- SB 200Transforming Transportation Investment Act; create State Transportation Agency; definitions; purposes; abolish State Road/Tollway Authority
- SB 201Health; provide voluntary contributions through individual income tax returns for cancer research
- SB 202Tax; business enterprises; revise the definition
- SC:FIN
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Status:02/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 203Game/Fish; regulate taking, possession, transportation, farming, selling of fresh-water turtles; provide rules/regulations
- SC:NR&E
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 204Snowflakes Adoption Act; provide exclusive means of adopting human embryos
- SC:H&HS
- HC:
Status:02/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 205Black Market Cigarette Act; provide for utilization of digital based cigarette stamp processes
- SC:FIN
- HC:
Status:02/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 206Governor; require tax expenditure reviews as part of budget report; provide for definition
- (1) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (2) Hill,Jack 4th
- (3) Williams,Tommie 19th
- (4) Rogers,Chip 21st
- (5) Cowsert,Bill 46th
- (6) Golden,Tim 8th
- SB 207Proceedings; admit general public to hearings in juvenile court with certain exceptions
- (1) Wiles,John 37th
- SB 208Rachel's Law; provide for parameters regarding the use of confidential informants
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:02/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 209Prescription Drugs; limit a pharmacist from substituting a drug as part of immunosuppressive therapy
- (1) Hawkins,Lee 49th
- (2) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (3) Thomas,Don 54th
- SC:I&L
- HC:
Status:02/26/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 210High School Program; include home schooled students; eligible to participate in the student honors programs
- (1) Johnson,Eric 1st
- (2) Hudgens,Ralph 47th
- (3) Cowsert,Bill 46th
- (4) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (5) Weber,Dan 40th
- (6) Moody,Dan 56th
- SB 211State Purchasing; exempt certain purchases from having to go through Dept. of Administrative Services
- SB 212Labor; provide standards for motor common/contract carriers transporting railroad employees
- SC:TRANS
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 213Torts; specify manufacturer liability in certain cases
- SB 214Peace Officers' Annuity/Benefit Fund; county jail officers eligible for membership in such fund; creditable service; conditions
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:02/26/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 215Insurance; provide for independent review of certain health insurance decisions; definitions; criteria; limitations; procedures
- (1) Tarver,Ed 22nd
- SC:I&L
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 216Public Officers; provide spouse of armed forces member; 90 days of personal leave with pay/add. 30 days without pay; define term
- SC:VM&HS
- HC:
Status:01/28/10 - Senate Committee Unfavorably Reported - SB 217Brittany Sharnay Wells Act; provide for a curriculum; require adoption of a policy against dating violence
- SC:ED&Y
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 218Rules of Road; provide assessment of points for a violation of 40-6-241; penalty
- SC:PUB SAF
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 219Education; certificated personnel; provide placement on the state salary schedule
- (1) Weber,Dan 40th
- SC:ED&Y
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 220Education; provide for scholarships for the children killed/disabled as result of combat wounds
- (1) Reed,Kasim 35th
- (2) Tarver,Ed 22nd
- (3) Thompson,Steve 33rd
- (4) Harp,Seth 29th
- (5) Jones,Emanuel 10th
- SC:H ED
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 221Georgia's Promise; certain students who apply to member institutions who graduate from certain high schools in top 10 percent automatically admit
- SC:H ED
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 222State Health/Human Services; reorganize and reestablish various agencies
- SB 223Women's Reproductive Health Legislative Oversight Committee; create
- SB 224Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; provide standards/limitations with respect to psychiatric advance directives
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 225Government; require state agencies to develop a privatization plan; establish Privatization Review Committee
- SC:GvtO
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 226Truth in Music Advertising Act; prohibition against the advertising/conducting of certain live musical performances
- SB 227Search Warrants; authorizing the installation, use, and removal of tracking devices subject to certain conditions
- (1) Wiles,John 37th
- SC:S JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 228Soil Erosion/Sedimentation; 25 foot buffers along state waters; provisions
- SB 229Conservation/Natural Resources; references to administrative law judge/hearing officer, final decision of Board of Natural Resources; prov.
- SC:NR&E
- HC:
Status:03/12/09 - Senate Third Read Lost - SB 230Health; community service boards; membership; modify certain provisions; transfer powers/duties to Dept. of Human Resources
- SC:GvtO
- HC:
Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 231Education; establish the PROMISE III teacher's scholarship; provide for eligibility requirements
- (1) Weber,Dan 40th
- SB 232Animal Protection; provide for methods for euthanasia for animals
- (1) Henson,Steve 41st
- (2) Orrock,Nan 36th
- SC:AG&CA
- HC:
Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 233Health; require the board to administer examinations; respective scopes of practice for purposes of certifying emergency medical technicians
- (1) Stoner,Doug 6th
- (2) Mullis,Jeff 53rd
- (3) Thompson,Steve 33rd
- (4) Douglas,John 17th
- (5) Golden,Tim 8th
- (6) Thomas,Don 54th
- SB 234Sentence/Punishment; defendants guilty of crimes involving bias, prejudice, circumstances, and parole; repeal certain provisions
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 235Microchip Consent Act of 2009; prohibit requiring a person to be implanted with a microchip
- SB 236Local Government; procedures to adopt property development moratoriums; provide definitions; applicability
- SC:SLGO
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Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 237Commerce/Trade; prohibit pricing practices during an abnormal market disruption; petroleum products; define terms
- SB 238Board of Regents Scholarship; authorize additional types of student financial assistance for medical/dental students; Medical College of Ga.
- (1) Harp,Seth 29th
- SB 239Education; mandatory attendance; provisions; require new residents in a local school system to enroll a child within 30 days
- SB 240County Boards of Tax Assessors; comprehensive revision of the appeal of assessments for ad valorem tax purposes
- SB 241Pardons/Paroles; classification of information/documents/divulgence of confidential state secrets; provisions
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/04/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 242Elections; campaign contributions; prohibit public agencies from withholding
- SC:ETHICS
- HC:
Status:03/05/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 243Georgia Lottery Corporation; provide certain prerequisites prior to employees receiving certain types of compensation
- SC:ECD
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 244Ga. Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; performance of health maintenance act. by a designated caregiver shall not be prohibited
- SB 245Insurance; require health benefit plan that covers cancer chemotherapy provide coverage for orally administered cancer medication
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Hawkins,Lee 49th
- (3) Unterman,Renee 45th
- (4) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (5) Moody,Dan 56th
- SC:I&L
- HC:
Status:03/05/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 246Courts; provide notice of the release of child from detention under certain circumstances; definitions
- SB 247New Home Access Act; enact; require new at-grade residential structures to include certain accessibility features
- SC:RI&U
- HC:
Status:03/05/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 248Ga. Prescription Monitoring Program Act; monitoring of prescribing and dispensing controlled substances by the Ga State Board of Pharmacy
- SC:RI&U
- HC:
Status:03/05/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 249Levy/Sale; change nonbankruptcy exemptions
- (1) Tarver,Ed 22nd
- SC:B&FI
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 250Education; unlawful disruption of/interference; operation of public schools or public school buses; revise provisions
- SB 251Tax Executions; collection of costs, commissions, interest, and penalties; change certain provisions; provide for execution costs
- SC:FIN
- HC:
Status:03/05/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 252Polysomnography Practice Act; provide for the certification of polysomnographic technologists
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (3) Mullis,Jeff 53rd
- (4) Unterman,Renee 45th
- (5) Hill,Jack 4th
- SB 253Sparklers; provide a definition for the term "indoors"
- SB 254State Properties Commission; provide authority to enter into multiyear lease agreements
- (1) Rogers,Chip 21st
- SB 255Criminal Code of Georgia; require persons convicted of certain crimes to wear a global positioning system monitor
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/09/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 256Milledgeville, City of; levy an excise tax; provide procedures, conditions, and limitations
- SC:SLGO
- HC:
Status:03/10/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 257Retirement; election to participate in Regents Retirement in lieu of Teachers Retirement shall be revocable at will
- (1) Balfour,Don 9th
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:03/10/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 258Snellville, City of; voting powers of the mayor; change provisions
- (1) Balfour,Don 9th
- SB 259Retirement; provide University System of Ga. employ a retired member as a full-time instructor at a nursing school
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:03/10/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 260Retirement; provide any full-time public school employee may elect to become member of Teachers Retirement System
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:03/10/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 261St. Mary's, City of; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide homestead exemption
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 262Dentistry Services; indigent patients; continuing education hours; provide waiver
- SC:H&HS
- HC:
Status:03/12/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 263Rockdale County Probate Court; compensation of judge; change provisions
- SB 264Superior Court of Jasper County; appointment of a clerk of the magistrate court
- SB 265Public Facilities Authority of the City of Milledgeville and Baldwin County Act
- SB 266Kingsland, City of; ad valorem taxes; homestead exemption; municipal purposes
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 267Woodbine, City of; ad valorem taxes; homestead exemption; municipal purposes
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 268Brunswick-Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission; immunity for commission and its officers, agents, and employees
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 269Brantley County School District; ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; homestead exemption
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 270Brantley County; ad valorem taxes; homestead exemption
- (1) Chapman,Jeff 3rd
- SB 271Ringgold, City of; change corporate limits of the city; annex additional territory
- (1) Mullis,Jeff 53rd
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- SB 272Public Utilities; recover costs of nuclear generating plants construction; provide information to customers regarding charges relating to recovery
- SC:RI&U
- HC:
Status:03/19/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 273Public Office; Governor; engage in seeking/accepting campaign contributions; unlawful and violation of oath of office
- SC:ETHICS
- HC:
Status:03/20/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 274Municipal Court of Columbus, Georgia; provide municipal court judges shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis
- (1) Harp,Seth 29th
- (2) Harbison,Ed 15th
- SB 275Retirement; create Municipal Court Clerks' Retirement Fund of Georgia
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:03/23/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 276Air Quality; provide collective emissions limitations for facilities emitting pentachlorophenol near primary/secondary schools
- (1) Fort,Vincent 39th
- (2) Reed,Kasim 35th
- SC:NR&E
- HC:
Status:03/23/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 277Magistrate Court of Troup County; provide chief magistrate shall be a full-time position; compensation and qualifications
- (1) Harp,Seth 29th
- SB 278Education; provide for graduation from high school in three years; grants for graduate postsecondary education
- SC:ED&Y
- HC:
Status:03/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 279Decatur, City of; authorize all redevelopment/other powers; provide a referendum
- SB 280Macon-Bibb County Water and Sewerage Authority Act; change procedure for choosing members; terms
- SB 281Crimes; authorize churches to determine whether to permit persons licensed to carry firearms to carry on church premises/functions
- SC:RULES
- HC:
Status:03/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 282Insurers; high deductible health plans; offer one such plan with provisions for wellness incentives
- (1) Hill,Judson 32nd
- (2) Harp,Seth 29th
- SC:I&L
- HC:
Status:03/26/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 283Retirement; no person who becomes tax commissioner; on/after July 1, 2010; membership in Employees' Retirement System of Georgia
- (1) Heath,Bill 31st
- (2) Murphy,Jack 27th
- (3) Hooks,George 14th
- (4) Hill,Jack 4th
- SB 284Administrative Proceedings; provide award of attorney's fees under certain circumstances
- (1) Thompson,Curt 5th
- (2) Harp,Seth 29th
- (3) Adelman,David 42nd
- (4) Reed,Kasim 35th
- (5) Wiles,John 37th
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:03/30/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 285MARTA; allow transportation services contract to authorize the extension to Authority's existing rapid rail system
- SB 286Insurers; high deductible health plans; offer one such plan with provisions for wellness incentives; annual premium rebate under certain conditions
- (1) Hill,Judson 32nd
- SC:I&L
- HC:
Status:03/30/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 287Drivers' License; instructional permit reported stolen or forged; department shall issue a replacement permit with a new number
- (1) Hill,Judson 32nd
- (2) Murphy,Jack 27th
- SB 288Retirement; change the benefit formula for the Teachers Retirement System; change maximum number of years of service used in calculation
- SC:RET
- HC:
Status:04/01/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 289Social Services; services/treatment for categorically needy/medically fragile children; revise provisions; add definition
- (1) Moody,Dan 56th
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- (3) Seay,Valencia 34th
- (4) Orrock,Nan 36th
- SC:H&HS
- HC:
Status:04/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 290General Assembly; limit the recovery of attorney's fee for certain claims for compensation
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:04/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 291Firearms; laws concerning carrying of concealed weapons; revise comprehensively
- SB 292Courts; juvenile proceedings; revisions
- SC:JUDY
- HC:
Status:04/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 293Lottery; provide for Georgia Lottery Corporation Board of Directors; duties; legislative oversight committee
- SC:H ED
- HC:
Status:02/18/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SB 294Motor Vehicles; prestige license plates; remove the requirement of additional annual registration fee
- SC:FIN
- HC:
Status:01/11/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 295Motor Vehicles; prohibit municipalities from using speed detection devices on federal aid systems
- SC:PUB SAF
- HC:
Status:03/18/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SB 296State Government; rename Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services to Office of the State Treasurer
- SB 297Special License Plates; persons with disabilities; require submission of updated affidavit by a practitioner of the healing arts (PF)
- SB 298Education; require as part of course of study in secondary health education a course of study in basic first aid
- SB 299Juvenile Proceedings; zero tolerance policy on weapons in schools; change provisions