Columbus, Georgia

Columbus Consolidated Government 2003 Legislation



Oppose:



HB 29 ? (Ron Stephens) This bill will require the Regional Development Center

to obtain signatures of the region legislative delegation before any state

funds will be made available.

CCG Comment: If passed in this form, CCG would be forced out of business

because of their reliance on the growth of the digest.

House Appropriations; House Second Readers 01-15-03

GMA not taking a position.

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HB 102 ? (Ben Bridges) This legislation would require that any fines assessed

against offenders convicted of speeding on interstate highways to be paid into

the state treasury even if the case was made by a local law enforcement officer.

House Public Safety; Tabled at a Committee meeting on 02-10-03

GMA also opposes.

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HB 131 ? (Bob Holmes) This bill enacts "The Georgia Neighborhood Protection

Act," and provides for a cause of action for an owner of property adversely

impacted by the pollution, impairment, or destruction of natural resources due

to the use of an adjacent property.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 01-28-03

GMA does not have this high on their radar.

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HB 141 ? (Ron Stephens) This bill creates a sales tax exemption for sales of

chemicals, chemical compounds, and chemical substances certified by the

Department of Natural Resources and used for pollution treatment and control.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 01-29-03

GMA generally opposed to the erosion of the sales tax base.

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HB 244 ? (Sharon Beasley-Teague) This bill would clarify that the prohibition

on cities and counties from requiring timber harvesting permits does not

preclude enforcement of tree and landscape or streamside buffer ordinances

which do not require a permit, plan or security. Also, the limitations on

regulatory authority of cities and counties on timber harvesting operations

shall apply only to those forestry land management practices or agricultural

operations which qualify as exempt from erosion and sedimentation permits, are

not incidental to development and are on tracts which are zoned for

silvicultural or agricultural purposes.

House Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; House Second Readers 02-04-03

A bill passed last session on timber harvesting, which CCG also opposed.

Tom Gehl, with GMA, is working with the sponsor and other interested parties to

work out the problems from last year?s bill.

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HB 432 ? (Billy Mitchell) This bill relates to general provisions applicable to

counties and municipal corporations, so as to provide that counties and

municipalities that require building permits for construction of buildings

shall require each applicant for a permit to build a residential development or

subdivision to furnish proof that notice of such proposed construction has been

provided to the local board of education and to the Department of

Transportation.

House Economic Development & Tourism; House Second Readers 02-18-03

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HB 496 ? (Teresa Greene-Johnson) This bill relates to general provisions

relative to solid waste management, so as to prohibit the granting of a permit

for a municipal solid waste landfill if such landfill is to be located within

three miles of any residence.

House Natural Resources & Environment; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 510 ? (Jan Jones) This bill relates to zoning procedures of local

government, so as to provide for a time period between the general election and

the date on which members of a local governing authority of a county take

office during which zoning power may not be exercised.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 572 ? (Mickey Channell) This bill relates to county sales and use taxes, so

as to provide for public hearings prior to the imposition of the special county

sales and use tax; to provide for procedures for imposition of such tax; to

provide definitions; to provide for the periods of time that such tax may be

imposed; to provide for the issuance of general obligation debt for certain

projects; to provide for use of the proceeds of such tax.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 725 ? (Carl Rogers) This bill relates to elementary and secondary education,

so as to provide for timely payment for goods and services purchased by local

boards of education; to provide for complaints to the State Board of Education;

to provide for withholding of state funds in certain circumstances. It also

relates respectively, to general provisions applicable to municipal

corporations and counties and to general provisions applicable to municipal

corporations, counties, and other governmental entities, so as to provide for

timely payment for goods and services purchased by local governments and local

authorities; to provide for complaints to the State Department of Community

Affairs; to provide for withholding of state funds in certain circumstances;

and relates to general provisions relative to state government, so as to

provide for timely payment for goods and services purchased by state

authorities; to provide for complaints to the State Department of Community

Affairs; to provide for withholding of state funds in certain circumstances.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; House Second Readers 03-24-03

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HR 171 ? (Brian Joyce) This resolution proposes an amendment to the

Constitution so as to provide that no county or municipal corporation shall

increase the ad valorem tax millage rate unless such increase has been approved

by a majority of the citizens of such political subdivision voting on the

question.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-13-03

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SB 39 ? (Robert Lamutt) This bill provides that counties and municipalities

that require building permits for construction or renovation of buildings and

structures or for the installation, replacement, or improvement of plumbing,

electrical, HVAC, gas, cable, or other systems in a building or structure shall

permit applicants to apply for such permits through certain electronic media

and shall provide for certain alternative means of paying any fees associated

with the issuance of such permits.

Senate Science and Technology; Senate Read & Referred 01-29-03

GMA also opposes.

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SB 41 ? (Steve Thompson) This bill would increase the amount of the state-wide

homestead exemption from all ad valorem taxation for state, county, and school

purposes from $2,000.00 to $20,000.00, and provide for a referendum.

Senate Finance; Senate Read & Referred 01-29-03

GMA is okay with a permanent homestead exemption funded by the state, if the

state can find the money.

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Support:



HB 92 ? (Tom Buck) This bill permits consolidated governments to increase the

tax rate of the Local Option Sales Tax from 1 percent to 2 percent, subject to

local referendum. The additional 1 percent will not be subject to the current 2

percent limitation on local sales and use taxes.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers/Engrossed 01-17-03

**Also, HB 207, 249, and 287 are all basically the same. All of these bills

are DEAD except for HB 287. **HB 287: Senate Read Second Time 04-17-03.



HB 93 ? (Tom Buck) This bill relates to definitions relative to occupation

taxes and regulatory fees, so as to revise the definition of gross receipts to

exclude inter-organizational sales or transfers between or among certain parent

corporations, their wholly owned subsidiaries, and certain corporations

partially owned by such parents or subsidiaries.

House Ways & Means; Senate Finance; Senate Read Second Time 04-11-03



HB 191 ? (Jimmy Lord) This is the DMVS Database Bill, which provides for the

voluntary cancellation of the registration of certain vehicles and the

restoration thereof, for an exception for insurers for reporting certain

insurance coverage for fleet insurance policies, changes the fees for lapse and

restoration fees, and changes certain provisions concerning proof of insurance.

House Insurance; Senate Public Safety & Homeland Security; Senate Reconsidered

04-17-03



HB 207, 249, 287 ? see HB 92



HB 265 ? (Tom Buck) This bill changes the compensation of judge, clerk, and

marshal of the municipal court of Muscogee County. The judges? salary shall be

70% of the judges? salary of the State Court, and the clerk and marshal

salaries shall be 70% of the sheriff?s salary.

House State Planning and Community Affairs (local legislation), Senate State

and Local Government Operations; Senate Agrees to House Amendment 03-24-03



HB 302 ? (John Noel) This bill provides that local authorities may establish

standards regulating sound from a motor vehicle, and that local governments may

establish noise control standards prohibiting sound from a radio, tape player,

or other sound-making device that is plainly audible from a distance less than

100 feet from the motor vehicle.

House Motor Vehicles; House Second Readers 02-11-03

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HB 309 ? (Ralph Twiggs) This bill authorizes the creation and activation of a

joint development authority between a county of this state and a contiguous

county of an adjoining state.

House State Planning and Community Affairs; Senate Interstate Cooperation;

Senate Passed 04-14-03

GMA has no position.



HB 325 ? (Ben Harbin) This bill authorizes the Commissioner of Industry, Trade,

and Tourism to designate certain counties as eligible for tax credits for

business enterprises locating there under certain circumstances, to give

incentives for businesses to locate in Georgia instead of border counties.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-12-03

GMA has no position.

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HB 336 ? (Kathy Ashe) This bill enacts the ?School Restroom Standards Act,? and

provides that each local board of education shall maintain toilet facilities in

public school buildings which meet certain prescribed standards for sanitation,

that each local board of education shall provide toilet facilities in

accordance with certain design requirements in public school buildings which

are constructed or renovated after July 1, 2004, and that public school

restrooms meet any applicable requirements of county boards of health.

House Education; House Second Readers 02-12-03

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HB 354 ? (Ben Harbin) This bill relates to revenue and taxation, so as to

provide for current applicability of Chapter 16, the "Tax Amnesty Program Act,"

and Chapter 16A, the "Property Tax Amnesty Program Act," by providing for new

amnesty periods, new waiver periods, new duration and applicability periods,

and to change certain provisions regarding collection costs.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-13-03

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HB 359 ? (Kathy Ashe) This bill relates to rewards for the detection or

apprehension of perpetrators of felonies, so as to remove certain limitations

with respect to the offering of such rewards by the governing authority of a

county or municipality.

House Special Judiciary; Senate Judiciary; Senate Read & Referred 04-08-03



HB 393 (Lawrence Roberts) This legislation relates to fair housing, so as to

provide county and city fair housing authorities or commissions with subpoena

power to investigate complaints related to discriminatory housing practices and

to enforce federal, state, and local fair housing laws.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 02-17-03

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HB 474 ? (Pedro Marin) This bill relates to abatement of nuisances generally,

so as to change certain provisions relating to definitions relative to county

and municipal abatement powers; to change certain provisions relating to county

or municipal ordinances relating to unfit buildings or structures; to change

certain provisions relating to determinations by public officers that

dwellings, buildings, or structures are unfit or vacant, dilapidated, or being

used in connection with commission of drug crimes.

House Special Judiciary; House Second Readers 02-26-03

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HB 479 ? (Barry Fleming) This bill relates to child abuse, so as to change

provisions relating to the county multi-agency child fatality review committee

and chairperson thereof, and to change provisions relating to the membership

and powers of the Georgia Child Fatality Panel.

House Children & Youth; Senate Children & Youth; Senate Passed 04-17-03



HB 514 ? (Tom Bordeaux) This bill relates to sales and use taxes, so as to

provide for funding of projects and services through the levy and collection of

a municipal option sales and use tax.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 538 ? (Butch Parrish) This bill relates to redemption of property sold for

taxes, so as to change certain provisions regarding amounts payable for such

redemption.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 540 ? (Ann Purcell) This bill relates to the imposition, rate, and

computation of income tax, so as to provide for an income tax credit with

respect to qualified reforestation expenses; to provide for conditions and

limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the state revenue

commissioner with respect to the foregoing.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 547 ? (Ben Harbin) This bill relates to surcharges for certain public safety

employees involved in automobile accidents, so as to remove certain limitations

and conditions concerning the prohibition on insurance premium surcharges for

certain public safety employees who are involved in automobile accidents.

House Insurance; House Committee Favorably Reported 03-25-03

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HB 561 ? (Michele Henson) This legislation relates to local government budgets

and audits, so as to change certain provisions relating to grant certification;

to provide for a definition; to provide for procedures, conditions, and

limitations; to provide for duties and responsibilities.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; Senate State & Local Government

Operations; Senate Read Second Time 04-17-03



HB 649 ? (Tom Buck) To amend an Act providing that the governing authority of

the county-wide government of Columbus, Georgia, shall be authorized to provide

for salary supplements for certain officers, officials, and employees of the

county-wide government, approved April 5, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4849), as

amended, so as to authorize such supplements for the judge of the probate court.

House Local Legislation; Senate State & Local Government Operations; Senate

Passed 04-17-03



HB 714 ? (Roger Bruce) This bill amends the "Local Government Code Enforcement

Boards Act," so as to provide requirements for an order to comply issued by a

local code enforcement board; to provide for the specificity of fines; to

repeal certain provision relative to an administrative fine; to repeal certain

provisions relative to an environmental court; to specify the venue and form of

appeals; to provide for the delivery of notice; to make editorial revisions.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; House Committee Favorably Reported

04-07-03

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HB 729 ? (John Noel) This bill relates to primaries and elections generally, so

as to provide for the election of clerks of superior court in nonpartisan

elections; to provide for qualifying for such office.

House Governmental Affairs; House Second Readers 03-25-03

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HB 748 ? (Tom Buck) This bill relates to enterprise zones, so as to change

certain provisions regarding definitions and provide for additional qualifying

businesses and services.

House Ways & Means; Senate Finance; Senate Read Second Time 04-11-03



SB 35 ? (Eric Johnson) This bill repeals the provisions of law requiring the

adoption of a local government service delivery strategy agreement by

municipalities and counties, and reenacts provisions of law relating to

coordinated and comprehensive planning as such provisions existed prior to May

1, 1997.

Senate State and Local Government Operations; Senate Read & Referred 01-29-03

GMA does not think this applies to CCG.

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SB 114 ? (Bill Hamrick) This legislation relates to retirement benefits for

certain law enforcement personnel under the Employees? Retirement System of

Georgia, so as to increase the retirement benefit for certain law enforcement

officers, reduce the retirement age for such members, provide for creditable

service for certain prior service, provide for application and payment of

contributions and for an additional employee membership contribution, and to

provide for a maximum retirement benefit.

Senate Retirement; Senate Read & Referred 02-11-03

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SB 261 ? (Seth Harp) This bill relates to zoning procedures, so as to provide

for additional procedures with respect to zoning decisions.

Senate Veterans & Military Affairs; House State Planning & Community Affairs;

House Committee Favorably Reported 04-17-03



SB 262 ? (Seth Harp) This bill relates to applications and fees for drivers?

licenses, so as to provide that the department shall accept a military

identification card from an applicant for a driver?s license.

Senate Public Safety & Homeland Security; House Motor Vehicles; House Committee

Favorably Reported 04-17-03



SR 121 ? (Regina Thomas) This resolution authorizes the conveyance of certain

State owned real property located in Macon County, Georgia; Muscogee County,

Georgia; Richmond County, Georgia; Talbot County, Georgia; Troup County,

Georgia; Decatur County, Georgia; Fulton County, Georgia; Coffee County,

Georgia; and Baldwin County, Georgia.

Senate State Institutions & Property; House State Institutions & Property;

Senate Disagrees with House Version 04-17-03



Track:



HB 7 ? (Bobby Franklin) This bill would eliminate all state income tax

withholding requirements with respect to taxpayers, employees, and employers,

and eliminate all estimated tax requirements.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 01-16-03

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HB 143 ? (Burke Day) This legislation changes certain provisions regarding

payments to counties operating correctional institutions to which state

prisoners are assigned, by stating, ?In the event the department maintains a

vacancy rate of 5 percent or more in state correctional facilities, then the

equivalent amount of inmate assignments attributable to the amount of such

vacancy rate which exceeds 3 percent shall be allocated pro rata to each county

housing state inmates. The department shall pay to each such county the actual

per day cost of each such state inmate assigned to a county correctional

institution.?

House State Institutions and Property; House Second Readers 01-29-03

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HB 240 ? (John Lunsford) This bill relates to superior, state, magistrate, and

municipal courts, and authorizes the imposition and collection of a technology

and indigent defense fee for the filing of certain cases and the imposition of

certain fines, not to exceed eight dollars in fees and/or eight dollars for

fines.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 02-04-03

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HB 297 ? (John Lunsford) This legislation creates a new 1 percent county sales

and use tax. Proceeds of the tax would be divided in the following manner: 49

percent of the collections would be used to fund capital outlay projects, 50

percent of the collections would be used to fund general county services, and 1

percent of the collections would be paid to the state as an administration fee.

The tax would be subject to local referendum.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-11-03

GMA opposes because it is for counties and not for municipal services.

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HB 298 ? (Kathy Ashe) House Bill 298 extends job tax credits to all businesses

located in "less developed" municipal areas comprised of ten or more contiguous

census tracts.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-11-03

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HB 351 ? (Ben Harbin) This bill provides for a tax deduction equal to the

amount of subscriptions paid to a fire department, other than a fire department

funded and operated by a political subdivision, for fire protection services.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-13-03

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HB 357 ? (Henry Howard) This bill relates to coroners, so as to add a certain

definition; to require notice of certain deaths; to provide for penalties for

failure to provide such notice.

House Human Relations and Aging; House Second Readers 02-13-03

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HB 358 ? (Ben Harbin) This legislation relates to exemptions from state sales

and use taxes, so as to provide an exemption for certain sales to volunteer

fire departments.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-13-03

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HB 374 ? (Carl Rogers) This bill relates to elementary and secondary education,

so as to provide for timely payment for goods and services purchased by local

boards of education, for complaints to the State Board of Education, and for

the withholding of state funds in certain circumstances. It also relates to

general provisions applicable to municipal corporations and counties and to

general provisions applicable to municipal corporations, counties, and other

governmental entities, so as to provide for timely payment for goods and

services purchased by local governments and local authorities, for complaints

to the State Department of Community Affairs; and for the withholding of state

funds in certain circumstances.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; House Second Readers 02-14-03

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HB 392 (Ron Sailor) This bill relates to local government, so as to authorize

the consolidation, division, or merger of counties by intergovernmental

agreement and referendum approval.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; House Second Readers 02-17-03

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HB 413 ? (Mark Burkhalter) This bill provides for processing of applications

for certification of certain conservation use property for ad valorem tax

purposes and for preferential assessment of bona fide conservation use property

consisting of certain constructed storm water wetlands.

House Ways & Means; Senate Finance; Senate Read Second Time 04-17-03



HB 423 ? (Lee Howell) This legislation relates to the disposition of municipal

property generally, so as to provide that a municipal corporation may lease

municipal property for up to 20 years to a nonprofit corporation for certain

purposes related to recreation.

House State Planning & Community Affairs; Senate State & Local Government

Operations; Senate Read Second Time 04-17-03



HB 487 ? (Stan Watson) This bill relates to sewage holding tanks, so as to

provide for regulation of removal, transport, and disposal of certain waste

removed from grease traps, sand traps, oil-water separators, or grit traps that

are not connected to on-site sewage management systems.

House Natural Resources & Environment; House Committee Favorably Reported

04-07-03

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HB 495 ? (Teresa Johnson-Greene) This bill relates to waste management, so as

to provide that all real property previously used as an industrial or chemical

or landfill site shall be tested for hazardous contamination prior to the

construction of any public or private school, recreational facility, or

residential community development on such site; to condition the issuance of a

construction permit on such testing.

House Natural Resources & Environment; House Passed 04-17-03



HB 502 ? (Tom Bordeaux) This bill relates to creation of juvenile courts and

provisions relative to juvenile court judges, so as to provide for salary

adjustments for full-time and part-time juvenile court judges who are paid with

state funds.

House Judiciary; Senate Judiciary; Senate Read Second Time 04-17-03



HB 511 ? (Jan Jones) This bill relates to control of water pollution and

surface water use, so as to provide as a condition of permit for approval by

each county local governing authority when a private waste-water treatment

facility located in one county seeks to serve another county; to provide as a

condition of permit for approval by each county local governing authority for a

private waste-water treatment facility to be constructed within one-half mile

of an adjoining county; to provide as a condition of permit for approval by

each county local governing authority when a private waste-water treatment

facility located in one county and serving in another county seeks to expand

capacity.

House Natural Resources and Environment; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 543 ? (Curt Thompson) This bill relates to the imposition, rate, and

computation of income tax, so as to provide for an income tax credit with

respect to qualified home improvement expenses; to provide for conditions and

limitations; to provide for an income tax credit with respect to certain

commercial real property located in a community improvement district; to

provide for an income tax credit with respect to a business located in a

community improvement district; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of

the state revenue commissioner with respect to the foregoing.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 557 ? (Ron Borders) This bill relates to membership in the Georgia Judicial

Retirement System, so as to provide that any person who was serving as a

juvenile court judge on July 1, 2004, and who was not a member of any state or

local retirement system or pension fund may become a member of the Georgia

Judicial Retirement System; to provide that any such person may obtain up to

five years of creditable service upon payment of the employer?s and employee?s

contribution with interest.

House Retirement; House Second Readers 02-27-03

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HB 612 ? (Gerald Greene) This legislation relates to general provisions

applicable to sheriffs, so as to change the qualifications for the office of

sheriff; to provide a penalty.

House Public Safety; House Committee Favorably Reported 03-25-03

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HB 614 ? (Gerald Greene) This bill relates to jurisdiction over certain

misdemeanor offenders, designation of place of confinement of inmates,

reimbursement of counties, and transfer of inmates to federal authority, so as

to change certain provisions relating to reimbursement rates.

House State Institutions & Property; Senate Special Judiciary; Senate Read

Second Time 04-14-03



HB 622 ? (Richard Royal) This bill relates to nonpartisan elections of certain

local officers, so as to change which officers may be subject to nonpartisan

elections and provide for election dates.

House Governmental Affairs; House Second Readers 03-03-03

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HB 631 ? (Bob Holmes) This legislation relates to limitations of actions, so as

to provide for a seven year statute of limitation on actions to collect on

accounts for municipal utility service.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-03-03

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HB 654 ? (Mack Crawford) This bill relates to redemption of property sold for

taxes, so as to provide for personal service of the notice of foreclosure of

the right to redeem property on certain persons; to provide for an affidavit

stating the name, address, and method of service for each person served with a

notice of foreclosure of the right to redeem property.

House Ways & Means; House Committee Favorably Reported 03-25-03

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HB 658 ? (Mark Burkhalter) This bill provides a procedure for the establishment

of a new county from portions of one or more existing counties; to define

terms; to provide standards for any proposed county; to provide for initiation

of proceedings by petition; to provide for the circulation, signing, and

verification of petitions; to provide for the creation of a County Formation

Review Commission and the members, powers and duties, and proceedings of the

commission; to provide for determination by the commission of matters relative

to a proposed county; to provide for a special election to determine whether a

proposed county shall be formed; to provide for a special election to determine

the county seat and county officers if creation of a new county has been

approved by the voters; to provide for the transfer of pending tax collections,

assets and obligations, and funds to a new county; to provide for the school

system of a new county; to provide for the judicial system of a new county.

House State Planning and Community Affairs; House Second Readers 03-05-03

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HB 666 ? (Jimmy Lord) This bill relates to requirement of audits, so as to

change the amount of annual expenditures of local governments requiring annual

audits.

House State Planning and Community Affairs; Senate State & Local Government

Operations 04-08-03



HB 672 ? (Jan Jones) This bill relates to providing notice of timber harvesting

operations, so as to limit the effect on local regulation of certain timber

harvesting operations.

House Agriculture & Consumer Affairs; House Second Readers 03-06-03

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HB 679 ? (Mary Margaret Oliver) This bill relates to payment of taxes to

counties in which returns are made, installment payments, and interest and

penalty on delinquent tax payments, so as to make certain provisions regarding

installment payments of taxes applicable statewide; to provide for the

inclusion of fees, service charges, and assessments which are billed with

taxes; to eliminate the payment provisions for intangible taxes; to eliminate

the provision for additional interest charges on delinquent tax payments.

House Ways & Means; House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 03-06-03

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HB 709 ? (Kathy Ashe) This is a City of Atlanta bill being corrected from last

session and relates to limitations and restrictions on certain local taxes, so

as to provide that certain taxes shall be excluded in computing the limitation

on the total amount of local sales and use taxes which may be levied; to

provide certain exemptions from certain local sales and use taxes.

House Ways & Means; Senate Finance; Senate Read & Referred 04-08-03



HB 711 ? (Greg Morris) This bill relates to reckless conduct causing harm to or

endangering the bodily safety of another, so as to prohibit assault with body

fluids, saliva, or feces by a person who is infected with HIV or hepatitis

against a peace officer or correctional officer; to prescribe penalties for

violations.

House Special Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-25-03

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HB 741 ? (Chuck Sims) This bill relates to penal institutions, so as to provide

for procedures in connection with requests to the Board of Corrections and the

Department of Corrections for inmate transfers; to provide special limitations

with respect to requests by members of the General Assembly and other public

officials; to provide procedures for public officials communicating with the

State Board of Pardons and Paroles relative to the grant of relief from

sentences; to provide that it shall be unlawful for a member of the General

Assembly to accept compensation in connection with any such request and

prescribe punishment.

House State Institutions & Property; House Second Readers 03-25-03

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HB 742 ? (Chuck Sims) This bill relates to penal institutions, so as to

authorize, restrict, and regulate the operation of private prisons in this

state; to provide for conditions for the location of private prisons; to

provide standards for the operation of such private prisons; to provide for

authorization for and limitations on the use of firearms by certain personnel;

to provide for duties of the Department of Corrections; to require that private

prisons achieve and maintain accreditation; to provide for enforcement and

remedies; to provide for the promulgation of rules and regulations; to provide

for severability and construction.

House State Institutions & Property; House Second Readers 03-25-03

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HB 807 ? (Tom McCall) This bill relates to when public disclosure of records is

not required and disclosure of exempting legal authority, so as to provide an

exemption for certain records related to public water supply systems or public

sewage systems; to provide for judicial review in camera of certain

non-disclosed documents.

House Natural Resources & Environment; House Committee Favorably Reported

04-07-03

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HB 809 ? (Jeanette Jamieson) This bill relates to retirement allowances and

benefits regarding The Georgia Firefighters? Pension Fund, so as to provide for

the employment of retired firefighters; to provide for procedures, conditions,

and limitations; to provide for conditions for an effective date and automatic

repeal.

House Retirement; House Second Readers 03-27-03

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HB 810 ? (Curtis Jenkins) This legislation relates to fees of superior court

clerks, so as to provide for certain fees and to extend the sunset date of such

fees, and it relates to the state-wide uniform automated information system for

property records, so as to extend the sunset date of said Code section. This

bill also relates to collection and remittance of certain fees to the Georgia

Superior Court Clerks? Cooperative Authority, so as to extend the sunset date

of said Code section.

House Special Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-27-03

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HB 811 ? (Curtis Jenkins) This bill is similar to the above referenced bill (HB

810), except that this bill would repeal the sunsets.

House Special Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-27-03

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HB 820 ? (Winfred Dukes) This bill relates to required safety and security

measures in jails, so as to provide that certain county jails shall be

authorized to utilize a full-time dispatcher as a full-time jailer under

certain conditions.

House State Institutions & Property; House Second Readers 03-27-03

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HB 821 ? (Stephanie Stuckey-Benfield) This bill relates to pretrial

intervention and diversion programs, so as to allow certain courts to create

and administer pretrial intervention and diversion programs; to provide for

court costs.

House Judiciary; House Committee Favorably Reported 03-28-03

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HB 824 ? (Tom Bordeaux) This bill relates to fees for sheriff?s services, so as

to increase the fee for serving copy of process and returning original.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-28-03

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HB 833 ? (Barry Fleming) This bill relates to inspection of public records, so

as to change certain provisions relating to inspection of public records,

printing of computerized indexes of county real estate records, time for

determination of whether requested records are subject to access, and

electronic access to records; to provide that certain requests may be required

to be in writing.

House Judiciary; House Second Readers 03-28-03

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HB 838 ? (Cecily Hill) This bill relates to certain judicial employees?

membership in the Employees? Retirement System of Georgia and contributions, so

as to provide that a person who is a member of such retirement system because

of employment as a court administrator may obtain up to four years of

creditable service for prior service as a full-time law clerk for a judicial

circuit; to provide for contributions; to provide conditions for an effective

date and automatic repeal.

House Retirement; House Second Readers 03-28-03

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HB 866 ? (Georganna Sinkfield) This bill relates to county and district

departments, boards, and directors of family and children services, so as to

provide for the appointment of a county director to serve in more than one

county; to provide for the appointment of an acting county director; to provide

for such employees as may be necessary to provide services in multiple counties.

House Children & Youth; House Passed 04-08-03



HR 7 ? (Bill Hembree) This legislation proposes an amendment to the

Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide by general or

local law for limitations upon the rate of increase of the ad valorem tax

millage rate and value of property for certain purposes.

CCG Comment: CCG is already paying .25 per cap.

House Ways & Means; House Second Readers 01-15-03

GMA prefers no limitations on property taxes.

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HR 143 ? (Ben Harbin) This resolution urges Congress to amend the Internal

Revenue Code to provide for a federal income tax deduction for subscriptions

paid to fire departments, other than those funded and operated by a political

subdivision, for fire protection services.

House Ways & Means; House Committee Favorably Reported 03-25-03



HR 350 ? (Mark Burkhalter) This resolution proposes an amendment to the

Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly may authorize local

boards of education to levy and collect development impact fees and use the

proceeds to pay for a share of the cost of additional educational facilities;

to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection.

House Education; House Second Readers 03-05-03

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HR 562 ? (Ron Forster) This resolution proposes an amendment to the

Constitution, so as to provide that a coroner shall be a county officer where

such office has not been abolished by local constitutional amendment and for

the election, term, qualifications, powers, and duties thereof.

House Governmental Affairs; House Second Readers 03-28-03

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SB 42 ? (Tom Price) This bill sets minimum distance requirements for municipal

corporate boundaries. This is one of the Sandy Springs bills.

Senate State and Local Government Operations; Senate Tabled 03-24-03

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SB 58 ? (Casey Cagle) This bill changes certain definitions with regard to ad

valorem taxation. This bill is one of a string that Sen. Cagle introduced that

appear to be subject matter place holders, not intended to change policy (like

Chairman Buck introduced in the House).

Senate Finance; Senate Read & Referred 01-30-03

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SB 86 ? (Ralph Hudgens) This bill revises procedures relative to the creation

of the transfer of development rights within or between political subdivisions

by removing a second layer of government oversight.

Senate Judiciary; House Judiciary; House Committee Favorably Reported 04-14-03

GMA has no official stance, but appears to be uneasy about the removal of that

second layer of government oversight.



SB 111 ? (Charlie Tanksley) This bill relates to death investigations, so as to

add a definition; to provide that a coroner or county medical examiner conduct

an investigation; to provide for penalties.

Senate Judiciary; Senate Read & Referred 02-11-03

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SB 127 ? (Casey Cagle) This bill relates to the allocation of funds for public

roads, so as to change the provisions regarding the balancing of federal and

state funds, changing the total expenditures from the State Public

Transportation Fund to 70 percent from 85 percent, and allows funds for the

interstate highway system.

Senate Transportation; House Transportation; House Second Readers 03-25-03



SB 133 ? (Tom Price) This is the civil justice reform bill, which you should

have received a summary of on 02-13-03.

Senate Judiciary; House Judiciary; House Second Readers 04-07-03



SB 155 ? (Tim Golden) This bill relates to deferred compensation plans, so as

to provide that qualified defined contribution plans authorized for the state

and its political subdivisions may accept contributions from employers and

employees.

Senate State & Local Government Operations; House Retirement; House Passed

04-10-03



SB 163 ? (Charlie Tanksley) This legislation provides for a method of collection of

delinquent fines, costs, or restitution or reparation for municipal courts, for

the execution of an affidavit and the issuance of a writ of fieri facias, for

enforcement in the same manner as a civil writ of execution, and for the costs

of collection proceedings.

Senate Judiciary; Senate Read & Referred 02-18-03

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SB 176 ? (Michael Meyer von Bremen) This bill relates to the Department of

Human Resources, so as to require the governing authority of each county to

provide an acceptable location for the disposal of septic tank waste; to

authorize a county to enter into agreements to dispose of septic tank waste in

lieu of providing a location for such disposal within the county.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment; Senate Read & Referred 02-26-03

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SB 182 ? (Michael Meyer von Bremen) This bill relates to the abatement of

nuisances, so as to change definitions; to clarify the procedures for

imposition and collection of nuisance abatement liens; to clarify procedures

relating to the collection of tax liens; and it relates to tax sales, so as to

change provisions relating to judicial in rem tax foreclosures; to incorporate

changes made to Chapter 2 of Title 41.

Senate Finance; House Judiciary; House Committee Favorably Reported 04-11-03



SB 195 ? (Randy Hall) This bill relates to clerks of the superior courts, so as

to repeal a certain sunset provision relative to fees, the implementation of a

state-wide uniform automated information system, and the collection and

remittance of certain fees.

Senate Judiciary; Senate Read & Referred 03-05-03

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SB 246 ? (Brian Kemp) This bill relates to general provisions regarding water

resources, so as to provide that the state shall not take over operation of,

condemn, or otherwise take control of locally funded water reservoirs without

paying just and adequate compensation therefore.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment; House Natural Resources & Environment;

House Committee Favorably Reported 04-17-03



SB 269 ? (Horacena Tate) This bill relates to payment and disposition of fines,

so as to authorize the imposition and collection of jail booking fees in the

traffic court or municipal court of any municipality or consolidated government

in this state which operates a jail or pretrial detention facility; to provide

legislative authority for such article; to provide for disposition of such fees.

Senate Judiciary; Senate Read & Referred 03-24-03

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SB 277 ? (Rene Kemp)This bill relates to bona fide conservation use property,

residential transitional property, application procedures, penalties for breach

of covenant, classification on tax digest, and an annual report, so as to

provide that a conservation use covenant may be renewed and continued without a

lapse in the agreement.

Senate Special Judiciary; House Ways & Means; House Committee Favorably

Reported 04-17-03



SB 296 ? (Michael Meyer von Bremen) This bill relates to required safety and

security measures in jails, so as to provide that certain county jails shall be

authorized to utilize a full-time dispatcher as a full-time jailer under

certain conditions.

Senate Public Safety & Homeland Security; Senate Read & Referred 03-25-03

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SB 310 ? (Mary Squires) This bill relates to abatement of nuisances generally,

so as to provide for other circumstances that would allow property to be

declared unfit pursuant to an ordinance adopted by a county or municipality.

Senate Special Judiciary; Senate Read Second Time 04-07-03

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SB 312 ? (Mary Squires) This bill relates to criminal procedure, so as to

authorize counties and municipalities to establish programs for compensation to

owners and operators of property which is damaged by graffiti; to provide that

such compensation may be in the form of cash compensation or services or

materials or a combination thereof; to provide for the establishment of such

programs by ordinance; to authorize the Department of Community Affairs to

provide assistance and to authorize the funding of grants; to authorize the

requirement of restitution in criminal sentences.

Senate State & Local Government Operations; House Special Judiciary; House

Second Readers 04-09-03



SB 313 ? (Mary Squires) This bill relates to criminal procedure, so as to

authorize counties and municipalities to establish programs for compensation to

owners of property which is damaged by graffiti; to provide the manner of

compensation; to authorize the requirement of restitution in criminal

sentences; to provide for use of inmate labor to remove certain graffiti from

private property as a form of compensation to innocent victims of criminal

trespass or criminal damage to property in the second degree. The bill also

relates to penal institutions, so as to change certain provisions relating to

use of inmates for private gain; to change certain provisions relating to

hiring out of inmates, sales of products produced by inmates, disposition of

proceeds, and payments to inmates for services.

Senate State & Local Government Operations; House Special Judiciary; House

Second Readers 04-09-03



SB 348 ? (Gloria Butler) This bill relates to scrap tire disposal and storage,

so as to provide that each county and municipality in the state shall adopt and

enforce an ordinance regulating the storage of used tires.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment; House Natural Resources & Environment;

House Second Readers 04-09-03



SR 163 ? (Mitch Seabaugh) This resolution proposes an amendment to the

Constitution so as to provide for a limitation on taxation, spending, and new

or expanded activities by state government; to provide for submission of this

amendment for ratification or rejection.

Senate Finance; Senate Read & Referred 02-26-03

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SR 277 ? (David Shafer) This resolution proposes an amendment to the

Constitution so as to provide for the election of judges of the probate court

on a nonpartisan basis.

Senate State & Local Government Operations; Senate Read Second Time 04-07-03

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