Rep. Clay Cox

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to income taxes, so as to provide employers with an income tax credit for up to three years for each Medicaid eligible employee who participates in an employer's health benefit plan; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain conditions and limitations; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to provide for automatic repeal; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for administration of standardized assessments in paper-and-pencil format upon parental request; to discourage punitive actions for students refusing to participate in federal, state, or locally mandated standardized assessments; to provide for alternative administrations of student assessments; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION honoring the life and memory of Jonathan Blair Richards; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION honoring the life and memory of William Bradford Mason Stanley; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION recommending that the United States Congress act immediately to repeal the Affordable Care Act's costly health insurance tax; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION commending and congratulating Andrew Paul Lawson; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION commending and congratulating Henry Louis Brake V; and for other purposes.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state health planning and development, so as to revise definitions; to eliminate the requirement that certain expenditures by a health care facility are required to obtain a certificate of need; to eliminate the requirement for certificate of need for medical equipment; to exempt freestanding emergency departments from certificate of need requirements; to eliminate exemptions for certain capital expenditures and cost overruns; 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 provide for licensure of freestanding emergency departments; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

A RESOLUTION commending the Grayson High School football team for winning the 2016 GHSA 7A State Football Championship; and for other purposes.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts regarding alcoholic beverages, so as to permit counties and municipalities by resolution or ordinance to reduce the prohibited distances from school buildings and other sites in which eating establishments may sell beer and wine for consumption on the premises; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.