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In Committee Today: Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Senate Ethics Committee (pdf)

  • HB 540, Rep Austin Scott’s bill regarding election law

Senate State and Local Government Operations Committee (pdf)

  • SB 322, Senator Chip Pearson’s bill regarding zoning laws and property covenants

Senate Natural Resources and the Environment Committee (pdf)

  • SB 321, Senator Chip Pearson’s bill regarding private reservoirs
  • SR 859, Senator Judson Hill’s resolution urging the US Congress to adopt the broadest possible five year plan for offshore development from the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior.

Senate Government Oversight Committee (pdf)

  • SB 143, Senator Robert Brown’s bill regarding timeframes of appeals of actions by government agencies (Hearing Only)
  • SB 254, Senator Chip Rogers’ bill allowing the State Properties Commission to enter into multiyear lease agreements
  • SB 363, Senator Greg Goggans’ bill allowing the Georgia Student Finance Authority to use any state health insurance plan for its employees and their dependents (Hearing Only)


Senate Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security Committee (pdf)

  • SB 355, Senator Ed Harbison’s bill providing a priority list of people authorized to control the disposition of the remains of a dead body
  • SR 955, Senator Nan Orrock’s resolution urging all school systems to safeguard the rights of children under the age of 1 from military recruitment.

Senate Finance Committee (pdf)

  • SB 346, Senator Chip Rogers’ property tax revisions.

Senate Public Safety Committee (pdf)

  • SB 318, Senator Jack Murphy’s bill to require affidavits to accompany complaints against law enforcement officers

House Science and Technology Committee (link)

  • Presentation from Dr. D. Douglas Miller, Dean of the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia
  • HB 281, Rep Len Walker’s Georgia Virtual School Opportunity and Enrichment Act

House Judiciary Civil Lane Subcommittee (http://webmail.legis.ga.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?chamber=House&uid=040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000090E2C3F6DAA8CA010000000000000000100000003BCBC5898BFA2B4191B0C2BCF490FDA4)

  • HB 490, Rep Kevin Levitas’ bill granting General Assembly committees subpoena power
  • HB 970, Rep Ellis Black’s bill regarding property boundaries
  • HB 973, Rep Mike Jacobs’ bill increasing magistrate courts’ jurisdictional limit in civil claims

House Appropriations Committee (link)

  • SB 206, Senator Greg Goggans’ bill requiring tax expenditure reviews as part of the Governor’s budget report
  • HB 947, the FY 2010 Amended Budget

House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee (link)

  • HB 180, Rep Melvin Everson’s bill allowing doctors or technicians under direct supervision from a doctor to tattoo near the eye
  • HB 901, Rep Kevin Levitas’ bill mandating that any felon convicted for the fourth time of a felony must serve the maximum sentence
  • HB 927, Rep Mike Jacobs’ bill expanding the definition of bullying in schools
  • HB 1015, Rep Rich Golick’s bill expanding street gang terrorism and prevention laws

House Science and Technology Keown Subcommittee (link)

  • HB 788, Rep Tom Knox’s bill mandating a single form of euthanasia for dogs and cats

House Human Relations and Aging Committee (link)

  • HB 1054, Rep Len Walker’s bill allowing food stamp recipients to order food over the Internet

Joint Energy and Natural Resources Committee (link)

  • HB 691, Rep Karla Drenner’s bill excluding solar power from certain conditions
  • HR 777, Rep Karla Drenner’s resolution creating a House Study Committee on the National Renewables Energy Portfolio Standards

House Governmental Affairs General Government Subcommittee (link)

  • HB 934, Rep Kevin Levitas’ bill allowing the Department of Administrative Services to make certain purchase agreements mandatory only under certain conditions

House Ways and Means Income Tax Subcommittee (link)

  • HB 374, Rep Rick Crawford’s bill providing that the seller of real property will be subject to income tax withholding and documentation
  • HB 915, Rep Rusty Kidd’s bill changing the definition of taxable resident for income tax purposes
  • HB 962, Rep Larry O’Neal’s bill regarding income tax refund checks
  • HB 984, Rep Larry O’Neal’s bill prohibiting the levy of local income taxes

House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee (link)

  • HB 944, Rep Amos Amerson’s bill banning texting while driving
  • HB 958, Rep Burke Day’s bill allowing security guards of the Georgia Ports Authority to enforce traffic laws
  • HB 981, Rep Jill Chambers’ bill allowing law enforcement vehicles to be painted a solid color

House Regulated Industries Committee (link)

  • HB 1050, Rep Tommy Benton’s bill adding regulations of appraisal management companies
  • HB 1117, Rep Ben Harbin’s bill creating an executive director of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

House Judiciary Civil Jacobs Subcommittee (link)

  • HB 742, Rep Mary Margaret Oliver’s bill allowing additional classes of people to consent to medical treatment
  • HB 999, Rep Ed Lindsey’s bill regarding portable medical orders

House State Planning Willard Subcommittee (link)

  • SB 58, Senator Dan Weber’s bill regarding newly created cities

House Ways and Means Ad Valorem Subcommittee (link)

  • HB 517, Rep Ed Lindsey’s proposed comprehensive revision of the methods of assessing real property
  • HR 1, Rep Ed Lindey’s proposed Constitutional Amendment freezing the valuation of real property
  • HB 1041, Rep James Epps’ bill eliminating certain conditions under which tax digests are not approved by the state revenue commissioner

House Small Business Development Tax Incentives Subcommittee (link)

  • Several presentations from various speakers
  • HB 1023, Rep Tom Graves’ JOBS Act of 2010

House Health and Human Services Committee (link)

  • HB 994, Rep Penny Houston’s bill authorizing the Department of Community Health to establish a schedule of fees for licensure activities of several regulated activities

The Senate Rules (link) and House Rules (link) Committee will meet, but no agenda is available online at the time of this writing.

The Senate Science and Technology (link) and Retirement (link) Committee meetings have been canceled.

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