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GASB73PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to telephone service, so as to provide for class action suits and for damages agains...
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2024-05-06
Act 605
GASB341PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated so as to revise committee names; to repeal provisions relating to inactive boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task fo...
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2024-05-06
Act 609
GASB344PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearms, ammunition, gun safes, and related accessories during an 11 day p...
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2024-05-06
Act 610
GASB352PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to motor vehicle equipment and inspection, so as to provide for standards for the al...
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2024-05-06
Act 611
GASB414PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state printing and documents, so as to prohibit the collecting of certain personal information; to prohibit the release of certain per...
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2024-05-06
Act 613
GASB426PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to revise requirements for joining of a motor carrier and motor carrier's insurer to a cause of action; to provide...
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2024-05-06
Act 616
GASB456PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 14A of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the central caregiver registry, so as to add disabled persons to the registry; to provide for related matters; to provid...
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2024-05-06
Act 619
GASB417PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 8-2-106 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to reporting of accidents relative to elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, manlifts, and moving walks and removal from service of such equip...
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2024-05-06
Act 614
GASB495PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-2A-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Low THC Oil Patient Registry, so as to provide for the term of validity of a registration card; to provide for delivery of registra...
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2024-05-06
Act 620
GASB340PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearm safes and firearm safety devices; to provide for definitions; to pr...
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2024-04-30
Act 497
GASB420PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to agriculture, so as to prohibit the acquisition of possessory interest in certain land by certain foreign ...
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2024-04-30
Act 496
GASB465PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to homicide, so as to provide for the felony offense of aggravated involuntary manslaughter; to provide for definitions; to p...
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2024-04-30
Act 504
GASB370PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to posting model notice with human trafficking hotline information in business and on internet, so as to require certain establishments to ...
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2024-04-24
Act 489
GASB398PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Joint Defense Commission, so as to revise the commission's operations; to expand the commission's membership; ...
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2024-04-24
Act 481
GASB205PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licenses for funeral directors and embalmers, so as to change certain provisions related to the reinstatement o...
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2024-04-23
Act 478
GASB233PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of promise scholarship accounts to be funded by the state in the amount of $6,000.00 per school ye...
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2024-04-23
Act 457
GASB348PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to revise ...
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2024-04-23
Act 477
GASB369PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles generally, so as to provide for the issuance of license plates commemorating ...
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2024-04-23
Act 480
GASB387PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to identification cards for persons without drivers' licenses, so as to provide that personal identification card applications of certain applicants wh...
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2024-04-23
Act 467
GASB366PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 28 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the General Assembly, so as to revise provisions related to the adoption and contents of general appropriations bills; to revise provisions for cert...
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2024-04-22
Act 419
GASB375PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 37-2-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council, membership, meetings, and obligations, so as to add the commissioner of veterans service as a...
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2024-04-22
Act 420
GASB430PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 16 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to COVID-19 pandemic business safety, so as to revise provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 lia...
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2024-04-22
Act 422
GASB493PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the sexual offender risk review board, so as to provide for additional penalties for registered sexual offenders convicted...
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2024-04-22
Act 426
GASB505PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to revise provisions relating to required publication by hospital ...
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2024-04-22
Act 427
GASB293PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county boards of health, so as to provide that operational policies and procedures of the Department of Public Health apply to local pe...
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2024-04-19
Act 383
GASB480PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce, so as to provide for student loan repayment for mental health and substance use profession...
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2024-04-19
Act 381
GASB496PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to provide for extension of preferential assessment ...
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2024-04-18
Act 375
GASB443PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 41 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to abatement of nuisances generally, so as to provide for inclusion of claims against promoters and organizers for costs incurred by local...
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2024-04-08
Act 374
GASB84PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008," so as to provide for financial protections for elder and disabled adults who may be victims of financ...
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2023-05-03
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB218PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to identification cards for persons without drivers' licenses, so as to provide for the issuance of identification cards to persons completing a term o...
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2023-05-03
Effective Date 2023-05-03
GASB222PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A, relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide that all costs and expenses relating to election administration are paid for with lawfully appropriate public ...
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2023-05-03
Effective Date 2023-05-03
GASB1PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to remove the automatic repealer on the prohibition on state and local governments from requiring proof of C...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-05-02
GASB20PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20E of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., the "Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act," so as to ensure consumer access to quality healthcare by setting adequacy standards for network plans offered by an insurer...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2024-01-01
GASB46PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 17 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of sexually transmitted disease, so as to require physicians and healthcare providers to test all pregnant women for HIV and s...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB65PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to take certain actions, including but not limited to promulgating...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-05-02
GASB93PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 29 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to information technology, so as to restrict the use of certain social media platforms on state equipment; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matte...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-05-02
GASB148PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 14 of the O.C.G.A., relating to nonprofit corporations, so as to comprehensively revise, simplify, and modernize said chapter; to provide for construction of said chapter; to provide definition...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB197PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to prohibit deceptive or misleading terms or false representations by ...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB193PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 40 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the promotion and deployment of broadband services, so as to provide for the Department of Community Affairs to determine locations that are eligible for state ...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-05-02
GASB204PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education accountability, so as to provide for the recognition of certain accrediting agencies as evaluators of the quality of education offered in public schoo...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB223PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding health, so as to authorize reimbursement of patient incurred expenses related to participation in a cancer clinical trial; to provid...
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2023-05-02
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB47PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide that vaping in restricted areas is a misdemeanor punishable by fine; to provide for related matters;...
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2023-05-01
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB68PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-14-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions regarding racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations, so as to include the offense of dogfighting as racketeering activi...
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2023-05-01
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB91PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to workers' compensation, so as to extend the time period for the dissolution of the Subsequent Injury Trust Fund; to provide for related ...
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2023-05-01
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB116PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 36-37-6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disposition of municipal property generally, so as to revise provisions relating to the maximum term of certain leases or contracts for ...
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2023-05-01
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB3PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to organization of executive branch generally, so as to require state departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, offices, commissions, public corporations, and authori...
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2023-04-27
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB246PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce, so as to provide for student loan repayment for certain nursing faculty; to provide for de...
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2023-04-27
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB44PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses, so as to provide for mandatory minimum penalties for violations of the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act; to provide for related matters; to provi...
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2023-04-26
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB60PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 14 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the O.C.G.A., relating to secondary metals recyclers, so as to provide that it shall be illegal for certain persons to purchase, possess, obtain, or sell or attempt to purch...
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2023-04-26
Effective Date 2023-07-01
GASB42PassA BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to posting model notice with human trafficking hotline information in businesses and on internet, so as to increase the fine for failure to...
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2023-04-11
Effective Date 2023-07-01
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