 --Law library; establish _.___.- _____________._.____._..___.____596, 662, 1990 HR 592-1241--Sanitation, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution ...-..-,,.--..--876, 936, 1100, 1179, 2564, 2579 HB 1192 --Tax Commissioner's office hours ........656, 732, 735, 836, 1671 SPARTA, CITY OF HB 1628 --New Charter _____..._____...___.___.2226, 2347, 2353, 2570, 3004, 3135 SPEED DETECTION DEVICES HB 843 HB 4 --Radar; use to enforce regulations __._______.___.._________..21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 --Timing devices and radar equipment; use to enforce regulations _____________________________66 SPELL, MISS BILLIE JO HR 864 --Commend ___________________________________________.._______________...___3042 SPORTING EVENTS SB 154 --Regulate _____________-_______-..___.._.______..____,,_____.______._____ .2234 SPRINGFIELD, CITY OF HB 1184 HB 858 --City Court Judge's salary .______.______..____655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 --Mayor and Aldermen; election ________...___24, 135, 137, 166, 500 STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS HB 1237 HB 742 --Amend laws; define "detainer" ________________ _________.___.....____825, 883, 1099, 1950, 3166 --Confinement and rehabilitation of prisoners; 3880 INDEX new methods .__...._____2851, 2954, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 HB 1655 --Federal prisoners; jurisdiction __.......___2589, 2697, 2704, 2891 SB 199 --Georgia Administrative Procedure Act; place under provisions of Act _______________._______________.200, 257, 297, 508, 3098 HB 748 --Guards, wardens and deputy wardens; additional powers of arrest .......___.. (No action in 1968) SB 294 --Hospital patients; continuance of care and treatment when term has expired __..._____._____.__..___.__..944, 950, 984, 1101 HB 1120 --Motor vehicles; authority to purchase ._....______...._..___..494, 602 HR 396-912 --New board; composition of members; amendment to the Constitution _._._._...__....___.__....-..._...155, 192, 2594, 2819 HB 1117 --Penal rehabilitation programs; federal grants ___..__._.493, 602 HB 260 --Prison inmates allowed to enter into certain contracts ___________-_____.__,,._____ (No action in 1968) HB 1119 --Prisoners; authority to hire out to Federal Government agencies ....._.............._.........494, 602, 1101, 2045 HB 1118 --Prisoners; sale of certain goods ......................._.--.__.__ 494, 602, 1801, 2045, 3349, 3363 HR 235 --Study committee ...._...._..._-......__-_....__.,,....... (No action in 1968) HB 1593 --Wardens, guards and custodial officers; oath of office .. ._..._.__...__.___._.2071, 2227, 2237, 2782, 3416 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Sec Schools, Education) HB 1089 --Venereal diseases; blood tests to all students prior to entering 8th grade .__.............._.._...._...__.___.....456, 495 STATE BOARD OF FUNERAL SERVICE HB 1496 --Board members; increase .__.................1780, 1977, 2088, 2672 STATE BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES HB 1234 --Board members' written opinions; clarify certain requirements _______..._._____________.___________824, 882 HR 383-867 --Claxton, J. W.; impeachment charges ............._......._........__......127, 161, 609, 760, 3434, 3437 HR 716-1518--Committee to nominate 3 nominees to fill vacancies; create; amendment to the Constitution ....._..........._...-.....-.......__...1784, 1981, 2089, 2457 HR 794 --Constitutional Commission; investigation of appointments .........__..._.--......._.___.....___.._..___........ 2456, 2616 HR 382-867 --Garrett, Mrs. Rebecca L.; impeachment charges .....__._.....__._._..127, 161, 502, 3435, 3442 SB 202 --Georgia Administrative Procedure Act; place under provisions for rule making purposes _..........._....................-_......-.200, 258, 297, 1101, 3220 SB 201 SB 200 HB 1235 HR 797 INDEX 3881 --Licensed attorneys only may appear before for remuneration ._.__..__.....___.339, 473, 498, 830, 3279, 3428 --Public hearings ._,,_._.........._....._.,,_.__...__339, 473, 498, 830 --Rule-making authority; promulgate rules -_--___._--____---__-___-__-__-_-__._____.--_____.824, 883, 1099, 1951 --Study committee __.._...._....__........___..............._...._..2459, 2704, 2755 STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR FORESTERS HB 1561 --Licenses as registered foresters __.___________.-.______._._.___.1971, 2078 STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS HB 1321 HB 1312 HB 1559 HB 1508 HB 83 HB 1219 --Examination before assuming duties _______________._____1091, 1161 --Examination; engineer shall designate field ........1089, 1159 --License; certain persons ___..___...-.._-_-....___-._._-..1970, 2078, 2594 --Licenses; issuance to certain persons ......--...1782, 1979, 2594 --Members' examination _____________________________,,_(No action in 1968) --Rosters available upon request __.._.,,_.._._._._,,.._ _.____..822, 880 STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR USED CAR DEALERS HB 898 --"Established Place of Business" ....._..__.._........_....,...___.152, 190, 299, 573, 1166, 1195 STATE BOARD OF VETERANS SERVICE HB 1170 --Benefits; complete copies of all records .....__..__..._...._.__-_........_..__.651, 727, 829, 904, 3167 STATE BUILDING ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD HB 1325 --Create ._..-_..___..-..........--__._.._-.-....--__.___.....-____.....-1092, 1161 STATE CLAIMS --Interim Study Report -______.____-_____-___.____--________--____.~3456 HR 68-153 --Study Committee ........-__.__.__..-..__-..,,......._ (No action in 1968) STATE COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT BOARD HB 1206 --Create ____________,,_________________-___-_-____--_._,,__--__..____--.725, 826, 1321 3882 INDEX STATE CONSTITUTION HR 503-1090--Constitutional Convention; calling for; amendment to the Constitution ,,_...-.._...___..--.....--.457, 496 HR 502-1090--Constitutional Convention; provide in 1969; amendment to the Constitution ________.__.__.____________.___457, 496 HR 523-1104--Constitution Revision Commission; create ___._.____..__.__.___________.___..460, 498, 1101, 1957, 3375, 3376 HR 189-564 --Proposed amendments; date for submission to the people; amendment to the Constitution ___--____,,._,,--___--____.--.(No action in 1968) SR 149 --Provide for new Constitution; amendment to the Constitution __ _ . 1666, 1677, 1796, 2845, 3153, 3431 STATE COUNCIL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATURAL AREAS HB 1248 --Create ..__....,,_.__.._...__..--_..-,,-_.-.,,-.._. 927, 978, 1520 STATE COUNCIL FOR REMOVAL OF APPOINTED CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS HR 426-941 --Create; amendment to the Constitution ____.___187, 222, 1990 STATE CRIME LABORATORY HB 1069 --Blood and urine tests ..._......._-..___--_...----382, 467, 987 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AIR TRANSPORTATION HB 1510 HB 946 SB 234 --Appointment of officers ..._..-_..,,.__..__-_..._...-..-_.._..-1782, 1979 --Establish ____.__.____..__._.___________________________________..___215, 293, 829 --Establish _____._.603, 607, 665, 883, 1280, 1992, 1995, 2242, 2639, 3405 STATE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION HR 878 --Study Committee ___._.__.-_--_~--__...__._--.---___,,_-_--__3194 STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SB 369 --Prison-made products; submit list to Supervisor of Purchases ._...__.....1670, 1677, 1796, 2844, 3277, 3282, 3282 STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HB 1424 --Industrial Services Advisory Committee; create _,,._.._..._._-.--.._---.-.1311, 1444, 2592, 2796, 3413 INDEX 3883 STATE DEPARTMENT OF LAW HB 1236 --Attorney General; subpoena powers ..........825, 883, 988, 1949 STATE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS HR 582 --Safety programs and standards; adopt....782, 1228, 1245, 1805 STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SR 245 --State Properties Control Commission; transfer of certain property _______._____.2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3312, 3371 STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY HB 1080 --Driver's licenses; honorary; change requirements _..._.......__. ___.___._.-.-.._._____._._.385, 469, 829 STATE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS HR 414-923 --Create committee to study feasibility of establishing .__,_,..,_,,___._______,_________.160, 196, 394, 2194, 3422 STATE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICE HB 1393 --Director's compensation ............--...........1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 STATE DEPARTMENTS HB 625 HB 826 --Records; destroy after 7 years, certain cases __----,,_.,,--__.--_._--___..(No action in 1968) --Surplus property; authorization to declare _------_---- ____,943 STATE ELECTION BOARD HB 1057 HB 874 HB 1058 --Additional powers .__...._........_..379, 464, 509, 628, 3395, 3398 --Members' composition --.--.-...-..-.-......-...128, 162, 200, 509, 509 --Members' salaries _.,.___..-_--_-,,,_.--_.____..--_---379, 464, 509, 626 STATE EMPLOYEES HB 1229 HB 1079 --Contingent expense allowance _.,,........_.-.__.....,.,875, 935, 1665 --Discrimination ,,.._____...._-....-.._....._..._.,,__._.,..___.._..____384, 469 3884 HB 1314 HB 596 HB 1102 HB 1093 HB 1203 HB 694 SR 246 HB 456 HB 1240 HB 1550 INDEX --Labor union dues; unlawful to deduct from salaries ___._______.___________._____._________.__._____1090, 1160 --Liability insurance ____________________________________ (No action in 1968) --Mileage expense allowance ........._.._.__.....__.490, 599, 1101, 1956 --Mileage expense allowance; increase _........_......_.................._..................__..........458, 496, 509 --Minimum hourly wage .........._..._..____....._-........_-__...._..._..._.725, 826 --Minimum hourly wage -__..---...------..--.-- (No action in 1968) --Salaries; study committee .........._.__......._..._._.._....._..__.3170, 3216 --State Personnel Board; Merit System; salary adjustments .................._-_...._-..._.. (No action in 1968) --Strikes; prohibit ........_...-..........._...___......_........_....._.876, 936, 1292 --Workmen's Compensation; insurance ..............._....................__......___1789, 1985, 2233, 2581 STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM HB 1016 HB 81 SB 278 HB 1050 HB 20 HB 1020 HB 291 SB 263 HB 1037 HR 651 HB 1025 HB 963 HB 1033 HB 1015 HB 1032 HR 707 SB 208 HB 1001 --Amend Act to correct typographical and technical errors ................_...-...._......._._-.._..324, 389, 943 --Creditable service; change provisions ..........-.._.-..-.._...--..-.-.--._-.---__.. (No action in 1968) --Credit for service in armed forces ..............740, 742, 828, 1521 --Department of Public Safety; disability allowance ............__....377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 --Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind, Inc.; credit to certain members ....,,.....__.__....__ (No action in 1968) --Involuntary separation from employment without prejudice; expand definition ___...._.......__...325, 389, 1101, 1994, 2237, 2509, 3256 --Mandatory retirement, exempt certain employees ................._......_...--._._. (No action in 1968) --Notice to certain employees prior to retirement ..................................739, 741, 827, 2991 --Prior service credit .........__......_......__..329, 392, 1101, 1486, 3227 --Prior service; requested to conduct a study __.._._-..--......-1267 --Prior service credit; Armed Forces ..-._-.....-..__..._.._......326, 390 --Prior service credit Armed Services ....._._..__._.._......._...284, 329 --Prior service credit; municipal or county retirement systems ..,,-_.--.-- --------------.-----328, 392 --Retirement allowances; inclusion of interest in computing ..................................324, 389, 943, 2216, 3166 --Retirement benefits prior to January 1, 1967 _.._........328, 392 --Study committee; create .._............-.-.-..._-.--.-----1582, 2704 --Suspension of benefits under certain conditions ...._..._..._.............--.---2086, 2087, 2232 --Transfer of service credits ......292, 336, 986, 2531, 3035, 3072 STATE EXAMINING BOARDS SB 316 --Additional class of applicants ......._1526,1529,1663, 2704, 2967 HB 1169 HR 659 INDEX 3885 --Applicants; additional class __----_--------------651, 727, 939 --Study committee; create ___--.__--_----.___.___...____.__--____.________1264 STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION HB 1289 --Alligator farms; licensing _..__._._...972, 1093, 1165, 1576, 2705 HB 1293 --Alligator hunting and trapping; open season . ,,. 973, 1094, 1165, 2046, 3411 HR 425-941 --Boating and fishing facilities; motor fuel taxes; amendment to the Constitution ...____..._...........__......_.__187, 222 HR 415-923 --Create five member Commission; amendment to the Constitution __--------_......_....----__160, 196 HR 422-932 --Create a new Commission; amendment to the Constitution __......__....185, 220, 2351, 2686, 3384, 3384 HR 397-912 --Create new Commission; amendment to the Constitution _.-__..___..__._-...__.___.....__..._....._.......___. 155, 192 HB 1483 --Deer hunting; minors 15 years or younger prohibited to hunt unless under direct supervision of adult ......................................IBS?, 1794, 1987 HB 595 --Deer hunting at night; increase penalty __--------_--__,,__--.--_..__ (No action in 1968) HR 49-133 --Director shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner as Governor; amendment to the Constitution ___._.(No action in 1968) HB 997 --Outboard motors; certificate of title .___.........__-__.291, 335, 470 HR 786-1643--Reimbursement of certain employees; amendment to the Constitution .......... 2345, 2558, 2593, 2807, 3427 HB 1302 --Revise laws -.----------------976, 1097, 1165, 2192, 2900, 3171 HR 282 --Study committee _--------_----------------_. (No action in 1968) HB 998 --Watercraft; maximum capacity _----------__------------292, 335 STATE GOVERNMENT SB 237 HB 1079 SR 254 SB 384 SR 215 --Alien students; employment -.944, 949, 984, 2704, 3159, 3428 --Discrimination _.._.. _-------._--___.-- __. ....------ 384, 469 --Employment study committee; create ----...-2902, 2904, 2989 --Indebtedness; aggregate shall not exceed 11% of total revenue received -.-.......2707, 2709, 2839 --Indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution --.....2619, 2623 STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT HR 518-1100--Appropriations; motor fuel taxes; amendment to the Constitution ------------.----459, 498 HB 979 --Automatic signal devices at railroad crossing; procedure for installation _.------_----___--..288, 332, 734, 897 3886 INDEX HB 994 --Bridges across streams on State line; authority to purchase transferred from State Highway Board _________.________.___.________.._____.291, 335, 987 HB 978 --Claims and obligations against; repeal Act authorizing auditing ______________.___..__287, 332, 734, 2205, 3167 HB 987 --Director; eligibility _.___-.___._-__.__.__.____.289, 333, 734, 1276, 2999 HB 989 --Eminent domain; appeals by owner of land _._..-.____._-290, 334 HR 536-1179--Eminent domain; fair market value; amendment to the Constitution _,,.....____,,_--_--..653, 729, 1446 HB 991 --Legal expenses _..._._.._...._..._.__...__._..._..._-.290, 334, 734, 967, 1671 HB 992 --Length and weight permits; trucks hauling lumber and lumber products ___.290, 334, 604, 1116, 1242, 1524, 1729 HB 1322 --Municipal grants .__..__.-_.-..-_.._...-_-_-----.-_~.~.1091, 1161 HB 986 --Public utilities; rules and regulations relating to removal of equipment ..... ........ 289, 333, 987 HR 320 --Requested to link Interstate 75 at Macon with Interstate 85 at Commerce ....._.. (No action in 1968) HB 1061 --Rights-of-way; power to grant permits to utilities _._____.___.___..___-___-_.._.__._.380, 465, 734, 2582 HB 977 --Size and weight limits; scales ... ..-.-.--._.-._..._.-_.-__....287, 331, 734, 1422, 3000, 3065 HB 974 --State-aid Road Fund; transfer control from State Highway Board ....._...__.-_.._............287, 331, 734 HB 988 --State-aid system of roads; duties transferred from State Highway Board __.289, 333, 986 HB 990 --State Highway Board; report of operations ......_..._........................ 290, 334, 986, 2206, 3167 HB 980 --State Highway Engineer; duties transferred to State Highway Director ___.._.._____._._.___.._.___..__..__._..288, 332, 734, 1276 HB 976 --State Highway Engineer; traveling expenses incurred in Fulton County ___________ 287, 331, 734 HB 993 --Traffic control devices; conform to specifications .._...._... 290, 334, 734, 2814, 3408 HB 985 --Trucks carrying lumber and lumber products and concrete; special permits ....__289, 333, 474 HB 981 --Unattended vehicles; remove provisions exempting sellers of fruits, nuts and vegetables ....._...._..288, 332, 734, 969, 1675, 1841, 2900 HR 581 --Urge to complete certain highway projects .............._...__..._......_...._...._..._...._........._.781, 1445, 1586 SB 363 --Utility lines; cost of relocating ___.__.__._____.___1805, 1808, 1986, 2087, 2582, 2900 HB 975 --Weight limits; special permits ....... 287, 331, 734, 2203, 3166 STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PROPERTY INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES SUBCOMMITTEE --Interim Study Report .-....,...----..--.-- .,,_........_ 3583 INDEX 3887 STATE INSTITUTIONS AND PROPERTY PORTS SUB-COMMITTEE --Interim Study Report .... _..._-........,,__-........__-___.,,_.__.-__.__. 3581 STATE LIAISON OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. --Interim Study Report _....___-___....___.__..-_.-..-.__....__..___.____....___ 3521 STATE LITERATURE COMMISSION HB 1247 HB 703 --Obscene literature; definition __________.___-.____._.___________....878, 937 --Obscene literature; determination of guilt ....... 197, 310, 886 STATE OFFICIALS HR 609-1296--Certain officials elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution ______._______.___..975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HR 677-1458--Change in compensation; amendment to the Constitution .._,,.._.....--1507, 1660, 1665 HB 1229 --Contingent expense allowance ___-__._-.~-~~___~.875, 935, 1665 HB 1102 --Mileage expense allowance ___._.._.____________.490, 599, 1101, 1956 HB 1093 --Mileage expense allowance; increase _..--_.,,--. 458, 496, 509 SB 293 --Salaries; bills affecting must be introduced during first 10 days of any Session ___._______.__.____________.____.884, 888, 939, 990, 2326 SR 246 --Salaries; study committee _._.--_,,...._.....__._..._.3170, 3216 HB 1423 --Tenure salary increase __...1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3335, 3339 STATE PARKS HB 1394 --Department of; Director's compensation _____-_____________________.___.______1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 SB 239 --Department of; Director's salary ........____....._._._..._.._.2707, 2709, 2839, 2843, 3316 HR 252-783 --Horseback riding facilities; create committee to study desirability ____._.__ (No action in 1968) STATE PENAL AND REHABILITATION AUTHORITY ACT HB 1374 --Bond limitation __....._...-........_..-_........__1221, 1314, 1801, 2783 STATE PERSONNEL BOARD HB 456 --Merit System; salary adjustments __(No action in 1968) 3888 INDEX STATE PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING BUREAU SB 419 --Powers, duties and responsibilities ------.-2902, 2904, 2989 STATE PROPERTY HB 1506 HB 1498 --Surplus; determination by Supervisor of Purchases --.--------,,--------------------.1781, 1979 --Surplus; procedure for disposal _ 1780, 1978, 2354, 2667, 3395, 3401 STATE PROPERTIES CONTROL COMMISSION HR 267-829 --Negotiate for the cancellation of Leases on the property owned by state at Peachtree and Cain Streets ....--.___.__.--(No action in 1968) SR 245 --State Department of Public Health; transfer of certain property .. ........... 2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3312, 3371 HB 879 --State owned real property; inventorying ---.-129, 163, 171 HB 878 --State Properties Control Code; authorization to sell as well as lease certain State property __....._......_.....____....._,,._.._-..___..__..... 129, 163, 943 HR 387-884 --Western and Atlantic Railroad; accept bid of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company - 131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 HB 382 --Western and Atlantic Railroad lease .-...(No action in 1968) HR 737-1616--Western and Atlantic Railroad lease; amend present lease __..._...._..__ 2075, 2231, 2237, 2516, 3404 HR 673-1450--Western and Atlantic Railroad lease; jurisdiction .--.--------......----1435, 1515, 1801, 2549, 3403 HR 495-1071--Western and Atlantic Railroad; withhold lease until "General" Locomotive has been returned to Georgia .._.----------...383, 467, 1165 STATE REVENUE DEPARTMENT HB 405 SB 189 HB 1397 HB 406 HB 1204 --Arbitrators; provisions relation to appointment .----.,,------------.-.__--_..(No action in 1968) --Commissioner; compensation .--,...-.-.............736, 2888, 3002 --Deputy Commissioner Compensation ____1305, 1439, 1665 --Property tax; determination of value --.(No action in 1968) --Tax digests; reevaluation programs; approval by Commissioner _________..______725, 826 STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT HR 609-1296--Elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution ._..__......_.. ....__..__975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1423 INDEX 3889 --Tenure; salary increase ....1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3339 STATE SENATORIAL DISTRICTS SB 207 --Reapportion .__._.. 201, 258, 297, 394, 441, 476, 476, 477, 477, 478, 478 STATE TREASURER HR 609-1296--Elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution ..... 975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1239 --State depositories; deposit of State funds ....___..__.._. 875, 935 HB 1423 --Tenure; salary increase ._ .1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3335, 3339 STATESBORO, CITY OF HR 902 HB 1568 --High School "Blue Devils"; commend _.........-_......_____.--------..__.___.---._.....____._...._..__.... ... 3213 --Mayor and Councilmen; qualify for elections __..._. _.................__... 1972, 2079, 2235, 2255, 2998 STEINBERG, REV. ROBERT F. --Prayer offered by ......_._._.._..........___.............___.._.._._......_. 213, 283 STEIS, HONORABLE WILLIAM BURTON HR 899 --Commend .....,,-....___.._..........__..___..._.........._......___..__........._.... ___.3210 STEPHENS COUNTY HB 1599 --City Court Judge's salary ........2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3163 HR 603-1280--Convey certain tract of land __.___933, 983, 1801, 2529, 3403 HR 734-1600--Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _._.._.....2073, 2229, 2236, 2418, 3426 HB 1538 --Development Authority; issue revenue bonds ................___.........1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 2848 HB 1539 HB 1535 HB 1537 --Ordinary's salary _.__.__._._.___________.1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 2996 --Sheriff's compensation __.........._._.1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 --Superior Court Clerk's salary ....1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 3890 INDEX STEPHENS, HONORABLE RONALD D. (RONNIE) HR 760 --Express sympathy for passing of .....______.....,,..--_..._...__...2169 STEWART COUNTY HB 1482 --Clerk's and Ordinary's fees ..._. 1657, 1793, 1799, 1997, 2615 HB 1500 --Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; compensation ____________________ 1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 HB 1485 --Sheriff's salary ___________________1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 HR 476-1020--Stewart County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to to the Constitution .,,._------_. 325, 390, 394, 537, 1669, 1852 HB 1484 --Tax Commissioner's fees ___________ 1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 STOCKS (See Banks) HB 939 HB 934 HB 935 HB 519 HB 520 --Bank common stock; capital notes or debentures __.._.____,,.____-__.--..187, 221, 666, 2059, 3170, 3335 --Capital; international or foreign banking ........___..____..__._____._.__..186, 220, 337, 580, 1166, 1362 --Capital; subsidiary banks ............186, 221, 666, 818, 923, 1296, 2705 --Preference right, assets upon liquidation and distribution ,,.___---- --___,,_. -__.__,, (No action in 1968) --Stockholders; certain information furnished on request .,,___________--_.____,,_____ (No action in 1968) STONE MOUNTAIN HR 442 --United States Postmaster General requested to issue stamp commemorating historic carving ____--___.___._______________.___________________________.___________260, 500 STONE MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1617 HB 1577 HB 1463 --Solicitor-General's salary .._..___-_.._...__._..............._......2076, 2232 --Superior Court Judges' supplemental salaries -----1973, 2080 --Superior Court terms ____.__.__,,.__.__1508, 1661, 1799, 1813, 2846 STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION HB 354 --Change name to Georgia Parks Authority; change membership ,,.--.......__..._.,,.___,,--(No action in 1968) STREETS HB 814 --Reversions to land when cease to be used for streets .._._.____...._______.___________943 INDEX 3891 STRICKLAND, C. R. HR 159-478 --Compensate ,,___----. .... --.......------. (No action in 1968) STRIKES HB 1240 --Municipal employees; prohibit strikes -- --------.---- -.----...876, 936, 1292 STRINGER, MRS. VIRGINIA (Frank D.) HR 440 --Commend .-------- --.------------------ -- --.........__.----__...259 SUBPOENAS SB 231 --General Assembly members; subpoenas shall not be issued while in Session .----.........832, 832, 883, 990, 3221 SUMMONS HB 930 --Service by publication; clerk of court may grant ....__......__._.__.__.___.__184, 219, 666 SUMTER COUNTY HB 161 HB 1126 HB 1127 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman's salary --...---(No action in 1968) --Board of Education members; election ----__--------.--------------591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 --Clerk of Superior Court, clerks or deputies; salaries --------------------------591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 SUNDAY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES SB 204 SB 213 --The Common Day of Rest Act of 1968; create ----------------.--_.._------_.-----603, 607, 665, 939 --The Sunday Business Activities Act; provide for exceptions ----..--------1166, 1239, 1315, 1517 SUPERIOR COURTS SB 324 HB 367 --Alternate jurors may be substituted for original jurors ..............2618, 2622, 2699, 2703, 2953, 3405 --Clerks; appoint as Jury Clerks _------------..----...199, 371 3892 HB 889 SB 246 SB 271 HB 509 HB 1340 HB 1081 SB 260 SB 31 HB 690 HB 925 SB 276 HB 69 HB 691 SB 357 HB 689 HB 566 HB 85 HB 49 INDEX --Clerks; fees for recording liens, mortgages and deeds .............._.._._..-.....--...-149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 --Clerks; retirement benefits -...-1991, 1994, 2084, 2237, 2951 --Clerk; retirement benefits; credit for service in the armed forces _______.____.__..__.___.__._______739, 742, 828, 1521 --Clerks; retirement benefits; exemptions ,,__._.___._._,,..__.._______._.,,______.._______-__._._-199, 687, 3408 --Clerks; use of microfilm ......----1154, 1223, 1320, 2483, 3168 --Clerks; veterans' discharge certificates; fees for recording _.._................__...-.._..._.__.385, 440, 469, 829 --Clerks; veterans' discharge certificates; fees for recording .................__....604, 607, 666, 1520, 2962 --Judges; additional benefits ..____...._.__..._..._-----1099, 3275, 3430 --Judges; compensation .__..._.._......................(No action in 1968) --Judges, Emeritus; annual salary if 70 years or over ,,_____,,.___..______.,,..._.......__.._.._._.,,_..,,.--,160, 196 --Judges, Emeritus; credit for service in armed forces ._..___..__..-_..___.-..._.__......_.-740, 742, 828, 1990 --Judges' Emeritus; retirement; credit for service .__.,,................. .............(No action in 1968) --Judges; group life insurance --.._.--..--.(No action in 1968) --Judges; may serve in other Superior Courts -.._.---..-_..----.....1527, 1529, 1663 --Judges; secretarial service --_____--_,,_____ (No action in 1968) --Notices of appeal ...................................._.(No action in 1968) --Senior Superior Court Reporters' Retirement Fund of Georgia; establish _____.--_______.___--______.--_______.199 --Superior Court Judges' Retirement System; create new system ________________________,,______ (No action in 1968) SUPERVISOR OF PURCHASES HB 741 HB 1506 --County governments, purchase of supplies ,,______. ___._.,,._______.__.__-._____--.___-__.________..__.__3395, 3396 --State-owned personal property surplus; employment of inspectors --.........,,..-..___.__.__________ 1781, 1979 SUPREME COURT HR 409-912 --Justices; retirement age; amendment to the Constitution .............._._-...__..__._...___.__..____.__.__._...__..__-.....157, 194 SURFACE MINED LAND USE BOARD HB 969 --Establish _._.__.._._____.____..__._____..285, 330, 605, 709, 1102, 1196 SURVEYORS HB 1559 HB 1321 HB 1508 HB 83 HB 1219 INDEX 3893 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; license; certain persons ......_..___....__.._........._.....___..___--1970, 2078, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; examination ....... _.__........_...__.............._...._____.___--______.1091, 1161 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; licenses ............... ........__........._._......___._....._.....1782, 1979, 2594 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; members' examination .___._..___..___..____________-___.____.__(No action in 1968) --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; rosters available upon request .-- .__..-- ................822, 880 SUTLIVE, W. KIRK HR 540 --Commend -____.._._--...___._._._._._-.-__...._.,,____..--.------608 SWAINSBORO, CITY OF HB 1487 --Corporate limits; municipal elections __..._...._.__......1658, 1794, 1988, 2114, 2995 SYLVANIA, CITY OF HB 1446 --Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; create ................__..__...__..._......__.1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2358 HR 671-1446--Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; tax levy; amendemnt to the Constitution _.______1434, 1514, 1800, 1824, 2564 TAGS (See Motor Vehicle) HB 1342 HB 932 HB 1171 SB 258 HB 179 --Allow 50^ for mailing to applicants .__......__-........_..........1154, 1223, 1321, 2044, 3412 --Citizens' band radio stations .___......_185, 220, 507, 700, 1806 --Disabled veterans _._..__..__..._._._._._.___.__....-..__...._........_____.651, 727 --Issuance to certain veterans ---- ..------......604, 607, 665, 760, 939, 2968, 3406 --Issuance to certain disabled veterans ----.(No action in 1968) 3894 HB 839 HB 293 HB 903 HB 137 INDEX --Reflective material _-.__..._ 20, 131, 137, 201, 1322, 1371 --Special issuance to citizens' band radio stations __--______507 --Special personalized plates -..,.-153, 190, 299, 416, 3273, 3356 --Treated with reflective material _.__,,..__________668 TALBOT COUNTY HB 1469 HB 1468 --Additional deputies' compensation -___--_-.___-_.-.__1510, 1662, 1665, 1815, 2562 --Tax Commissioner; compensation ..._....._......._........_.1509, 1662, 1665, 1814, 2563 TALIAFERRO COUNTY HB 1255 HB 1254 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; member's salaries ____.928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 --Sheriff's salary .__.........._..__._-..__...._-..928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 TALMADGE, SENATOR HERMAN E. --Address by .-..._..._..,,._-......_.-...._-.....__......,,_.......--.__.---.--..266 --Invite to address General Assembly _--___,,-__26, 145, 265 TAPES HB 867 --Restrict sales ......._._.._.....__-__127, 161, 338 TATTNALL COUNTY HB 918 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election __.__....159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 HB 1279 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of members .....___.._......_......._..__......_.....932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 HB 919 --Board of Education; election of members _._-____--.___..-___-_____159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 HB 1278 --Board of Education; members and districts ____--._.__.___.___________..932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 HR 484-1037--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ___________________.___.375, 460, 507, 544, 1669, 1852 TAXATION HR 400-912 --Ad valorem tax; assessments; homestead exemptions; amendment to the Constitution _._.__._156, 193 INDEX 3895 HR 736-1611--Ad valorem tax; educational purposes; exempt persons 70 years of age or over; amendment to the Constitution _______________________ 2074, 2231 HR 524-1104--Ad valorem tax; exemption of properties properties owned by Public utilities; true fair market value ______ 491, 600, 1099, 2220, 3383, 3386 HR 36-104 --Ad valorem tax; exemptions; amendment to the Constitution _____._,,_______________(No action in 1968) HR 83-209 --Ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; change from $2,000 to $4,000; amendment to the Constitution _________________________________ (No action in 1968) HR 537-1179--Ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; $4,000 exemption for persons 65 or older; amendment to the Constitution _________ 653, 729, 1802, 2784, 3315, 3319 HR 491-1063--Ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; municipalities; amendment to the Constitution _.,,__._.._.._ _____________ 381, 465, 1521 HR 434-952 --Ad valorem tax; household and kitchen furniture; exempt; amendment to the Constitution ....___.___..-,,_,,___ 216, 295, 2627 HB 120 --Ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; classification and method of assessment ____----_._.___.___(No action in 1968) HB 1059 --Ad valorem tax; motor vehicle dealers; due date __.__,,._________________________________ 380, 464, 1991 HB 1290 --Ad valorem, motor vehicles method of taxation .__,,.._.__----,,_..._. 973, 1094, 1801 HR 139-399 --Ad valorem tax; slum clearance, tax on increased value; amendment to the Constitution __-__-___-__.______________--_------_-- (No action in 1968) HB 25 --Appraisers; notice to counties of return for year's support for widows when filed in another county ___.___.______________,,...._____.____.__ 947, 3431 HB 1514 --Charitable institutions, agencies of State, County or municipal government; exempt ______1783, 1980 HB 1413 --Contractors; county and municipal assessments and fees; State contracts ______________ ________________________1309, 1442 HB 757 --County tax digests; postpone one year the statute to see if valuations are uniform between counties ..__.___-__._-____-__--_________ (No action in 1968) HB 387 --Counties; allocation ________________________________ (No action in 1968) HR 711-1479--Counties, municipalities; particular tax shall be allocated for local school systems; amendment to the Constitution _____.--_________ ________1656, 1793 HR 191-597 --Educational tax levy; change millage limitation; amendment to the Constitution ___________,,,,.,,_,,____,,________________ (No action in 1968) HB 899 --Equalized school property tax digest; 1969 shall be the same as 1968 ______ 153, 190, 298, 444, 1449, 2646 3896 INDEX HB 1041 --Excise tax; amusements; accommodations rented to transients....----376, 461, 1521 HB 885 --Excise tax; exempt motor fuel used exclusively in aircraft motors ....... ______--..131, 164 HB 1341 --Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966; registration ............_------.__.__. 1154, 1223, 1320, 2191, 3412 SB 134 --Federal Wagering Occupational Tax Stamp Act; amend . ._--__--------._.. -- .(No action in 1968) HB 172 --Gross income shall not include retirement income by persons 65 or over ....._........ -(No action in 1968) HR 436-952 --Homestead exemption; extend for disabled veterans; amendment to the Constitution __------------ __----.217, 295, 2595, 2798, 3421 HR 405-912 --Homestead exemption; increase; amendment to the Constitution --------_.--------.157, 193 HB 1659 --Income Tax Act of 1931; deductions by self-employed individuals _------------.----.- 2839, 2988 HB 896 --Income tax; additional exemption for dependent students .--..........152, 189, 1521, 2666, 3408 HB 514 --Income tax; Church contributions; additional deduction __...........------... 1321, 2049, 3040, 3088 HB 1357 --Income tax; deductions from gross income; school expenses ....___.--._...........---- 1158, 1226, 1521 HR 86 --Income tax; political contributions --.....(No action in 1968) HB 67 --Intangible personal property; tax levies upon accounts receivable ----___,,----__(No action in 1968) HR 177 --Intangible Tax Study Committee; create __...._------_ ......_......--.__...._._.--....___(No action in 1968) HB 1549 --Life insurance companies; tax on gross direct premiums ....------.1968, 2077, 2701, 2890, 3416 HR 38-106 --Local units of school administration; allocation; amendment to the Constitution _......--_...----_----.._... ....--... (No action in 1968) HR 702 --Metropolitan Tax Study Commission; create ...----.---------- ... ------....----..........1578, 1800, 2149 HB 152 --Minimum assessment for intangible tax shall be $1.00 .----....--.--..-..----_.... (No action in 1968) HB 982 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; excise tax; distributors ...._...._.._........._.. 288, 332, 1521, 2308, 2468, 2650 HB 854 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt excise tax _._.._......______......_._.....___..__._--........23, 134, 1321, 2317 HB 1478 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; motor carriers; impose tax for use of streets and highways ___._----------...__ 1655, 1792, 1802, 2670, 3166 HB 124 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; raise gasoline tax to 7$ per gallon ,,.--.... (No action in 1968) HB 1179 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; refunds to counties and municipalities --.....------...--....653, 729, 1521 HR 425-941 --Motor fuel taxes; appropriated to State Game and Fish Commission for boating INDEX 3897 and fishing facilities; amendment to the Constitution _....___....--_.._.._____...___ 187, 222 HR 518-1100--Motor fuel taxes; appropriations to State Highway Department ._.,,_,,_._________..___. 459, 498 HB 984 --Motor fuel taxes; increase tax if purchased in other states ....___.....__....._...._........ 288, 333, 1521 HB 627 --Motor vehicles; additional millage; bonded indebtedness ... _------...._.___..._... (No action in 1968) HB 259 --Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Act of 1966; allow counties to hire additional personnel to administer .... 668, 1276, 2704 HB 760 --Motor vehicle ad valorem tax; establish values if held for resale --------__....--.(No action in 1968) HB 599 --Occupational Tax; equalize ........_._...__.._._. (No action in 1968) HB 1185 --Occupational or professional; certain professions ._........._. 655, 731, 1321 HR 666-1435--Peanuts and pecans; tax exemption; amendment to the Constitution ................___.1432, 1512, 1516 HR 216-712 --Primaries; power of taxation; amendment to the Constitution ___.__............_._....__._._.(No action in 1968) HB 1596 --Property assessment; owner may challenge assessment value by county tax assessor __________ 2072, 2228 HB 1607 --Property classification; grant or conveyance by any city or county _..___-___ 2074, 2230, 2595 HB 406 --Property; determination of value by State Revenue Department ______________ (No action in 1968) HB 910 --Property "fair market value" ______ 155, 192, 2238, 2793, 3164 HB 686 --Property; potential or speculative value may not be used on returns --__...___........ (No action in 1968) HB 592 --Property; valuation shall be increased--.(No action in 1968) HB 1197 --Real estate; exempt certain instruments __ 657, 733, 1321, 2304, 2468, 2664, 3395, 3396 HB 440 --Returns; late filing of ___.._______.________,,..____(No action in 1968) HB 258 --Sales tax; allow municipalities and counties to adopt 1% sales tax ________.._.(No action in 1968) HR 237-776 --Sales tax; charitable organizations; exempt certain property; amendment to the Constitution .._.__.___.__..._......__.___.(No action in 1968) HB 1071 --Sales tax; counties, municipalities; monies derived from public transit facilities ____....____....383, 467, 1521, 2062, 2191, 3234 HB 459 --Sales tax; exempt certain equipment used directly in manufacture of tangible personal property _-____________._.........._._.____ (No action in 1968) HB 1489 --Sales tax; exempt commercially fry and fingerling channel catfish ........_.....__1658, 1795, 1991, 2810 HB 469 --Sales tax; exempt drugs and food ___......___(No action in 1968) HB 683 --Sales tax; exempt farm machinery __________....________,,. 3040, 3084 HB 887 --Sales tax; exempt food for human consumption ___.____131, 164 3898 INDEX HB 123 --Sales tax; exempt gasoline and other products used as fuel for motor vehicles _.._.----._----_--_------___..--.--(No action in 1968) HB 1091 --Sales tax; exempt prescription drugs _...._..__.__.___._-458, 496 HB 1315 --Sales tax; exempt property sold to private schools _.__.._-.....-.-__.._____1090, 1160, 1321, 1573, 3167 HB 983 --Sales tax; exempt motor fuel ___.....______....._._.......___-.-._ 288, 332 HB 1447 --Sales tax; exempt Planning Commissions --1434, 1514, 1840 HB 846 --Sales tax; exempt sale of food on premises of private elementary schools _______.._-_____-.......__..-...__.__.21, 133, 990, 1487, 3168, 3367 SB 314 --Sales tax; exempt shavings and saw dust from wood used directly in animal husbandry ......1323, 1324, 1444, 1991, 2954, 3003 HB 1470 --Sales Tax; exempt shavings and sawdust used for tilling soil or animal husbandry ______ 1653, 1790 HR 597-1247--Sales tax; Holy Bible; suspend ... 878, 938, 1802, 2524, 3403 HB 105 --Sales tax; increase from 3% to 4% .__.____(No action in 1968) HB 616 --Sales tax; increase from 3% to 4% ______ (No action in 1968) HR 598-1247--Sales tax; non-profit hospitals; sale of tangible personal property; suspend .......___._..._.._-.-.-,,__.....-__ 878, 938, 1802, 2525, 3403 HR 599-1247--Sales tax; non-profit schools; sales of food; suspend ...._........ 878, 938, 1802, 2527, 3403 HB 1660 --Sales tax; prescription drugs ..-_._.___._...__. 3111 HB 1462 --Sales tax; retail sales; tangible, personal property ..__.._.____.._____ 1508, 1661, 2089, 2328, 3414 HR 596-1247--Sales tax; suspend certain tangible personal property purchased outside State .....__..__...... 878, 937, 1802 HR 181-555 --School lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution ....__--,,.______--..,,_.......( No action in 1968) HR 41-131 --School lunch purposes; amendment to the Constitution ______.--.___.._._-...___....(No action in 1968) HB 682 --Schools, redemption of property, certain conditions ............__....-._____......__..._-_..736, 895, 949 HB 1476 --State income tax; Armed Forces Commissioned Officers ~.____.__-_..._~1654, 1791, 1802, 2535 HR 778 --State Income Tax; create study committee... 2185, 2238, 2449 SB 368 --State income tax; increase exemption for certain commissioned officers ___________..2617, 2620, 2697 HR 336 --State Income Tax returns study committee; create ----------__----..----_-(No action in 1968) HB 1296 --State Income Tax; transfer of property by corporations ..._....____..__-..._....974, 1095, 1165, 1417, 2705 HB 439 --Tangile property; Fair Market Value; method of assessment __.._______(No action in 1968) HB 1629 --Tax Collectors; additional duties _________.._2226, 2347 HB 1264 --Tax Collectors and Commissioners; record cash collected in cash book within 15 days after payment is received __________.930, 980, 1099, 1202, 3411 HB 1204 HR 419 HB 1303 HB 1622 INDEX 3899 --Tax digests, reevaluation programs; approval by Commissioner, State Revenue Department .--..725, 826 --Tax structure; create committee to study --_--___--____--~_.169 --Tax on Transfer of Real Property Act; exempt certain instruments _______-___________________________976, 1097 --Tugboats; annual tax returns; requirements -_.__-._......-.....__-......-._____.........-2076, 2232, 2237 TAX COLLECTORS HB 1629 HB 1264 --Additional duties _-._...-_..... _____________..-....__........-...-_.2226, 2347 --Record cash collected in cash book within 15 days after payment is received ____._..............-___._______...._..__.930, 980, 1099, 1202, 3411 TAX COMMISSIONERS HB 1264 --Record cash collected in cash book within 15 days after payment is received _.--.......--__._.----__ 930, 980, 1099, 1202, 3411 TAXICABS HB 593 Registration and licensing ___....-.._._--.___ (No action in 1968) TAYLOR COUNTY HR 640 --4-H Club; commend _.._...._______.._.._...-__.__.___-..__.__._..-1258 HR 765 --High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend .._......_.2173 HB 764 --High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend ...__-..__..2172 HR 641 --Howard Community; commend -_.----_-___.._.___--...._______.1259 HR 622-1352--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .......______..-..-..-_...._.1157, 1225, 1227, 1339, 2243 HR 642 --Taylor High School Chapter of Future Business Leaders --..___--_._..__._._.._......__..._..1260 TAYLOR, MISS CINDY HR 848 --Commend -______.- _..._.-_-._.^ ....._._.-.-____._-....__..__.___..-. 2912 TEACHERS SB 247 HB 1103 --Allotment; change provisions ......669, 670, 733, 2234, 2891 --Allotment; Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act ...._..-.,,-._....--..._490, 599, 986, 1419, 3165 3900 INDEX HR 793 --Create study committee on compensation, retirement and ancillary matters ------.-- 2455, 2592, 2754 HB 1180 --Board of three examiners may classify; certain counties -..__--._--.____--654, 730, 2592, 2805 HB 298 --Declare legally recognized profession__(No action in 1968) HB 94 --Retirement System; additional member of the Board of Trustees _--.--_------(No action in 1968) HB 1021 --Retirement System; adjustment of post-retirement benefits ....._____....------_ 325, 390, 944, 2955 HR 608-1295--Retirement System; allowances to beneficiaries; amendment to the Constitution ....... ...... ....974, 1095, 1101, 2480 HB 713 --Retirement System; appointment of additional members _._..--_--____..--------(No action in 1968) HB 65 --Retirement System; conditions of membership _._.... 199, 359 HR 142-403 --Retirement System; create for all school employees; amendment to the Constitution ------__...... ..............._------_ 199, 314, 1166, 1283 HB 671 --Retirement System; creditable service, certain cases --------..1445, 2585, 3273, 3310, 3431 SB 266 --Retirement System; credit for service in the armed forces ------------------739, 741, 828 HB 952 --Retirement System; earnable compensation, University System of Georgia ... 216, 294, 2592, 2813, 3371, 3371, 3432 HB 78 --Retirement System; Full service allowance after 40 years' service ........ (No action in 1968) SB 14 --Retirement System; leaves of absence.--(No action in 1968) HB 995 --Retirement System; minimum floor ..............291, 335, 2592 HB 86 --Retirement System; payment of minimum benefits to certain members _._.....___......__._..... 199 HB 87 --Retirement System; minimum floor of $5.00 for each year of service up to 40 years ------_..--------....------(No action in 1968) HB 1000 --Retirement System; transfer of service credits ___...------.--..292, 336, 986, 2529, 3035, 3070 HB 1244 --Sick leave; accumulation when transferred .._....._.. 877, 937 HB 1359 --Sick leave; 3 days may be used for personal leave upon proper notice .-----.1218, 1312, 1319 HR 479-1029--Teacher Certification Poliices Study Committee; adopt report ..----.--.327, 391, 470, 910, 1804 SR 227 --Teacher Hall of Fame; provide _._.....------------.2708, 2710, 2840, 2841, 3099, 3431 HB 121 --Teacher Tenure Act; create ----_--__------._----.--------.-.2234 HR 773 --Tenure Study Committee; create .------...-.2181, 2592, 2753 TEACHER CERTIFICATION POLICIES --Interim Study Report ...----._----......__--------..--....3605 INDEX 3901 TEACHER HALL OF FAME SR 227 --Provide _._.___._____._ _.._____________2708, 2710, 2840, 2841, 3099, 3431 TEACHER'S RETIREMENT SYSTEM --Interim Study Report _______.__._._______.__..........__.______._..._.___ ....3469 TELEPHONES HB 836 HB 1512 --Obscene calls; criminal penalties ___._..___._______.__ 393, 481, 886 --Uniform Commercial Code; secured transaction; telephone service___ 1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 TELFAIR COUNTY HB 1249 --Telfair County Hospital Authority members' appointment ________________ 927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 TERRILL, DR. L. M. --Prayer offered by ____...._______.............._...____..__________________ 1300 THE COMMON DAY OF REST ACT OF 1968 SB 204 --Create _______________.603, 607, 665, 939 THOMAS, WALLACE HR 457-1013--Compensate ............____.._.________.__.________323, 388, 1797, 2025, 3422 THOMASTON, CITY OF HB 1004 --Ad valorem taxes; levy _________________ __.___321, 387, 471, 512, 885 HR 459-1013--Board of Tax Assessors; consolidate with Upson County; amendment to the Constitution ...._.........__.___.___.... 324, 388, 472, 526, 887 HR 1006 --Extend corporate limits _.._.._._._.._322, 387, 471, 512, 885 HB 1003 --Thomaston-Upson County Office Building Authority; members ..........321, 386, 471, 512, 885 THOMASVILLE, CITY OF HB 1145 --Board of Education; vacancies ..__.._ 594, 661, 667, 749, 1170 3902 INDEX THOMPSON, IRENE HR 710-1479--Compensate -........-.._. ..-~......-___.1656, 1793, 2233, 2304, 3425 THOMSON, GEORGE CLARENCE HR 873 --Express sympathy for passing of _____________._.__._______..3047, 3427 THOMSON HIGH SCHOOL HR 394 --Football Team; congratulate .___._..___..__..______...____....--.....____....143 TIFT COUNTY HB 1326 HB 1209 HB 1449 --Airport Authority; establish ___ 1092, 1162, 1799, 1810, 2560 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Vice Chairman's offiee._.726, 827, 830, 891, 1807 --Building permits _........-...._......1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2357 TIFTON, CITY OF HB 1047 HB 1046 HB 1045 --Chairman and City Commissioners; salaries __________________..... 377, 462, 471, 514, 885 --City Commissioners; residents ........_._.377, 462, 471, 514, 885 --Police Court; certain provisions ........376, 462, 471, 513, 1104 TIME HB 915 HB 1431 HR 652 HR 580 HB 16 SR 146 --Daylight Savings Time; abolish ......_._-....._......___........__..158, 194, 338, 950, 951, 1025 --Daylight Savings Time; abolish within the State ..............._-_...._--____......_-1430, 1511, 2234 --Daylight Savings Time; delay opening schools if Georgia remains on Daylight Savings Time _________1268 --Daylight Savings Time; Georgia; Georgia Congressional Delegation requested to initiate federal legislation to shorten ..._._.____...._780 --Eastern Standard Time designated for all State governmental agencies ___.__._--(No action in 1968) --Uniform Time Act; support ................__200, 257, 297, 338 TIRES HB 942 --Black marks on road surface; reckless driving .__..._.......__...._..._...__,,_.._..__._.........214, 293, 507 INDEX 3903 TISSUE BANKS HB 775 --License required ....--...----..-----------_-.... (No action in 1968) TITLES HB 51 HB 1421 HB 395 HB 875 --Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act; amend relating to models antedating 1963 ___..-......-......_................. (No action in 1968) --Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act; exempt if horsepower 3.5 or less .._....... ____________ 1311, 1444 --Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act; filing of liens . __...__.___.____...._.._....._.-__...1100 --Motor Vehicles Certificate of Title Act; origin of vehicle ... ....129, 162, 299, 611, 1806, 2618, 2618, 2623 TOBACCO SR 154 HR 650 SB 232 HR 896 SR 156 SR 155 HR 649 HR 648 --Acreage allotment; United States Department of Agriculture urged to lower the national yield goal and raise national average ___.___._____._.__740, 742, 828, 1098, 2952 --Acreage allotment; United States Department of Agriculture urged to lower the national yield goal and raise national average _,,--------.--.-..-,,,,..-._.-------..___._._________..1266 --Flue-cured leaf tobacco; licenses to warehouse operators _________________739, 741, 827, 1318, 2953 --Flue-cured; opposing Proposed Marketing Agreement and Order regulating handling _________________3208 --Graders; United States Department of Agriculture requested to publicize procedure to follow _...___.______.........740J 743, 829, 1098, 2952 --Grades; request United States Department of Agriculture to conceal grades from buyers ....______.._...___.___..._._.........740, 743, 829, 1098, 2952 --Grades; request United States Department of Agriculture to conceal grades from buyers ____-_______1266 --Graders; United States Department of Agriculture requested to publicize procedure to follow _--___----------________--_.--_________________1265 TOBACCO SUBCOMMITTEE --Interim Study Report --.-....._..__._.........___.___,,--___________________3612 3904 INDEX TOOMBS COUNTY HB 1532 HB 1272 HB 1274 HB 1265 --Board of Education members' election ___._________.___._.__________________1787, 1983, 1989, 2100, 2848 --Officials' salaries _________________._._.931, 981, 989, 1110, 1673 --Sheriff's salary .____.______.___._________________931, 981, 989, 1111, 1673 --Tax Receiver and Collector offices; consolidate __._.__._.___._______.___.________.._.930, 980, 989, 1109, 1673 TOOMBS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HB 1486 SB 388 --Solicitor-General's salary... 1657, 1794, 2593, 2710, 3005, 3074 --Solicitor-General's salary _____.__-_.__._____.__._--__ 2613, 2621, 2698 TORTS SB 214 --Statute of limitations -__-____._669, 670, 733, 1099, 1728, 1799, 2583, 2899 TOURISM--DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF --Interim Study Report ____..____.________-_________________.________.__..____3623 TOURIST COURTS SB 338 --Georgia Health Code; amend __.__..____.1237, 1241, 1317, 2701 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE HR 390 --"Georgia--A State of Adventure"; Congratulations on winning the National Trophy ___._____.___.___.__-.____________..___________..__.139, 257 TOWNS COUNTY HB 135 --Clerk of Superior Court; traffic law violations _.___.___.--_--_--_--. (No action in 1968) HR 538-1179--Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ___.--__653, 729, 990 HR 539-1179--Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ,,___--__--______._____.654, 730, 990 TRADE HB 850 --Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act; adopt __.________.__-.____._._-.._____22. 133, 337, 483, 1803, 1844 INDEX 3905 TRAFFIC HR 378-853 --Fines and forfeitures; driver education; allocation; amendment to the Constitution ___._._____.23, 134 HR 781-1631--Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create _____-_-___._._.__-2227, 2348, 2354, 2449, 3426 HR 729-1582--Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create _-_____.._,,._-__.--...___-.-__._~_-_-~.1974, 2081 SR 253 --Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create .__-__.__._~___--__...-__-__.2620, 2710, 2840 SB 417 --Laws; Governor's powers _.______. 2901, 2903, 2988, 3113, 3289 HR 843 --Radar; use by Department of Public Safety ....-- .. 21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 HB 999 --Right-hand traffic lane; slow-moving traffic ..-----_-_..__.---.__ 292, 335, 507, 808, 1667, 2295 HB 993 --Traffic control devices; conform to specifications _...._._._.__..__.290, 334, 734, 2814, 3408 HB 4 --Use of timing devices and radar equipment to enforce regulations _...__.--_--___....___--_,,_.__.668 HB 881 --Violations; violation point count system ... 27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE --Interim Study Report ,,..-_....--._.______________._______._.._____.__.3626 TRAILERS HB 973 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; inspection stickers ..____.._._....__.,,_......._.._..,,__,,.._...286, 330 TRANSPORTATION HR 586 HR 230 --Amend rules of the House to add a standing committee on Public Utilities and Transportation _______785 --Public Utilities and Transportation; request Speaker to appoint standing committee --_..__-.----_._,,.--,,_.....----.-- (No action in 1968) TREASURER, STATE HR 609-1296--Elected in the same manner as the Governor; amendment to the Constitution... 975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HB 1239 --State Depositories; deposit of State funds ... ... 875, 935 HB 1423 --Tenure salary increase .-1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468, 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3335, 3339 3906 INDEX TRENTON, CITY OF HB 964 HB 1274 --Eminent domain _------------------.284, 329, 338, 396, 737 --Mayor, Councilmen and Recorder; compensation ------._------------_ 931, 982, 989, 1111, 1525 TRIALS HB 1116 HB 1115 HB 1230 HB 1259 HB 1280 --Accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time --------------------493, 602, 1990 --Capital offense; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time ----------.493, 602, 1990 --Civil Practice Act; amend; service of publication .----------875, 935, 1099, 1493, 3384, 3391, 3432 --Grand and traverse jurors; method of selecting ----------------------929, 979, 988, 1108 --Juries, criminal cases; verdict of of guilty or not guilty ----------------------932, 982, 1517 TRIAL JUDGES AND SOLICITORS RETIREMENT FUND SB 30 --Create -------- . 340, 341, 1099, 2969, 3036, 3237, 3430 TROUP COUNTY HB 924 --Officials; salaries --------------------160, 196, 198, 226, 501 TRUCKS SB 220 HB 424 HB 992 HB 985 SB 109 HB 977 HB 1159 HR 815 HB 975 HB 1319 --Gravel or stone; prohibit from hauling on highways without protective covering--------473, 474, 499 --Hauling gravel, rock, etc.; prohibited on highways without protective cover -- (No action in 1968) --Lumber and Lumber products; length and weight permits _..._-_. 290, 334, 604, 1116, 1242, 1524, 1729 --Lumber and lumber products and concrete; special permits _.--------------------289, 333, 474 --Refund, certain license fees ..------------(No action in 1968) --Size and weight limits; scales ----..------.-287, 331, 734, 1422, 3000, 3065 --Transporting of pulpwood; chains or cables ----------------598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620, 2649, 3001, 3256 --Truck License Study Committee; create --.2638, 2990, 3186 --Weight limits; special permits ---.287, 331, 734, 2203, 3166 --Well digging; annual license fee ----------.1090, 1160, 1800 TRUSTS HR 1043 HB 1042 INDEX 3907 --Residuary bequest or devise, surviving widow; taxes and expenses of administration .--------..--.... 376, 461, 666, 1574, 3167 --Testamentary additions ------.------ 376, 461, 666, 861, 3165 TUCKER, HONORABLE RAY M. HR 759 --Wishing a speedy recovery --.--------_.----._____--__._.--..--2168 TUGBOATS HB 1622 --Annual tax returns; requirements ----...-2076, 2232, 2237 TUNNELL HILL, TOWN OP HB 1269 --City ordinance fine; increase .-...930, 981, 989, 1110, 1525 TURNER, REV. FELIX --Prayer offered by --_------...------___------__--_.---- 5, 19 TURNER, REV. JOHN K. --Prayer offered by _--_.--._.------._--.----..._--__--1216 TWIN CITY, CITY OF HB 1488 --Municipal elections; registration of voters ------_----_------------1658, 1794, 1988, 2123, 2995 u UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW HB 926 HB 758 HB 1554 --Benefit payments if laid off work----..-.----.161, 196, 198, 317 --Board of Review; replace with Employment Security Agency; Board of Appeals.--.--___--(No action in 1968) --Reduction in contribution rates-.------------..--.__..--.1969, 2077 UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAYS (See Motor Vehicles, Highway) HB 876 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; certificates of inspection --------------_----_--__----_---_....129, 162 3908 HB 973 HB 144 HB 1516 SB 209 HB 841 HB 1069 HB 993 INDEX --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; trailers and semi-trailers -------- -------------------- -.--------286, 330 --Intersections; driving on left side of roadway ------------------------------.(No action in 1968) --Motorcycles; safety devices __._.---------------__--...1783, 1980 --Speed restrictions on certain highways------.----472, 474, 498, 508, 806 --Speed restrictions; four-lane limited access highways....... -- .--------------20, 132, 299, 414, 2084, 3357 --State Crime Laboratory; blood and urine tests ---.---------.---_-------.--.-------,,-----382, 467, 987 --Traffic control devices; conform to specifications ----------------------..290, 334, 734, 2814, 3408 UNIFORM AIRPORTS ACT SB 124 --Fees to owners of small planes-----.----.--(No action in 1968) UNIFORM COMMERICIAL CODE HB 1292 HB 1612 HB 37 HB 1512 HB 1512 --Blood and blood products; implied warranties------------------.--.973, 1094, 1664, 2046, 2705 --Commission merchants, auctioneers; liability of security interest--...----..----._--....1976, 2083, 2236, 2888 --Giving of notice; delivery....--...--.--_...(No action in 1968) --Secured transactions; telephone service; distribution of electricity ----------------.1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 --Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions; telephone service and distribution of electricity--...-------------------- 1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 UNIFORM CONSUMER CREDIT CODE SR 178 HR 296 --Study committee....... -1517, 1527, 1529, 1664, 3012, 3034, 3313 --Study committee ._.__..---------------------- (No action in 1968) UNIFORM NARCOTIC DRUG ACT HB 1328 --Penalties for violations--.------.----------...1092, 1162, 1664 UNIFORM DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT HB 850 --Adopt-----------------------------22, 133, 337, 483, 1803, 1844 UNIFORM TIME ACT (See Time) HB 1431 SR 146 --Abolish within the State--------.----------------1430, 1511, 2234 --Support_..------..----------------------.200, 257, 297, 338 INDEX 3909 UNINCORPORATED ORGANIZATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS HB 1472 --Indebtedness; liability ----------------------1653, 1790, 2592 UNION CITY, CITY OF SB 379 --Incorporate----------.---------------------2242, 2245, 2349 UNION COUNTY HB 1460 --Sheriff's salary.---------.---------1508, 1660, 1664, 1813, 2562 UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY HR 882 --Gordon-Carson Chapter; comend----------------------..--3198 UNITED STATES ONE DOLLAR BILL HR 104 --Motto to be engraved on.------------.--..------567, 760, 3402 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA HR 494-1071--Athletic Associations; include University of Georgia; Georgia School of Technology--------383, 467, 606, 815, 1451 Interim Study Report.......--..--_--_--------------_--------3637 SR 183 --Scholarships; amendment to the Constitution------.2708, 2710, 2840, 2991, 3217, 3431 HB 1062 --Teachers declared legally recognized profession; remove provisions...--------------...380, 465, 606,*861, 1450 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA HR 563 HR 290 --Express sympathy for passing of mascot Uga-1----...------765 --Student Housing Study Committee; create..------------------------------------(No action in 1968) UPSON COUNTY HR 459-1013--Board of Tax Assessors; consolidate with City of Thomaston; amendment to the Constitution....----324, 388, _____ 472, 526, 887 HB 1576 --Law Library; funds to establish and __ _ _ ____ maintain.------------------1790, 1985, 2089, 2103, 2848 3910 HB 1003 HB 1007 INDEX --Thomaston-Upson County Office Building Authority; members----------------321, 386, 471, 512, 885 --Upson-Thomaston Board of Tax Assessors; combine--------.----_------------..322, 387, 605, 671, 1169 URBAN AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, STATE DEPARTMENT OF HR 414-932 --Create committee to study feasibility of establishing......-...------..----.._-.--160, 196, 394, 2194, 3422 USED CAR DEALERS HB 898 HB 110 --State Board of Registration; "Established Place of Business" ....--------------------...152, 190, 299, 573, 1166, 1195 --State Board of Registration; membership and appointments _--.__.--.----------__------_--.------_----------.668 V VALDOSTA, CITY OF HB 371 --City Court; Judge and Solicitor; method of selecting --------------------.----.-- (No action in 1968) HR 682-1473--Governing authority; merge with Lowndes County; amendment to the Constitution-.-...--.--.---1654, 1791, 1799, 2002, 2849 VARNELL, CITY OF HB 1268 --Charter------.----.------930, 981, 1100, 1172, 2849, 2924 VAUGHAN, REV. C. E. --Prayer offered by .------._______--.____----..._.--.1965 VAUGHN, HONORABLE CLARENCE R., JR. HR 872 --Highway, designate ------------------------.___-------------3046 VENEREAL DISEASES HB 1089 --State Board of Education; blood tests to all students prior to entering 8th grade------_-------------------456, 495 INDEX 3911 VETERANS HR 436-952 --Disabled; extend homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution-----------------217, 295, 2595, 2798, 3421 HR 156-453 --Disabled; increase homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 1171 --Disabled; license plates.-----------------------------651, 727 HB 1081 --Discharge certificates; fees charged by clerks of superior courts for recording--------------------------385, 440, 469, 829 SB 260 --Discharge certificates; fees charged by clerks of superior courts for recording------604, 607, 666, 1520, 2962 HB 1049 --Georgia State War Veterans' Home; benefits----------.377, 462 SB 245 --Georgia State War Veterans' Home; redefine "war veterans"------------------.604, 607, 665, 939, 2665, 3406 HR 263-801 --Homestead exemption; certain exemptions; amendment to the Constitution--------------------.(No action in 1968) HB 179 --License plates; issuance to certain disabled veterans------------------------------(No action in 1968) SB 258 --License tags; issuance---------604, 607, 665, 760, 939, 2968, 3406 HB 1170 --State Board of Veterans Service; complete copies of all records of benefits-----------.651, 727, 829, 904, 3167 HB 1393 --State Department of Veterans' Service; Director's compensation----..-----.--------1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 HR 654 --United States Congress urged to pass certain bills affecting----_.---.----_----.---__.1270, 1319, 1586 HB 1048 --World War II; seniority and retirement rights---.------_-----------------377, 462, 829, 907 VETERAN'S SERVICE OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL HR 332 --Committee to attend at Augusta, Georgia-(No action in 1968) VETERINARIANS HB 863 HB 864 --Licenses; educational programs prior tc renewal......-..-.................---..............--------------.25, 135, 1664 --Radiation Control Council; membership----------.25, 136, 298, 1418, 3166 VIDALIA, CITY OF HB 1518 --New Charter; create--------1784, 1980, 1988, 2097, 2899, 3051 VITAL RECORDS SB 286 --Birth certificates; certified copies, governmental agencies.-------------------------------------670, 670, 733, 987 3912 SB 287 HB 1253 INDEX --Birth certificates; name change; issuance of new certificate------.-------------------670, 671, 733, 987 --Department of Public Health; increase fee of local registrars-----------------------------. 928, 978, 987 VOTING (See elections) SB 304 HB 771 HB 1178 HB 1051 HB 315 HB 1055 HB 1052 HB 134 HB 253 HB 28 HB 1189 HB 1087 HB 1172 SB 151 SB 76 HB 429 HB 1155 HB 1313 SB 181 HB 1054 HB 638 HB 271 HB 1023 HB 1053 HR 653 --Automatic recount of votes cast------2706, 2708, 2839, 2845 --City employees presiding as manager of election; repeal act prohibiting--------------------(No action in 1968) --Conventions; regulations governing conduct---- 652, 729, 736, 1470, 3039, 3084 --Deputy Registrars -------- 378, 463, 509, 630, 2563, 2641, 2899, 2922, 3034, 3169, 3175 --Disqualification lists; file with election registrars and Secretary of State----.----------.-- (No action in 1968) --Election districts; number of electors--------379, 464, 508, 616, 1234, 1365, 1528, 1865, 2242, 2314, 2339 --Electors; additional methods for casting vote--------------------------378, 463, 508, 621, 1322, 2190 --General elections; prohibit voting of a straight party ticket..-__--------------_----.------. (No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; amend------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; unlawful campaign practices; literature------------------------------(No action in 1968) --Machines; designating letter or number of the counter ---------------------------------- 655, 731, 736, 1870 --Municipal elections; eligibility----.....456, 495, 736, 1293, 2566 --Municipal elections; public notices outside all polling places--------------------------------.651, 728, 2237 --Municipal primaries---------------------.669, 1116, 1872, 3406 --Nomination petitions; candidate shall pay cost.----,,..----------------------------------(No action in 1968) --Nomination petitions; costs incurred------(No action in 1968) --Nomination petitions; presidential electors-----596, 663, 669, 796, 3167 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ...----1089, 1159, 1228, 2325 --Notice of candidacy by incumbent.----------.509, 636, 704, 798 --Notice of candidacy; 60 days prior to General Election........--.--------------------.379, 463, 508, 628, 1234 --Party registration ------------ ------..---- (No action in 1968) --Party registration, voting machines; provide for------..----_----------.----.--------.----_-- (No action in 1968) --Petitions to nominate candidates; filing of.------326, 390, 508, 614, 1803, 2189 --Presidential electors; procedure------378, 463, 508, 623, 1450 --Presidential Elections; United States Congress requested to provide proportional counting of electoral vote ....--....-.----------------.------------.--------.----1269, 1449 INDEX 3913 HB 539 --Presidential and vice-presidential elections; residence requirements--------------.-----(No action in 1968) HR 216-712 --Primaries; power of taxation; amendment to the Constitution------------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 75 --Solicitation of votes; unlawful in or near polling places.---------------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 546 --Student's voting rights; appraisal at age 17----470, 867, 3170 SB 359 --Unlawful campaign practices; prohibit--------1527, 1529, 1663, 1990, 2965, 3406 HB 1056 --Vote recorders; number required------,.379, 464, 508, 622, 1235 HB 837 --Vote recorders; vote party ticket or for individuals----------------------------(No action in 1968) HB 248 --Voter registration requirements, certain elections--------___--_.----------.509, 638, 1238, 1367, 1740 HB 483 --Voting machines and vote recorders; voiding of votes.-------.---------------------------------(No action in 1968) w WALKER COUNTY HB 1543 HB 1270 HB 1552 --Board of Education member's election.-------1788, 1984, 2088, 2105, 2848 --Pox hunting; illegal methods--------931, 981, 986, 1575, 2994 --Rural Water and Sewer Authority; members' appointments--------------1969, 2077, 2089, 2251, 2997 WALKER, WENDELL HR 435-952 --Compensate-..----------------------217, 295, 1797, 2024, 3421 WALL, DONALD L. HR 720-1522--Compensate .,,___.----------.------------------------------1785, 1982 WALTON COUNTY HB 968 --Board of Education; members' election.----285, 330, 338, 396, 737, 3279, 3341, 3347 WAMBLE, DR. G. HUGH --Prayer offered by --,,.__,,___.____..._._----__----1777 3914 INDEX WAR VETERANS HB 1049 SB 245 HB 1048 --Georgia State War Veterans' Home; benefits------.377, 462 --Georgia State War Veterans' Home; redefine "war veterans"....--..-...----604, 607, 665, 939, 2665, 3406 --World War II; seniority and retirement rights..--.....377, 462, 829, 907 WARE COUNTY HR 730-1585--Consolidation with City of Waycross; amendment to the Constitution...----..----.----.1975, 2082, 2235, 2282, 2850 HR 782-1631--Sheriff's responsibility, United States Criminal Laws; amendment to the Constitution ------ 2227, 2348, 2702, 2718 WARE, HONORABLE J. CRAWPORD HR 591 --Congratulate -------- -- --------------------.----------------858 WAREHOUSE ACT HB 697 --Bond requirements for fungible goods.....--(No action in 1968) WAREHOUSES HB 936 --Bank loans ........ 186, 221, 337, 581 WARM AIR HEATING HB 18 --Board of Examiners; members' qualifications.--....----..-----,,-----..------..-- (No action in 1968) WARNER ROBINS, CITY OF HB 1639 --Mayor and Councilmen; compensation.._...-- 2344, 2353, 2557, 2595, 3402 WARRANTIES HB 1030 HB 855 --Express or implied; increases class of persons other than buyer that may benefit....-..--------327, 391, 666, 794, 2706, 2738 --Motor vehicles; defects and imperfections--23, 134, 941, 1201, 1517 WARRANTS SB 57 HB 911 INDEX 3915 --Dispossessory; relating to property removed------..----..------739, 741, 827, 1227, 1233 --Landlords; number of days' notice.---155, 192, 393, 786, 2614 WARREN, CITY OF HR 739-1616--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution------...2076, 2232, 2236, 2435, 3314, 3346 WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL HR 391 --Football Team, Coaches; commend----------------------.140 WASHINGTON COUNTY HB 1399 HB 1459 HB 1515 --Airport Authority; create--------1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2561 --Sheriff's compensation--..----1507, 1660, 1664, 1812, 2616, 2930 --Superior Court Clerk's salary.----1783, 1980, 1988, 2096, 2847 WATER HB 786 HB 1330 HR 798 --Land and Water Conservation Fund Act; create within State-------------------------(No action in 1968) --State Board of Examiners for Certified Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators; create--.1093, 1162 --Well drillers; create committee to study regulations---.. ------------------------.--.2460, 2703, 2756 WATERCRAFT HB 998 HB 997 SB 325 --Maximum capacity; State Game and Fish Commission --__.-.----.----------_.----_.----------------.292, 335 --Outboard motors; certificate of title; State Game and Fish Commission----------.------_--------.291, 335, 470 --Torts; owner's liability.--..------.2617, 2622, 2699, 2701, 2978 WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND COORDINATING ACT HB 397 --Create----_.-------------.--.------------.-(No action in 1968) WATER WELLS HB 1167 --Drilling regulations.--,--------------..------650, 727, 1664, 2060 3916 INDEX WAVERLY HALL, TOWN OF HR 727-1560--Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution------.--------1970, 2078, 2089, 2279, 2851, 2936 HB 1651 --Mayor and Council; term of office----.2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 WAYCROSS, CITY OP HR 730-1585--Consolidation with Ware County; amendment to the Constitution--------------------....1975, 2082, 2235, 2282, 2850 WAYNE COUNTY HB 1392 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue; members' terms of office...--.1305, 1439, 1447, 1549, 2357 HB 1391 --Board of Education; members' election..-----1304, 1438, 1447, 1549, 2358, 2640 HR 715-1515--Convey certain real property....--1783, 1980, 2237, 2479, 3404 HB 732 --Sheriff and deputies; compensation...--__..(No action in 1968) HB 1400 --Superior Court Judge; empanel grand jury--------------------------1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2995 WAYNESBORO, CITY OF HB 847 --Judge and Solicitors salary----__.----_____.. ..21, 133, 137, 165, 500 WBML RADIO HR 886 --Expressing appreciation.------------.--.-----------...------.--.3201 WEAPONS (See Firearms) SB 240 HB 856 HR 774 HB 857 HB 865 HB 866 HB 1438 HB 1094 --Discharging firearms on Sunday; allow under certain circumstances-------------- 669, 670, 733, 2234, 3151 --Firearms and ammunition; identification of persons qualified to acquire or possess------------------24, 135, 736 --Firearms safety study committee; create-.... 2182, 2593, 2630 --Firearms; unlawful sale and possession; define offense-----------------------------------24, 135 --Firearms; unlawful to possess during attempt to commit .----------------------25, 136, 606, 804, 2706, 2735 --Firearms; unlawful possession during riot------25, 136, 1100 --Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act; create __ 1432, 1513, 1517, 2201, 2209, 2209, 2293, 2674, 3413 --Permits to acquire; provide for--------------------------458, 497 INDEX 3917 WEBB, HONORABLE J. TERRELL HR 145-411 --Seat in House of Representatives.---------(No action in 1968) WEBSTER COUNTY HB 1428 --Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; salaries--------------------.-1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2357 HR 668-1435--Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution--------1432, 1512, 1665, 1696, 2245, 2394 HB 1429 --Private property; remove public nuisance----------1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2614 WELCH, DOUGLAS HR 635 --Express sympathy for passing of------ --------------------1248 WELLS HB 1319 HB 1167 HR 798 --Trucks used for well digging purposes; annual license fee.------------------------------1090, 1160, 1800 --Water; drilling regulations------------------650, 727, 1664, 2060 --Water well drillers; create committee to study regulations--.---------------------------2460, 2703, 2756 WEST POINT, CITY OF HB 1434 --Sale of certain property --.----1431, 1511, 1518, 1683, 2561 WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD HR 133-383 --Accept offer of Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company to lease------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 709-1479--Approve amendment to lease contract between Western and Atlantic Railroad Commission and City Center, Inc.------------------1656, 1793, 1801, 2543, 3404 HR 387-884 --Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; accept bid-----------------1------131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 HR 126-313 --To propose lease transaction.-------------(No action in 1968) HR 737-1616--State Properties Control Commission; amend present lease--------.--------------2075, 2231, 2237, 2516, 3404 HR 673-1450--State Properties Control Commission; jurisdiction of new lease------------------1435, 1515, 1801, 2549, 3403 HB 382 --State Properties Control Commission; -----.-------------------------(No action in 1968) 3918 INDEX WHEELER, HONORABLE PETE HR 698 --Commend ..................................... ........ .......... .....1597 WHIGHAM HIGH SCHOOL HR 874 --Boys' Basketball Team; congraulate---.-----..._..--3191 WHITAKER, MRS. DAPHNE HR 427-941 --Compensate...----_.__..._..._.___.--__.._._--_188, 222, 2233, 2300, 3421 WHITE COUNTY SB 401 SR 164 --Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; State depositories----------..-----._---.2613, 2621, 2698, 3112, 3115 --Ordinary; furnish certain law books.--.........741, 743, 829, 990 WHITE, E. C. HR 410-917 --Compensate--..................----------------158, 194, 1798, 2023, 3422 WHITE, MRS. VONCEILLE T. HR 108-252 --Compensate-- ............................. 2233, 2298, 3419 WHITE, REV. HUBERT A. --Prayer offered by _______________.--------...------------..------819 WHITE, ROBERT H. HR 510 --Commend _..____.._...._...._...__._...__......................___...____........_.........__422 WHITESBURG, TOWN OP HB 1368 --Mayor and Council; election date--...-1220, 1313, 1988, 2091, 2845 WHITFIELD COUNTY HB 1251 --Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; compensation----------------------927, 978, 1100, 1171, 1672 INDEX 3919 HR 670-1440--Dalton-Whitfield County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.--.......___..1433, 1513, 1519, 1715, 2244 HB 1504 --Tax Commissioner; compensation..!781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 HB 1503 --Sheriff, Clerk and Ordinary; compensation------------------1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 WILBANKS, CAPTAIN HILLIARD A. HR 588 --Honor ._.._....._...._...._.._._......._._...___..._....._......_........__.-....._.._._.._..._..855 WILD DOG STUDY COMMITTEE HB 870 --Create .___.-...-_...._......___.........._......._._..__-..-_._......._.._...3048, 3113, 3190 WILLIAMS, W. M. (BILL) HR 446 --Congratulate __.._..._..._..._.._-...._...-_-....._._.._-...._.___........___....._.___......263 WILLIAMSON, MRS. FRANCES J; WILLIAMSON, JAMES M. HR 555-1216--Compensate __,,__..___.___._..____________,,_____._,,.______._____..___.______.__-.821, 880 WILKES COUNTY SR 193 HB 1362 HB 1521 --Conveyance of certain State owned property ............_...___......... 1102, 1106, 1164, 1989, 2134, 3406 --Ordinary's salary _.----_._------....1218, 1312, 1319, 1452, 2239 --Superior Court deputy clerk; compensation . _ .. 1784, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 WILLS (See Estates, Practice & Procedure, Courts) HB 7 HB 1132 HB 897 SB 371 HB 1031 HB 1043 --Charitable, religious and educational organizations; limit amount of estate left to ........----(No action in 1968) --Death of a husband intestate; wife's application for dower ....._ ,,_ __ 592, 659, 830, 919, 1803, 1859 --Minors; bond requirement of guardian ....___.._._.._.__-._..........-...._..152, 190, 339, 646, 2566 --Minors; property conveyances; consensual transactions, 18 years of age or older _________________._______.______1805, 1809, 1986 --Property appraisement; filing of request .--,,.._._........---..-.328, 392, 606, 817, 3164 --Residuary bequest or devise, surviving widow; taxes and expenses of administration _----___----______._______.376, 461, 666, 1574, 3167 3920 HB 1042 SB 332 HB 868 INDEX --Trusts; testamentary additions ._-.__.____.___._-_..___-__-____-___....... 376, 461, 666, 861, 3165 --Widow's dower; how barred ___._________._~.___1168, 1240, 1316, 1990, 3216, 3429 --Wife's estate; debts of husband ____-------________..__127, 161, 988 WILSON, HONORABLE EDGAR H. HR 787 --Commend .___.______._______._______-____________________._____._-_______--.___-__-__-.2450 WINE HB 1583 --Airports; authorize sale within boundaries ....________._____._...______.____ 1974, 2081, 2090, 2306, 2848 WINSTON, OROON D. HR 388-885 --Compensate _______._________.._.,_._....._.__.,,_. _._____.________..__.___._._____131, 164 WISHAM, LEE HR 183-555 --Compensate __________-._________._.____..-.__.__._-..._.__-._.___1797, 2021, 3420 WMAZ RADIO AND TV HR 851 --Expressing appreciation _.-_..-_____._______--_- 2913 WOMEN HB 1198 --Equal Pay for Women Act of 1966; amend ________ _..____657, 733, 940, 1286, 3170, 3250, 3315, 3324, 3342, 3382, 3383, 3389, 3433 WOOD, REV. MILTON L. --Prayer offered by _..________._______.____._______.______..__..__.....___..___.__-- 2694 WOODBINE, CITY OF HR 619-1345--Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _______ __..___._ _.1155, 1224, 1227, 1322, 2244 WOODLAND, CITY OF HR 545-1196--Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _______________ 657, 732, 735, 851, 1669, 1856 HB 1194 --Election date; change ____.___._____.._....__.657, 732, 735, 836, 1236 INDEX 3921 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION HB 1401 HB 957 HB 80 HB 943 HB 746 SB 203 HB 861 SB 221 HB 1550 --Base period employers; separation notices ...------ ..----------.---- .--1306, 1440 --Counties; full-time employees ----_.------------218, 296, 941, 1292, 3334, 3342 --Define "injury" and "personal injury" .-- (No action in 1968) --Hearings; compensation agreements _,,___--__________________214, 293 --Interim Study Report __...___...-.__.-- --_---- ....3650 --Investigation and determination of injury; time allowed for report .------------..... (No action in 1968) --Review of settlements; procedure ---- __------------ .------..200, 258, 297, 987, 1115 --Settlements; procedure for review ._......___....24, 135, 198, 279 --Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs .......................A99, 511, 603, 831 --State employees; insurance ----..--.......1789, 1985, 2233, 2581 WORTH COUNTY HB 1088 HB 1256 --Clerk of Superior Court; collect fines ----------.---.----------.456, 495, 507, 672, 1169 --Ordinary's salaries; effective date ----------..---- 928, 979, 988, 1108, 1525 WORTHLESS CHECKS HB 1329 --Felony to pass if more than $300 ----..----.....1092, 1162, 1228 WRECKING COMPANIES HB 1022 --Disposition of motor vehicle after 6 months' custody ------------------.----........... 325, 390, 831, 900, 2086 WRIGHT, HORACE HR 509 --Express sympathy for passing of _--_----.----------...----421 WRIGHTSVILLE, CITY OF HB 1201 --Mayor's court recorder; appointment ------------...----.....725, 826, 830, 890, 1237 WYLIE, MRS. EMILY HR 556-1216--Compensate ----------__------------------------------.---- 821, 880 3922 INDEX PART II HOUSE BILLS HB 4 HB 5 HB 7 HB 8 HB 15 HB 16 HB 17 HB 18 HB 19 HB 20 HB 22 HB 23 HB 25 HB 28 HB 33 HB 36 HB 37 HB 38 HB 42 HB 44 HB 49 HB 50 HB 51 HB 65 HB 67 HB 69 --Timing devices and radar equipments; use to enforce traffic regulations --------...----___...-------- 668 --Criminal Code of Georgia; revise, supersede and consolidate ........---.------------18, 27, 146, 171, 3169, 3293 --Estates; limit amount left to charitable, religious and educational organizations -------------------(No action in 1968) --Chatham County; Commissioners and Ex-officio judges; filling vacancies --.--.--........--......----...-- (No action in 1968) --Motorcyles; crash helmets required ----------(No action in 1968) --Eastern Standard Time; State governmental agencies ...._,,.____----___---- (No action in 1968) --Public School Employees' Retirement System; create _._--....... ----------------------..(No action in 1968) --Warm Air Heating; Board of Examiners; members' qualifications --------------------(No action in 1968) --Attorney's fees; method of giving notice for collecting ----------__--------------------.------------_--------.. 1282 --State Employees' Retirement System; Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind, Inc. .-- (No action in 1968) --Tangible personal property; larceny __--------_.------------------ 989 --General Appropriations Act; highway contracts ----------------.----(No action in 1968) --Appraisers; notice to counties of return for year's support __..-- .-- -.------------------. --.----.947, 3431 --Georgia Election Code; unlawful campaign practices --._. ----..---- .------------....---- (No action in 1968) --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; Assistant Principals ----_....--------------(No action in 1968) --Income tax; political contributions ----------(No action in 1968) --Uniform Commercial Code; giving of notice; delivery ___--.------------------------(No action in 1968) --Criminal cases; instructions to jury ----------.(No action in 1968) --Insurance Code of 1960; cancellation of policy ------_.------ ------------_------------(No action in 1968) --Law enforcement officers; immunity from civil liability for assistance ------_.._._.------------...._....-------- 471 --Superior Court Judges' Retirement System; create new system --------------.----------(No action in 1968) --Publications; magazine wholesalers ----------....--.--------.2851 --Motor Vehicles Certificate of Title Act; models antedating 1963 ------------------(No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement System; membership ----------------199, 359 --Intangible personal property; taxation ----(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges' Emeritus; retirement ...._.......--.._.....--...--...--...__------ (No action in 1968) HB 74 HB 75 HB 76 HB 78 HB 80 HB 81 HB 83 HB 85 HB 86 HB 87 HB 94 HB 105 HB 108 HB 110 HB 118 HB 119 HB 120 HB 121 HB 123 HB 124 HB 126 HB 130 HB 134 HB 135 HB 137 HB 139 HB 140 HB 144 HB 145 HB 146 HB 152 INDEX 3923 --Marriage license; minors ------------------(No action in 1968) --Elections; solicitation of votes --------------(No action in 1968) --Atlanta, City of; Fire Department pension benefits ---------------------------- (No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement System; 40 years' service --------------------------(No action in 1968) --Workmen's Compensation; certain definitions --_..--_.----___.--__..----.----..---- (No action in 1968) --State Employees' Retirement System; creditable service ----_----.__------------..------------------------ --State Board of Registration for Engineers and Land Surveyors; members _----_-------------------- (No action in 1968) --Senior Superior Court Reporter Retirement Fund of Georgia; establish _----_----__------._.__--.__......__...____..---- __ 199 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum benefits ,,_._..--_______--199 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor _--.._----.--------. --Teachers' Retirement System; Board of Trustees -------------------.------(No action in 1968) --Sales tax; increase from 3 to 4% --..--.---- (No action in 1968) --Georgia Home Improvement Act; create ----------------------------.........----.-- (No action in 19tS) --State Board of Registration for Used Car Dealers; membership --........__..--.._.--.--------_.----..--.__..---.----__..--668 --Lysergic Acid Di Ethylamide (LSD) ; regulate ------------------------------------ (No action in 1968) --Highway contracts; negotiation of contracts with municipalities -------------------------------- --.._..-- 1445 --Motor vehicles; ad valorem tax ----------------(No action in 1968) --The Teacher Tenure Act; create --.__..--------__...--_....__..__._--_._.2234 --Sales tax; exempt gasoline ------------------(No action in 1968) --Motor Fuel Tax Law; raise gasoline tax to If per gallon ,,..._..,,___..._----------------------.(No action in 1968) --Non-Resident Motorists Act; service of process ------------..------------(No action in 1968) --Office of Public Defender; establish for indigents --------------------...26, 348, 2851, 2937 3006, 3106, 3107, 3349, 3432 --Georgia Election Code; straight party ticket _--------_.----__--_----___(No action in 1968) --Towns County; Clerk of Superior Court .--....(No action in 1968) --License plates; reflective materials ----____--------____----------_ 668 --Driver's license; expiration date ------------(No action in 1968) --Driver Education Course; high school curriculum __ ------ __----. ____-------- ... (No action in 1968) --Intersections; driving left side of roadway --(No action in 1968) --Divorce; conduct of both parties ----------------(No action in 1968) --Divorce; incurable insanity grounds for total divorce ------____. ------------______-------------- 199, 370, 410 --Intangible Property Tax; minimum assessment .------.--------------------..._--..(No action in 1968) 3924 HB 153 HB 161 HB 172 HB 173 HB 174 HB 179 HB 180 HB 186 HB 191 HB 192 HB 193 HB 211 HB 213 HB 216 HB 217 HB 218 HB 220 HB 226 HB 240 HB 241 HB 244 HB 245 HB 246 HB 248 HB 250 HB 252 HB 253 HB 255 HB 258 HB 259 INDEX --Court Costs; payment of jurors --------------------------------990 --Surnter County; Board of Commissioners; salaries ------------------------------.--------(No action in 1968) --Federal Civil Service Retirement Law; gross income --------------------------------(No action in 1968) --Blood-alcohol test; percentage for presumption --.___--------------___----------(No action in 1968) --Drivers' license; warning tickets ------------(No action in 1968) --License plates; disabled veterans ------------(No action in 1968) --Public buildings; physically handicapped ----.----------508, 865 --Lovejoy, Town of; repeal corporation laws --(No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners' election ------___--_------_--__------------------(No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; Board of Education; members' terms ----------------------------(No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; Board of Education; members' election _________-------------------- (No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; County-Manager form of government ----------------------------(No action in 1968) --Alcoholic beverages; minors; unlawful to falsify age -.__..----------------------------------------_._..------1802 --Orthotists and Prosthetists Practice Act; create .--....--.___..----_..____----------_----__----_......----__.......----2841 --Motor vehicles; children under 10 in parked vehicle unlawful ----------------------------(No action in 1968) --Chatham County; apportionment, House of Representatives -----------_----------------(No action in 1968) --Non-resident plaintiffs; deposit ----_------_.__.---------- 942, 1210 --East Point, City of; corporate limits --------------------------.(No action in 1968) --Insurance; lenders on real property ------------------------ 942 --DeKalb County; official organ ----------------(No action in 1968) --Insanity; authorization for medical treatment --..._----.--._----_------------------_(No action in 1968) --Alcoholic beverages; minors; unlawful to possess .......... ----_------------_----_----....(No action in 1968) --Dalton, City of; occupational license tax .... .____. --..._.--._.__.--......--_._._------------ 567 --Georgia Election Code; voter registration requirements ..... _______.------_____ ---- 509, 638, 1238, 1367, 1740 --DeKalb County; bond procedure ----___-1319, 1324, 2900, 3082 --Planning Commissions; unincorporated territory _____----... ____________.--------------_------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; amend ----------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; use of State funds by banks ------------------(No action in 1968) --Sales tax; \% sales tax by counties and municipalities -_----.___.------___... ----------_.__ (No action in 1968) --Ad valorem Tax Act of 1966; additional personnel ........___...--------------_--------..668, 1276, 2704 HB 260 HB 271 HB 272 HB 274 HB 276 HB 277 HB 281 HB 282 HB 291 HB 293 HB 294 HB 298 HB 301 HB 303 HB 304 HB 308 HB 311 HB 314 HB 315 HB 325 HB 329 HB 330 HB 331 HB 335 HB 353 HB 354 HB 360 HB 362 HB 367 HB 371 HB 373 HB 380 HB 381 INDEX 3925 --Prisoners; allowed to enter into certain contracts ----...----__----------------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; party registration _..._.(No action in 1968) --Ordinaries; fees allowed, certain services ----(No action in 1968) --Revenue Bond Law; interest rates --_._------------....__ 2084, 2396 --Abandoned vehicles; power to remove ------(No action in 1968) --Searches and seizures; illegally seized evidence ------.------199 --Abortion; additional exceptions ----.704, 800, 869, 959, 1029, 1862 1991 --Public Service Commission; radio common carrier corporations __.------_------------.----(No action in 1968) --State Employees' Retirement System; mandatory retirement --------_------_-------- (No action in 1968) --License plates; citizens' band radio stations ----------------507 --Collection agencies; licensing and regulation ----------____. .... ,,_------______ (No action in 1968) --Teachers; declared legally recognized profession ----__----.------------------------(No action in 1968) --Deed; conveyance of land; address of maker -- ----.__-. ... _--------_------ (No action in 1968) --Atlanta, City of; building ordinances --------(No action in 1968) --Drivers'license; suspension; deposit __.....--______ (No action in 1968) --Drivers' license; suspension; notification __------__----_--------------___----.(No action in 1968) --Interstate Compact on Juveniles; State shall be party to _.____.___.___.--..___------------____--.---- (No action in 1968) --Driver Education Course; minor must complete ------------.1800 --Georgia Election Code; disqualification lists -- ------------------_______--_----___-------- (No action in 1968) --Court; civil cases, advance court costs .------------199, 279, 2298 --Barbers; certificates of registration as master barber ------_------__..._._.___..___._.___..__-.___...--_____---- 2234, 2540, 3407 --County Superintendents of Schools; classification _________________ 671 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education; professional personnel --_------__-----------.__..__._. ___.___. 671 --Deeds; recording--____-_._--------.--------------(No action in 1968) --Jekyll Island-State Park Authority Act; change name ------------------------------..(No action in 1968) --Stone Mountain Memorial Association Act; change name .------ .--._____------------(No action in 1968) --State Depository Board; Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation --------.(No action in 1968) --Clayton County; Superior Court Clerk's duties --___...--_._.____.--------___--...__.___.--_..--____.----1168 --Superior Court Clerks; appoint as Jury Clerks ._.... --..__.--........__------____.___----._._.___--------199, 371 --Valdosta, City of; City Court ------------------(No action in 1968) --Mobile radio common carriers; rates ------___(No action in 1968) --Fiscal Affairs Sub-Committees; create .---- .(No action in 1968) --Legislative Audit Committee; create --------(No action in 1968) 3926 HB 382 HB 385 HB 386 HB 387 HB 393 HB 394 HB 395 HB 397 HB 400 HB 401 HB 402 HB 403 HB 404 HB 405 HB 406 HB 408 HB 409 HB 416 HB 419 HB 420 HB 424 HB 429 HB 431 HB 432 HB 439 HB 440 HB 444 HB 453 HB 456 HB 459 HB 469 INDEX --Western & Atlantic Railroad; lease .--------.(No action in 1968) --Aid to Dependent Children Act; define dependent child ------_----....------,,---------.(No action in 1968) --Georgia Real Estate Commission; membership --------.--------------_------.._--(No action in 1968) --Counties; tax allocation ------.--------------(No action in 1968) --Psychiatrists; privileged communications ---.(No action in 1968) --Contract carriers and common carriers; regulations ---.......--..--.....--..----.._.------------------------------1800 --Motor vehicle Certificate of Title Act; liens ----._--------_--1100 --Water Resources Planning and Coordinating Act; create --------------------------------___--._.--._ (No action in 1968) --Dangerous offenders; incarceration --------(No action in 1968) --First offenders; probation _----_------__.___ 197, 361, 3366, 3367 --Georgia Police Academy Board; abolish ---_---_-_-----------------------.(No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners; increase membership ___----_----------_--.--_ (No action in 1968) --Gwinnett County; create new Board of Commissioners ___-.------_----------~----------..340, 373, 429, 429 --State Revenue Department; arbitrators --------------.__.__.__..--------(No action in 1968) --State Revenue Department; property tax _..(No action in 1968) --Podiatrists; non-profit medical service corporations --_--.,,------------__----._.._--._(No action in 1968) --Georgia Real Estate Commission; members appointment --.------------------(No action in 1968) --Ordinaries; power of granting private ways, easements ---------------------------.------(No action in 1968) --Department of Labor; Inspection Division __--.__----_----.----.1098 --Driver's license; motor driven cycle; 14 or over -----------------__------------------ (No action in 1968) --Trucks; hauling of gravel or stone on highways --------.,,------------------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; nomination petitions ----._____------------------------(No action in 1968) --Department of Agriculture; Roadside Market Incentive Program --------------------------(No action in 1968) --Courts; unliquidated damages ----.----------197, 641, 3384, 3387 --Tax on tangible property; fair market value ----.._----._----.-------------------------- (No action in 1968) --Tax returns; late filing of ----------------------(No action in 1968) --Laborer's and materialmen's liens; when enforced .------.----------.----------------------..----197, 312 --Education; exceptional children ----------_--------_.470, 692, 1450 --State Personnel Board; Merit System; salary adjustments _--_----------------------_ (No action in 1968) --Sales tax; equipment used in manufacture of tangible property ................_._._. ------__----_--.------_----(No action in 1968) --Sales tax; exempt drugs and food ------------(No action in 1968) HB 483 HB 492 HB 498 HB 506 HB 509 HB 512 HB 514 HB 519 HB 520 HB 524 HB 526 HB 527 HB 528 HB 529 HB 533 HB 534 HB 539 HB 540 HB 544 HB 545 HB 546 HB 555 HB 557 HB 565 HB 566 HB 572 HB 581 HB 582 HB 592 HB 593 HB 595 HB 596 INDEX 3927 --Georgia Election Code; voiding of votes ,,..__,,(No action in 1968) --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; certificates __..___,,__.__..1800 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; pupil transportation --._....--_._.--_...,,___-.--.___.(No action in 1968) --Solicitors-General Emeritus; minimum salary (No action in 1968) --Clerk Superior Court; Retirement benefits ..___-.__..199, 687, 3408 --Law enforcement officers; idemnification .___,,(No action in 1968) --Income tax; Church contributions .--___.---....1321, 2049, 3040, 3088 --Corporation stock; preference rights ..----_.. (No action in 1968) --Corporation stockholders; information on request ._..._._._...___._....._._..__..___..._......,,.__..__...( No action in 1968) --Athens, City of-Clarke County Charter Commission; create .------.--.._..-----_-----,,(No action in 1968) --Insurance; non-profit hospital service corporations _____---________-_____,,_____,,_,,____.--__-______ (No action in 1968) --Insurance; non-profit medical service corporations _________,,__._--___,,---___.__.______,,___--.( No action in 1968) --Insurance; non-profit hospital service corporations -----.,,.-._---..._--..__.---..._,,.--..--.(No action in 1968) --Insurance; non-profit medical service corporations .__,___--.__-_---____---_____,,_____--.____--.(No action in 1968) --Floyd County; contractor's bonds ...___.________.-_-____________..___., 942 --Bonds; public drunkenness __-._________.--_,,_,,__..__--___.--.339, 440, 669 --Georgia Election Code; residence requirements --------..----...-----..--.-...----__.. (No action in 1968) --Hospital Authorities; revenue, how uses -__._(No action in 1968) --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; school lunch personnel .__._,,._...,,_---____.,,._(No action in 1968) --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; school lunch personnel __..__________--______,,________ (No action in 1968) --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; student's voting rights -._._...__.....-..._--_._______.___._470, 867, 3170 --Georgia Fallout Shelter Commission; create --...-- .. ._._..__.._...__.._..._....,,_.__,,. (No action in 1968) --Plumbing contractors; create State Board of Examiners -.,,..-....,,,,...._-..... 1098, 1473, 3001, 3092 --Georgia Industrial Loan Act; regulations ---.-_---...__,,....._--____--....._._.___..--___.. (No action in 1968) --Appellate and Superior Courts; notices of appeal --.._--...._..-..._......_......._._________._____________(No action in 1968) --Supreme Court, Court of Appeals; Judges Emeritus may serve in other courts ----,,,,_.--.,,.----_.( No action in 1968) --Hancock County; Tax Commissioner; clerical assistance ....--------..._..._...._.__...__ 1988, 2090, 2845 --Hancock County; certain officials' salaries ........1988, 2103, 2994 --Tax on property; valuation --._,,.__,,,,___...._______(No action in 1968) --Taxicabs; registration and licensing .._,,...,,.. (No action in 1968) --Deer hunting; penalty for night hunting ....,,...,,_._...______..___..__....._.. --State employees; liability insurance --.----,,,,(No action in 1968) 3928 HB 597 HB 599 HB 601 HB 616 HB 620 HB 624 HB 625 HB 627 HB 633 HB 638 HB 639 HB 646 HB 652 HB 654 HB 662 HB 663 HB 664 HB 671 HB 682 HB 683 HB 686 HB 687 HB 689 HB 690 HB 691 HB 694 HB 696 HB 697 HB 698 HB 703 HB 711 HB 713 INDEX --Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic Authority; create ----------------.__........_--------_------_ (No action in 1968) --Occupational tax; equalize ----.----.-------- (No action in 1968) --Employment Security Law; unemployment; waiting period ------____----_---- -- --(No action in 1968) --Sales tax; increase from 3 to 4% ------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Public Assistance Act; additional definitions --_--------.._.._--------(No action in 1968) --Habeas corpus cases; transcripts of proceedings -------------- 199 --State Department records; destruction of .--..(No action in 1968) --Motor vehicles; additional millage ------------(No action in 1968) --Railroads; automatic signalling devices at grade crossings ,,------_.,,--__,,--_-_----------_.(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; party registration .... (No action in 1968) --Bibb County; Board of Education; membership ----_.___.___._--------___.----_.1100, 1175, 2616, 3073 --Limited-Access Highways, Free-Access Highways; define ----------------------.----------------(No action in 1968) --Handicapped persons; park on public streets without penalties ..-_----------_----_----_---- (No action in 1968) --Driver Education Courses; secondary school --___--_---__--------------.----------------(No action in 1968) --Fulton County Airport Authority; create --_--_--_--___--------------__.----------(No action in 1968) --Bribery; condidates for public office .----.-- (No action in 1968) --Aircraft; privately owned; levy license fees ------.--_----_----------------_--__------._-(No action in 1968) --Teachers' Retirement; creditable service ------.----------------------1445, 2585, 3273, 3310, 3431 --School tax; redemption of property --------_.._----736, 895, 949 --Sales tax; exempt farm machinery __----------------------3040, 3084 --Property tax; speculative value, not used on returns ----_----.--__----.------ (No action in 1968) --Cosmetology; inspectors --__--------------_(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges; secretarial service _____.--.____...--,,__--__..__------.___----_----,,_(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges; compensation ----...(No action in 1968) --Superior Court Judges; group life insurance _--...--______..------.------__--------_______ (No action in 1968) --State employees; minimum wage ------------.(No action in 1968) --Georgia Industrial Loan Act; maximum premiums .._._...___.____......_____.....,,.__(No action in 1968) --Georgia State Warehouse Act; bond requirements -------- ----------...._,,. --.._...-- (No action in 1968) --Hotels, Boarding Houses; crime of defrauding ----__--____.___--._--.--_--------.._.----(No action in 1968) --State Literature Commission; obscene literature ------------.-- .--------------.------__ 197, 310, 886 --Schools; Superintendent's office; salaries ...._.._--__...___._......... 2592 --Teachers' Retirement; additional members --(No action in 1968) HB 721 HB 732 HB 733 HB 741 HB 742 HB 743 HB 745 HB 746 HB 747 HB 748 HB 749 HB 751 HB 756 HB 757 HB 758 HB 759 HB 760 HB 761 HB 763 HB 765 HB 766 HB 771 HB 774 HB 775 HB 776 HB 781 HB 786 HB 794 HB 795 HB 796 HB 797 INDEX 3929 --Schools; superintendent's office; minimum standards --...----._.------..--.------.--...-..(No action in 1968) --Wayne County; Sheriff and deputies; salaries --------------------------------.----(No action in 1968) --Banks; establishment of facilities .._._----.....__(No action in 1968) --Supervisor of Purchases; County governments purchase of supplies ___....._.... ----.....____........----..-- 3395, 3396 --State Board of Corrections; confinement and rehabilitation ..........--.2851, 2945, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 --Georgia Prison Industries Act; inmates' compensation _----....._----.201, 201, 3168, 3254, 3365, 3373, 3432 --Alcoholic beverages; retail liquor stores; owner's name placed in conspicuous place ----_---....-----(No action in 1968) --Workmen's Compensation; investigations, time allowed for report --------....--.--.----------------..(No action in 1968) --Insurance; group life insurance; dependent children ------.1987 --Prison guards, wardens and deputy wardens; powers of arrest ------------------------,,----(No action in 1968) --Schools; athletic functions, dances, etc.; alcoholic beverages --------..--.--.--------(No action in 1968) --DeKalb County; Civil and Criminal Court; procedures ---- .,,_------------....----------..(No action in 1968) --Abandonment of minors; service of demand --.----.199, 440, 606 --County tax digests; postponement ----------(No action in 1968) --Unemployment-Compensation Law; abolish Board of Review --..------.__._.----._._------ (No action in 1968) --Fulton County; entertainment tax ....----....(No action in 1968) --Motor vehicle, ad valorem tax; values if held for resale ----------------------.----------(No action in 1968) --Atlanta, City of; tax on amusements, hotels, etc. ...------------_ --------------------(No action in 1968) --Atlanta, City of; amend charter --------..---- (No action in 1968) --Cartersville, City of; Mayor and Board of Alderman; salary .---- 1988, 2106, 2845, 3003, 3003, 3256, 3274 --Atlanta, City of; dwellings for employees .------.....------------....--..,,...--.(No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; city employees presiding as manager --.------__------.___._,,... (No action in 1968) --Moultrie, City of; elections ----------------.__(No action in 1968) --Clinical Laboratories, Blood Banks, Tissue Banks; license required ----------------------...--.(No action in 1968) --Richmond County; Board of Education; election ... .------....------ .,___-- 2353, 2572, 3408 --Conspiracy; criminal offense ----------..._--------.--------. 339 --Land and Water Conservation Fund Act; create ----.._----....--.----.--....----..,,...--.(No action in 1968) --Railroad crewmen; specified number ----...._ (No action in 1968) --Private business schools; regulations _______ (No action in 1968) --Juries; wage loss ._..------....______._____...____._______,,._(No action in 1968) --Attachments; sworn before Clerk of the Court ...--.199, 369, 3164 3930 HB 803 HB 804 HB 808 HB 813 HB 814 HB 821 HB 824 HB 826 HB 834 HB 835 HB 836 HB 837 HB 838 HB 839 HB 840 HB 841 HB 842 HB 843 HB 844 HB 845 HB 846 HB 847 HB 848 HB 849 HB 850 HB 851 HB 852 HB 853 HB 854 INDEX --Podiatry; discrimination of insurance premiums ....._............ ________________,,____________ (No action in 1968) --Georgia Public Service Commission; Chairman and members' salaries -__--,____ (No action in 1968) --Insurance; fire and extended coverage on real property ____________________________(No action in 1968) --Motor vehicles; illegal parking ____..______________831, 1202, 1670 --Streets; reversions to land --__-__----_--_-____-----_____-___--_-____943 --Augusta, City of; Mayor and Council; election ________________........_____________.___--____.-- (No action in 1968) --DeKalb County Board of Education; compensation _________,,________--______-,,_--____.(No action in 1968) --State Departments; surplus property ________--.___--__.,,--_______943 --Dental Technicians; allow certain duties _______ (No action in 1968) --Augusta, City of; Police Department; Captain of Detectives ___.__._-___..__-__________________.1988, 2091, 2845 --Obscene telephone calls; criminal penalties __-_____._~393, 481, 886 --Voting Recorders; vote party ticket or for individuals ______________________________________________ (No action in 1968) --Jackson County; certain officials' salaries _________________.______,,________14, 2702, 2713, 3408 --Motor vehicle license plates; reflective material _._._.____._____._____________.___.__20, 131, 137, 201, 1322, 1371 --Driver's license; expiration date __._____.____._..______.20, 132, 1801 --Speed restrictions; four-land limited access highways .._....._-._.___.,, 20, 132, 299, 414, 2084, 3357 --Driver Education Course; high school curriculum __._21, 132, 137 --Radar; use by Department of Public Safety _______._._______-....______21, 132, 137, 179, 1234, 1841 --Gordon County Development Authority; members' terms and appointments _.__...___...__21, 132, 137, 165, 1528, 1843 --Gordon County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues ._____.______.__________21, 132, 137, 165, 736 --Sales tax; private elementary schools ___....________.___._______-_.________.21, 133, 990, 1487, 3186, 3367 --Waynesboro, City of; Judge and Solicitors salary ._.________._______________________21, 133, 137, 165, 500 --Franklin Springs, City of; Mayor and Council; terms __________.______________._________22, 133, 137, 166, 500 --Board of Recreation Examiners; create _._.__.__..__.._..___._..._..22, 133, 393, 567, 608, 1212, 3034, 3059 --Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act; adopt ,,.,, .._...,,_. 22, 133, 337, 483, 1803, 1844 --Conspiracy to commit a crime shall be a crime _._.._-._.-_..__..___.._-_.._______._____-._-__22) 133, 393, 483, 1104 --Early County; Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election _______________._________________22, 133, 137, 166, 500 --Juvenile Courts; jurisdiction _..._...._..._._.. 22, 133, 471, 717, 3408 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt excise tax _.____.____.__________.__.__________23, 134, 1321, 2317 HB 855 HB 856 HB 857 HB 858 HB 859 HB 860 HB 861 HB 862 HB 863 HB 864 HB 865 HB 866 HB 867 HB 868 HB 869 HB 870 HB 871 HB 872 HB 873 HB 874 HB 875 HB 876 HB 877 HB 878 HB 879 HB 880 HB 881 HB 882 HB 883 HB 884 HB 885 HB 886 HB 887 INDEX 3931 --Motor vehicles; defects; warranties __________23, 134, 941, 1201, 1517 --Firearms and ammunition; identification ....__..___.______ 24, 135, 736 --Firearms and ammunition; sale and possession _.....__..._24, 135 --Springfield, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; election ---.-..,,--,, ___.___.24, 135, 137, 166, 500 --Bryan County; Tax Commissioner's salary ...................^4, 135, 137, 167, 737 --Bryan. County; Ordinary's salary ................24, 135, 137, 167, 1806 --Workmen's Compensation; settlements ................24, 135, 198, 279 --Municipal grants; disbursement on quarterly basis ........24, 135, 736, 1273, 1360, 2207, 3273, 3318, 3342, 3347, 3366, 3375, 3433 --Veterinarians' licenses; educational programs _________25, 135, 1664 --Radiation Control Council; membership ____._.____.__.._______._._._________________25, 136, 298, 1418, 3166 --Firearms; possession while committing felony _________________.__..._.2_.__..______...._____._25, 136, 606, 804, 2706, 2735 j^Ejfots; possession of firearms ........... ...... 25, 136, 1100 --Phonograph records and tapes; restrict sales ______.___127, 161, 338 --Wife's estate; debts of husband ^.___.._.. ...___._........._.127, 161, 988 --County grants; disbursement on quarterly basis __..___.___.___.___________.128, 161, 736, 961, 1027, 2208, 3274, 3348 --Practice of Law; educational requirements ..________.___________.__.._____.........___.128, 162, 394, 578, 1322 --Schools; immunization of pupils _._...128, 162, 298, 364, 2085, 2647 --Bowman, City of; Clerk and Treasurer; election _...._............._...__.._.. 128, 162, 198, 222, 500 --Elbert County; Sheriff's budget ___.__________.128, 162, 198, 223, 500 --State Election Board; members' composition ___..__.____.___________.___.._......._...__.__.__128, 162, 200, 509, 509 --Motor Vehicles Certificate of Title Act; origin of vehicle _____________________.____129, 162, 299, 611, 1806, 2618, 2618, 2623 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles Act; certificates _______.._...__.129, 162 --Schroer, Albert J., Jr.; restore citizenship ..__._..._..___._.______-...___........_.........129, 163, 393, 613, 3164 --State Properties Control Code; authorizations ..........129, 163, 943 --State Properties Control Commission; inventorying ..............---..____......_... .129, 163, 171 --Condemnation proceedings; responsibility for court costs _______________.__.._.._.________-______-._____.._._.._.__130, 163, 1446 --Driver's licenses; suspension; violation point count system ..............27, 136, 137, 441, 646, 648, 942, 2825, 3273, 3307 --Motor vehicle Financial Responsibility Law; reinstatement of driver's license ................. .........^1, 136, 137 --Name change; issuance of certificate .... 130, 163, 299, 368, 1234 --Grand Jurors; county or municipal officials _._________130, 164, 1520 --Excise tax; motor fuel used in aircraft motors ................131, 164 --Georgia State Patrol, GBI; court fees .._................._._......_..___.____.___._.__._131, 164, 830, 909, 3408 --Sales tax; food for human consumption _._..___.___._......_.131, 164 3932 INDEX HB 888 HB 889 HB 890 HB 891 HB 892 HB 893 HB 894 HB 895 HB 896 HB 897 HB 898 HB 899 HB 900 HB 901 HB 902 HB 903 HB 904 HB 905 HB 906 HB 907 HB 908 HB 909 HB 910 HB 911 HB 912 HB 913 HB 914 HB 915 HB 916 HB 917 HB 918 HB 919 HB 920 HB 921 HB 922 --County official organs; annual certification ------------148, 188 --Liens, mortgages and deeds; fees for recording --------------------------------149, 188, 299, 1203, 1244 --County officials; fee system of compensation; abolish ______149, 189 --Georgia Civil Practice Act; service by publication ---------------_------149, 189, 299, 346, 3039, 3091 --Local boards of education; monthly summaries ----,,_--149, 189 --Laurens County; State Court of ------------149, 189, 223, 501, 501 --Marriage licenses; parental consent, underage applicants _-____---_--------------------150, 189, 471, 707, 2566 --Marriage licenses; parental consent; proof of pregnancy ------__________________________________------------__----__-- 150, 189 --Income tax; dependent students _____________.152, 189, 1521, 2666, 3408 --Minors' guardians; bond requirement ----152, 190, 339, 646, 2566 --State Board of Registration for Used Car Dealers; place of business --------------------------152, 190, 299, 573, 1166, 1195 --Equalized school property tax digest.__.153, 190, 298, 444,1449, 2646 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; lapsed funds -----___----------------------__.153, 190, 298, 446, 737 --Solicitation of money; false invoices ......._....153, 190, 338, 441, 737 --Decatur County; Board of Education; expenditures _--__-.-_------------------------153, 190, 198, 224, 501 --Motor vehicle license plates; personalized plates .....___153, 190, 299, 416,3273,3356 --Gambling; punishment . . ..----------.--------------------153, 191 --State of Emergency; Governor's powers .------------------154, 191 --Riots; punishment ..._._._.___ ------.--------------154, 191 --Fire bombs, molotov cocktails; possession prima facie evidence ______..__----___.------------ __--------_------164, 191 --Governor; rewards for information _____._...----------... 154, 191 --School consolidation; authorization __.___--_____------____154, 191, 2234 --Property tax; "fair market value" ____----155, 192, 2238, 2793, 3164 --Landlords; warrants for eviction ...__.... 155, 192, 393, 786, 2614 --Law Enforcement Officers; unnecessary physical abuse __ 155, 192 ' --Butts County; Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff; salary --------------...._----------------157, 194, 198, 224, 1668, 1728 --Butts County; Clerk's Office; additional personnel _____.___----_------_-____..-______--.158, 194, 198, 224, 1671 --Daylight Savings Time; abolish .----.158, 194, 338, 950, 951, 1025 --Death sentene; eligibility for parole .... ... 158, 194, 299, 454, 582 --Death sentence; jury's recommendation _.__--__.____158, 194, 299, 586 --Tattnall County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election ------------------159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 --Tattnall County; Board of Education; election of members ....____..... ....__---- . 159, 195, 198, 225, 737, 2591 --Solicitors-General, Emeritus; minimum salary, 65 or over _.___--.------------------.159, 195, 1101, 1297, 1362, 2485 --Personal property; rental or lease agreements ------159, 195, 393, 810, 3000, 3054 --Gordon County; Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; salary _._--------.----......--------159, 195, 198, 225, 1170, 1196 HB 923 HB 924 HB 925 HB 926 HB 927 HB 928 HB 929 HB 930 HB 931 HB 932 HB 933 HB 934 HB 935 HB 936 HB 937 HB 938 HB 939 HB 940 HB 941 HB 942 HB 943 HB 944 HB 945 HB 946 HB 947 HB 948 HB 949 HB 950 HB 951 HB 952 HB 953 INDEX 3933 --Georgia Human Relations Commission; create --------....160, 195 --Troup County; Officials; salaries ..,..---160, 196, 198, 226, 501 --Superior Court Judges, Emeritus; salary, 70 years or over __--___________._.------_------_------.-- _____.____._..___.____160, 196 --Unemployment Compensation Law; benefit payments if laid off work _-----------------_...----.---161, 196, 198, 317 --Homeland, City of; territorial limits .......-184, 219, 298, 395, 2563 2923 --Personal property; lien foreclosure ------------.184, 219, 338, 790 --Memorial Day; change name to Confederate Memorial Day ..................................... .............. ..184, 219, 299 --Court Clerks; service by publication of summons ........184, 219, 666 --GBI; clothing allowance ----_.......----.------........184, 219, 943, 1202 --Motor vehicle license plates; citizens' band radio stations ..-.....----...._____...--------..--.........185, 220, 507, 700, 1806 --State depositories; development authority bonds ......_.._.---- 185, 220, 337, 580, 2706, 2936, 3169, 3179, 3255, 3323, 3433 --International or foreign banking; capital stock investments ....__------.----._..._.__--...186, 220, 337, 580, 1166, 1362 --Banks; capital stock of subsidiary corporations --------------------186, 221, 666, 818, 923, 1296, 2705 --Bank loans; warehousing ------_------___.--............186, 221, 337, 581 --State chartered banks; credit card plans ------------..186, 221, 337, 581,1166,1363 --Banks; full banking services ............. 186, 221, 666, 1295, 2705 --Banks; common stock .................--...187, 221, 666, 2059, 3170, 3335 --Regulated Certificated Bank Act; branch locations --------..........187, 221, 337, 581, 2901, 3077, 3108, 3176, 3256, 3359 --Georgia Commission on Constitutional Government; create ................................ 187, 222 --Reckless driving; black tire marks on road surface --.214, 293, 507 --Workmen's Compensation; hearings ------.----..--.....----..214, 293 --Law Enforcement Officers; high speed chases ----.....214, 293, 508 --Georgia Milk Stabilization Commission; create ....-...------------..----_..........--...188, 222, 336, 1201, 1516 --State Department of Air Transportation; establish ... 215, 293, 829 --National Memorial Day; public and legal holiday ............... ..... 215, 293, 337, 412, 1806 --Alcoholic beverages; illegal manufacture; contraband --..........-.........------------ 215, 293, 1802, 2470, 3164 --Solicitation of money; goods or services not rendered ________215, 294 --Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; benefits ...._._.------.....__.._...---- 215, 294, 606, 704, 943, 2512, 3408 --Pannin County; Law Library; establish and maintain .......----..--------.--....._..---.-- 215, 294, 298, 395, 1524 --Teachers' Retirement System; University System of Georgia _._....__._...__....___...___ 216, 294, 2592, 2813, 3371, 3371, 3432 --Fulton County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; pensions --------.___----_.217, 295, 298, 395, 3004, 3058 3934 HB 954 HB 955 HB 956 HB 957 HB 958 HB 959 HB 960 HB 961 HB 962 HB 963 HB 964 HB 965 HB 966 HB 967 HB 968 HB 969 HB 970 HB 971 HB 972 HB 973 HB 974 HB 975 HB 976 HB 977 HB 978 HB 979 HB 980 HB 981 HB 982 INDEX --Fulton County; Public Defender; retirement fund -_.__------_________------____.______------.217, 295, 1227, 1229, 2999 --Fulton County; Judges and Solicitor-General; retirement fund .--___----......------------.---- .. .218, 296 --Fulton County; Employees' Pension; maximum amount _______._..._______----_,,____.____----__----____.218, 296, 667, 671, 1806 --Workmen's Compensation; counties, full-time employees _------..----._....__..------...218, 296, 941, 1292, 3334, 3342 --First bail, matter of right _----.___-_--.....218, 296, 339, 2052, 2186 --Traverse jury boxes; each county allowed only one --218, 296, 666 --General Appropriations Act; 1968-69 _. _....__ 218, 296, 1600, 1600 1622, 1741, 2360, 2360, 2505, 2506, 2508, 2892, 3002 --General Appropriations Act; supplement __________________219, 297 --DeKalb County; County Manager form of government; election _--___--...--....------_.....__.____--_------_._--__.___________._.----.284, 329 --State Employees' Retirement System; Armed Services credit .._..._._-..__ ...... ._..__..__ .284, 329 --Trenton, City of; eminent domain .------.284, 329, 338, 396, 737 --Blakely, City of; special and municipal elections ____--.284, 329, 338, 396,737 --Georgia Gifts to Minors Act; create _--------_.----......285, 329, 942 --Private Driver Training Schools; standards ......._____.285, 330, 831, 912,1450 --Walton County; Board of Education; members' election ___._.....285, 330, 338, 396, 737, 3279, 3341, 3347 --Surface Mined Land Use Board; establish .----------285, 330, 605 709,1102,1196 --Joint Municipal Employees' Retirement System; vested rights _----..._-__----.._...----.----.....285, 330, 338, 1293, 3164 --Fulton County; Judges' and Solicitor-Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members ________..__..285, 330, 2235, 2248, 3004, 3081 --Fulton County; Judges' and Solicitor-Generals' Retirement Fund; eligible members; public defenders _--...--------.286, 330 --Inspection of Motor Vehicles; trailers and semi-trailers ..-286, 330 --State-aid Road Fund; transfer control -_-_........._..__.___.287, 331, 734 --State Highway Department; weight limits ----------287, 331, 734, 2203,3166 --State Highway Engineer; traveling expenses incurred in Fulton County __--__------.----------.----.__----------287, 331, 734 --State Highway Department; scales _----...........287, 331, 734, 1422, 3000, 3065 --State Highway Department; auditing of claims and obligations against ------------------287, 332, 734, 2205, 3167 --State Highway Department; signal devices at railroad crossings ----------_----_----------...__.... ....288, 332, 734, 897 --State Highway Board; transfer of duties _...._._ 288, 332, 734, 1276 --State Highway Department; unattended vehicles ._._._----. ................... 28, 332, 734, 969, 1675, 1841, 2900 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; distributors' excise tax ------.288, 332, 1521, 2308, 2468, 2650 HB 983 HB 984 HB 985 HB 986 HB 987 HB 988 HB 989 HB 990 HB 991 HB 992 HB 993 HB 994 HB 995 HB 996 HB 997 HB 998 HB 999 HB 1000 HB 1001 HB 1002 HB 1003 HB 1004 HB 1005 HB 1006 HB 1007 HB 1008 HB 1009 HB 1010 HB 1011 INDEX 3935 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; exempt sales tax --__.___.---,,__.------.288, 332 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; purchase in other states __--..-288, 333, 1521 --Trucks hauling lumber products and concrete; permits ------------..--------.___._---.-__._.--_____-----289, 333, 474 --State Highway Department; public utilities _______--...289, 333, 987 --State Highway Department; Director's eligibility --._.------__.-_.----.----.-289, 333, 734, 1276, 2999 --State-aid system of roads; transfer duties ----. -- 289, 333, 986 --Condemnation proceedings; appeals by owner of land --.290, 334 --State Highway Board; report of operations --.....-- 290, 334, 986, 2206, 3167 --State Highway Department; legal expenses ----__--290, 334, 734, 967,1671 --Trucks hauling lumber and lumber products; length and weight permits --------290, 334, 604, 1116, 1242, 1524, 1729 --Traffic control devices; conform to specifications ------.__----_....--_..._--290, 334, 734, 2814, 3408 --State Highway Department; bridges across streams on State line -----.-----..----..-..---.....--._._..--291, 335, 987 --Teachers' Retirement System; minimum floor ___--291, 335, 2592 --Municipalities; publication of financial condition .----------._----_.--------...291, 335, 338, 811, 1322 --State Game and Fish Commission; outboard motors 291, 335, 470 --State Game and Fish Commission; maximum capacity of watercraft --..-----......--------------.------....--...292, 335 --Right-hand traffic lane; slow-moving traffic ........... 292, 335, 507, 808,1667, 2295 --Teachers' Retirement System; transfer of service credits .----------....------.-----292, 336, 986, 2529, 3035, 3070 --State Employees' Retirement System; transfer of service credits . ....... 292, 336, 986, 2531, 3035, 3072 --Leary, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; term of office ------------------------------321, 386, 394, 474, 884, 1844 --Thomaston, City of; Thomaston-Upson County Office Building Authority; members __.............__.321, 386, 471, 512, 885 --Thomaston, City of; ad valorem taxes; levy ------------------------------------321, 387, 471, 512, 885 --East Thomaston, Village of; abolish charter -.--------------------------------321, 387, 471, 512, 885 --Thomaston, City of; extend corporate limits ...................._.... ------ -- ...... 322, 387, 471, 512, 885 --Upson County; Upson-Thomaston Board of Tax Assessors; combine- ... ....... ............................. 322, 387, 605, 671, 1169 --Georgia Legislative Retirement System; Employees' Retirement System ........ ----------------------------322, 387, 944 --Drivers' license; reexamination after suspension ._......... 322, 387 --Firemen's Pension Fund; eligibility __......___.........322, 387, 943, 1374 3001,3222 --Doerun, City of; Recorder's Court; establish -----...-322, 388, 394 475, 738 3936 HB 1012 HB 1013 HB 1014 HB 1015 HB 1016 HB 1017 HB 1018 HB 1019 HB 1020 HB 1021 HB 1022 HB 1023 HB 1024 HB 1025 HB 1026 HB 1027 HB 1028 HB 1029 HB 1030 HB 1031 HB 1032 HB 1033 HB 1034 HB 1035 HB 1036 HB 1037 HB 1038 HB 1039 HB 1040 HB 1041 HB 1042 HB 1043 HB 1044 INDEX --Georgia Legislative Retirement System; credit for military service ......__......323, 388, 1101, 1481, 3034, 3069, 3169, 3180, 3233 3234, 3279 --Heard County; additional deputy ...__.______-..__323, 388, 471, 513, 885 --Augusta, City of; police department; title rules _____ 324, 389, 394, 475, 738 --State Employees' Retirement System; retirement allowances ....._...._......... 324, 389, 943, 2216, 3166 --State Employees' Retirement System; amend __...____.-324, 389, 943 --Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; eligibility __ 324, 389 --Augusta, City of; Sale of Alien Park .._____ 324, 389, 394, 475, 738 --Cordele Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary ................ 325, 389, 605, 672, 1234 --State Employees' Retirement System; involuntary . separation ....._... 325, 389, 1101, 1994, 2237, 2509, 3256 --Teachers' Retirement System; benefit adjustments .......... ____..___.__.. ____325, 390, 944, 2955 --Wrecking companies; disposition .__..___.____._ 325, 390, 831, 900, 2086 --Elections; nomination petition ______,___326, 390, 508, 614, 1803, 2189 --Medical laboratory personnel; licensing ________ ___________________ 326, 390 --State Employees' Retirement System; Armed Forces credit ...... __..._.__._______-_....__._________._____.___.._326, 390 --Clinical laboratory personnel; licensing ......___..._ 326, 391 --Atlanta, City of; Fulton County; amusement tax ___...________..._______.._________.______._..__._..___._....______._...._._326, 391, 471, 510 --Atlanta, City of; lodgings; excise tax 2% ...... 327, 391, 471, 510 --Fulton County; lodgings; excise tax 2% ________ .....327, 391, 471, 511 --Warranties; persons other than buyer who may benefit _______________________________________________ 327, 391, 666, 794, 2706, 2738 --Estates; property appraisement ___ _..._______._.328, 392, 606, 817, 3164 --State Employees' Retirement System; benefits prior to January 1, 1967 ___..._______..___..-..;.____.._.....____..______........________328, 392 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service credit ._...___.__________-.-____.-._-_._-.-_-..____.--.-__.___.__..._..._.._.___.___._.328, 392 --Americus, City of; retirement system; participation ________328, 392 --Ordinaries' Retirement Fund; Secretary-Treasurer ..._..__328, 392, 990,1496,1739, 3034, 3064 --Non-Par Banking Bill; charge for payment of checks __.__._.___...-._..___-._.-.. ....... ... 328, 392, 734 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service credit .______.._ _____..________._____..__.________.....__.___329, 392, 1101, I486, 3227 --Cross burning; unlawful on private property _.___.__..__375, 460, 943 --Appliance repair; liens _.__.__...______-._.______--___._____-._.__..__375, 461, 2236 --Muscofee County; tax payment; late penalty ......... 375, 461, 471, 513, 885 --Municipalities; public accommodations; excise tax..__376, 461, 1521 --Estates; testamentary additions ___....._.......376, 461, 666, 861, 3165 --Estates; residuary bequest or devise, surviving widow .... 376, 461, 666, 1574, 3167 --Appellate Practice Act of 1965; re-enact .______...._376, 461, 666, 1489, 3375, 3383, 3392, 3394, 3432 HB 1045 HB 1046 HB 1047 HB 1048 HB 1049 HB 1050 HB 1051 HB 1052 HB 1053 HB 1054 HB 1055 HB 1056 HB 1057 HB 1058 HB 1059 HB 1060 HB 1061 HB 1062 HB 1063 HB 1064 HB 1065 HB 1066 HB 1067 HB 1068 HB 1069 HB 1070 HB 1071 HB 1072 HB 1073 HB 1074 INDEX 3937 --Tifton, City of; Police Court; certain provisions ___..___376, 462, 471, 513,1104 --Tifton, City of; City Commissioners; residents __-........__-......-..___....-_-._-...__.._.377, 462, 471, 514, 885 --Tifton, City of; Chairman and City Commissioners; salaries __~_~_____.._._.________...__-.377, 462, 471, 514, 885 --Veterans of World War II; seniority and retirement rights ..-__.__._.__.__--_..--.._.--__--. 377, 462, 829, 907 --Georgia State War Veterans' Home; benefits __..__.._..__......._.377, 462 --Department of Public Safety; disability allowance .______.__________-_______-_.______._____.377, 462, 943, 2790, 3409 --Elections; deputy registrars _.____........378, 463, 509, 630, 2563, 2641, 2899, 2922, 3034, 3169, 3175 --Elections; Elector's vote ..................378, 463, 508, 621, 1322, 2190 --Presidential electors; ballots ......_.___-......-__.378, 463, 508, 623, 1450 --Elections; notice of candidacy ....................-379, 463, 508, 625, 1234 --Election districts; number of electors ___._.__._____.379, 464, 508, 616, 1234, 1365, 1528, 1865, 2242, 2314, 2339 --Elections; vote recorders _____..._.......-....._._.._.379, 464, 508, 622, 1235 --State Election Board; jurisdiction .__.379, 464, 509, 628, 3395, 3398 --State Election Board; members' compensation ....379, 464, 509, 626 --Motor vehicle ad valorem tax; dealer's due date ____,,..380, 464, 1991 --Lowndes County; City Court Judge and Solicitor; election ____.-__-.-_________.___._...___ 380, 464, 471, 514, 886 --State Highway Department; public utilities; right-of-ways ._._........_.._,,.,,.. 380, 465, 734, 2582 --Board of Regents; University System of Georgia; professional practices commission ..........380, 465, 606, 861, 1450 --Georgia Interdepartmental Council on the Handicapped; create ......___.................____........_....__..........__.381, 465, 987, 2044, 3409 --Georgia State Scholarship Commission; public information programs _____._______.._.____________._____._______________.381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Committee; create __..____.....__.__.......____......_......._.__._.....__.381, 466, 606, 705, 1450 --Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; federal loan requirements ___._._________________________._____.382, 466, 606, 815, 1450 --Fulton County; Superior Court Clerk; salary _....._.___.382, 466, 472, 515,1803,1845 --Georgia Post Mortem Examination Act; medical examiners' salaries ___.......___._...._...,,__......._..........__......____... 382, 466, 1664, 2044 --Driving under the influence; official laboratories ......382, 467, 987 --Columbus, City of; Municipal Court; dispossessory warrants ._._._.____________._.382, 467, 472, 515, 886 --Public transit facilities; sales tax .......-._.......- 383, 467, 1521, 2062 2191,3234 --Motor common carriers engaged in interstate commerce; permits -__...______...-_____...____...._....___..._...._.._383, 467, 831, 921, 2086 --Motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce; permits -_...........-.._.,,.............__................383, 468, 831, 923, 2086 --Anhydrous ammonia; proper classification __________.-__384, 468, 1446, 1955, 3165 3938 HB 1075 HB 1076 HB 1077 HB 1078 HB 1079 HB 1080 HB 1081 HB 1082 HB 1083 HB 1084 HB 1085 HB 1086 HB 1087 HB 1088 HB 1089 HB 1090 HB 1091 HB 1092 HB 1093 HB 1094 HB 1096 HB 1097 HB 1098 HB 1099 HB 1100 HB 1101 HB 1102 HB 1103 HB 1104 HB 1105 HB 1106 INDEX --Casualty insurance; creditor's interest ___-_____384, 468, 1517, 1727 --Credit life insurance; installment loans :__._._._384, 468, 1517, 1728 --Second Mortgage Act; secondary security deeds .___._________.____________._-._____________-_._-384, 468, 1446, 2537, 3409 --Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales Act; goods and services _____._________.__________.___.384, 468,1115,1446, 2539, 3409 --Employment in State Government; discrimination ___._^_._384, 469 --Veterans; honorary drivers' license ..__._._.....-._..__..._.385, 469, 829 --Veterans; fees for recording discharge certificates ___.______.________.____________,___.______.___._________385, 440, 469, 829 --Charlton, County of; State Depository; public funds ..__.__...._-.___._..._.._.._....-.....__..._385, 469, 472, 516, 2355 --Charlton County; deputies' salaries __...._...385, 469, 472, 516, 2355 --Charlton County; Superior Court employees' salaries .__..__..___..._-..__.-.___..-385, 469, 472, 516, 2355 --Family planning services; to whom provided __._____._386, 470, 1664 --Brunswick Port Authority; use of port facilities _._.________-________-______.___.__456, 494, 605, 672, 3041, 3085 --Municipal elections; eligibility ._...._..__..-.._456, 495, 736, 1293, 2566 --Worth County; Superior Court Clerk; fees _.____.__..___________._____-___.______.________..__.__._-456, 495, 507, 672, 1169 --Schools; blood tests for contagious and infectious diseases ,,.,,...._____________________._____________456, 495 --Uninsured motorists; insolvency of insurance company ___..._____________._.._._____._____.___.457 ) 495, 942, 1203, 3170, 3251 --Prescription drugs; exempt sales tax _,,..._..__.__--___._.._.458, 496 --Compulsory school attendance; raise from 16 to 18 ____.__.458, 496 --State employees; mileage expense allowance ....._.-_.458, 496, 509 --The Georgia Small Arms Act; create ..._...._...........__..___.... 458, 497 --Decatur County; Board of Education Members; election ______._.____.__459, 497, 502, 507, 1518, 1677, 2560 --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; membership ___________.________._____.______459, 497 --DeKalb County; governing authority members; election date _.._._..__.._...,,...__.___._-____..___,,,,_........,,.......,,__..._.__._.459, 497 --DeKalb County; Board of Education members; election .___._......_..._._.___...__...__..._....__.__...._.__..__.....-...__.._.._..._...459, 497 --Atlanta, City of; Taxicab franchise; license fee _..-.-.-_..._._..-_.-...__-..._-....._.459, 497, 605, 673, 3409 --Department of Public Health; medical or dental health ...._..._._..__-..__..___..._.___...._._.....___.__._.._....__...490, 599 --State employees and officials; mileage expense allowance _...___.........._...__..___.._..__.._...._490, 599, 1101, 1956 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; teacher allotment .__.._..._._...__....____...___...490, 599, 986, 1419, 3165 --Hospitals; civil liability __.~_.-__._______.__._____.___-___-_.,_..-___.491, 600, 2088 --Lookout Mountain, City of; incorporate __.._____.___._.___.____.__.491, 600, 605, 673, 1675, 1857, 1992 --Insurance Code of 1960; hospitalization; freedom of choice _,,__..._.,,..._.,,--..___._.-...__..._-..._-._.._...,,.,, 491, 600 HB 1107 HB 1108 HB 1109 HB 1110 HB 1111 HB 1112 HB 1113 HB 1114 HB 1115 HB 1116 HB 1117 HB 1118 HB 1119 HB 1120 HB 1121 HB 1122 HB 1123 HB 1124 HB 1125 HB 1126 HB 1127 HB 1128 HB 1129 HB 1130 HB 1131 HB 1132 INDEX 3939 --Indictments; foreman of grand jury shall sign to have legal effect ...,,._.......--___ ........ ____________________492, 600 --Columbia County; Board of Education members; election __..._........_.__._..._._........_.492, 600, 667, 674, 1169 --Columbia County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; increase membership .__._........__.............___......__........492, 601, 667, 674, 1169 --Columbia County; Sheriff's salary _______.___492, 601, 667, 674, 1169 --Commercial fishing boats; license fees __-..-...__.__..-_.......__._...-..._...__-....__.492, 601, 604, 792, 1804, 2645 --Folkston, City of; City Manager's appointment ..._.___.....__..._._...__._..,__.....492, 601, 667, 675, 2563, 2924 --Folkston, City of; Corporate limits; extend __.________..__________._________._..____493, 601, 667, 675, 2560 --Folkston, City of; close certain streets and alleys ....__..........________........__.....493, 601, 667, 675, 2355 --Capital offense; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time ._____-....___._.__.......__.......-__-__493, 602, 1990 --Trials; accused may enter a demand for a trial at any time .._...__.......______.........._..._......493, 602, 1990 --State Board of Corrections; penal rehabilitation programs; federal grants .,,..--____--_,,--_--_,,_--...-----493, 602 --Prisoners; sale of certain goods ....494, 602, 1801, 2045, 3349, 3363 --Prisoners; authority to hire out to Federal Government agencies _.....____..._....494, 602, 1101, 2045 --State Board of Corrections; authority to purchase motor vehicles -__.-_.__,,----..----.----_--.------ 494, 602 --Georgia Prison Industries Administration; create .................__.__...._...__._......__..___..._._....,,.....494, 603, 1101, 2207 --Legal Advertisements; rates allowed publishers .._.......__._.............. __ 590, 658, 1520, 2517, 2999 --Ivey, Town of; corporate limits; change ....._____......___.__..__...__.__._.._.___._.__.....590, 658, 667, 743, 1235 --Allentown, Town of; corporate limits; change ...._._.....__._.....__._._.-...-___......__.-..-_..590, 658, 667, 743, 1235 --Cobb Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; practice of law .__________________.590, 658, 947, 1799, 1809, 2616, 2737 --Sumter County; Board of Education members; election ____....._...___..._.___.._...........591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 --Sumter County; Clerk of Superior Court, clerks or deputies; salaries .______________.,,_ 591, 658, 667, 744, 1235 --Fannin County; Deputy Sheriff; __ car allowance .._._._....._...._...._..__.__"_._._.___.__591, 659, 667, 744, 2560 --Fannin County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; salaries ._..__-..__..._591, 659, 667, 745, 2898, 3050 --Dasher, Town of; corporate limits; redefine ..................^...................................Sgi, 659, 667, 745, 2355 --Lowndes County; deputy sheriff's salary _._...._.__......._.__............_........_..........._.591, 659, 667, 745, 2355 --Estate; death of a husband intestate; wife's application for dower ______,,,,--___..592, 659, 830, 919, 1803, 1859 3940 HB 1133 HB 1134 HB 1135 HB 1136 HB 1137 HB 1138 HB 1139 HB 1140 HB 1141 HB 1142 HB 1143 HB 1144 HB 1145 HB 1146 HB 1147 HB 1148 HB 1149 HB 1150 HB 1151 HB 1152 HB 1153 HB 1154 HB 1155 HB 1156 HB 1157 HB 1158 HB 1159 INDEX --Forsyth County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; chairman's salary ...._-592, 659, 667, 746, 1169 --Dawson County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; compensation ------____------592, 659, 667, 746, 1169 --Georgia Health Code; examination hearings -_.-_-__.--------------------.-..592, 660, 967, 1488, 3285 --Attorneys; improper interrogatories; fees --------...592, 660, 831 --Butts County; tax collector; compensation _.----------.._.--------...-592, 660, 667, 746, 1671 --Jefferson County; tax collector and receiver; consolidate offices _..----------------------593, 660, 667, 747, 1169 --Atlanta, City of; Tax Commissioner; tax returns Fulton and DeKalb County --------------------593, 660, 667, 747 --Atlanta, City of; Tax levy -----------------.------593, 660, 667, 747 --Atlanta, City of; city taxes; collection --__...--.-_.-__--.--------------------593, 661, 667, 748 --Fulton County; planning and zoning hearings ----.---_--------------------594, 661, 667, 748, 3409 --Fulton County; court reporters' compensation _.--------------------------594, 661, 667, 749, 1806 --Courts; simulated court process; collection of debts ----------.------------------------594, 661, 830 --Thomasville, City of; Board of Education; vacancies --._--...--_.--..------------------594, 661, 667, 749, 1170 --Douglas County; law library; establish ----,,--_-----..--------------594, 661, 667, 749, 1235 --Douglas County; certain employees' salaries --_---.-----------------------.595, 662, 668, 750, 1235 --Douglas County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts --------------.--.595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 --Douglas County; Board of Education; members and districts --------------------595, 662, 668, 750, 1236 --Douglasville, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; salaries .--------------------595, 662, 668, 751, 1236 --Pike County; Superior Court terms ------595, 662, 735, 751, 1671 --General Assembly; salary bills ----------------595, 662, 1098, 1418 --Spalding County; establish Law Library -----..----..596, 662, 1990 --Carroll County; Water Authority; acquire sewer systems-.--------.----.----.----...-596, 662, 668, 751, 1236 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ----------------.----..----...--....-596, 663, 669, 796, 3167 --Public Assistance Act; acceptance of payments --------.------...--...-596, 608, 663, 1522, 2330, 3165 --Savannah, City of; municipal court; Justice of the Peace; jurisdiction ---------------- 597, 664, 668, 752, 1236 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation ----------------------..----598, 664, 668, 752, 1806 --Pulpwood trucks; chains or cables ----598, 664, 668, 866, 1668, 1995, 2620, 2649, 3001, 3256 HB 1160 HB 1161 HB 1162 HB 1163 HB 1164 HB 1165 HB 1166 HB 1167 HB 1168 HB 1169 HB 1170 HB 1171 HB 1172 HB 1173 HB 1174 HB 1175 HB 1176 HB 1177 HB 1178 HB 1179 HB 1180 HB 1181 HB 1182 HB 1183 HB 1184 HB 1185 HB 1186 INDEX 3941 --Rossville, City of; Fire and Police Chiefs; appointment __,,_.,, 598, 664, 988, 991, 1675 --Rossville, City of; Recorder's Court; establish __..___.........___.....................598, 665, 988, 991, 1675 --Rossville, City of; Mayor, councilmen and tax assessors; compensation .__._____...___....__._..598, 665, 988, 993, 1675 --Garnishment; grounds of attachment; non-residents __________________________________________--_______._______.599, 665, 2090 --Lookout Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation .__.__..___________________________._______599, 665, 668, 752, 1840 --Non-residents; court's jurisdiction _______-_.______.________650, 726, 1320 --Plumbing contractors; performance bonds ,,.__..--._....--.___650, 727 --Water wells; drilling regulations ,,,,____--___.___650, 727, 1664, 2060 --Moultrie, City of; Elections; notification ._..___.-_.____.._.-_____.____.___..___........650, 727, 735, 832, 1807 --State Examining Boards; applicants ._-_______.....____..___.651, 727, 939 --State Board of Veterans Service; benefits ________.____.____________________._._-____________.___651, 727, 829, 904, 3167 --Disabled veterans; license plates -__.-..._.-..._..___...........-......651, 727 --Municipal elections; public notices outside all polling places .........._......._.....____............_...._._.___..._651, 728, 2237 --Doraville, City of; corporate limits; redefine ____________.______.__._.__.__.______-___.__651, 728, 940, 945, 2564, 2729 --Chamblee, City of; Sanitary tax; millage levied ...._....._..__.._........_.._.....,,...._.. 652, 728, 940, 945, 2356 --Mclntosh County; ordinary's compensation __._....______..__...........___........_.__652, 728, 735, 833, 1236 --Hospital Authorities Law; revenue certificates ..__________.____.__.____________.____652, 728, 987, 1956, 3366, 3369 --Hospital Authorities Law; use of general funds ....._..____.__.___._-___...-____.....__.652, 728, 987, 1957, 3410 --Election conventions; regulations governing conduct ___..__.________________652, 729, 736, 1470, 3039, 3084 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; refunds to counties, municipalities ........,,..-----_.---------------653, 729, 1521 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act; certificated personnel ________.__._._.._..______--~~654, 730, 2592, 2805 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Judge's term ______654, 730, 830, 950, 1671 --Clayton County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman's salary ._____._.______~654, 730, 735, 833, 1170 --Long County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election of county attorney ..,,_..,,...._._ 654, 730, 735, 833, 1524 --Springfield, City of; City Court Judge's salary __.____..................__......._.___....655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 --Occupational or professional tax; certain professions ._..__,,......_..._......._.__..,,._. ............_. 655, 731, 1321 --Millen, City of; City Court Judge and Solicitor; compensation ...____.___....._._....._..655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 3942 MB 1187 HB 1188 HB 1189 HB 1190 HB 1191 HB 1192 HB 1193 HB 1194 HB 1195 HB 1196 HB 1197 HB 1198 HB 1199 HB 1200 HB 1201 HB 1202 HB 1203 HB 1204 HB 1205 HB 1206 HB 1207 HB 1208 HB 1209 HB 1210 HB 1211 HB 1212 HB 1213 INDEX --Jenkins County; Superior Court Clerk's salary ..._.___....._____.........__..._..._..655, 731, 735, 834, 1170 --Jenkins County; Ordinary's supplemental compensation ________.__________.___________________.___655, 731, 735, 835, 1170 --Voting machines; counter designations _____....-655, 731, 736, 1870 --Atlantic Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's secretary; salary _._________________..__.__._656, 731, 830, 835, 1203, 1236 --Chattahoochee County; Board of Education members' terms .___._______._.__________..___________.656, 731, 735, 835, 1170 --Spalding County; Tax Commissioner's office hours _______.___._____.___..___.__.____________...___656, 732, 735, 836, 1671 --Georgia Motorboat Numbering Act; extend provisions ___________.____-_._.__.____.__.6B6, 732, 1987, 2772, 3410 --Woodland, City of; election date; change ___________ 657, 732, 735, 836, 1236 --Auctions; auctioneer agent to both parties _..___..._..._......__._....__-__...____..657, 732, 1098, 2549, 3410 --General Contractors; State construction ___.,,._______....__ 657, 832, 831 --Real estate tax; exempt certain instruments _..__________667, 733, 1321, 2304, 2468, 2664, 3395, 3396 --Equal pay for Women Act of 1966; amend ....657, 733, 940, 1286, 3170, 3250, 3315, 3324, 3342, 3382, 3383, 3389, 3433 --Lenox, Town of; lease certain property .-724, 825, 830, 889, 2356 --Richmond County; Sanitary landfills; dumping of trash; garbage, etc. --.724, 825, 1025, 1227, 1229, 3005, 3055 --Wrightsville, City of; Mayor's court recorder; appointment .... .._,,.__.......___. ..._._.__......_ 725, 826, 830, 890, 1237 --Johnson County; deputy sheriff's salary ___...____.._...__..._..._.__......___._...______._.___72B, 826, 830, 890, 1237 --State employees; minimum hourly wage ..__._._.__..--._----725, 826 --Tax digests; reevaluation programs --_------_----.--.----725, 826 --Railroads; safeguards for transporting of employees _.-... -----..---------.----.----725, 826 --State Communications and Data Processing Management Board; create .._._-------------_----_...._.725, 826, 1321 --Bibb County; Board of Public Education and Orphanage; membership ------_,----_--------...----.-..-726, 827 --DeKalb County; Juvenile Court Judge's salary -..----------.------__------.726, 827, 830, 890, 1525 --Tift County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Vice Chairman's office .--------.----..----..------------------.726, 827, 830, 891, 1807 --Paulding County; Board of Education members' election -------..----_----------.820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 --Paulding County; Sheriff's deputies; increase number __------__.___-..------...----820, 879, 940, 946, 1237 --Long County; Sheriff's compensation --------.--------------821, 879, 940, 946, 1234, 1845 --Solicitor-General; compensation ----------------726, 829, 879, 989 HB 1214 HB 1215 HB 1216 HB 1217 HB 1218 HB 1219 HB 1220 HB 1221 HB 1222 HB 1223 HB 1224 HB 1225 HB 1226 HB 1227 HB 1228 HB 1229 HB 1230 HB 1231 HB 1232 HB 1233 HB 1234 HB 1235 HB 1236 HB 1237 HB 1238 HB 1239 HB 1240 HB 1241 HB 1242 HB 1243 HB 1244 HB 1245 INDEX 3943 --Dalton, City of; Mayor and Council Employees' Pension Plan; clarify __________________________________821, 879 --Dalton, City of; Corporate limits __.....___821, 880, 1100, 1171, 1671 --Georgia Real Estate Investment Board; abolish .____________.._821, 880 --Planning commissions; remove certain restrictions ______________.____________..__...._-...______822, 880, 940, 2473, 3410 --Hancock County; Small Claims Court, establish .__._______.________________________.__.__________822, 880, 1100, 1171, 1672 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors; rosters ._......_.....___._._ 822, 880 --Lobbyists; identification badges ....__....____.......-.._.-._._..._..____822, 881 --Attorneys; admission to bar -__.---.---823, 881, 988, 2054, 2705 --Liability insurance; insurer's responsibility _____________________823, 881 --Housing Authorities Law; amend .__.....-................823, 882, 988, 991 --Pulton County; Board of Elections; sample ballots ________....___.___._______-___.________823, 882, 1227, 1230, 3410 --Livestock; traps ____________________________--____...._____-____-_.___.824, 882, 1318 --Apportionment; House of Representatives ....................824, 882, 940, 971, 1030, 1740, 1846 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation ...___..________.,,.____.....__.___.--...874, 934, 1100, 1815, 2994 --Griffin Judicial Circuit; Court Reporter's compensation ........._..............___..__....____.-___ 874, 934, 940, 992, 1672 --State officials and employees; contingent expense allowance ....______......._._------------.--------875, 935, 1665 --Civil Practice Act; service of publication . 875, 935, 1099, 1493, 3384, 3391, 3432 --Brooks County; Commissioners; chairman and members; compensation ...___..._..-_~....___....875, 935, 941, 992, 1525 --Colquitt, City of; certain areas; services and taxes ....__.._.......__._._.______--...875, 935, 941, 992, 1525 --Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact; appropriations ____...._..____________._______.....__.824, 882, 1798, 2781, 3410 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; written opinions ....824, 882 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; rule-making authority ___________________________~-~824, 883, 1099, 1951 --Attorney General; subpoenas .............._......_. 825, 883, 988, 1949 --State Board of Corrections; define "detainer" _._._._____.._._..................825, 883, 1099, 1950, 3166 --Audits; municipalities ..............._..........____875, 935, 1319, 1575, 3410 --State depositories; deposit of State funds __________________________875, 935 --Strikes; state employees _____________...........__..___________._._._.__876, 936, 1292 --Credit Unions; amend laws .._...................876, 936, 1798, 2812, 3411 --Baldwin, Town of; Mayor; term of office ___..__..__..__......_..._..............___877, 936, 941, 993, 1807 --Cobb County; certain officers and employees; appointment _._.________________.__.__________.___________.877, 936, 941, 993, 1860 --Teachers; sick leave ___._...____._-....._---..........__...._.........__..__.__.877, 937 --Department of Public Safety; Security Guard Division; create ................................877, 937, 1519, 1952, 3411 3944 HB 1246 HB 1247 HB 1248 HB 1249 HB 1250 HB 1251 HB 1252 HB 1253 HB 1254 HB 1255 HB 1256 HB 1257 HB 1258 HB 1259 HB 1260 HB 1261 HB 1262 HB 1263 HB 1264 HB 1265 HB 1266 HB 1267 HB 1268 HB 1269 HB 1270 HB 1271 HB 1272 HB 1273 HB 1274 HB 1275 INDEX --Governor; purchase of motor vehicles ... 877, 937, 1990, 2515, 3411 --Obscene literature; define _,,____.______________________._______________878, 937 --State Council for the Preservation of Natural Areas; create _______.__________._-___________________-_____927, 978, 1520 --Telfair County Hospital Authority members' appointment _______._____.______..______.__-..__________927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 --McRae, City of; corporate limits ________.___927, 978, 988, 1106, 1672 --Whitfield County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; compensation _____._____._________-927, 978, 1100, 1171, 1672 --Rabun County; certain officials; compensation __...___._.____.__,____.______________._____928, 978, 988, 1107, 1525 --Vital Records; fee of local registrars _______________.______..__928, 978, 987 --Taliaferro County; Sheriff's salary _...928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 --Taliaferro County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; member's salaries _______.__._____.______.____.___._________________.___928, 979, 988, 1107, 1672 --Worth County; Ordinary's salaries; effective date __...._....._-...__....___...._......._..._928, 979, 988, 1108, 1525 --DeKalb County; merit system; no discrimination ______.____._________-________.____928, 979, 988, 1108, 1672 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms _______________________._____________________________.929, 979, 1988, 2091 --Grand and traverse jurors; method of selection __.____.___.___________-____.____._-_.929, 979, 988, 1108 --Family planning services; assistance to anyone _______________..___..____._____._____.._______-929, 979, 1522, 1954, 3411 --Milan, City of; corporate limits __.____._____929, 980, 988, 1109, 1673 --Eastman, City of; councilmen; election .______...____..______.__--____-__-___-._---_-929, 980, 988, 1109, 1673 --Laborers' and materialmens' liens; depreciation _____ 929, 980, 1320 --Tax Collectors and Commissioners; cash book _____,,.____.._ __.__________-______.____.-._____930, 980, 1099, 1202, 3411 --Toombs County; Tax Receiver and Collector offices; consolidate __._..___.___.._._____._.__...__930, 980, 989, 1109, 1673 --Lyons, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualifications ......_._____._.______.930, 980, 989, 1110, 1673 --Macon, City of; firemen and policemen; dependent's benefits ...._._._....._. 930, 980, 989 --Varnell, City of; charter ___.T__.__.__.930, 981, 1100, 1172, 2849, 2924 --Tunnell Hill, Town of; city ordinance fine; increase _______.__..__.._____._____.___..______ .___...___..930, 981, 989, 1110, 1525 --Walker County; fox hunting; illegal methods ___.._____.____..___...____.__..__._.___931, 981, 986, 1575, 2994 --Dooly County; Ordinary's salary ___._.___._.931, 981, 1100, 1172, 1673 --Toombs County; officials' salaries .....____.931, 981, 989, 1110, 1673 --Dooly County; Small Claims Court; create ________ _______ ._____________-_--____-...931, 981, 1110, 1172, 1673 --Toombs County; Sheriff's salary _._______...931, 981, 989, 1111, 1673 --Trenton, City of; Mayor, Councilmen and Recorder; compensation ______-___-_-.._._-_._.931, 982, 989, 1111, 1525 HB 1276 HB 1277 HB 1278 HB 1279 HB 1280 HB 1281 HB 1282 HB 1283 HB 1284 HB 1285 HB 1286 HB 1287 HB 1288 HB 1289 HB 1290 HB 1291 HB 1292 HB 1293 HB 1294 HB 1295 HB 1296 HB 1297 HB 1298 HB 1299 INDEX 3945 --Clarke County; Jury list; percentage to serve as grand jurors __......-.........'_..._.________.-___.932, 982, 989, 1111, 1526 --Planning commissions; rezoned property; publication and hearings ... 932, 982, 1320, 1576, 3411 --Tattnall County; Board of Education; members and districts ___.____..__________.______.932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 --Tattnall County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of members .....,,-____..932, 982, 989, 1112, 1526 --Juries; criminal cases; verdict of guilty or not guilty ._.....__._..-____._. _..__.......__._.._932, 982, 1517 --Greene County; officials' salaries and mileage allowances .___.............__.___.........933, 983, 989, 1112, 1674 --Morgan County; certain officials' salaries _..._.____________..___...._________._.._______-____.933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 --Morgan Gouty; tax receiver and collector offices; consolidate __..__...._._._.....__.........__.933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 --Morgan County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; appoint depositories for county funds ........_______._..........._......__.___.933, 983, 989, 1113, 2356 --Greene County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members' compensation _._____._________.__..._._933, 983, 989, 1114, 1674 --Rutledge, Town of; change to City of ._.__.______._.......____,._-_......_______-_..934, 983, 989, 1114, 2356 --Morgan County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman, Vice-Chairman and member compensation _________.______934, 983, 989, 1114, 2358, 3050 --Greene County; Tax Commissioner's compensation ...._._.____._......___.___._..........._..934, 984, 989, 1115, 1674 --Alligator farms; licensing ___.__..__________..972, 1093, 1165, 1576, 2705 --Ad valorem tax; motor vehicles _._..........__..__....__.._- 973, 1094, 1801 --Condemnation proceedings; payment of costs and fees __973, 1094 --Uniform Commercial Code; implied warranties __.._._._._..__.__......______.._..........973, 1094, 1664, 2046, 2705 --Alligators; hunting and trapping; open season _______________.__.___..__..___._________._.973, 1094, 1165, 2046, 3411 --Medical and scientific research; promote facilities ....._.._._._.........973, 1094, 1229, 1447, 1451, 2707 --North High Shoals, Town of; corporate limits .__..,,...._____....._..._.__----.974, 1094, 1100, 1173, 1674 --State income tax; transfer of property by corporations ....___.........._..._...._..._.._..974, 1095, 1165, 1417, 2705 --Columbia County; street, sidewalk, curbing, water and sewer mains repair; assess property owners .......... 975, 1095, 1100, 1173, 1674 --Meriwether County; certain officials; salaries ......._..._.._....._................._......... 975, 1096, 1100, 1173, 1674 --Manchester, City of; municipal elections ............__........._._..............----....975, 1096, 1100, 1174, 1674 3946 KB 1300 HB 1301 HB 1302 HB 1303 HB 1304 HB 1305 HB 1306 HB 1307 HB 1308 HB 1309 HB 1310 HB 1311 HB 1312 HB 1313 HB 1314 HB 1315 HB 1316 HB 1317 HB 1318 HB 1319 HB 1320 HB 1321 HB 1322 HB 1323 HB 1324 HB 1325 INDEX --False reports of crimes; unlawful ________976, 1096, 1165, 2201, 3412 --Rockdale County; Sheriff's deputies; increase number ..................................__976, 1096, 1227, 1231, 1807 --State Game and Fish Commission; revise laws ____________._........._..._.___.976, 1097, 1165, 2192, 2900, 3171 --Tax on Transfer of Real Property Act; exempt certain instruments ------_,,_______._..____.--.___._--976, 1097 --Glascock County; Treasurer's compensation .__..._.____._..................._______977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 1674 --Glascock County; Board of Commissioners; members' compensation __..........__...._._977, 1097, 1100, 1174, 2560 --Glascock County; Tax Commissioner's compensation ......_....................._......._..977, 1097, 1100, 1175, 1675 --Colquitt County; change name to Civil and Criminal Court ___..______.___.___.977, 1097, 1227, 1231, 1807 --Bibb County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election districts ........__.___..._.._.__......._.....977, 1097 --Divorce; service of process and appearance; waiver ._____________.___,,___......__._____.___977, 1098, 1165 --Bremen, City of; sanitary needs; condemn land _...-....-.........-_.__.____..__.1089, 1159, 1799, 1810, 2560 --Pornography; unlawful to sell to any person under 18 years of age ._..___.___.._..___...............1089, 1159, 1517, 2955 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors; examination ._.____________________________.____1089, 1159 --Nomination petitions; presidential electors ............................._________._.......___.....1089, 1159, 1228, 2325 --State employees; labor unions _._______..____._______.___..______________1090, 1160 --Sales tax; property sold to private schools .__._._.___.__.................__-_.1090, 1160, 1321, 1573, 3167 --Coffee County; Board of Education; create new Board ....__......___.-.._.___.....1090, 1160, 1227, 1231, 2238 --Coffee County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of members _.___.__._.____._______.___________._____.____1090, 1160, 1227, 1232, 2238 --Candler County; Board of Education; members and districts __........_....._..-_.1090, 1160, 1227, 1232, 1807 --Trucks used for well digging purposes; annual license fee ___..._____.___:............_-...___.___.__......1090, 1160, 1800 --McRae, City of; election laws ..___._____..1091, 1161, 1227, 1232, 1807 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors; examination _____________________________.____1091, 1161 --State Highway Department; grants .....___......_.._....__......1091, 1161 --Carroll County; Board of Education; members' elections and positions on the Board .^ ....... ^ _______-._____._____1091, 1161, 1800, 1815, 2995 --Carroll County; Board of Education; School Superintendent; appointment ..._....1092, 1161, 1800, 1810, 2614 --State Building Administrative Board; create ................1092, 1161 HB 1326 HB 1327 HB 1328 HB 1329 HB 1330 HB 1331 HB 1332 HB 1333 HB 1334 HB 1335 HB 1366 HB 1337 HB 1338 HB 1339 HB 1340 HB 1341 HB 1342 HB 1343 HB 1344 HB 1345 HB 1346 HB 1347 HB 1348 HB 1349 HB 1350 HB 1351 HB 1352 INDEX 3947 --Tift County; Airport Authority; establish __________..___._.__._.._._________._______._.1092, 1162, 1799, 1810, 2560 --Cobb County; Mt. Harmony Militia District; include within 32nd Senatorial District -....__............._._....._________.1092, 1162, 1839, 2088, 2520, 3165 --Uniform Narcotic Drug Act; penalties for violations ..............__.___._____...__................__..__.___.1092, 1162, 1664 --Worthless checks; felony ........_._.......______..................1092, 1162, 1228 --State Board of Examiners for Certified Water & Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators; create ______1093, 1162 --Clayton County; junkyards; control ._.._..._._.................................__.__.1093, 1162, 1227, 1233, 1807 --Department of Agriculture; private seed testing laboratories; licenses .._.......__.___-__.,,...____...._1153, 1221, 1318, 2474 --Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs; eliminate inspection fees __..___..._..___._..______.__.....1153, 1222, 1318, 2474, 3161 --Citrus fruit; standards of quality ......1153, 1222, 1318, 2475, 3412 --Livestock; quarantine and inspection; include horses ____._._._..__.._______....._______.........__._1153, 1222, 1318, 2550 --Livestock; crimes concerning; include horses ... 1153, 1222, 1318 --Livestock; loading or handling; include horses __..._.._...._...__.__.._._._._......_........._.........1153, 1222, 1318 --Livestock; buying and selling; include horses ......1154, 1222, 1318 --Livestock; auctions; include horses .___.___._______.____.1154, 1222, 1318 --Superior Court Clerks; use of microfilm ............._..............____........._..1154, 1223, 1320, 2483, 3168 --Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966; registration _______.________________._.__.______.___1154, 1223, 1320, 2191, 3412 --License plates; allow 50! for mailing to applicants .......................1154, 1223, 1321, 2044, 3412 --Douglas, City of; Board of Commissioners; members' election ..........................1154, 1223, 1227, 1324, 2238 --Alcoholic beverages; sales in certain counties ........ ... ....................... 1155, 1223, 1802, 2398 --Mclntosh County; sheriff's expense allowance .___.__.__.._...__..__..___.__.._._._..__.1155, 1223, 1227, 1325, 1808 --Agricultural Commodities Promotion Act; marketing procedures .._..__.___.._......-.1155, 1224, 1445, 1957, 2999 --Albany, City of; employees' pension; amount levied ......_._._.....__._____..._._...__.1156, 1224, 1447, 1452, 2238 --Livestock; feeding of garbage; include horses ................_..._......-.__.__..__..__..__.1156, 1224, 1318, 2552 --Cobb County; Law Library; Comptroller shall be treasurer ...... ...................1156, 1225, 1518, 1681, 3412 --Cobb County; Law Library; create ._......._............_.__...............______.____1157, 1225, 1227, 1325, 1808 --Smyrna, City of; corporate limits; increase ...................._..._..__..... 1157, 1225, 1227, 1325, 2849, 3172 --Board of Health; increase membership .........__.___1157, 1225, 2352 3948 HB 1353 HB 1354 HB 1355 HB 1356 HB 1357 HB 1358 HB 1359 HB 1360 HB 1361 HB 1362 HB 1363 HB 1364 HB 1365 HB 1366 HB 1367 HB 1368 HB 1369 HB 1370 HB 1371 HB 1372 HB 1373 HB 1374 HB 1375 HB 1376 HB 1377 HB 1378 HB 1379 HB 1380 INDEX --Chatham County; Savannah, City of; Board of Education; members' election _______-1157, 1225, 1518, 1538, 2560 --Agriculture; labels affixed to certain agricultural commodities ________1158, 1226, 1318, 2045, 3000, 3097 --Solicitors General; contingent expense allowance ____-____.-__.__._--_______1158, 1226, 1799, 2209, 3412 --Augusta, City of; pension fund; invest ____._._____.__._.__.______..____..________.______.1158, 1226, 1227, 1326, 2239 --Income tax; school expenses; deductions ______________1158, 1226, 1521 --Clarke County; Law Library; maintain _____._____________________.._______._______1159, 1226, 1227, 1326, 1808 --Teachers' sick leave; proper notice _________-___._.__._--1218, 1312, 1319 --Insurance; motor vehicles; cancellation ...._.......___....._.._........_.._..1218, 1312, 1446, 1866, 3412 --Georgia State Board of Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters; create ______-______-_________-__________-._________1218, 1312, 1664 --Wilkes County; Ordinary's salary ......_. 1218, 1312, 1319, 1452, 2239 --Condemnation proceedings; private ways; amend procedure _...___.________-_-_.____._____._____..___.1218, 1312, 1446 --Macon County; Ordinary's salary __1219, 1313, 1319, 1452, 2239 --Newton County; Sheriff's salary ___...1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 --Decatur, City of; Parking Authority; create ___________.___.___._.__.________________________1219, 1313, 1320, 1453, 2561 --Drivers' Licenses; classification __..___.__..._............. 1219, 1313, 1519 --Whitesburg, Town of; Mayor and council; election date ___._.___.___________________.______1220, 1313, 1988, 2091, 2845 --Pierce County; deputy sheriffs' salaries ___________.________._-___-_____-__________1220, 1313, 1447, 1453, 2356 --Brantley County; Board of Commissioners; number of commissioners __..__.________1220, 1314, 1447, 1454, 2563, 2949, 3003 --Brantley County; Treasurer; abolish office ____.___.__.________.____._-___.___-1220, 1314, 1448, 1454, 2357 --Pierce County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman's compensation ___._.__._________.__.__._-_.___._____1220, 1314, 1448, 1454, 2357 --Brantley County; Development Authority; revenue certificates _.__.___..._______.._________-1220, 1314, 1447, 1455, 2563, 2925 --State Penal and Rehabilitation Authority Act; bond limitation .... ............_._.- -_.._ 1221, 1314, 1801, 2783 --State Board of Education;. contracts ___.._________.-___.___._______.___..__..__-1221, 1315, 1319, 2475, 3165 --Irwinton, Town of; charter _______.__..___-1302, 1436, 1447, 1545, 2239 --Lake Lanier Island Development Authority; amend Act creating _____________________.1302, 1436, 1989, 2475, 3166 --Motor vehicles; inspection law; increase fee __.___________.._________.____________.._________..___..__._1302, 1437, 1800 --Bartow County; Sheriff; employ jailer and cook _._.___.____.__.___.________.._______________.1302, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 --Ambrose, City of; treasurer; file statement with superior court clerk __.___._-.-__.__1302, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 HB 1381 HB 1382 HB 1383 HB 1384 HB 1385 HB 1386 HB 1387 HB 1388 HB 1389 HB 1390 HB 1391 HB 1392 HB 1393 HB 1394 HB 1395 HB 1396 HB 1397 HB 1398 HB 1399 HB 1400 HB 1401 HB 1402 HB 1403 INDEX 3949 --Nichols, Town of; Treasurer; file statement with superior court clerk ..______._...-1303, 1437, 1447, 1546, 2239 --Broxton, City of; Treasurer; file statement with superior court clerk ..........._.-1303, 1437, 1447, 1547, 2240 --Coffee County; Board of Commissioners clerk; file statement with superior court clerk -----1303, 1437, 1447, 1547, 2240 --Douglas County; Board of Education; appoint Superintendent .._____...._._____.. 1303, 1438, 1447, 1547, 2240 --Grady County; Board of Education; create new Board ___________.,,--____.___._-..1303, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2240 --Gumming, City of; corporate limits--1303, 1438, 1447, 1530, 2357 --Colquitt County; Ordinary's compensation ____---_____________._______.-.1304, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2240 --Albany, City of; Commissioners' absences excused; employ city physician ....1304, 1438, 1447, 1548, 2241, 2578 --Cleveland, City of; corporate limits; polls opening and closing _______________________ 1304, 1438, 1799, 1811, 2561 --Jesup, City of; Mayor and commissioners; elections .______.______..___.__..__________..______.._. 1304, 1438, 1447, 1534, 2357 --Wayne County; Board of Education; members' election _.__.__.__..__.....1304, 1438, 1447, 1549, 2358, 2640 --Wayne County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue; members' terms of office .___--___________-.-______._--__---1305, 1439, 1447, 1549, 2357 --State Department of Veterans Service; Director's compensation ________.__._...-.-.___ 1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 --State Parks Department; Director's salary ...__________...___......__.____....._.______...._._..___ __1305, 1439, 1470, 1665 --Pulton County; trucks hauling gravel or stone; prohibited on streets without protective covering _.....__.._______________._.____..._1305, 1439, 1569, 1665, 1688, 3412 --Atlanta, City of; municipal zoo; General Assembly to appropriate funds __--------,,----1305, 1439, 1989 --State Revenue Department; Deputy Commissioner's salary ........ ._____..______.._...1305, 1439, 1665 --Glynn County; Juvenile Court; judges' salary -.--__.____--------_.___1306, 1439, 1447, 1549, 3413 --Washington County; Airport Authority; create ------_____--------______-_____.______--1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2561 --Wayne County; Superior Court Judge; empanel grand jury .......__.__.__.._.._...... 1306, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2995 --Workmen's Compensation; base period employers; separation notices __--------____.,,..____________--.1306, 1440 --Bainbridge, City of; Aldermen; number and election method ______ ..1221, 1315, 1799, 1811, 2561 --Clayton County; Employees' Civil Service coverage ....___.._...__-.......___.....1307, 1440, 1447, 1550, 2240 3950 HB 1404 HB 1405 HB 1406 HB 1407 HB 1408 HB 1409 HB 1410 HB 1411 HB 1412 HB 1413 HB 1414 HB 1415 HB 1416 HB 1417 HB 1418 HB 1419 HB 1420 HB 1421 HB 1422 HB 1423 HB 1424 HB 1425 HB 1426 'HB 1427 INDEX --General Assembly; Constitutional amendments; statutory interpretations __.._,,_-__--.1307, 1440, 1517, 2797, 3413 --Minors; insane persons; legal custodians ____.___._.._...._...-._________._..__..1307, 1441, 1448, 2220, 3413 --Elizabeth, City of; corporate limits -- ... _..... 1307, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2240 --Atlanta, City of; Region Metropolitan Planning District; increase membership ........_.........._._.____._... ..... 1308, 1441, 1518, 1681, 3413 --Richmond County; additional deputy sheriffs ________________ 1308, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2241 --Brantley County; officials salaries __..___.___.__._.......... 1308, 1441, 1447, 1551, 2358, 2395, 2901 --Pierce County; Board of Education; members' election ....._.___..___..__.__.._.. 1308, 1441, 1447, 1552, 2561 --Clayton County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; fiscal authority ___ ___..__...._.._.. 1309, 1442, 1447, 1552, 2241, 2925 --General Assembly; effective date of laws __..___.__..___._.__........___..__.___.........1309, 1442, 1517, 1947, 3413 --Contractors; State contracts; taxation __..........__..........1309, 1442 --Houston County; Tax Commissioner; arbitration committee _._.__......1309, 1442, 1448, 1552, 2898, 2926 --Houston County; Superior Court Clerk; arbitration committee ........... 1309, 1442, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2927 --Houston County; Sheriff; arbitration committee ___.___.._._-...._-_-__.__.-_.1310, 1443, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2928 --Houston County; Ordinary; arbitration committee _.._._.__ 1310, 1443, 1448, 1553, 2898, 2929 --Houston County; City Court; jurisdiction _ . 1310, 1443, 1448, 1554, 2614 --Centerville, City of; Mayor and Council; qualifications .. __...__._..._........__.__..__. 1310, 1443, 1448, 1554, 2614 --Planning Commission; establish planning department ..... 1311, 1443, 1448, 2817, 3413 --Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title Act; exempt if horsepower 3.5 or less _._._--------__._____._______.1311, 1444 --Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit; add one Judge ... . 1311, 1444, 1517, 2031, 3349, 3356 --Department of Agriculture; Commissioner; tenure salary increase ....... 1311, 1444, 1801, 1803, 2332, 2468 2655, 3226, 3227, 3278, 3284, 3335, 3339 --Industrial Services Advisory Committee; create ............................ISll, 1444, 2592, 2796, 3413 --Henry County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' elections ....................................... 1429, 1510, 1518, 1681, 3161 --Henry County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts ..... 1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3161 --Henry County; Superior Court Clerk and Ordinary; compensation ..............1429, 1510, 1518, 1682, 3162 HB 1428 HB 1429 HB 1430 HB 1431 HB 1432 HB 1433 HB 1434 HB 1435 HB 1436 HB 1437 HB 1438 HB 1439 HB 1440 HB 1441 HB 1442 HB 1443 HB 1444 HB 1445 HB 1446 HB 1447 HB 1448 HB 1449 HB 1450 HB 1451 HB 1452 HB 1453 HB 1454 INDEX 3951 --Webster County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; salaries ..................1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2357 --Webster County; private property; remove public nuisance ...___..._._._.___...... 1430, 1511, 1664, 1688, 2614 --Georgia Civil Practice Act; summons ..._..._______ 1430, 1511, 1799 --Uniform Time Act; abolish within State .______.. 1430, 1511, 2234 --Carroll County; Haralson County; Airport Authority; establish ........... 1431, 1511, 1518, 1682, 2561 --Baxley, City of; Mayor's vote before council __._______.....__._._ 1431, 1511, 1518, 1683, 2563, 3053 --West Point, City of; sale of certain property ............ 1431, 1511, 1518, 1683, 2561 --Macon County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices -_______......__....__...__ 1431, 1512, 1518, 1684, 2357 --Courts of Inquiry; misdemeanor; examination within 24 hours ......._--,,--_..--._-______________ 1432, 1512, 2090 --Harris County; Small Claims Court; commencement of actions ..,,___ ______ 1432, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2357 --Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act; create __.._._..._ 1432, 1513, 1517, 2201, 2209, 2209, 2293, 2674, 3413 --County Commissioners; strike "Roads and Revenues" from official name ______ 1433, 1513, 1519, 2806, 3414 --Port Oglethorpe, Town of; Mayor and aldermen; terms of office ... 1433, 1513, 1518, 1684, 2359, 3151 --Peach County; Tax Commissioner's salary and personnel .___....__________.....____...._._ 1433, 1513, 1518, 1685, 2614 --Peach County; Superior Court Clerk's salary and personnel _ ......... 1433, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 --Peach County; Ordinary's salary ___ ..1434, 1514, 1518, 1685, 2614 --Peach County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; terms of office ___.....________....-....__.____ 1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2615 --Marietta, City of; corporate limits ... 1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2615 --Screven County; Sylvania, City of; Sylvania-Screven Airport Authority; create ________.....____.___...._..______________ 1434, 1514, 1518, 1686, 2358 --Sales tax; Planning Commissions .________....._______ 1434, 1514, 1840 --Emanuel County; Board of Education; create five member Board ____________ 1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2358 --Tift County; building permits ......... 1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2358 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; Judge's salary; supplemental payments ___...______..___ 1435, 1515, 1518, 1687, 2705 --Malt beverages; seizure by revenue agents ........_____________..._______.---....._ 1436, 1515, 2090, 2534, 3414 --Alcoholic Beverages; Liquor stores and lounges; clarify definitions ..________..___..__.____........1436, 1516, 2090 --Alcoholic Beverages; licenses; prohibit if 2,000 feet or less from existing liquor store -....--.--...-.__-.. 1436, 1516, 1802, 2308 --Chattooga County; Sheriff's deputies and jailer; compensation .___...____.__.. 1506, 1659, 1664, 1819, 2562 3952 HB 1455 HB 1456 HB 1457 HB 1458 HB 1459 HB 1460 HB 1461 HB 1462 HB 1463 HB 1464 HB 1465 HB 1466 HB 1467 HB 1468 HB 1469 HB 1470 HB 1471 HB 1472 HB 1473 HB 1474 HB 1475 HB 1476 HB 1477 HB 1478 HB 1479 HB 1480 HB 1481 HB 1482 INDEX --Chattooga County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices ...._._......__-__.__.._-..1506, 1659, 1664, 1811, 2562 --Cook County; Ordinary's salary .....__.1506, 1659, 1664, 1811, 2562 --Coffee County; Sheriff; Clerk's salary ......_....._.......___.___._....____.....__.._.1507, 1660, 1664, 1812, 2562 --DeKalb County; Solicitor's salary .,..1507, 1660, 2843, 2852, 3414 --Washington County; Sheriff's compensation __._.__.____-....____..._1507, 1660, 1664, 1812, 2616, 2930 --Union County; Sheriff's salary .....__.1508, 1660, 1664, 1813, 2562 --Brunswick, City of; Revenue; requirements for raising __________________._.______________.____.1508, 1661, 2843, 2854, 3414 --Sales tax; retail sales; tangible personal property .....__......_._..._____._..1508, 1661, 2089, 2328, 3414 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms ______._-_.___.._____1508, 1661, 1799, 1813, 2846 --Nicholls, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; compensation ___.__._______________________--.___1508, 1661, 1665, 1813, 2562 --Boston, City of; Police Chief-Marshal; election ........__......__...._.._......__-....._..._...1509, 1661, 1665, 1813, 2562 --Floyd County; Solicitor-General Office employees; Merit System _,, 1509, 1662, 1800, 1820, 2616, 2931 --DeKalb County; zoning and rezoning; improve regulations ... 1509, 1662, 1665, 1814, 3005, 3259, 3335 --Talbot County; Tax Commissioner; compensation _____-__-__-__.____._-____.____.1509, 1662, 1665, 1814, 2563 --Talbot County; additional deputies; compensation ...........__......_........_.1510, 1662, 1665, 1815, 2562 --Shavings and sawdust used for animal husbandry; sales tax .__..-......._.._...._._...........-......_-....._-.1653, 1790 --Lumpkin, City of; corporate limits ... 1653, 1790, 1799, 1996, 2615 --Debts; unincorporated organizations or associations ___..___........_-..-._..-...._......_-....--......-_1653, 1790, 2592 --Paulding County; sewerage system maintenance ......._......-.-.......-_...._._._.1653, 1791, 1799, 1997, 2846 --Cobb County; Civil and Criminal Court; increase jurisdiction __..__....-......__.....1654, 1791, 2353, 2567, 3162 --Austell, Town of; corporate limits ___ 1654, 1791, 1988, 2092, 3414 --State Income tax; Armed Forces Commissioned Officers _.__.____--_-._--___.1654, 1791, 1802, 2535 --Confidential communications; physician and patient _________.____________._..-_____-.____--___--_-~_1655, 1792, 2088 --Motor Fuel Tax Law; motor carriers _..,,-...__......_......_..._....__ 1655, 1792, 1802, 2670, 3166 --Prefabricated homes; standards of construction ..._._._.......___......_-.-...._._-.1656, 1793, 1800, 2487, 3166 --Eastern Judicial Circuit; Judges' salary; supplemental payments ............._.._1656, 1793, 1799, 1997, 3414 --Macon, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; time of taking office ........._........_._...1656, 1793, 2235, 2248, 2995 --Stewart County; Clerk's and Ordinary's fees .............___-...-__.....1657, 1793, 1799, 1997, 2615 HB 1483 HB 1484 HB 1485 HB 1486 HB 1487 HB 1488 HB 1489 HB 1490 HB 1491 HB 1492 HB 1493 HB 1494 HB 1495 HB 1496 HB 1497 HB 1498 HB 1499 HB 1500 HB 1501 HB 1502 HB 1503 HB 1504 HB 1505 HB 1506 HB 1507 HB 1508 HB 1509 INDEX 3953 --Deer hunting; minors ___.___.__-._______..__....___..._..--.....1657, 1794, 1987 --Stewart County; Tax Commissioner's fees ___.....___..................................._____._.1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 --Stewart County; Sheriff's salary __ .1657, 1794, 1799, 1998, 2615 --Toombs Judicial Circuit; Solicitor- General's salary ___________._____.1657, 1794, 2593, 2710, 3005, 3074 --Swainsboro, City of; corporate limits; municipal elections ,,_.._._._. 1658, 1794, 1988, 2114, 2995 --Twin City, City of; Municipal elections; registration of voters __....................1658, 1794, 1988, 2123, 2995 --Catfish; sales tax .-.._____._._______.____-_..___._.__._.__1658, 1795, 1991, 2810 --LaGrange, City of; corporate limits- 1658, 1795, 1799, 1998, 2615 --Glenwood, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualifications ___.._,,... 1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2846 --Georgia State Board of Nursing Homes; create _._.___.___.___.........................1779, 1977, 2088, 2508, 3279, 3310 --Montgomery County; Tax Commissioner's compensation _____._.___.______..___.1779, 1977, 1988, 2092, 2849, 2931 --Mount Vernon, City of; corporate limits ....___..._.__..____._.._...,,. 1779, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2346 --Donalsonville, City of; Mayor and Aldermen; compensation ___._____.____.1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 2846 --State Board of Funeral Service; board members _._____.____.-..__-.-.__.__--..--1780, 1977, 2088, 2672 --McDonough, City of; recreational facilities ______-____________________________.____._.1780, 1977, 1988, 2093, 3162 --Surplus State property; procedure for disposal ....._......___.___.__..... 1780, 1978, 2354, 2667, 3395, 3401 --Hogansville, City of; Public Utility; sale of ____________._____________.__.________-_-_____~1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 --Stewart County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; compensation ______________.__.1780, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2846 --Baldwin County; Tax Receiver and Collector; compensation ._..__.__.___.____...._.... 1781, 1978, 1988, 2094, 2898, 3054 --Lyons, City of; Corporate limits; change ..__.....__.-__.____-........._....._______._.__.1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2846 --Whitfield County; Sheriff, Clerk and Ordinary; compensation ...................._____..__......._1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 --Whitfield County; Tax Commissioner; compensation _______._________..._____...____.__1781, 1978, 1988, 2095, 2847 --Cosmetology; rules and regulations ,,_____. ___.___________1781, 1978 --Supervisor of Purchases; State-owned personal property surplus ___--_--.------__--._,,__________. 1781, 1979 --Fulton County; Criminal Court; method of trial and correction of errors ________.._.._....1782, 1979, 2235, 2249, 3414 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors .._--,,----..___.-,,__-1782, 1979, 2594 --Covington, City of; Officials' conduct; certain limitations _,,.__._,,_____.__.________1782, 1979, 1988, 2096, 2995 3954 HB 1510 HB 1511 HB 1512 HB 1513 HB 1514 HB 1515 HB 1516 HB 1517 HB 1518 HB 1519 HB 1520 HB 1521 HB 1522 HB 1523 HB 1524 HB 1525 HB 1526 HB 1527 HB 1528 HB 1529 HB 1530 HB 1531 HB 1532 HB 1533 HB 1534 HB 1535 INDEX --State Department of Air Transportation; appointment of officers __.----_--------------------1782, 1979 --Mortgages and security deeds; railroads and public utilities ----------------1658, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 --Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions _---_-_-----------------1659, 1795, 1799, 2193, 3415 --Pulton County; Atlanta, City of; local education commission; re-establish ----------1659, 1795, 2235, 2258, 3415 --Charitable institutions; sales tax ____._.._..._.___._.____................1783, 1980 --Washington County; Superior Court Clerk's salary --------------------1783, 1980, 1988, 2096, 2847 --Motorcycles; safety devices _----------_----_--_..------1783, 1980 --Clermont, Town of; mayor and councilmen; election --_-_-------------------------1783, 1980, 1988, 2096, 2847 --Vidalia, City of; new charter; create ------------------------1784, 1980, 1988, 2097, 2899, 3051 --Conasauga Judicial Circuit; Judge's salary ------------------------------1784, 1981, 1988, 2097, 2847 --Cochran, City of; Corporate limits; change by referendum ------------..1784, 1981, 1988, 2097, 3365 --Wilkes County; Superior Court deputy clerk; compensation __------------------1784, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 --Gilmer County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices --___------------.1785, 1981, 1988, 2098, 2847 --Jenkins County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues members; increase --------------------1785, 1982, 1989, 2098, 2995 --Jenkins County; Board of Education; create new Board ------------------1785, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2996 --Mitchell County; Tax Commissioner's term and compensation --------------1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 2847 --Echols County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; terms of office ........1786, 1982, 1989, 2099, 3415 --Echols County; Superior Court Clerks; salary ------------1786, 1982, 2235, 2249, 2996, 3039, 3040, 3255 --Echols County; Board of Education members; election __________________________.__._--1786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 --Echols County; Judge; term of office....!786, 1982, 1989, 2100, 3415 --Chatham County; Local Government Tax Commission; establish __..---..--.--------------------------1786, 1983, 2235, 2467 --Jefferson County; Board of Education; add two members _.,,._______._._.___________.__._--______. 1786, 1983, 1989, 2133, 2996 --Toombs County; Board of Education members; election ------------------------------1787, 1983, 1989, 2100, 2848 --Minimum grants; provide, certain mumcipalities___.___-__-__--__----------..1787, 1983, 2236, 2798, 3415 --Catoosa County; Board of Utilities Commissioners; powers--.--------.---.------.------.1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2848 --Stephens County; Sheriff's compensation --------1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 HB 1536 HB 1537 HB 1538 HB 1539 HB 1540 HB 1541 HB 1542 HB 1543 HB 1544 HB 1545 HB 1546 HB 1547 HB 1548 HB 1549 HB 1550 HB 1551 HB 1552 HB 1553 HB 1554 HB 1555 HB 1556 HB 1557 HB 1558 HB 1559 HB 1560 HB 1561 INDEX 3955 --Eatonton, City of; Council members' salaries-----.1787, 1983, 2235, 2249, 2996 --Stephens County; Superior Court Clerk's salary............1787, 1983, 1989, 2101, 2996 --Stephens County; Development Authority; issue revenue bonds.----------------------1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 2848 --Stephens County; Ordinary's salary.--------1788, 1984, 1989, 2102. 2996 --Fulton County; Civil Service Board; salary per diem...-1788, 1984 --Brunswick, City of; primary candidate; nominating petition----_______..__...._.....................__...__. 1788, 1984, 1989, 2102, 3415 --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members; compensation----1788, 1984 --Walker County; Board of Education member's election-----...----..---.----------------1788, 1984, 2088, 2105, 2848 --Burke County; Sheriff's compensation.----....--....1788, 1984, 1989, 2103. 2996 --Department of Public Safety; Director's salary----------1789, 1985 --Guyton, Town of; voters' qualifications and elections------......................................1968, 2076, 2088, 2250, 2997 --Counties; personnel----...........................1968, 2076, 2353, 2683, 3416 --Americus, City of; Judge's compensation----------.1968, 2077, 2089, 2250. 2997 --Life insurance companies; tax on gross direct premiums.-------.------.------..----.--1968, 2077, 2701, 2890, 3416 --Workmen's Compensation; State employees--.-1789, 1985, 2233, 2581 --Milledgeville, City of; sanitary services to county----..------.------.------------...1968, 2077, 2089, 2250, 3179 --Walker County; Rural Water and Sewer Authority; members; appointments....................1969, 2077, 2089, 2251, 2997 --Clarke County; Juvenile Court Judge; salary....._..1969, 2077, 2089, 2251. 2997 --Unemployment Compensation Law; reduction in contribution rates ----.----------.._--.----..----------1969, 2077 --Barbers; shops can train no more than 2 apprentices at any one time .....------------------------------........1969, 2077, 2701 --Riverdale, City of; certain officials; salaries ...... 1969, 2078, 2089, 2251, 2997 --Jones County; Board of Commissioners; posts---------1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 --Jones County; Sheriff's deputies; two additional....----1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 --State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors; license------------------------1970, 2078, 2594 --Jasper County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; posts----...................-1970, 2078, 2089, 2252, 2997 --State Board of Registration for Foresters; licenses as registered foresters--------------_----.._...------.--.1971, 2078 3956 HB 1562 HB 1563 HB 1564 HB 1565 HB 1566 HB 1567 HB 1568 HB 1569 HB 1570 HB 1571 HB 1572 HB 1573 HB 1574 HB 1575 HB 1576 HB 1577 HB 1578 HB 1579 HB 1580 HB 1581 HB 1582 HB 1583 HB 1584 HB 1585 HB 1586 HB 1587 HB 1588 INDEX --Bulloch County; Civil and Criminal Court; establish---......-..--.---------1971, 2079, 2235, 2253, 2998 --Bulloch County; Superior Court Clerk's salary.------.--1971, 2079, 2235, 2253, 2998 --Bulloch County; Ordinary's compensation.----..--1971, 2079, 2235, 2253, 2998 --Bulloch County; Sheriff's salary----1971, 2079, 2235, 2254, 2998 --Bulloch County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman's salary--------1971, 2079, 2235, 2254, 2998 --Bulloch County; Tax Commissioner; Assistants; salary--------------------------1972, 2079, 2235, 2254, 2998 --Statesboro, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; qualify for elections----------------------.1972, 2079, 2235, 2255, 2998 --Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; Superior Court terms.------1972, 2079, 2089, 2255, 2998 --Brooklet, Town of; ordinance violations; fines----------1972, 2080, 2089, 2255, 2999 --Polk County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; conduct annual audit----1972, 2080, 2352, 2568, 3162 --Polk County; Sheriff's salary----..------------------.......1973, 2080 --Polk County; Commissioner of Roads and Revenues; employees' compensation..------------1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 --Polk County; Uniform Central Accounting and Bookkeeping System; adopt.------.1973, 2080, 2352, 2572, 3162 --College Park, City of; Councilmen; residence qualifications.--------.--------------1790, 1985, 2353, 2404, 3416 --Upson County; Law Library; funds to establish and maintain ------------------_.------1790, 1985, 2089, 2103, 2848 --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judges' supplemental salaries----------------------------------1973, 2080 --Marietta, City of; corporate limits----1973, 2081, 2089, 2256, 2999 --Cobb-County-Marietta Water Authority; maturity date of revenue bonds ------------------------1973, 2081, 2089, 2256, 2999 --Glynn County; Sheriff's deputies; additional----..1974, 2081, 2089, 2256, 3416 --Brunswick, City of; Sheriff; employ additional deputies..........----.------......_......--------1974, 2081, 2089, 2257, 3416 --Bacon County; Tax Receiver's and Collector's office; consolidate.--------------------1974, 2081, 2353, 2573, 3004, 3183 --Wines; authorize sale within airport boundaries--..------.------------------1974, 2081, 2090, 2306, 2848 --Malt beverages; authorize sale within airport boundaries.-.--.-.--------------------1974, 2081, 2090, 2307, 2848 --Spirituous liquors; authorize sale within airport boundaries .------.....--------------1975, 2082, 2090, 2307, 2849 --Radioactive wastes; storage......--------1975, 2082, 2237, 2782, 3416 --Atlanta, City of; Mayor and Board of Aldermen; governing authority __,,--,,-...----------------------------1975, 2082 --Atkinson County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; membership------1976, 2082, 2089, 2257, 3005, 3056 HB 1589 HB 1590 HB 1591 HB 1592 HB 1593 HB 1594 HB 1595 HB 1596 HB 1597 HB 1598 HB 1599 HB 1600 HB 1601 HB 1602 HB 1603 HB 1604 HB 1605 HB 1606 HB 1607 HB 1608 HB 1609 HB 1610 HB 1611 HB 1612 HB 1613 HB 1614 HB 1615 HB 1616 INDEX 3957 --Clinch County; Sheriff's salary .___________..________________..________1976, 2082, 2235, 2257, 3005, 3058 --Lawrenceville, City of; city limits ......2071, 2227, 2353, 2408, 3162 --Iron City, Town of; Mayor and Aldermen; election date _____._......___.._._...___-.-.---2071, 2227, 2235, 2399, 3162 --Atlanta, City of; wards ________________________._-____.2071, 2227, 2353, 2404 --State Board of Corrections; prison personnel; oath of office ......_.____-____........_...._______.2071, 2227, 2237, 2782, 3416 --Cairo, City of; City Court Judge, Solicitor and Clerk's salaries .....___........_...__...._ 2071, 2227, 2235, 2399, 3163 --Grady County; Chief deputy and clerk; salary ___....._._.._........_____......_____.......___..2071, 2228, 2235, 2400, 3163 --Tax assessment; landowners .______._._____.___._._______.._..____________2072, 2228 --Appropriations; General Assembly; action within specified time ____....._._________._..__________2072, 2228, 2351, 2797 --Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; Superior Court Judge's salary .....______......__.___..._____.___.2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3417 --Stephens County; City Court Judge's salary ______.._._____________._....-____2072, 2228, 2353, 2403, 3163 --Butts County; Board of Education members' elections _______ ..... __________ 2072, 2229, 2702, 2717, 3417 --Miller County; Board of Commissioners; checks drawn on county funds ............... 2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3163 --Miller County; Board of Education members' selection _. ____.._.._______.._ 2073, 2229, 2236, 2400, 3334 --Madison County; Superior Court Clerk; allowances .-______...._______....___________________2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 --Madison County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; clerk's salary ........__________2073, 2229, 2236, 2401, 3417 --Madison County; Sheriff's deputies' compensation _._..._____________...___.______..____2073, 2229, 2236, 2409, 3417 --Banks County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; members' election .__________.________2073, 2230, 2236, 2401 --Tax classification; property .___.._,-.____..________.._______ 2074, 2230, 2595 --Atlanta, City of; teacher tenure ....____2074, 2230, 2592, 2712, 3417 --Atlanta, City of; corporate limits ......................................... 2074, 2230, 2236, 2467, 2702, 2717 --Chattahoochee Plantation; corporate limits __...__..___.__.__..___.___..__..-___.______..____2074, 2230, 2236, 2402, 3417 --Brunswick, City of; Glynn County; Brunswick-Glynn County Charter Commission; create ____._...______...______.....___.-.________.-.______2074, 2230, 2843, 2856, 3417 --Uniform Commercial Code; commissioned merchants ...................._........._._.......__......__...1976, 2083, 2236, 2888 --Rockmart, City of; new charter _________ 2075, 2231, 2236, 2402, 3163 --Richmond County; Board of Education; vacancies _______ ____________...._____.....____________2075, 2231, 2353, 2402, 3163 --Morrow, City of; new charter ____2075, 2231, 2353, 2410, 3004, 3055 --Atlanta, City of; Aldermen's elections ._______......_.....___..._.2075, 2231 3958 HB 1617 HB 1618 HB 1619 HB 1620 HB 1621 HB 1622 HB 1623 HB 1624 HB 1625 HB 1626 HB 1627 HB 1628 HB 1629 HB 1630 HB 1631 HB 1632 HB 1633 HB 1634 HB 1635 HB 1636 HB 1637 HB 1638 HB 1639 HB 1640 HB 1641 HB 1642 HB 1643 HB 1644 HB 1645 INDEX --Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary _-__.__.______....____._--________._______.-._.2076, 2232 --Elizabeth, City of; new charter _.____.._____..._._.2224, 2346, 2353, 2569 --Machinery City; repeal Act to incorporate _.______..________.._______.________..____2224, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3163 --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners; Chairman and Executive Assistant's duties; reconstitute districts ____.__.___.-_2224, 2346, 2573, 2843, 2856, 3418 --DeKalb County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election _._.________-.__.-._..___--.__2225, 2346 --Tugboats; annual tax returns ___._.___-_____--.--___..--__2076, 2232, 2237 --Fayette County; Ordinary's compensation ___._._____._______..._._.._2225, 2346, 2353, 2573, 3004, 3063 --Fayette County; Sheriff's compensation ... . ._ - _. 2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3063 --Fayette County; Superior Court Clerk; salary . 2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 --Fayette County; Tax Commissioner's compensation __________________________ 2225, 2347, 2353, 2574, 3004, 3062 --Morrow, City of; annexation; referendum _._________._____...._____________..._____2226, 2347, 2353, 2575, 3418 --Sparta, City of; New Charter . ____._...__ _____ ______ 2226, 2347, 2353, 2570, 3004, 3135 --Tax Collectors; additional duties ..._____....______..__-_......._.,,... 2226, 2347 --Roswell, City of; Mayor and council; term of office ______.____._______....____.__..___.2226, 2348, 2353, 2575, 3418 --Austell, Town of; corporate limits ______,,...__,, 2226, 2348, 2353, 2575 --DeKalb County; Recorder's Court Clerk; issuance of warrants _______ __________ 2342, 2353, 2556, 2595, 3418 --Atlanta, City of; annexation; population basis _...____..._2342, 2556 --Drivers license; information on reverse side __.___._________2343, 2556 --Peace Officers; Board of Examiners; create __.__-__-.--2343, 2556 --Department of Industry and Trade; reimbursement of expenses .._____.- 2343, 2557, 2592, 2796, 3168 --DeKalb County; teacher's tenure .___^.____..___.-_.._._____-___.2344, 2557 --DeKalb County; Board of Education; expenditures _.____2344, 2557 --Warner Robins, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; compensation __________________ _.______..._______2344, 2353, 2557, 2595, 3402 --Banks and Banking; interest charges; breakdown furnished upon request by registered or certified letter _____._._____.___..__________.______.-_.._2344, 2557 --Irwin County; Tax Receiver and Collector; consolidate offices ____._____.______.____..___.._2344, 2353, 2558, 2596, 3163 --Jackson County; City Court's Judge and Solicitor: salary ____.______________..___2344, 2558, 2702, 2712, 3418 --Fulton County; Teacher's tenure __.________.___._________.___-__-__2345, 2558 --Atlanta, City of; open housing .__....._._..__-_......._.-..___..-__...2345, 2558 --Chatham County; Savannah, City of; employees; organization ................. . 2345, 2558, 2593, 2712, 3179, 3182 HB 1646 HB 1647 HB 1648 HB 1649 HB 1650 HB 1651 HB 1652 HB 1653 HB 1654 HB 1655 HB 1656 HB 1657 HB 1658 HB 1659 HB 1660 INDEX 3959 --Brunswick, City of; corporate limits ..........._____....._.._......_...........-____2345, 2559, 2843, 2861, 3418 --Athens, Town of; municipal elections; time for holding _..____.................._.____.2346, 2559, 2593, 2596, 3164 --Independent school systems; merger _.________,, 2555, 2590, 2592 --Augusta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary .........__............._______.....____................______2555, 2590, 2842, 2860 --Clarke County; County Surveyors; fees ___.______..-......-__....................._..........2556, 2590, 2594, 2798, 3418 --Waverly Hall, Town of; Mayor and Council; term of office .___...................._..._.____..2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 --Habersham County; City Court governed by Superior Court ........___..__._._-______........2589, 2696, 2702, 2861, 3419 --Midway, City of; Mayor and Council; compensation ___.............._.....__............2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 --Dougherty County; Ordinary's salary ......__.____...................-___........__...2589, 2697, 2702, 2862, 3419 --State Board of Corrections; federal prisoners .__________.____........-..-......-._...2589, 2697, 2704, 2891 --Bureau of Criminal Statistics; create --_____________________.__.__..________--_________________________--___--__2838, 2987 --Habersham County; Ordinary's salary ____________.__..________.2838, 2987 --Criminal offense; indictments and accusations .__......._._.2838, 2987 --Income Tax Act of 1931; deductions by self-employed individuals ___.___.-__.___......_..._.........__........2839, 2988 --Sales tax; prescription drugs _.__-.-......__-__.-.__.___.___.......___........-...3111 PART III HOUSE RESOLUTIONS HR 6-1 --Governor's Election; Provide for run-off __._____.._..._.__197, 341, 3169, 3173, 3234, 3236, 3315, 3378, 3433 HR 13-16 --Chatham-Savannah: Historic; Plan & Zoning __.._.___...____..886, 1199 HR 24-56 --Compensate: Mr. Odell Lovedahl ._....,,,,..,,_.....(No action in 1968) HR 26 --Atlanta, City of: Vote Required; Fulton-DeKalb Representative _.....__......,,_........_....__.___.__..__.,,(No action in 1968) HR 29-79 --DeKalb County: Police Forces; Municipalities (No action in 1968) HR 30 --State Minimum Wage Law: Create Commission ,,..__.______...,,_...,,__._..,,_...__.........,,__..._ (No action in 1968) HR 36-104 --Ad Valorem Tax: Exempt Certain Personnel (No action in 1968) HR 37-106 --Black Rock Mountain State Park Certified Person--Water ____________________...._--_.____.__.......__....(No action in 1968) HR 38-106 --Tax: Allocate & Distribute State funds- School Administration, Etc. _,,_______________________ (No action in 1968) HR 41-131 --School Lunches: Taxation ..__,,...___...____._..._.._.....(No action in 1968) 3960 INDEX HR 42-131 --Governor: Succeed Himself ,,....-____....__-......._,,...(No action in 1968) HE 43-131 --State Librarian; Law Books: Clerk Superior Court-- Cobb County ..__.......__.__.._.__.._-__.___.___.____.__._._._.._-._____..199, 275, 738 HR 49-133 --Game & Fish Department: Director to be elected time of Governor ___.__.._._._.__....___...__.....__....___._,,______....._(No action in 1968) HR 50-134 --Compensate: William Harvey Arnold .__.__._..--_.._....___.._-_______._3419 HR 51-134 --Revenue Department: refund sales tax payment Seaboard Construction __..__.____._,,..__.._____,,....(No action in 1968) HR 60 --Legislature Building Committee to study _._--(No action in 1968) HR 61-140 --Compensate: Mr. Joe Collins _.._.__,,.,,._..(No action in 1968) HR 62-140 --Compensate: Mrs. P. R. Collins ______,,________________ (No action in 1968) HR 63-141 --Create Interim Committee; Motor Vehicles ..._(No action in 1968) HR 66-153 --Pulton County Tax Commission: Auto Tags; Checks Insufficient ______._____.._____._.__,,___..______.___.__._-__.----(No action in 1968) HR 68-153 --State Claims Study Committee: Create ____________ (No action in 1968) HR 82-209 --Compensate: Grantham Transfer & Storage Co. Inc. _.,,_-____------ .___.___--____(No action in 1968) HR 83-209 --Homestead Exemption: $2,000 to $4,000 ..__..,,(No action in 1968) HR 93-219 --Justices of the peace: Jurisdiction Civil Cases --1448, 2521, 3419 HR 103 --Governmental Immunity (Rules) Study Committee: create ____________________________.______.,,______--___.__.,,__._--(No action in 1968) HR 104 --Motto: Engraved on U. S. one dollar bill _____._._._____567, 760, 3402 HR 108-252 --Compensate: Mrs. Vonceille T. White __.._..__.....____.2233, 2298, 3419 HR 109-252 --Homer L. Chance Highway: Designate ,,_,,__,,_ (No action in 1968) HR 110-252 --Justices of the Peace: Jurisdiction __...._._-_.__._.(No action in 1968) HR 111-257 --Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit: State Library Furnish Law Books ......_._..._..___..--.-.__...._.__.__-____..-199, 275, 499 HR 123-311 --Compensate: Clyde Ravan DBA Community Grocery __...._............._.,,_.....___..____..._.._....___-..___..(No action in 1968) HR 125-312 --Motor Vehicle Inspection Law: Interim Committee .._._......... ..... -- _,,_._,,__....... (No action in 1968) HR 126-313 --Western & Atlantic Railroad: Attorney General: Interstate Commerce --...----- ___._--_......--,,_ -- (No action in 1968) HR 133-383 --W. & A. R. R.; Accepting offer of L. & N. R. R. ._..... .____...-_-._______-_______________-__._.__ (No action in 1968) HR 137-390 --Juveniles; Crime: Create Study Committee __..(No action in 1968) HR 139-399 --Tax; Building Repairs: Increased Value __..._..(No action in 1968) HR 141-403 --Secretary of State: Survey Land-- Cobb County ................._....._.__...___...__._....._..__.._ (No action in 1968) HR 142-403 --School Employees: Retirement System ___________199, 314, 1166, 1283 HR 145-411 --65th Representative District: Seat J. Terrell Webb _.. .._...._.._._ ._._.--_____...._--_.__--.(No action in 1968) HR 156-453 --Homestead Exemption: Certain Injured Persons .........._.._. ._...........----._--._...___._..-_______(No action in 1968) HR 159-478 --Compensate: Mr. C. R. Strickland .__...___....._....(No action in 1968) HR 168-510 --Real Estate Value: Decline--Public improve __(No action in 1968) HR 176 --Invite: Famous Stars Grand Ole Opry __,,,,______ (No action in 1968) HR 177 --Interim Committee: Intangible Taxes .,,--.----(No action in 1968) HR 181-555 --School Lunches: Taxation for ._.._,,_._._._.,,_____..,,.(No action in 1968) HR 183-555 --Compensate: Mr. Lee Wisham (Wisham Garage) 1797, 2021, 3420 INDEX 3961 HR 184-556 --Okefenokee Parkway: Designate .. .....(No action in 1968) HR 188 --Locomotive--General: Return to Ringgold, Georgia _..._..........._._...._ (No action in 1968) HR 189-564 --Constitution Amend: Date Submit to People __________..____________..___..._____.......____-.__.________..__(No action in 1968) HR 191-597 --Education Tax Levy: Millage Limitation ________ (No action in 1968) HR 194-604 --Compensate: Mr. J. B. Covington ....._...._____._____.______2234, 2299, 3420 HR 197-652 --Fulton County: Transfer Certain Property ____(No action in 1968) HR 203-687 --County and Municipal Airports: Study Committee _.....__._ -- .-_.__.. (No action in 1968) HR 216-712 --Primaries Political Party: Tax, Expenses to conduct ..._.....___.._..._,,.______....(No action in 1968) HR 217-712 --Student loans: issue revenue bonds ___________________________ 831, 1207, 3000 HR 219-739 --Catoosa County: State Librarian furnish law books ..199, 277, 499 HR 229 --House of Representatives and Board of Education: Liaison Committee: Create ____________________________ (No action in 1968) HR 230 --Public Utilities and Transportation: Approve Standing Committee .............-..........................(No action in 1968) HR 231 --Fair Housing Laws: Create Study Committee (No action in 1968) HR 232 --Adam Clayton Powell: Seating of -_..___.__..____ (No action in 1968) HR 234 --Fulton County: Create Airport Authority: Study Committee -------.--_-------...._--____._.. (No action in 1968) HR 235 --Board of Corrections: Study Committee; rules and regulations ...... _______ (No action in 1968) HR 236-768 --DeKalb County: Select Official organ ..........(No action in 1968) HR 237-776 --Public Charitable Institutions: Property Tax Exempt ....._..._...._.___................. (No action in 1968) HR 250-779 --Judiciary; Revise Attorney General and Solicitor General ______________________________________(No action in 1968) HR 251-783 --Insurance Medical Hospital Etc.: Study Committee _...__..._._._..___._._.-............_...... (No action in 1968) HR 252-783 --State Parks: Provide Horseback Riding Facilities .............._._._.___._._..__..............(No action in 1968) HR 254 --Housing and Needs and Resources: Study Committee ....__.._._._...._....--....._.....__......(No action in 1968) HR 263-801 --Homestead Exemption: Disabled Veterans ....(No action in 1968) HR 267-829 --State Property Control Committee: Cancel Lease Certain Property ___........._.-...._......___....(No action in 1968) HR 268-831 --Corporation Code: Create Study Committee ...... __-.--.__.___...--(No action in 1968) HR 277 --Hospitalization & Health Insurance: Study Committee--Create __._______________..__.._.__ (No action in 1968) HR 278 --Fallout Shelters: Create Study Committee - .............. ............_._._..._._._...__..___.(No action in 1968) HR 279 --Aircraft--Private owned: Study Committee, Tax, License, Etc. ________ ____________________________ (No action in 1968) HR 281 --Honorable Vince Dooley: Honorary Member of the Representative Delegation _____...__..___.._____(No action in 1968) HR 282 --Game and Fish Laws: Revise Create Study Committee ........_.........__....._..............._.............(No action in 1968) 3962 INDEX HR 283 --Election Bills Pending: Create Study Committee -- ------------------ (No action in 1968) HR 285 --Mental Health: Create Study Committee _.....(No action in 1968) HR 286 --Defense & Veterans Committee Function After Adjournment ----...---------------- (No action in 1968) HR 287 --Employee by State Government: Create Study Committee ------------------(No action in 1968) HR 288 --Pre-School Children: Create Interim Committee ....---- ____...--------_-(No action in 1968) HR 289 --Criminal Records Comp: Create Study Committee ........................_.--------..(No action in 1968) HR 290 --University System of Georgia--Student Housing: Create Study Committee .------.(No action in 1968) HR 295-835 --County-Municipality: Bond Issues; slum clearance --------------...--________-_.-_--.____----859, 1227, 1327 HR 296 --Uniform Credit Code: Create Study Committee --------------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 318 --Community Antenna TV Service: Study Committee --------------------------(No Action in 1968) HR 319 --Driver Education Public Schools: Study Committee------------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 320 --Highway: Macon Commerce Construct 4-Lane Highway--..._____------------_--_ ----(No action in 1968) HR 322-838 --Governor's Election: Runoff Election; Majority------------14, 736 HR 331 --Public Officials Fees: Study Committee.--....(No action in 1968) HR 332 --Veterans Service Officer Training School: Create Study Committee ...____----------------------(No action in 1968) HR 333 --Eavesdropping Devices: Create Study Committee ----------------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 334 --American History Books: Create Study Committee .----------.---------------------- (No action in 1968) HR 335 --Reapportionment: Federal Courts Consider.... (No action in 1968) HR 336 --State Income Tax Returns: Create Study Committee ------------------------------.---- (No action in 1968) HR 337 --Betting Parimutuel: Create Study Committee ---------------------------------- (No action in 1968) HR 351 --Examining Boards: Create Study Committee ___----___----_--------------__----__________ (No action in 1968) HR 352 --Retirement & Emeritus Pay System: Study Committee ----------------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 353 --Day Care Centers; Mentally Retarded; Study Committee _._....._--_----.------___.....______.----__.(No action in 1968) HR 354 --Gas Purchased by State Agencies: Create Study Committee ----------------------------------(No action in 1968) HR 371 --House of Representatives; notify Senate that House has convened------------------------------------------11 HR 372 --General Assembly; notify Governor that General Assembly has convened ....___......________--._,,--____......----.11, 26 HR 373 --House of Representatives; HR 3; amend ___..._------.._...._______..----.12 HR 374 --House of Representatives; Rules of House; adopt--------.------12 INDEX 3963 HR 375 --Governor; Joint Session; to hear address by.------------12, 26, 109 HR 376 --Governor; Joint Session; to hear address by......---.........13, 27, 204 HR 377-853 --Elbert County Industrial Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution..----23, 134, 137, 226, 1668, 1849 HR 378-853 --Driver Education Course; traffic fines and forfeitures---23, 134 HR 379-853 --Juvenile Court Law Study Commission; create ... .......... 23, 134, 988, 1570, 3420 HR 380-855 --Hinely, Joseph E. Jr.; compensate-----23, 134, 1797, 2021, 3420 HR 381-866 --Legislative Branch of Government Study Commission; create..---_-----_-__._-.....--__-__----25, 136 HR 382-867 --Garrett, Mrs. Rebecca L.; impeachment charges .----127, 161, 502, 3435, 3442 HR 383-867 --Claxton, J. W.; impeachment charges--- 127, 161, 609, 760, 3434, 3437 HR 384-880 --Brown, Alton; compensate..----------130, 163, 1797, 2022, 3420 HR 385-880 --Ravan, Clyde, Community Grocery; compensate----..--.130, 163, 1798, 2022, 3420 HR 386-880 --Milledgeville-Baldwin County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ------------------------------ 130, 163, 198, 232, 1666 HR 387-884 --Western & Atlantic Railroad; accept bid of L & N RR Co.-----------------------131, 164, 1165, 1376, 2085 HR 388-885 --Winston, Oroon D.; compensate----...--------------------131, 164 HR 389 --Decatur High School; Football Team, Coach; commend.......--138 HR 390 --Tournament of Roses Parade, "Georgia-A State of Adventure"; congratulations--------------..----....------139, 257 HR 391 --Warren County High School; Football Team, Coaches; commend -------...------------.--.--------------------140 HR 392 --Cox, Lieutenant Jackson Elliott; express sympathy for passing of --------------------------------------------141, 257 HR 393 --Cook, Honorable J. Eugene; express sympathy for passing of ------------------------------ -- .-- 141, 257 HR 394 --Thomson High School; Football Team; congratulate--.---..---143 HR 395 --House of Representatives; amend Rules------__.___.___.____...._._------146 HR 396-912 --State Board of Corrections; composition; amendment to the Constitution----------..------.---.--155, 192, 2594, 2819 HR 397-912 --State Game and Fish Commission; new; amendment to the Constitution----------..----..............----------...--..--155, 192 HR 398-912 --Department of Industry and Tourism; create; amendment to the Constitution-------------156, 192, 2592, 2958 HR 399-912 --Industrial Development Authorities; counties and municipalities; creation; amendment to the Constitution ------__----.------------------.156, 193, 832, 2981, 3420 HR 400-912 --Homestead exemption; ad valorem tax assessments; amendment to the Constitution--......--------------------.156, 193 HR 401-912 --Judiciary Commission; establishment; amendment to the Constitution -----------..------..--------------.156, 193 HR 402-912 --Moncus, Eugene G.; compensate------156, 193, 2233, 2299, 3420 HR 403-912 --Lord, James C.; compensate------.----156, 193, 1798, 2022, 3420 HR 404-912 --Jones, Miles A. Jr.; compensate------157, 193, 1798, 2023, 3421 3964 INDEX HR 405-912 --Homestead exemptions; increase; amendment to the Constitution .___-,,. --__,,_______------____------ --157, 193 HR 406-912 --Early County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ---157, 193, 198, 237, 1668, 1849 HR 407-912 --Lee County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution.-----..................,,_____--.157, 193, 198, 243, 1666 HR 408-912 --Decatur County; Justices of the Peace; increase jurisdiction; amendment to the Constitution .----157, 194, 198, 249, 887 HR 409-912 --Supreme Court Justices; Court of Appeals Judges; retirement; amendment to the Constitution ------------157, 194 HR 410-917 --White, E. C.; compensate ....--------________ 158, 194, 1798, 2023, 3422 HR 411-917 --Capital punishment; sentence commuted; amendment to the Constitution ------------158, 195, 299, 450 HR 412-917 --Butts County Industrial Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ...._..._.. 159, 195, 198, 252, 1667 HR 413-923 --Capital punishment; abolish; amendment to the Constitution ----------------------160, 196, 471, 1963, 1964 HR 414-923 --Urban and municipal affairs; create study committee .__.........___.___...--_..160, 196, 394, 2194, 3422 HR 415-923 --Game and Fish Commission, State; create five member Commission; amendment to the Constitution -.------_____-_-_---------.------------160, 196 HR 416 --Poss, S. J.; express sympathy for passing of ------------------167 HR 417 --Healey, Kenneth; commend ---..__.---..-__..-.------------------168 HR 418 --General Assembly; adjournments; January 19, 1968 and February 9, 1968 ---..---...--------.------------169, 472 HR 419 --Tax structure; study committee ......---------- ----.------ __169 HR 420-932 --Condemnation proceedings; airports; amendment to the Constitution _....__........185, 220, 341, 1099, 1425, 1496, 1570, 2499 HR 421-932 --Quitman County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ..-----------------------185, 220, 298, 397, 1668, 1850 HR 422-932 --Game and Fish Commission, State; create new Commission; amendment to the Constitution ......_.._._...._....._.___._-185, 220, 2351, 2686, 3384, 3384 HR 423-932 --Arnold, Jack Lee; compensate ----------185, 220, 1798, 2028, 3422 HR 424-941 --Housch, Robert A.; compensate --------187, 222, 1797, 2023, 3422 HR 425-941 --Boating and fishing facilities; motor fuel tax; amendment to the Constitution ---------- .--------------187, 222 HR 426-941 --State Council for Removal of Appointed Constitutional Officers; create; amendment to the Constitution _____..._.___. . ---------------------187, 222, 1990 HR 427-941 --Whitaker, Mrs. Daphne; compensate ----188, 222, 2233, 2300, 3421 HR 428-941 --Harrison, Mrs. Geneva J.; compensate --188, 222, 1797, 2024, 3421 HR 429-944 --Horton, William Frank; compensate ----214, 293, 1797, 2024, 3421 HR 430-952 --Griffin, City of; conveyance of certain real estate -- .-----.216, 294, 298, 571, 1084 HR 431-952 --Fannin County; Superior Court Clerk; furnish certain law books -------------.216, 294, 298, 397, 738 INDEX 3965 HR 432-952 --Fannin County; Ordinary's Court; furnish certain law books _______________________.216, 294, 339, 863, 1527 HR 433-952 --County Boards of Education; members' election; amendment to the Constitution ----------------------------216, 295 HR 434-952 --Ad valorem tax; household & kitchen furniture; amendment to the Constitution --------------___----216, 295, 2627 HR 435-952 --Walker, Wendell; compensate ----------217, 295, 1797, 2024, 3421 HR 436-952 --Disabled veterans; extend homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution ------------._.__----217, 295, 2595, 2798, 3421 HR 437-952 --Hewell, Anita L.; compensate --.-----------------------217, 295 HR 438-952 --Nursing Homes; vendor contributions; increase for blind, disabled and old-age benefit recipients ----------....-.__--------217, 295, 298, 370, 738 HR 439 --Dobbs, Mark Russell; congratulations on birth of ----------..258 HR 440 --Stringer, Mrs. Virginia (Frank D.) ; commend ----..........----259 HR 441 --Marietta Blue Devils, The; commend _--------------------_--260 HR 442 --Stone Mountain carving; stamp commemorating --------260, 500 HR 443 --Dewberry, J. H.; commend ------.--..-----------------------261 HR 444 --Communism; supporting U.S. policy of aiding free peoples; fight against Communist aggression ----------...-262 HR 445 --Georgia Fireman Training Center Study Committee; create ....---.-.-.--------------------------264, 508, 761 HR 446 --Williams, W. M. (Bill) ; congratulate .------------._.------------263 HR 447-973 --Pulaski County-Hawkinsville Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ....._......._... ------------------286, 330, 394, 404, 1667 HR 448-973 --Pope, Mrs. Hershel V.; compensate ---286, 331, 2233, 2300, 3421 HR 449-973 --Maddox, J. W.; compensate .-------.---._------------------286, 331 HR 450-973 --Agricultural Experiment Stations Study Committee; create --------------------286, 331, 341, 1201 HR 451-994 --Highways and public roads; study committee ----------------------291, 335, 986, 2033, 3402 HR 452-999 --Boston Seed Company; compensate ---292, 336, 1797, 2025, 3422 HR 453-1002--Clay County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution --.--321, 386, 472, 1668, 1850 HR 454-1013--Hamby, W. B.; compensate ------------323, 388, 1798, 2025, 3422 HR 455-1013--Shad Fish Study Committee; create ----------323, 388, 470, 689 HR 456-1013--Phoenix Air Conditioning; compensate ---- ----------------------323, 388, 2233, 2300, 3422 HR 457-1013--Thomas, Wallace; compensate ----.----323, 388, 1797, 2025, 3422 HR 458-1013--Richmond County; Augusta, City of; tax levy; authorize; amendment to the Constitution _........_.._...._......_..------__..----------323, 388, 394, 522 HR 459-1013--Upson County; Thomaston, City of; Board of Tax Assessors; consolidate; amendment to the Constitution ...... --------------------324, 388, 472, 526, 887 HR 460 --Cedartown Rotary Club; commend ---------------..------..----.300 HR 461 --Cedartown Jaycees; commend -------------------..------------300 HR 462 --Cedartown Police Department; commend _.--------------------.----301 HR 463 --Cedartown, Fire Department; commend-__...----._..._..----..----302 3966 INDEX HR 464 HR 465 HR 466 HR 467 HR 468 HR 469 HR 470 --Moore, Senator Albert F.; wishing speedy recovery ------------302 --Cedartown Kiwanis Club; commend --------------------------.--303 --Cedartown Business and Professional Women's Club; commend --------------------------_----..._____304 --Cedartown Jaycettes; commend --------------------------------304 --Cedartown Optimist Club; commend ..--------------------------305 --Cedartown Junior Welfare League; commend ----------.------305 --Polk County; Sportsman's Club; commend --------......___----.306 HR 471 --Cedartown Exchange Club; commend --------------------------307 HR 472 "--Cedartown Lions Club; commend ------------ZI7--------------307 HR 473 --Cedartown Opti-Mrs. Club; commend ..--.------------------------308 HR 474 --Cedartown Chamber of Commerce; commend ...----_.__-_-309 HR 475-1020--Chattahoochee County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution --------------325, 390, 394, 531, 1668, 1851 HR 476-1020--Stewart County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ---- .----------.325, 390, 394, 537, 1669, 1852 HR 477 --Poss, Summie J.; express sympathy for passing of ___.._...._309 HR 478-1029--Pitzpatrick, Clyde N.; compensate .----327, 391, 2233, 2301, 3422 HR 479-1029--Teacher Certification Policies Study Committee; adopt report _______------327, 391, 470, 910, 1804 HR 480-1037--Pope, Mrs. Eura Mae; compensate ......374, 460, 2233, 2301, 3423 HR 481-1037--McGahee, R. M.; compensate -----------------375, 460, 1798, 2025 HR 482-1037--Grant, A. H.; compensate ----------------375, 460, 1798, 2026, 3423 HR 483-1037--Ferguson, Mrs. J. E.; compensate ........375, 460, 2234, 2302, 3423 HR 484-1037--Tattnall County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ----------...----__375, 460, 507, 544, 1669, 1852 HR 485-1050--Calhoun County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .-377, 462, 989, 994, 1669, 1853 HR 486-1050--Coweta County; water and sewerage; additional indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution ----------------------------.--378, 463, 507, 552, 887 HR 487-1050--Muscogee County Airport Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution ... 378, 463, 472, 556, 1669, 1853 HR 488-1050--Muscogee County; garbage disposal system; amendment to the Constitution -------....378, 463, 472, 562, 887 HR 489-1060--Lieutenant Governor-Elect; succeed to Governorship; amendment to the Constitution --380, 465, 509, 618, 1322, 2932 HR 490-1060--Election Laws Study Committee; create ....380, 465, 509, 633, 1804 HR 491-1063--Homestead exemption; municipalities; amendment to the Constitution ------------------_____381, 465, 1521 HR 492-1063--Baldwin County; conveyance of certain real property --------.----...--.--381, 466, 508, 865, 1238 HR 493-1063--Fulton County; conveyance of certain real property _----.._--------_--381, 466, 1101, 1945, 3402 HR 494-1071--University of Georgia; Georgia School of Technology; athletic association ------383, 467, 606, 815, 1451 HR 495-1071--General: Locomotive; withhold lease -------------- 383, 467, 1165 INDEX 3967 HR 496-1084--Camden County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ________.___386, 470, 989, 1000, 2244 HR 497-1084--Camden County Development Authority; repeal 1967 Resolution _.._______.__________._.__.386, 470, 989, 1005, 2358 HR 498-1089--Hardin, Ira H. Company; conveyance of a certain tract of land .--._.___._ .___________...._._.456, 495, 493, 1945, 3402 HR 499-1089--Renfroe, Claude H. Jr.; compensate __..457, 495, 1797, 2026, 3423 HR 500-1089--R & R Sales Company; compensate ....__. 457, 495, 1797, 2026, 3423 HR 501-1090--Marietta, City of; homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution ........_______..-.__...457, 496, 605, 676, 1322, 1854 HR 502-1090--Constitutional Convention; provide in 1969; amendment to the Constitution ___.___.__......,,...__._.,,---......___457, 496 HR 503-1090--Constitutional Convention; calling for; amendment to the Constitution ___________________________________457, 496 HR 504-1093--Bryan County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .........__.497, 605, 679, 1669, 1854 HR 505 --Motor vehicle liability insurance; create study committee _._____________.....-....-....__.418, 502, 2702, 2747 HR 506 --Frozen chickens; rules and regulations ,--,,_.,,__.___..419, 1445, 2147 HR 507 --Rockfish Study Committee; create ._._......._........__..........419, 604, 762 HR 508 --Morris, Dean John Tolliver; express sympathy for passing of _,,.._,,.. ________________.________________420 HR 509 HR 510 --Wright, Horace, express sympathy for passing of .________,,________. 421 --White, Robert H.; commend ._____..__--_-....___._______-.....____..___.___-____....422 HR 511 --Kelly, Lee E.; Wishing speedy recovery _______._______._____________.________423 HR 512 --Chandler, Edgar, Jr.; commend ___________,,.___..........__.___..._..__.___._...423 HR 513 --Deming, Duane E.; compensate __--.--.._--_,,--.._,,--.-..--.____----424 HR 514 --Cedartown, City of; Unit of Georgia State Patrol; commend .....__....__.........._._..__............................_._ 425 HR 515 --Chandler, Edgar, Jr.; Day; February 27, 1968; designate __.__426 HR 516 --Southern Railway System; commend __..___._._.__..............._...-._.______..427 HR 517 --McClurkin, L. C.; commend .__....._._.____._..___._._.........._--.......___.._......428 HR 518-1100--State Highway Department; motor fuel tax; appropriations; amendment to the Constitution __........_........._....-..-__._......._.____._-...._.._.__459, 498 HR 519-1103--Macon, City of; compensate _._._.______._._.-...____...____...._..__.._____._490, 599 HR 520-1103--Fulton County; conveyance of certain tract of land _____..-..___._._.-______-_-490, 599, 943, 1946, 3402 HR 521-1103--Medical students; scholarships; amendment to the Constitution _._.._..__.._._.______.__-________491, 600, 832, 1288, 3421 HR 522 --Mayors; Tenth Annual Georgia Mayor's Day; tribute to municipal officials and employees _..........__,,__.----____480, 603 HR 523-1104--Constitution Revision Commission; create .. ...__...._............_.__._...__.......-.460, 498, 1101, 1957, 3375, 3376 HR 524-1104--Ad valorem tax; public utilities; true fair market value .......___...__.491, 600, 1099, 2220, 3383, 3386 HR 525-1114--Okefenokee Parkway; Georgia State Routes 40 and 23 and 121 from Interstate 95; designate .....__.___._......___...............493, 601, 2352, 2479, 3366, 3368 HR 526-1114--Barton, Paul C.; compensate .._.__.._______._.493, 601, 1798, 2029, 3423 HR 527 --Monroe, Vaughn; expressing appreciation _________________________.___566 3968 INDEX HR 528-1156--Darden, L. D.; compensate ___..______.....__....596, 663, 1798, 2027, 3423 HR 529-1156--Clarke County; Athens, City of; ad valorem tax procedure; amendment to the Constitution ______..____.____._______..._______.597, 663, 667, 753, 2849 HR 530-1156--Forward Georgia Commission.; create ... 597, 663, 1099, 2549, 3421 HR 531-1156--Richmond County; adoption of ordinances; amendment to the Constitution ......____________________._______.597, 663, 667, 757, 1323 HR 532-1156--Holbrook, Mrs. Ruby Odell; Holbrook, Robert Andrew; compensate .....__... 597, 664, 2234, 2302, 3423 HR 533-1156--Couch, William; Heirs; compensate ......597, 664, 2233, 2302, 3423 HR 534-1179--Mincey, Carroll J.; compensate .......... 653, 729, 1797, 2027, 3423 HR 535-1179--Colquitt and Miller County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _______.___-_______.__.________.___.653, 729, 735, 836, 2243 HR 536-1179--Eminent domain; fair market value; amendment to the Constitution ...._______..............._.__..653, 729, 1446 HR 537-1179--Ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; amendment to the Constitution _____________._._.____653, 729, 1802, 2784, 3315, 3319 HR 538-1179--Towns County; Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books __.........._...653, 729, 990 HR 539-1179--Towns County; Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ............... 654, 730, 990 HR 540 --Sutlive, W. Kirk; commend .................___....____...___..___...._...._........608 HR 541 --Laite, William E., Ill; express sympathy for passing of ___._._..._......._..___.__..______..__.___.__..___.609, 738 HR 542-1183--Echols, Margaret, Miss; compensate ____654, 730, 1798, 2027, 3424 HR 543-1183--Dodge County-Eastman Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _____________________.-__.517, 655, 730, 735, 839, 1669, 1855 HR 544-1191--Muscogee County; Columbus, City of; create charter commission; consolidation; amendment to the Constitution _._.___....._._.....___.............656, 732, 735, 845, 1323 HR 545-1196--Woodland, City of; create Development Authority; amendment to the Constitution __________._________________.______.657, 732, 735, 851, 1669, 1856 HR 546-1200--Rabun County; Judge of the Court of Ordinary; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ___.___._...__._.____..._..__......_._.____-..---724, 825, 990 HR 547-1200--Rabun County; Superior Court Judge; State Librarian to furnish certain law books ______________________________724, 825, 990 HR 548-1200--Lincolnton, City of and Lincoln County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____._.____._______.___._.724, 826, 830, 891, 1669, 1856 HR 549-1200--Pitts, Glawer; compensate ............__...._.724, 826, 2234, 2303, 3424 HR 550-1206--Burch, Griffin; compensate ______...___________726, 827, 1797, 2028, 3424 HR 551 --Rockmart-Aragon Chamber of Commerce; commend _______________.685 HR 552 --Cedartown-Polk County Civil Defense and Rescue Unit; commend ... ...... -.-.-- _____...--,,_ ...___.___.__685 HR 553 --Cedartown; City of; Merchants' Association; commend ..........686 HR 554 --Davis, S. R.; expressing appreciation _______,,.--__--_----_-___-_.___687 INDEX 3969 HR 555-1216--Williamson, Mrs. Frances J.; Williamson, James M.; compensate _______________________________----_----_________._________821, 880 HR 556-1216--Wylie, Mrs. Emily; compensate ___--____--------------------821, 880 HR 557-1216--Coweta County; Newnan, City of; merge county school system with City; amendment to the Constitution ----__..,..__..__.821, 880, 941, 1007, 1670, 1857 HR 558 --Hayes, Professor Frank Alfred; commend ____----_______--------__763 HR 559-1220--Decatur, City of; revenue obligations; amendment to the Constitution _ _ _ _. 822, 881, 989, 1018, 1667 HR 560-1220--Motor vehicle liability insurance; assessment fees; amendment to the Constitution ________------_--__------823, 881 HR 561-1220--Fertilizers; joint committee to study standards, etc. ----_.__-___.-__.-______.-____-__----------823, 881, 1098, 2749 HR 562 --Dalton, City of; 1967 Dalton High School Football team; commend _________----_------____----------__.----____----_--763 HR 563 --UGA I, express sympathy for passing of __----------_--------765 HR 564 --Cordele, City of; 1967 Cordele Senior Little League Team; commend -_____.______--___--.--------------_--.--------------------766 HR 565 --Armed Forces; commend--------------------------766, 945 HR 566 --Mutimer, Honorable George C.; express sympathy for passing of ..--.....--_.. --_--------__ -.--------__--.----..__.--__...-- 767 HR 567 --Long, Honorable Oscar L.; commend ____------____--------_______768 HR 568 --Langdale, Honorable Harley; commend __----------__--___--_.__768 HR 569 --Fulford, Lt., C. W., Jr.; commend --_---_--------_----_.------769 HR 570 --Columbus, City of; High School Athletic Department; congratulate ......_. ______.. _______ ____ ____--.___--_----____------_----_770 HR 571 --Columbus, City of; Spencer High School Greenwave Football Team; commend ._--______.__----------_----_____.___..,,__771 HR 572 --Kimmons, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Burnett; express sympathy for passing of ------__------___----___--------__--__--------------------772 HR 573 --Leard, Dr. L. Tyler; express sympathy for passing of _--------__773 HR 574 --Blankenship, Mrs. Frank E. (Millie) ; express sympathy for passing of -__.--__________________________------___,,_____774, 945 HR 575 --Davison, Honorable F*red; commend --__--__--._____--_--__----__.____775 HR 576 --Hope, Bob; commend and congratulate _.______------_------_____776, 945 HR 577 --Hershey, General Lewis B.; commend __________________776, 1803, 2396 HR 578 --Public Housing Study Committee; create ----_------_--_--779 HR 579 --Insurance rating laws; create study committee --781, 942, 1245 HR 580 --Daylight Savings Time; initiate federal legislation to shorten ______ ___________________------___----_----____--___------___------___--__780 HR 581 --State Highway Department; complete certain projects --_-___-____-.__-_____-_--__.---_-.__.-.__781, 1445, 1586 HR 582 --State Department of Parks; safety programs and standards ________ .----__------_------__----___782, 1228, 1245, 1805 HR 583 --College and university campuses; retail stores ________783, 1228, 1584 HR 584 --Minimum Wage Law Study Committee; create ___--------__________784 HR 585 --Governmental Immunity Study Committee; create .______.--_._._--._________.____-____-_._______.______.._____.__784, 1101, 1246 HR 586 --House of Representatives; Public Utilities and Transportation Committee .----------__----_----_----__.------____--785 3970 INDEX HR 587 --Georgia Institute of Technology-Clemson Basketball Game; expressing appreciation ------------------------------855 HR 588 --Wilbanks, Captain Hilliard A.; honor ------------.------------855 HR 589 --Bailes, Honorable Robert William, Jr.; express sympathy for passing of .-- ..--_-------------------_.----,,_..--857 HR 590 --Berry, Mrs. C. Ed; express sympathy for passing of ________857 HR 591 --Ware, Honorable J. Crawford; congratulate ________. ---------858 HR 592-1241--Spalding County; sanitations, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution _--__-_--876, 936, 1100, 1179, 2564, 2579 HR 593-1241--Payette County; water, sewerage and fire protection districts; amendment to the Constitution _______.._.876, 936, 941, 1021, 1667 HR 594-1241--Georgia Housing Administration Study Committee; create __________.__..__._____._____..________.__.__.____________.____.____._____.876, 936, 1101 HR 595-1243--Parks, Billy W.; compensate ----------877, 937, 1798, 2029, 3424 HR 596-1247--Sales tax; tangible personal property purchased outside State --_--..----.----.--...__.--_.-..--__----_----------.878, 937, 1802 HR 597-1247--Holy Bible; suspend Sales tax ________._.______.878, 938, 1802, 2524, 3403 HR 598-1247--Non-profit hospitals; suspend sales tax ..878, 938, 1802, 2525, 3403 HR 599-1247--Non-profit schools; suspend sales tax ___.878, 938, 1802, 2527, 3403 HR 600-1247--Executive Center; designate as official residence of Governor ----------_--.----_._______.879, 938, 1665, 2496, 3403 HR 601 --Grant Park Zoo; rural legislators urged to contribute toward purchase of "urban" rhinoceros ...----------_.._._.__----.--_,,-888 HR 602-1280--Cobb County; convey certain tract of land ______________.._.______932, 982 HR 603-1280--Stephens County; convey certain tract of land -....----..---.------._--------------933, 983, 1801, 2529, 3403 HR 604-1288--Moody, H. K.; compensate ....__...--__...-_. 934, 984, 1798, 2028, 3424 HR 605-1295--Jones, Laurie M.; compensate ______...______.974, 1095, 1798, 2028, 3424 HR 606-1295--Cherokee County Airport Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution - - . _.___ __._. 974, 1095, 1100, 1183, 1667 HR 607-1295--Albany, City of and Dougherty County; merge and consolidate; amendment to the Constitution __.___..974, 1095, 1099, 1187, 1667 HR 608-1295--Teachers' Retirement System; allowances to beneficiaries --..._.--------------------------974, 1095, 1101, 2480 HR 609-1296--State officials; election; amendment to the Constitution ------------------------975, 1095, 1101, 2056, 3424 HR 610-1297--Riggins, Mrs. Francis B.; compensate^ 975, 1096, 1798, 2030, 3424 HR 611-1301--Acworth, City of; homestead exemption for residents 62 or over; amendment to the Constitution -.___. 976, 1096, 1099, 1192, 1667 HR 612 --Ployd, Honorable James H. "Sloppy", congratulate ._____.____..______.960 HR 613-1309--Bainbridge-Decatur County Beverage Control Board; create; amendment to the Constitution . ..__.._.___._ ._. 978, 1098 HR 614-1320--Kammer, Morris; Kammer Mrs. Morris; compensate ..-1091, 1161 HR 615-1320--Green, Mrs. Louie Mae; compensate ... 1091, 1161, 1798, 2030, 3424 HR 616 --Cato, Honorable Anthony Wallace; congratulate ------------1085 HR 617-1345--Lowndes County; conveyance of a tract of State owned property ..----------..---------- . _--------------.------.1155, 1223 HR 618-1345--Governor; succession; amendment to the Constitution .... 1155, 1224 HR 619-1345--Woodbine, City of; Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _._..__._--------_..--1155, 1224, 1227, 1322, 2244 INDEX 3971 HR 620-1348--Agricultural products; promotion and control; amendment to the Constitution _____.___________.1156, 1224, 1318, 1867, 3000, 3066 HR 621-1348--Phillips, James E. Jr.; compensate .......__............__....._.......1156, 1225 HR 622-1352--Taylor County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ----1157, 1225, 1227, 1339, 2243 HR 623-1354--Muscogee County; ordinances for policing public property & airport; amendment to the Constitution ____________1158, 1226, 1227, 1344, 2243 HR 624-1354--Cordele, City of; Office Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____.-_.._.___..1158, 1226, 1227, 1348, 2244, 2934 HR 625-1354--Municipal corporations; annexation of contiguous areas; referendum .._._..._..._._._...__.......__.........-...___._______..__....._....1093, 1163 HR 626-1367--Appling County; Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Reports; State Librarian to furnish Superior Court Library ... 1219, 1313 HR 627-1367--Jasper County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution .....__.1219, 1313, 1448, 1456, 2243 HR 628-1373--Brantley County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _._ 1220, 1314, 1448, 1461, 2564, 2935 HR 629-1373--Cobb County; Education District No. 2; composition; amendment to the Constitution ......._.____.....__..___.__..1221, 1314, 1320, 1464, 2244 HR 630 --National Negro History; designate week of February 11-17-1247 HR 631-1401--Evans County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ___.__._1306, 1440, 1448, 1554, 2244 HR 632-1401--Effingham County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ._..__._.......__ 1306, 1440, 1448, 1558, 2244,2394 HR 633-1401--Clarke County Board of Education; election; amendment to the Constitution ___.___..____.__..__....___..___..1306, 1440, 1448, 1564, 2244 HR 634 --Melton, Honorable Quimby, Jr.; congratulate ._....___..__..___----...1247 HR 635 --Welch, Douglas; express sympathy for passing of _______________ 1248 HR 636 --Glynn County-Brunswick Optimist All Stars Football Team; commend _--__.__..---------------.........__________.,,..__--._._......._..,,__ 1248 HR 637 --Hackney, Doctor Richard C.; express sympathy for passing of ______________ ._-..... ..-.-_.-...----.--..... ......... 1251 HR 638 --Billings, Doctor, R. A.; express sympathy for passing of .--.--1252 HR 639 --Sharpe, Honorable T. Ross; express sympathy for passing of __.._________._______________.________.____________-__-___-________________1253. 1451 HR 640 --Taylor County; 4-H Club; commend ......_....._..__.....___............___._1258 HR 641 --Taylor County; Howard Community; commend ________________..-- 1259 HR 642 --Tajlor County; Taylor High School Chapter of Future Business Leaders ______--_____,,_________---______.---___.________....._--_1260 HR 643 --Peacock, Honorable Robert Carroll; commend .....___._..._.__..--.1261 HR 644 --Lewis, Honorable E. Brooks; express sympathy for passing of __........._..__._... ...... ..---.........--....... 1261 HR 645 --Department of Public Health; inaugurate program recommended by Dr. B. W. Forester ______ _--_,,,__________1262 HR 646 --Feild, Henry S.; express sympathy for passing of ______.._________.1262 HR 647 --Smith; Honorable Kyle D.; express sympathy for passing of-1263 HR 648 --Tobacco; graders ......__.....-....__...._..-...-..................--....--...-----.1265 3972 INDEX HE 649 --Tobacco; grades concealed from buyers ___--_--_._--______--.1266 HE 650 --Tobacco; acreage allotment .____.____.________._________-___.______________.___.1266 HR 651 --State Employees' Retirement System; prior service; study ___ 1267 HE 652 --Daylight Savings Time; schools; delay opening __._._______.1268 HE 653 --Presidential elections; proportional counting of electoral votes _._.______.._________._____.__________________-._____-_-__..___-_______________.._1269, 1449 HE 654 --Veterans; Congress urged to pass certain bills affecting _______.________.___.__.________..___.____._________..___.____.___1270, 1319, 1586 HE 655 --Shad Fish Study Committee; create .____.________-________1271, 1987, 2148 HE 656 --First grade teachers; study committee _._.__..._-______1271, 2592, 2628 HE 657 --Mechanics' and materialmen's liens Study Committee; create .________._.__._.________._________._____________.____________.__-______1272, 1448, 1587 HE 658-1406--Appropriations; provide for annually; amendment to the Constitution ______.._______.__.._________.._______..__________1308, 1441, 1797, 2213 HE 659 --State Examining Board Study Committee; create ____.___.._____._.1264 HE 660-1410--Cobb County; incorporation of territory; referendum; amendment to the Constitution ___________ ...1308, 1442, 1448, 1567 HE 661-1420--Georgia Study Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education; create _______.________________1311, 1443, 1518, 2047, 3424 HE 662-1427--Henry County Water Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ___._.____.____..________-______1429, 1510, 1519, 1689, 3425 HE 663-1427--Henry County; County manager form of government; provide; amendment to the Constitution _.______1430, 1510, 1519, 1693, 3425 HE 664-1435--Cherokee County; fire protection districts; establish; amendment to the Constitution _.______1431, 1512, 1800, 1821, 2564 HE 665-1435--Savannah, City of; ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ________________.____._1431, 1512, 1519, 2135, 3314, 3336 HE 666-1435--Peanuts and Pecans; tax exemption; amendment to the Constitution ..________________._________._______...________.___-_..____1432, 1512, 1516 HE 667-1435--Cusseta, Town of; Chattahoochee County; Charter Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution __.,,________-1432, 1512, 1665 HR 668-1435--Webster County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____..___.____1432, 1512, 1665, 1696, 2245, 2394 HR 669-1440--Dalton, City of; Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _______._.__________1433, 1513, 1519, 1702, 2245, 2647, 3035 HR 670-1440--Dalton, City of; Building Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _ ___________..________________.1433, 1513, 1519, 1715, 2244 HR 671-1446--Screven County-Sylvania Airport Authority; tax levy; amendment to the Constitution _____ 1434, 1514, 1800, 1824, 2564 HR 672-1448--Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Georgia Supreme Court Reports; State Librarian to furnish certain volumes ______1435, 1515, 1520 HR 673-1450--Western & Atlantic Railroad; jurisdiction of new lease __.-__.____-.___.___..__-_-__..__.__-._-_-___-__-____1435, 1515, 1801, 2549, 3403 HR 674-1450--Crisp-County-Cordele Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ___________.__.1435. 1515, 1519, 1721, 2245, 2935 HR 675-1458--Chattooga County Board of Education; election; amendment to the Constitution ._________.-....__...___._-_1507, 1660, 1800, 1827, 2565 INDEX 3973 HR 676-1458--Chattooga County; motor vehicle ad valorem tax; when proceeds used; amendment to the Constitution --.--_.--_--1507, 1660, 1800, 1829, 2565 HR 677-1458--State officials; compensation; amendment to the Constitution _________._._______________1607, 1660, 1665 HR 678-1464--Dooly County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution __._._......___._.__.__........._____...1508, 1661, 1800, 1832, 2565 HR 679-1465--Pulton County; ad valorem tax levy; amendment to the Constitution ____--___--_-__._-__---1509, 1661, 1799 HR 680-1466--Constitution Revision Commission; create to call for Constitution Convention _________._________________1509, 1662 HR 681-1473--Henry County; water and sewerage; additional indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution ._..___...........__.___....___..___.___1654, 1791, 1799, 1999, 3425 HR 682-1473--Valdosta, City of; governing authority; merge with Lowndes County; amendment to the Constitution _........__.__..______..._.....____....1654, 1791, 1799, 2002, 2849 HR 683 --Smoke Rise Junior League Football Team; commend .__.___1588 HR 684-1477--Decatur County-Bainbridge Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ________._______________._____1655, 1792, 1800, 2006, 2850, 3052 HR 685-1477--Fales, Robert M.; compensate _____..__.__1655, 1792, 2233, 2303, 3425 HR 686-1477--Richmond County; public agencies; General Assembly's powers to create, etc.; amendment to the Constitution ___.____.______._____.__.._.1655, 1792, 1800, 2013, 3425 HR 687-1477--Douglas County; water, sanitation, sewerage and fire protection districts; establish; amendment to the Constitution ....._..._ 1655, 1792, 1800, 2017, 2850 HR 688 --Alien, Bishop L. Scott; commend .,,..__.....__.........____....____._.._,_1589 HR 689 --Johnson, Honorable William L.; commend __....._._.___..___............1590 HR 690 --Fullilove, Honorable W. Tom; commend ........_._________.____....____..1591 HR 691 --Bowman, Honorable Joseph M.; commend __...._._-........._.......'...1591 HR 692 --Blount, Honorable Robert E.; express sympathy for passing of .-__.______.--_________,,._.______.--________,,,,_--_____1592 HR 693 --Henderson, Dr. Zach S.; commend ___......_.___......_.___-_..__.-...-.._.1593 HR 694 --Golden, Doctor Charles F.; commend ,,. ,,......1594, 1805 HR 695 --Griffin, Ralph W.; express sympathy for passing of __....___ 1595 HR 696 --Johnson, Doctor, B. J., Sr.; commend ._..._......____......_.._...___........1596 HR 697 --Cook, Mr. James L.; express sympathy for passing of .._...__... 1596 HR 698 --Wheeler, Honorable Pete; commend ....___.__..................__.._........1597 HR 699 --Redden, Honorable Robert; commend ___.__,,___,,.,--_....1598 HR 700 --Conference of the Council for Exceptional Children; Representatives to attend __________________________________.1577, 3113, 3184 HR 701 --House of Representatives; amend rules _____._______.1577, 2354, 2448 HR 702 --Metropolitan Tax Study Commission; create _____.__1578, 1800, 2149 HR 703 --Motor vehicles Study Committee; create .____.-.-..._.1581, 2593, 2751 HR 704 --Metropolitan Airport Council; study committee __--.._.______... -... .....-___.....,,....._..... .1579, 1800, 2150 3974 INDEX HR 705 --Profit and non-profit corporations; create study committee ._______...__,,--._._,,__..--......_1581, 1799, 2150 HR 706 --Marietta, City of; Hospital Authority; urge consolidation with Cobb County Hospital Authority --------------------------1579, 1800, 2151, 3404 HR 707 --State Employees' Retirement System; study committee --------___--____----__--_--_----------------1582, 2704 HR 708 --State grants; study committee to examine methods of distribution __--------_--------------------1583, 2752 HR 709-1479--Western & Atlantic Railroad; amendment to lease contract ----_----------------.1656, 1793, 1801, 2543, 3404 HR 710-1479--Thompson, Irene; compensate .--------1656, 1793, 2233, 2304, 3425 HR 711-1479--County, municipal tax; allocation to local school systems; amendment to the Constitution _----___------__--_------1656, 1793 HR 712-1486--Contine, Marie Yvette; compensate ----------___--------. 1657, 1794, 2233, 2304, 3425 HR 713-1512--Atlanta, City of; establish Historic Zone; amendment to the Constitution ___------,,___------1659, 1795, 2235, 2263, 3425 HR 714-1514--School Drop-Out Study Committee; create ----_----__----_------------___.1783, 1980, 2592 HR 715-1515--Wayne County; convey certain real property ___--------------------1783, 1980, 2237, 2479, 3404 HR 716-1518--State Board of Pardons and Paroles; nominating committee; amendment to the Constitution __----------_----------_------------1784, 1981, 2089, 2457 HR 717-1522--Gilmer County; Courthouse Library; Georgia Supreme and Court of Appeals Reports ----.--------_,,1785, 1981, 2844 HR 718-1522--Pickens County; Clerk of Superior Court; State Librarian to furnish certain law books --------1785, 1981, 2844 HR 719-1522--Gilmer County; Tax Commissioner; authorization to collect tax fi. fas.; amendment to the Constitution ----------------_-,,------.1785, 1982, 1989, 2139, 2850 HR 720-1522--Wall, Donald L.; compensate ..__-------------------------1785, 1982 HR 721 --Smith, Roy Clyde -..-- -- .--.----------------,,.-._ 1838 HR 722-1544--Blue Ridge, City of; Industrial Development Authority; amendment to the Constitution __-__--------_-----------1789, 1984, 2089, 2142, 2850 HR 723-1549--Mclntosh County; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ____.----------------1968, 2077, 2235, 2266, 3314, 3345 HR 724-1550--Fulton County; public parking facilities; establish; amendment to the Constitution -...------1789, 1985, 2235, 2272 HR 725-1550--General Assembly; election; four-year terms; amendment to the Constitution ------------ ------.------.1789, 1985, 2089, 2476, 3426 HR 726-1556--Baldwin County; annual registration tax; authorization to levy; amendment to the Constitution --------------------------1970, 2078, 2089, 2275, 2850 HR 727-1560--Waverly Hall, Town of; create Development Authority; amendment to the Constitution --------.--------1970, 2078, 2089, 2279, 2851, 2936 INDEX 3975 HR 728-1570--Governor's Mansion in Ansley Park; name of grantee __------------------1972, 2080, 2354, 2515, 3426 HR 729-1582--Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create _._.1974, 2081 HR 730-1585--Ware County; consolidation with City of Waycross; amendment to the Constitution ----.----------------------1975, 2082, 2235, 2282, 2850 HR 731-1586--Fulton County; tax levies; amendment to the Constitution ............___................._.... 1976, 2083, 2593, 2626 HR 732-1597--County government; powers; amendment to the Constitution ___--------------------.--2072, 2228, 2353, 2598, 3426 HR 733-1597--Russell, Richard B.; designate highway in Union and White Counties ___.------------------2072, 2087, 2228 HR 734-1600--Stephens County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ------_----____.----2073, 2229, 2236, 2418, 3426 HR 735-1608--Putnam County Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution _____.2073, 2230, 2236, 2424, 3426 HR 736-1611--Ad valorem tax; educational purposes; amendment to the Constitution _------____--,,--------------------------.2074, 2231 HR 737-1616--Western & Atlantic Railroad; amend lease .--------------------------2075, 2231, 2237, 2516, 3404 HR 738-1616--Glascock County; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution --------------------2075, 2232, 2236, 2429, 3314, 3345 HR 739-1616--Warren County; Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ------------------.2076, 2232, 2236, 2435, 3314, 3346 HR 740-1616--Rockdale County Board of Education; debts incurred; amendment to the Constitution .--------------------------2076, 2232, 2353, 2601, 3426 HR 741 --McCorkle, Mrs. Zack; commend .,,,,.---------------------.._. 2152 HR 742 --Irwin County; 150th Anniversary; commemorating __..2153, 2616 HR 743 --Gilbert, Honorable Louis H.; express sympathy for passing of ._....--..._._-._.._._.. ._..___.___.......____2154 HR 744 --Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; commend ..... ------------.-------.-.--.--.2155 HR 745 --Mann, Virginia Anne; commend --_----------------------------2156 HR 746 --Roebling Family; expressing appreciation .------.------__----.2156 HR 747 --Mann, Helen Rebekah (Becky) ; commend ----------------------2157 HR 748 --DeKalb County; DeKalb Patriots; commend ---------------.2157 HR 749 --National Air Guard, Georgia; commend .----------------------2159 HR 750 --Miller, Polly; commend ._._.__._-_,,------------------------------___2160 HR 751 --Elliott, William A. "Bubba"; express sympathy for passing of ------------------_.------------------2161 HR 752 --Gwyn, Charles R., Sr.; express sympathy for passing of _...._.--............ ___...._............2161, 2617 HR 753 --Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order of; commend and congratulate _______----------_--------2162, 2617 HR 754 --Howard, Honorable G. Robert (Tiger) ; wishing a speedy recovery ........_._._..._.._.._____._...,,._----..^--...... 2163 3976 INDEX HR 755 HR 756 HR 757 HR 758 HR 759 HR 760 HR 761 HR 762 HR 763 HR 764 HR 765 HR 766 HR 767 HR 768 HR 769 HR 770 HR 771 HR 772 HR 773 HR 774 HR 775 HR 776 --Pope, Superior Court Judge and Mrs. Marion T., Jr.; congratulate --.__..___..____--_----_----__2164 --Leigh, Mrs. Mary Pindar; express sympathy for passing of ___._______________,,_----.--__------2165, 2617 --Roddenbery, Robert Samuel, ST.; commend . 2165, 2617 --Irvin, Thomas T.; confer title of "Dr. of Education" --------2167 --Tucker, Honorable Ray M.; wishing a speedy recovery -----2168 --Stephens, Honorable Ronald D. (Ronnie) ; express sympathy for passing of ----------.__--...._---------2169 --Armed Forces; commend ...___..------------------....2170, 2617 --Dunlop Company; commend -- .__.-------------.--------------2170 --Reynolds, City of; Kiwanis Club; commend -------..------------2171 --Taylor County; High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend _.__-------..--_----__.------------.2172 --Taylor County; High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend ____----------.__-_________.-______--..--2173 --Butler, City of; volunteer fire department; commend ..------2173 --Newton, Honorable Albert Sidney; commend --------_.__----2174 --Cartersville, City of; Jaycees; commend ------------------------.2175 --Miller, Doctor Joel Herman; express sympathy for passing of __________--._...--------___--._______.__..___.--2176 --House of Representatives; amend H.R. 3 ...--...-2179, 3113, 3185 --Laboratory Licensing Study Committee; create _...----...-------------------2180, 2352, 2629 --Juvenile crime; create study committee _-----__________.________----2181 --Teachers; Tenure Study Committee; create ......2181, 2592, 2753 --Firearms Safety Study Committee; create --------2182, 2593, 2630 --Department of Public Health; submit certain information to General Assembly .........--..----2183, 2352, 2753 --Bureau of State Planning; study committee ........2184, 2842, 2904 HR 777 --Lobbyists; regulation; create study committee _.....----...----2185 HR 778 --State Income Tax Study Committee; create .------.------------------------2185, 2238, 2449 HR 779-1627--Macon, City of; ad valorem property tax; assessment; amendment to the Constitution ----------.------------2226, 2347 HR 780 --General Assembly; relative to adjournment; Saturday, March 2, 1968 ------------------.......----.2177, 2565 HR 781-1631--Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create ------------.------2227, 2348, 2354, 2449, 3426 HR 782-1631--Ware County; Sheriff's responsibility, United State Criminal Laws; amendment to the Constitution ._----.......----2227, 2348, 2702, 2718 HR 783 --Key, Honorable William Hicks; express sympathy for passing of ....__................... .------------. 2297 HR 784-1636--Department of Industry & Trade; expenses; amendment to the Constitution .------------.-2343, 2557, 2592, 2802, 3404 HR 785-1636--Gwinnett County; employees and officials; create Merit System; amendment to the Constitution _...__.----------.__----....2343, 2557, 2593, 2603, 3427 INDEX 3977 HR 786-1643--State Game and Fish Commission; expenses; amendment to the Constitution ______.____.___.__.________.2345, 2558, 2593, 2807, 3427 HR 787 --Wilson, Honorable Edgar H.; commend .--..___.._..........___2450 HR 788 --Redding, Mr. Otis; express sympathy for passing of .-___________.2451 HR 789 --Parker, Honorable H. Walstein; commend ______.._________._.___________.2452 HR 790 --Laite, Rev. W. W.; commend _-_-___-__.......-_-...____........_....__--______--2453 HR 791 --Cancer Control Month; Designate; April, 1968 ____......__2454, 3427 HR 792 --Mentally ill children; Central State Hospital _......._._..._...________2454 HR 793 --Teachers; create study committee on compensation, retirement and ancillary matters __,,.----_------..2455, 2592, 2754 HR 794 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; Constitutional Commission _._.___.-.....____...........____......___...2456, 2616 HR 795 --Lovett, Honorable W. H.; commend ___..--___..__--_,,.__..._--__________.2456 HR 796 --King, Doctor Martin Luther, Jr.; commend _,,_-_--__.___,,__,,--.2457 HR 797 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; study committee .._._...__--__...__._...--__.._.___._.....___.--...2459, 2704, 2755 HR 798 --Water well drillers; study committee ----________--.2460, 2703, 2756 HR 799 --Motor pools; study committee __.___-_______..___.____......__2461, 2704, 2757 HR 800 --Driver Education Study Committee; create .._.___..._____._..__......___......-......_...-...___.....____..-...2462, 2990, 3186 HR 801 --Cemeteries; study committee __..___--_.__-.__._____.___-_._.2463, 2594, 2758 HR 802 --Georgia Housing Administration; study committee ___________.__2464 HR 803 --Forest products; study committee _.____.__--__.____--_.2465, 2594, 2759 HR 804 --Municipal grants; study committee _----.__-.__...._,,.___.....-.....__--..2466 HR 805 --Howington, Honorable Kelsey D.; express sympathy for passing of _________._..__.___..,,.___.,,--....__.__.,,_,,._.____...2630 HR 806-1653--Gwinnett County Board of Education; filling of vacancies; amendment to the Constitution __._..2589, 2697, 2702, 2873, 3427 HR 807 --Lane, Honorable W. Jones; commend ,,____,,----_,,._----.,,_-----.2631 HR 808 --Newton, Honorable and Mrs. A. Sid; congratulate _.._..._.._.._2632 HR 809 --Lewis, Honorable Preston B.; commend ,,__,,..._--__.._____.--____.__...2633 HR 810 --Milner, City of; 1967-68 Milner High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend ......-......_____. 2633 HR 811 --Pike County; 1967-68 High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend _,,.___.----___----,,,,._.----_..,,.--...2634 HR 812 --Milner, City of; 1967-68 High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend __--.__.------------------~_._--~_2635 HR 813 --Potts, Mrs. Buna Reeves; express sympathy for passing of .--2635 HR 814 --Moran, Honorable Charles A.; commend ........._.___...___--_..___..2636 HR 815 --Truck License Study Committee; create _.............2638, 2990, 3186 HR 816 --Gideon, Major General Francis C.; invite to address House of Representatives ..______,,--__--. 2637 HR 817 --Board of Regents; budget procedure; study committee _----2759 HR 818 --Skelton, Honorable Hugh; express sympathy for passing of ._......__....--._......__,,....__.___-....._----.__------..--._--...2760 HR 819 --Braddock, Police Chief Grady E.; commend ,,.._.,,_..._-...._._--..2762 HR 820 --Johnson High School; Players and Coaches; commend ..._~_._.2763 HR 821 --Brach High School; Basketball Team and Bulldogs; commend _____.________..._____...--_____..--_.___..----...___.,,....__--......_..........2764 HR 822 --Anderson, Peyton; commend .._._...__..._.......__--......._____...._._____,,.--.2764 3978 HR 823 HR 824 HR 825 HR 826 HR 827 HR 828 HR 829 HR 830 HR 831 HR 832 HR 833 HR 834 HR 835 HR 836 HR 837 HR 838 HR 839 HR 840 HR 841 HR 842 HR 843 HR 844 HR 845 HR 846 HR 847 HR 848 HR 849 HR 850 HR 851 HR 852 HR 853 HR 854 HR 855 HR 856 HR 857 HR 858 INDEX --Jenkins, Mrs. Sarah G.; express sympathy for passing of _--____,,------_________________________________________2765 --Central High School; Girls' Basketball Team; congratulate _________------___--____------____--________________________2765 --Chappell, Honorable Bentley H.; express sympathy for passing of ------------------------------_....2766 --Ashworth, Maynard R.; commend ._----------.__....___--__.._....2767 --Attaway, Sheriff Roland; commend ...___.----____...__._..2767 --Miller County; 1967-68 High School Girls' Basketball Team; commend ----....--------_--------_--..............2768 --DeLague, Theus Everett; express sympathy for passing of --.2769 --Parrish, Honorable June J.; commend ----_.______--.____2769 --Fredricks, Douglas Windsor; commend ________......--.------------2770 --Nonpar banking; study committee ----------------2740, 3111, 3187 --Courts below superior court level; study committee ....__--_----__--...--.----------------2740, 3112, 3188 --House of Representatives; allow certain subcommittees to function after adjournment ________________________..2741, 2844, 2905 --Phonograph records & magnetic tapes; study committee ----2742 --Committee on Private Financing of Student and Faculty Housing; create _--_--__----_----------_--------___2743 --Care and Training of Pre-School Children; recreate committee --------___--_________________----------_--_________2744 --Bureau of Criminal Statistics; study committee _.._--------------______.____.____--------.2745, 3112, 3188 --Milk control and distribution; study committee _____________________ 2746 --Birdsong, Mr. William E. "Bill"; expressing appreciation ....2906 --Hughes, Honorable Frank M.; commend ....._.__--____.______________.....2907 --Hains, Solicitor-General George; commend ....----_______________.____2908 --Armed Forces, expressing appreciation ___________------------------2909 --Pepper, Doctor Henry C.; expressing appreciation ----------2909 --High school graduates and University System of Georgia; study committee _------..--------------------.._ 2910 --Molnar, Mac; commend _------.........._--------_----------------------2911 --Henry McNeal Turner High School; Basketball Team; congratulate ------.--------.------.------------_,,..... 2911 --Taylor, Miss Cindy; commend ___._-------_......------------------2912 --Payne, Charles; commend ___....------~----_----.--.--_._~_2912 --McCarthy, Mr. J. P., and Lockheed Ga. Co., expressing appreciation _----____--._--._..._.----__----------2913 --WMAZ Radio and TV; expressing appreciation --------------2913 --Cobb County; Beautification Week; Governor designate ._.._.2914 --Macon, City of; Ingleside Community, Piedmont District; Boy Scout Troop No. 5; commend ____--------------.2915 --Grow, Miss Rosemary; commend ------------------._----...-- 2916 --Doale, Honorable Joe; commend -- --------------------------.2916 --Banks County; 1967-68 High School Boys' Basketball Team; commend --___------.....------__.----...----2917 --Leonard, Honorable Gerald H.; commend ------------------.--2917 --Lee County; High School Girls' Basketball Team; congratulate -------.-...._------.--------------..._--....--2918 HR 859 HR 860 HR 861 HR 862 HR 863 HR 864 HR 865 HR 866 HR 867 HR 868 HR 869 HR 870 HR 871 HR 872 HR 873 HR 874 HR 875 HR 876 HR 877 HR 878 HR 879 HR 880 HR 881 HR 882 HR 883 HR 884 HR 885 HR 886 HR 887 HR 888 HR 889 HR 890 HR 891 HR 892 HR 893 HR 894 HR 895 INDEX 3979 --Moore, Honorable Don C.; commend ....__...._--........._.._.._.__2919 --Lawrence, Honorable Alexander Atkinson; expressing appreciation _____________________________----...._.____._.2919 --Recreational Waters Pollution Study Committee; create ........2921 --City and county governments; merger of; study committee ------------.__....._._......____........--_2921, 2990, 3189 --General Assembly; relative to adjournment ._......-.----.--_.._3042 --Spell, Miss Billie Jo; commend ___._........._____-....._._......_...-..........3042 --Page Staff; members of; expressing appreciation --------3043 --Lasseter, Honorable R. L.; commend .--------------------------3043 --Farmer, Honorable Leon, Jr.; commend ------____.__----------3044 --Hitt, Honorable Ed B., commend ..__._....____...--__-........___._..._..._3045 --House of Representatives; stenographers, expressing appreciation _____________,,____--..._------_.__.__.__3046 --Wild Dog Study Committee; create _._..__.___.__..........3048, 3113, 3190 --Grain Storage Facilities Study Committee; create _...,,___3049 --Vaughn, Honorable Clarence R., Jr.; Highway, designate --3046 --Thomson, George Clarence; express sympathy for passing of --_.__--...._--.--_.....--....___------------.3047, 3427 --Whigham High School; Boys' Basketball Team; congratulate .........._________...-.--.-.______----_-._._--------.----...----_3191 --Bentley, Honorable James L.; commend __.----___.__------__.3192 --Beacham, Honorable Jack; commend ----------------------------3193 --Skidaway Island Bridge; commend --.------------_--------__-3193 --State Department of Conservation; study committee .----.-- 3194 --Agricultural Commodities Commission for Milk; expressing appreciation ____.__...,,.______._.....__--....--______________-_...3195 --Carnes, Honorable Charles L.; commend ......____..____........,,....3196 --Blalock, Honorable D. B.; commend --------------....----.__._...3196 --United Daughters of the Confederacy; Gordon-Carson Chapter; commend ------------------------3198 --Burt, Mrs. Sarah Lois Wadley; express sympathy for passing of ----------------------------------....3199 --Middle Georgia Educational Facilities Study Committee; create __..___..--___.._..___.--.__.....--..___--_----..--------3200 --Raines, Lt. Ben F.; commend __.____.....--..__.___.....--..._..._____--...----3201 --WBML Radio; expressing appreciation _----.__.------______.._._-3201 --National Conference of State Legislative Leaders; request Speaker to send representative ___----------___..__3202 --National Order of Women Legislators; request Speaker to send representative ------.----------_._------3202 --Aviation Study Committee; create ....___..............__..___........------...3203 --Bulloch County; State Highway Department urged to reopen Burkhalter Road .----,,_.._....._----__..__......----.._.__......._.... 3204 --Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; recognize study committee ....----.--------_.....----__..._..__3204 --Matthews, Honorable Chappelle; commend .--------------------3205 --Daniel, J. C. (Moody) ; commend ----.----.........__------------3206 --Henry County Water Study Commission; create ..._----------3207 --Dodd, Honorable Ed; commend ...._--.___.--__--------------_----3207 3980 HR 896 HR 897 HR 898 HR 899 HR 900 HR 901 HR 902 HR 903 HR 904 HR 905 INDEX --Flue-cured tobacco; oppose Proposed Marketing Agreement and Order ________---------------_..--_._._----3208 --Bramblett, Mrs. A. W., Sr.; expressing appreciation ________3209 --Nunn, Honorable Sam, Jr.; commend ----------------------3209 --Steis, Honorable William Burton; commend _..._._--------3210 --Smith, George L., II; expressing appreciation; commend .---3211 --Floyd, Honorable James H. "Sloppy"; commend --------------3212 --Statesboro, City of; High School "Blue Devils"; commend --3213 --Southeast River Basins Study Committee; endorse recommendations ------------------------------__-3213 --Barber, Honorable Mac; commend _....____----_----_...___.3214 --General Assembly; sine die; adjournment --.---3374, 3433, 3434 PART IV SENATE BILLS IN HOUSE SB 14 SB 17 SB 30 SB 31 SB 41 SB 50 SB 51 SB 57 SB 62 SB 73 SB 74 SB 76 SB 79 SB 91 SB 95 SB 100 SB 109 SB 111 SB 117 --Teachers' Retirement System; leaves of absence ------------------------------------.....(No action in 1968) --Georgia Governmental Documents; allow for publishing _----._----------..----..----2594, 3180, 3427 --Trial Judges and Solicitor's Retirement Fund; create ...._._.......__----.._.,,.... 340, 341, 1099, 2969, 3036, 3237, 3430 --Superior Court Judges; additional benefits --------_-__.__--________________................----1099, 3275, 3430 --Compact for Education; members' appointment .------.------________--1526, 1528, 1662, 2841, 3325 --Pistols; license fee .--------............_.....---------- (No action in 1968) --Pistols; bonds --...,,,,------------.__.__-_________...(No action in 1968) --Dispossessed property; storage ............739, 741, 827, 1227, 1233 --Bail trover; modify law --------.------------(No action in 1968) --Handicapped persons; construction of public buildings ------------------------(No action in 1968) --Code of Honesty; employees and officials of State --------2991 --Georgia Election Code; nomination petition; candidate shall pay cost --------------------(No action in 1968) --Courts; allow Judges and other court personnel to attend seminars --------------------------------.------393, 813 --Real estate brokers and salesmen; revise laws --------339, 476 --Crawfordville, City of; new charter --------(No action in 1968) --State Health Department; appeals ----------------393, 806, 859 --Motor vehicle; trucks; refund, certain license fees ------------------------(No action in 1968) --Atlanta, City of; Rapid Transit Authority; additional powers --------------------------(No action in 1968) --Georgia Insurance Code; relating to contents of policies ------------------------1526, 1528, 1662, 2702, 2980, 3407 SB 120 SB 124 SB 134 SB 143 SB 151 SB 154 SB 155 SB 174 SB 180 SB 181 SB 183 SB 186 SB 189 SB 190 SB 191 SB 193 SB 199 SB 200 SB 201 SB 202 SB 203 SB 204 SB 205 SB 207 SB 208 SB 209 SB 210 INDEX 3981 --Motor Vehicles Operators; punishment for drunk driving ______..________472, 473, 498, 831, 2034, 2242, 2297, 2507, 2507, 3035, 3040 --Uniform Airports Act; fees to owners of small planes ____.___--_____-_-_-___--___.--,,--___-___-(No action in 1968) --Federal Wagering Occupational Tax Stamp Act; amend ...._..,,_,,_,,.__..___..._,,.....__.._...___._._....,,_..__ (No action in 1968) --Open meetings; public funds __.----_----___-_ (No action in 1968) --Georgia Election Code; municipal primaries _________________________.__._..__.____________.__669, 1116, 1872, 3406 --Sporting and entertainment events; holding of ..___..,,__...___..,,_,,2234 --DeKalb County; establish local government study commission .-_._..__.....__._.._...___..___..._.__..._-....__...__...__....1237, 1241, 1317 --Psychodrama; provide for practice of ........1025, 1104, 1163, 2701 --Court Reporters; compensation by counties .. _. ...___....____....__--.944, 949, 984, 1518, 2973, 3404 --Georgia Election Code; candidate by petition .---- 509, 636, 704, 798 --DeKalb County; political posters .__..__.__..___..._._..._...__........__3112, 3113 --Accountants; non-residents; registration ______.__._.941, 2194, 2899 --State Revenue Commissioner; compensation _....___.._.__...__...__...___.._...__-.._._...__._.._..736, 2888, 3002 --Fulton County Planning Commission; eliminate certain exemptions 1526, 1528, 1663, 2353, 2576 --Firemen; provide for settlement of employment disputes ..___...__...__.._..__....__...._..._...____...__...__.._.......2085, 2086, 2232 --Fulton County; use of timing devices .._..-__..-.._.._-..__......__...__...-_668 --State Board of Corrections; Georgia Administrative Procedure Act ........__...__..._...._.__....____...__.200, 257, 297, 508, 3098 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; public hearings __.._.......__-..._._...___..._...._.__......_....339, 473, 498, 830 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; Hearings; Licensed Attorneys .....__..._...__.....__.339, 473, 498, 830, 3279, 3428 --State Board of Pardons and Paroles; Georgia Administrative Procedure Act _.___..___...__...____._.__..__...____..200, 258, 297, 1101, 3220 --Workmen's Compensation; review of settlements; procedure __...__._...._....__..___..___..._........._.___....200, 258, 297, 987, 1115 --The Common Day of Rest Act of 1968; create _.....____...._...._.__..._..._....._-...__...____.._-.........__-663, 607, 665, 939 --Model Glue; intentional inhaling of fumes; prohibit _._____.__.____.___._____.__.__.._.___._499, 511, 603, 1165, 2975, 3405 --State Senatorial Districts; reapportion ....201, 258, 297, 394, 441, 476, 476, 477, 477, 478, 478 --State Employees' Retirement System; suspension of benefits under certain conditions ......._..____...__..__.__._.__._...2086, 2087, 2232 --Motor Vehicles; speed restrictions on certain highways ____.___..___..-__..__._._--.___...___472, 474, 498, 508, 806 --Minors; cruel treatment; dentists may report ._......._..339, 474, 498, 987, 1275, 1991, 2188, 2508, 3040, 3107 3982 SB 212 SB 213 SB 214 SB 218 SB 219 SB 220 SB 221 SB 225 SB 230 SB 231 SB 232 SB 234 SB 236 SB 237 SB 240 SB 241 SB 242 SB 243 SB 245 SB 246 SB 247 SB 248 SB 250 SB 251 SB 252 INDEX --Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic Commission; Titles ___________.________________,___________1102, 1104, 1163 --Sunday Business Activities Act; exceptions __________..___._______.__.____._______._._______.1166, 1239, 1315, 1517 --Contracts; statue of limitation ______..____________669, 670, 733, 1099, 1728, 1799, 2583, 2899 --Georgia Commission on The Arts; create __.._..._______.____________1103, 1104, 1163, 1321, 2581, 2638, 2971 --Divorce; practice and procedure; clarify __._________1167, 1239, 1315 --Trucks hauling gravel or stone; prohibit without protective covering ___________________________...________473, 474, 499 --Workmen's compensation; sheriffs and deputy sheriffs ___.____._____.....______-..___._______._-_____499, 511, 603, 831 --Gambling; felony; punishment _._________________.____________2706, 2708, 2839, 2842, 3230, 3428 --Corporations; Georgia Business Corporation Act; create __________________ 2360, 2398, 2559, 2703, 2984, 3013, 3428 --General Assembly; subpoenas shall not be issued to members while in Session ______________________832, 832, 883, 990, 3221 --Tobacco; Flue-cured leaf tobacco; licenses to warehouse operators ________________.___________739, 741, 827, 1318, 2953 --State Department of Air Transportation; establish ____________603, 607, 665, 883, 1280, 1992, 1995, 2242, 2639, 3405 --Fulton County; Sheriff's salary . _____________.________1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2872, 3405 --Alien Students; State employment ___.________________________.__944, 949, 984, 2704, 3159, 3428 --Firearms; discharging on Sunday; allow under certain circumstances ________________________ 669, 670, 733, 2234, 3151 --Atlanta, City of; Employees' pension rights _________________________________ 1992, 1993, 2083, 2353, 2576 --Atlanta, City of; Fire department; tax on insurance premiums __,,_______.________ 1992, 1994, 2084, 2354, 2576 --Atlanta, City of; Teachers' pension _...______________________._______._______1993. 1993, 2083, 2354, 2577 --Veterans, Georgia State War Veterans' Home; redefine "war veterans" ____________.___604, 607, 665, 939, 2665, 3406 --Superior Court; Clerks; retirement benefits ... 1991, 1994, 2084, 2237, 2951 --Minimum Foundation Program of Education Act ___________________._.._______.___._______669, 670, 733, 2234, 2891 --Atlanta, City of; Housing Authorities Law; increase membership _._____________.__________.._.2241, 2245, 2348, 3112, 3116, 3428 --Sheriffs; Civil and criminal cases; enumeration of fees ..___________.__......___ 1167, 1239, 1315, 2626, 2844, 3143, 3430 --Sheriffs; Governor's investigation committee to study charges against __.________________..___1103, 1105, 1163, 2844, 3141, 3430 --Sheriffs; Sheriffs' Retirement Fund; Board membership ________________1025, 1105, 1163, 2844, 3142, 3429 SB 254 SB 258 SB 259 SB 260 SB 263 SB 265 SB 266 SB 267 SB 268 SB 270 SB 271 SB 272 SB 273 SB 274 SB 276 SB 277 SB 278 SB 282 SB 286 SB 287 SB 293 SB 294 SB 295 SB 299 SB 304 INDEX 3983 --Solicitors-General; Emeritus; service computated __884, 887, 938 --Licenses; Plates; issuance to certain veterans ____________________604, 607, 665, 760, 939, 2968, 3406 --Licenses; Drivers; honorary; requirements __....-......_.___.____-__________.....___.884, 888, 939, 1519, 2666 --Veterans; Discharge certificates; fees for recording ......_...._____....................604, 607, 666, 1520, 2962 --State Employees' Retirement System; notice to certain employees prior to retirement ........_._.___..... 739, 741, 827, 2991 --Solicitors-General; Emeritus; credit for service in the armed forces _.___..____.__________.____...__.__..____739, 741, 828, 1990 --Teachers' Retirement System; credit for service in the armed forces ......... 739, 741, 828, 1990 --General Assembly; Retirement; Service Computated _-_______,,________--_._____.1103, 1105, 1163, 1521 --Sheriffs' retirement fund; armed forces credit .........._._...........___........._______739, 742, 828, 1521 --Advisory Committee on Retirement Systems; create ___________,,__--__.-__-_________-_.1103, 1105, 1164, 2991 --Clerk Superior Court; Retirement benefits; credit for service in the armed forces ________-__-____________739, 742, 828, 1521 --Municipalities; Annexation by petition; change percentages -___..__.-________..._-..944, 949, 984, 1800, 1995, 2236, 3177 --American Institute For Research In Bio-Technology; create .__._.......___.____.___......._.__.___.___...-...____.__....1103, 1105, 1164, 2989 --Fulton County; Criminal Court; Judge and Solicitor-General; filling of vacancies ___.._-........1993, 1993, 2083, 2990, 2992, 3405 --Superior Court; Judges, Emeritus; credit for service in armed forces ___.___._-_.____-_......__...__.....-740, 742, 828, 1990 --Fulton County; Civil Court Judge, filling of vacancies ___._....._..___.......___.......1993, 1994, 2083, 2990, 2992, 3406 --State Employees' Retirement System; credit for service in armed forces .______..___._.......,,.,,._._______740, 742, 828, 1521 --Fulton County; Ordinary's compensation __........._----___.___--_.______1670, 1676, 1795, 2353, 2404 --Birth Certificates; Governmental agencies; certified copies _..____.-._._._.........___.___._......____.___.___.670, 670, 733, 987 --Birth Certificates; Name change; issuance of new certificate __.___......._.___.._.____.._..............___.670, 671, 733, 987 --General Assembly; salaries; bills _____________.884, 888, 939, 990, 2326 --Prisons and Prisoners; hospital patients; continuance of care and treatment when term has expired ......_._...___._._.._____._.._________.....___.944, 950, 984, 1101 --Mental Health; Hospitalization; procedure for transfer from another State -_._____....._._____.1449, 1451, 1516, 2701 --Solicitors-General; Georgia Administrative Procedure Act ...._.._._..............___.._............884, 888, 939, 1099, 2582 --Georgia Election Code; Automatic recount of votes cast _..._........................._._......-.__..-.2706, 2708, 2839, 2845 3984 SB 308 SB 309 SB 310 SB 311 SB 312 SB 313 SB 314 SB 315 SB 316 SB 319 SB 320 SB 322 SB 323 SB 324 SB 325 SB 328 SB 329 SB 330 SB 332 SB 334 SB 338 SB 339 SB 340 INDEX --Atlanta, City of; Joint City-County Board of Tax Assessors; abolish office manager's position __..........___..._._.___._ 1167, 1239, 1315, 2236, 2246 --Atlanta, City of; zoning changes; notification to tax assessing officials _.........._.__.___._._._.___.1167, 1239, 1315, 2235, 2247 --Atlanta, City of; tax returns due City of Atlanta located in Fulton and DeKalb County .....,,__,,.._,, 1740, 1741, 1797, 2235, 2262, 3405 --Atlanta, City of; Mayor and Board of Aldermen; jurisdiction over sanitation facilities ..__..__._.._.........___.-..._-.....__..-1237, 1241, 1317, 2235, 2247 --Fulton County; Tax commissioner; collection of taxes due City of Atlanta situated in DeKalb County ___......_..._..___...._______1670, 1676, 1796, 2235, 2247 --Atlanta, City of; slum clearance; non-residents; provide service by certified mail ..,1167, 1239, 1316, 2235, 2248 --Sales Tax; exempt shavings and saw dust ... 1323, 1324, 1444, 1991, 2954, 3003 --Georgia Real Estate Commission; staggered terms of office for members ___________1167, 1240, 1316, 1519, 2509, 2612 --State Examining Boards; additional class of applicants ......._.....______.___._._.1526, 1529, 1663, 2704, 2967 --Fulton County; warrants; execution ____..__________.____________________________1167, 1240, 1316, 2353, 2403 --Insurance; liability; uninsured motor vehicles __________..____1237, 1241, 1317, 1987, 3231, 3378, 3378 --Motor vehicles; license plates; members of the General Assembly _____________________..______1103, 1105, 1164, 1800, 3221 --Polygraph Examiners; Board of Polygraph Examiners; create -...__.....-__-__._______.1168, 1240, 1316, 2701, 2962 --Superior Courts; Alternate Jurors may be substituted for original jurors _______________.___.2618, 2622, 2699, 2703, 2953, 3405 --Watercraft; torts; owner's liability __.._________.........___..__..._____........2617, 2622, 2699, 2701, 2978 --DeKalb County; Planning Commission; public transportation for hire _-.__-........._-.1168, 1240, 1316, 2354, 2577 --Department of State Parks; Director's salary __....._....______..__-.....___.2707, 2709, 2839, 2843, 3316 --Judges; Civil matters; Executive Secretary and Calendar Clerk ____.______.____________1168, 1240, 1316, 1839, 2354, 2577 --Estates; Widow's dower; how barred .........__._.._........._. 1168, 1240, 1316, 1990, 3216, 3429 --Clayton Judicial Circuit; Chief Judge's salary ___.___......._..___.._...................__.1168, 1241, 1317 --Georgia Health Code; Tourist courts; "public lodgings" __________..________-____._.--._._.___.1237, 1241, 1317, 2701 --Georgia Health Code; Sewage discharge; change provisions ..-.........,,__.._...-............ 2707, 2709, 2839, 2841 --Evans County; Sheriff; Deputy's salary __....._...___.___.___........................__1238) 1242, 1317, 1448, 1455 SB 341 SB 342 SB 343 SB 347 SB 349 SB 350 SB 353 SB 354 SB 355 SB 357 SB 359 SB 360 SB 362 SB 363 SB 364 SB 365 SB 366 SB 368 SB 369 SB 371 SB 372 SB 374 SB 378 SB 379 SB 380 INDEX 3985 --Evans County; Clerk of Superior Court; salary _____._.__________..__________________1238, 1242, 1318, 1448, 1455 --Evans County; Board of Commissioners; compensation ...____._..____.____..______1238, 1242, 1318, 2593, 2597, 3406 --Nurseries; Ornamental shrubbery; rights of free enterprise; State competition _._......_____________________1168, 1241, 1317 --DeKalb County; County-manager form of government; referendum ___..______-__._____________.________1238, 1242, 1318 --Alcoholic Beverages; Females working in liquor stores; allow _.__________._____.......__2086, 2087, 2233, 2237, 2673 --Aircraft; Non-commercial manufacturers; responsibility for defective workmanship _____________.___.____..____________1670, 1676, 1796 --Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority; clarify costs ___.______.1675, 1676, 1796, 2702, 2984, 3100, 3104, 3133, 3429 --Cobb County; Governmental Reorganization Study Commission; create ___._..___..__..1527, 1529, 1663, 2353, 2570, 2620 --Marietta, City of; Board of Education; sale of certain property ...._..._...._.._..._.__._..___.1527, 1529, 1663, 2702, 2717 --Superior Court; Judges; may serve in other Superior Courts ....,,__.._.._-_--..........____.____.__.1527, 1529, 1663 --Elections; Unlawful campaign practices; prohibit ._........_............_______.____1527, 1529, 1663, 1990, 2965, 3406 --Juries and Grand Juries; Grand jurors; method of selecting ___________._______.____._______1670, 1676, 1796, 1799, 3278, 3429 --Lake City, City of; Elections; change date ............___.__.__....-.......-......1805, 1808, 1986, 2842, 2863 --State Highway Department; Utility lines; cost of relocating _______.___..______.1805, 1808, 1986, 2087, 2582, 2900 --Solicitors-General; Salary payable from State funds .......... . 1992, 1994, 2084, 2090, 3006, 3407 --Cobb County; Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority; revenue bonds ...........__. 1805, 1808, 1986, 2703, 2718 --Minors; Solicitation of money; unlawful to employ __......___.-..........__.-.....___.1992, 1994, 2084, 2592 --Taxation; State income tax; increase exemption for certain commissioned officers ___.._......__._...........2617, 2620, 2697 --State Department of Corrections; Prison-made products; submit list to Supervisor of Purchases ___.............__..... 1670, 1677, 1796, 2844, 3277, 3282, 3282 --Minors; Property conveyances; consensual transactions; 18 years of age or older __.-_._..___...._____._.._.....____....1805, 1809, 1986 --Pannin County; Tax Collector's salary ............................_..1805, 1809, 1986, 1989, 2134, 3429 --Rabun County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; districts ... 2241, 2245, 2348, 2842, 2863, 3038, 3039, 3226, 3227, 3315, 3336, 3337, 3342 --Hapeville, City of; corporate limits _...__......._...___.__......._.._._________.__..____2241, 2245, 2348, 2353, 2578 --Union City, City of; Incorporate _..._._............._.......2242, 2245, 2349 --Daisy, City of; Charter ...................2242, 2246, 2349, 2593, 2596 3986 SB 382 SB 384 SB 385 SB 386 SB 387 SB 388 SB 390 SB 391 SB 392 SB 393 SB 394 SB 396 SB 397 SB 398 SB 400 SB 401 SB 405 SB 406 SB 407 SB 408 SB 409 SB 410 SB 412 SB 413 INDEX --Rayle, Town of; New Charter ___.__..__..2242, 2246, 2349, 3112, 3114 --State Government; Indebtedness; aggregate shall not exceed 11 % of total revenue received _________________._.___.___________.__.__.__.._.______2707, 2709, 2839 --Master Keys; duplicates; unlawful to make _ _. ___________________ 2617, 2621, 2697, 2841, 3290, 3323 --Georgia Post Mortem Examination Act; Medical Examiners; appointment _______________.________._2619, 2633, 2699, 2990 --Charitable Institutions; Non-profit hospitals; personnel compensation _._.._.._.______________--2565, 2566, 2590, 3112 --Toombs Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General's salary __._.______________--____---_2613, 2621, 2698 --Livestock; Traps; unlawful to set or construct on lands of another person ___.__..__________________-.-_--2618, 2623, 2699 --Cherokee County; School Districts; change; referendum ....___.____.._.___.___.2359, 2398, 2559, 2990, 2991 --Berrien County; Tax Commissioner; salary ___________ ________________.,,___ 2359, 2398, 2559, 2843, 2868, 3407 --Non-residents; Personal jurisdiction; torts _______________________________.__________2566, 2567, 2591, 2842, 3149, 3430 --Berrien County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of commissioners; change ____........... 2359, 2398, 2559, 3112, 3115 --Insurance; Variable Annuity Contract; define 2901, 2904, 2989 --Georgia Securities Act; Insurance; endowment or annuity contracts ........ .............. 2901, 2903, 2989 --Cosmetology; State Board; members' qualifications ____________._..._....___...._._____..__________2899, 2903, 2988, 2990 --Nashville, City of; Corporate limits _..___..___.._..______--____-__-----_--2613, 2621, 2698, 3112, 3115 --White County; Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; State depositories ....._....2613, 2621, 2698, 3112, 3115 --Atlanta, City of; Corporate limits; increase ___,,.-_2359, 2398, 2559 --Floyd County; Coosa Valley Area Vocational Technical School System; create ___________..-_________.______..__.--.2613, 2621, 2698, 2843, 2869, 3407 --Claxton, City of; Mayor and Councilmen; compensation ____..__________.__.____.____.__._____2613, 2621, 2698, 2843, 2862 --North Georgia Mountains Commission; create .______________.____.__._.._______._...._..2619, 2623, 2699, 2844, 3137, 3429 --North Georgia Mountains Authority; Members' terms of office _.____2619, 2623, 2699, 2844, 3138, 3429 --Chatham County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; number of commissioners; change __________________________ 2613, 2622, 2698, 2990, 3031, 3135, 3431 --Chatham County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; Chairman and members; compensation __..___.._.-----.--._ 2613, 2622, 269& --Hospital Advisory Council; Indigent Care; provisions _____.._________---_------.-2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3141 SB 414 SB 415 SB 417 SB 419 SB 420 INDEX 3987 --Fannin County; Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues; election __----------__----------------2852, 2902, 2988 --Atlanta Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; salary _,,___--___2613, 2622, 2699, 3112, 3114 --Highways and Highway Department; Traffic laws; Governor's powers ------------------2901, 2903, 2988, 3113, 3289 --State Planning and Programming Bureau; Powers, duties and responsibilities ----_------------------ 2902, 2904, 2989 --Piedmont Judicial Circuit; Solicitor-General; compensation ------------______--___2899, 2903, 2988, 3112, 3116 PART V SENATE RESOLUTIONS IN HOUSE SR 25 SR 53 SR 63 SR 76 SR 77 SR 85 SR 110 SR 138 SR 141 SR 142 SR 146 SR 149 SR 151 SR 154 SR 155 SR 156 SR 157 SR 164 SR 166 SR 167 --Code of Ethics for Government Service; establish ,,__.--338, 576 --Pulton County; purchase of license plates by check ...____ 2703, 2721 --Solicitor General; judicial circuits; change name to district attorney --------__2619, 2709, 2840, 2842, 3333, 3430 --All-State Bonding Company; relieve as surety --------------------2616, 2620, 2697, 2842, 3221 --Law Enforcement Officers; assistance to children in case of disability or death ------------740, 742, 828, 990, 3285 --DeKalb County; change method of selecting official organ ----------------_______----2902, 2903, 2989 --Criminal Records Study Committee; create -----------2843, 3277 --Notify House Senate convened .__------__,,_----..--.._.--.._---_._._15 --Russell, Senator Richard B.; invite to address General Assembly ---------- ---------------_._--___-26, 144 --Talmadge, Senator Herman; invite to address General Assembly _____._---------------__26, 145, 265 --Uniform Time Act; support .----------------------200, 257, 297, 338 --State Constitution; provide for new; amendment to the Constitution ----------.1666, 1677, 1796, 2845, 3153, 3431 --McGee, S. Russell, III; express sympathy for passing of -.---,,--------------------------------165, 170 --Tobacco; raise national allotment --------740, 742, 828, 1098, 2952 --Tobacco; grades concealed from buyers _----------------------------740, 743, 829, 1098, 2952 --Tobacco; graders; procedure ------------740, 743, 829, 1098, 2952 --Governor's appointments; State Senate confirmation; amendment to the Constitution -----------2565, 2566, 2590, 2704 --White County; Ordinary; furnish certain law books .------__----------------------741, 743, 829, 990 --Hapeville High School Band; commend _--___.------473, 777 --Tenth Annual Georgia Mayors' Day; pay tribute to ----.473, 778 3988 SR 173 SR 178 SR 179 SR 180 SR 182 SR 183 SR 184 SR 187 SR 193 SR 194 SR 197 SR 202 SR 205 SR 207 SR 209 SR 213 SR 215 SR 218 SR 223 SR 224 SR 227 SR 231 SR 239 SR 242 SR 243 INDEX --National System of Interstate and Defense Highways; signs _..-_______.....-..___......___1102, 1106, 1164, 1446, 1599 --Uniform Consumer Credit Code Study Committee; create _......________......_.........1517, 1527, 1529, 1664, 3012, 3034, 3313 --Atlanta, City of; property tax; incur debt of 14% of assessed value _...^_1323, 1324, 1444, 2235, 2288, 3001 --Atlanta, City of; bonds; issuance without referendum, certain conditions ______......._.__1804, 1809, 1986, 2352, 2441, 3002 --Floyd County Board of Education; Workmen's Compensation; amendment to the Constitution .___....._______......._.___......__.___..886, 887, 938, 1448, 1467 --Board of Regents; scholarships; amendment to the Constitution _______.__.____..__________.2708, 2710, 2840, 2991, 3217, 343l" --Atlanta, City of; bonds, issuance without referendum, certain conditions ....__..._..___.._..1804, 1809, 1986, 2353, 2445, 3002 --Motor vehicles; special assessment; amendment to the Constitution ........_____-___..1102, 1106, 1164, 1229, 1800, 2297 --Wilkes County; conveyance of certain State owned property _...........___.___.___-........____1102, 1106, 1164, 1989, 2134, 3406 --Cochran, City of; merge school system with Bleckley County; amendment to the Constitution _..........._..___.__......1323, 1324, 1444, 2354, 2606 --Kennedy, Henry C.; compensate _____________________-__-1804, 1809, 1987 --Adjournment; amend HR 418 _,,-------.._.____________.--1030, 1085 --General Assembly; meetings; amendment to the Constitution .-...___._..___..............-..... 1666, 1677, 1796, 1801 --Floyd County Board of Education; staggered terms; amendment to the Constitution ........._..___._._.........._______...1666, 1677, 1797, 2593, 2610 --Jackson County Industrial Development Authority; create; amendment to the Constitution ___._._.___............_...._...........1666, 1677, 1797, 2842, 2876 --Milk sales regulated by General Assembly; amendment to the Constitution _._..-.......-_____..-.....1840, 1840, 1987, 2087, 2962 --State government; authorities; indebtedness; amendment to the Constitution ______._________________________.____.2619, 2623 --Atlanta, City of; bonds for school facilities; referendum; amendment to the Constitution ....____..........__.__...__..2243, 2246, 2349, 2703, 2724, 3000 --Congressional Delegation; promote closer liaison with Governor & General Assembly ................__.___._-._.2851, 2902, 2988 --Chatham County Tax Commissioner; appointment; amendment to the Constitution _...______________._.____.2243, 2246, 2349 --Teacher Hall of Fame; provide ____.____________.______.___________.2708, 2710, 2840, 2841, 3099, 3431 --General Assembly; relative to adjournment _______1740, 1741, 1776 --Lockheed Georgia; commend _______.___________-_________._______--___2085, 2177 --Annual Old-Timers' Day; designate date ____._.................,2085, 2178 --Public authorities; vending stands operated by blind ................._..-..__.-.....-..-.....___.__.--...--_-____-_..2085, 2178 SR 245 SR 246 SR 250 SR 251 SR 253 SR 254 SR 261 SR 263 INDEX 3989 --State Department of Public Health; State Properties Control Commission ..............._2707, 2709, 2840, 2841, 3312, 3371 --State officials; salaries; study committee ___________3170- 3216 --Houston County; Special Court; create; amendment to the Constitution _____________________2708, 2710, 2840, 3112, 3117 --Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway; clarify and change __-______________2901, 2903, 2989, 3111, 3285 --Governor's Traffic Safety Study Committee; create ________________________________________2620, 2710, 2840 --State Government; employment study committee; create ______________________-.2902, 2904, 2989 --Houston County Building Commission; create; amendment to the Constitution _.--2708, 2710, 2841, 3112, 3120 --Newton County High School Basketball Team; commend ____________--____________.__2618, 2771