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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB337 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 11, 15, 44, and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Uniform Commercial Code, clerks of superior courts, property, and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to modernize provis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-01 Effective Date |
| #2 | SB41 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to provide for the licensure of durable medical equipment suppliers; to provide for a definition; to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #3 | SB160 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Juvenile Code, so as to revise the jurisdiction, definition, and penalties for certain crimes and offenses; to add to the superior court's exclusive origina... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #4 | SB147 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to cemetery and funeral services, so as to permit a cemetery or cemetery company to request a trustee to distribute income earned by an i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #5 | SB201 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to labor and industrial relations, so as to allow employees to use sick leave for the care of immediate fam... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #6 | SB102 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for the designation of emergency cardiac care centers; to provide for the establishment of the Office of Cardiac Ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #7 | HB157 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-22.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements for advertising or publicizing of medical specialty certification, so as to revise certain criteria for certain certifyi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #8 | HB405 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the emergency powers of the Governor, so as to require the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Ag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #9 | HB183 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Department of Community Affairs, so as to recreate the Georgia Geospatial Advisory Council under the Department of Community Affairs; to provide for definiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #10 | SB141 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 15 of Title 25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carnival ride safety, so as to require the owner of a carnival ride to submit an engineering evaluation with a carnival r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #11 | HB155 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the imposition, rate, and computation of and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to create an income tax credit for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-01 Effective Date |
| #12 | SB153 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to hearing aid dealers and dispensers, so as to exempt certain activities of hearing aid dealers, hearing aid dispensers, and others rela... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #13 | SB176 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 17 and Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal procedure and drivers' licenses, respectively, so as to enact reforms relating to driving privileges recommended by the Georgia Council on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #14 | HB39 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapters 39A and 40 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to real estate appraisers and real estate brokers and salespersons, respectively, so as to change certain provisions relating to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #15 | HB49 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock dealers and auctions, so as to update license and surety requirements of livestock dealers and livestock market operators; to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #16 | SB78 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26, relating to the adulteration and misbranding of food, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to issue a variance or waiver to certain rules and regulations of the d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #17 | HB153 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 7 of Chapter 12 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Council on American Indian Concerns, so as to attach the council to the Department of Natural Resources for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #18 | HB176 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and adulteration of food, so as to authorize the Department of Agriculture to enter into agreements with the feder... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #19 | HB168 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority, approved April 14, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 5123), so as to abolish the Upper Oconee Resource Management Commission; to remove all references to same; to modif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #20 | HB243 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum wage law, so as to preempt local government mandates requiring additional pay to employees based on schedule changes; to provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #21 | HB247 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding state sales and use tax, so as to exempt machinery used to mix or transport concret... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #22 | HB268 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elections and primaries generally, so as to provide for the time period for certification of election officials; to provide for related matters; to repeal confli... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #23 | HB260 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting and supporting certain beneficial projects, causes, agencies, or nonprofit corporations, so as to estab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #24 | HB290 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem property tax exemptions, so as to revise definitions related to the exemption of certain agricultural... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #25 | HB370 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Council of Municipal Court Judges of Georgia, so as to authorize the council to create and administer savings plans a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #26 | SB183 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to the State Road and Tollway Authority, so as to provide for a definition; to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #27 | SB173 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 41 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to captive insurance companies, so as to extensively revise certain provisions; to provide for change and revision of certain definitions; to provide for scope of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #28 | HB375 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to revenue and taxation, so as to modify certain provisions relating to tax executions; to repeal the fee collected for issuing tax executions; to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #29 | HB391 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to revise provisions relating to safe place for newborns; to expand the locations where a newborn child can be left to inc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #30 | SB200 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide for synchronizing patients' chronic medications; to define a term; to provide for related matter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #31 | SB206 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide for a short title and findings; to require health plans to provide coverage for hearing aids for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #32 | HB437 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education accountability assessment programs, so as to recreate the former Agricultural Education Advisory Commission whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #33 | HB453 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county law library, so as to add the chief judge of the magistrate court to the board of trustees of the county law library in each co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #34 | HB457 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that future elections for the office of chief judge of the Magistrate Court of Brooks County shall be nonpartisan elections; to provide for the sitting chief judge of the magistrate court to serve out his or he... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #35 | HB469 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 22 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicle franchise practices, so as to provide for definitions; to provide for restrictions, limitations, and guidel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #36 | HB481 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding aviation, so as to provide for preemption for unmanned aircraft systems; to define a term; to provide for r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #37 | HB506 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act known as the "Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965," approved March 10, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 2243), as amended, so as to provide for a vote by the Board for an award of certain contrac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #38 | HB514 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority, approved March 10, 1988 (Ga. L.1988, p. 3743), as amended; to provide for the assets and liabilities thereof; to provide for related matters; to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #39 | HB575 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the governing authority of the City of Brookhaven to levy an excise tax pursuant to the authority of subsection (b) of Code Section 48-13-51 of the O.C.G.A.; to provide procedures, conditions, and limitations... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #40 | HB603 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the compensation of the judges of the State Court of Fulton County, the judges of the Juvenile Court of Fulton County, and the judge of the Probate Court of Fulton County, approved April 19,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-01 Effective Date |
| #41 | HB340 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5C of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles, so as to change the manner of distribution of the proceeds of such tax; to provide for r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-01 Effective Date |
| #42 | SB133 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the corporate net worth tax, so as to make such tax inapplicable to corporations worth less than a certain amount; to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #43 | HB428 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 42 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to downtown development authorities, so as to authorize assessments under Code Section 36-42-17; to provide for related matters; to repea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #44 | HB198 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to require local school systems to provide certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #45 | SB103 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 64 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and licensure of pharmacy benefits managers, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #46 | HB264 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to revenue bonds issued by the Geo. L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Authority, so as to increase the bonding capaci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #47 | SB168 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to extend the persons and agencies permitted to access child abuse records by the department or a count... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #48 | SB174 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for reform for individuals supervised under accountability courts, the Department of Community Supervision, and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and enact reforms recommended by the Georgia Council on Cri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #49 | HB88 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding superior court judges, so as to revise the qualifications for superior court judges; to provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
| #50 | SB193 | Passed | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program, so as to revise the program mission and practice; to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01 Effective Date |
