A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Chairman Don Hogan on his outstanding public service; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to revenue and taxation, so as to enhance the manufacturing investment tax credit for small arms and ammunition manufacturers; to provide for a new tax credit for expenses incurred by a small arms and ammunition manufacturers in Georgia related to increased production of new lines of firearms; to exempt sales of firearms, ammunition, and firearm safety equipment; to exempt charges for admission to firearm safety training courses and to gun ranges; to exempt charges for initiation and membership to certain clubs or organizations for firearms training or shooting sports; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Dyslexia Day at the state capitol and urging schools, local educational agencies, and the state educational agency to address the profound educational impact of dyslexia; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the O.C.G.A., relating to procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment, so as to clarify that a term of probation shall follow the mandatory term of imprisonment for persons convicted of a sexual offense; to provide that for certain felonies that such probation shall be for life; to amend Title 42 of the O.C.G.A., relating to penal institutions, so as to revise the name of the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to define the term "fence detection system"; to limit the ability of counties, consolidated governments, and municipalities to regulate or prohibit such systems; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sexual offenses, so as to provide a response to State v. Williams, 2020 Ga. LEXIS 85 (February 10, 2020); to provide that, when a victim is under the age of 16, consent of the victim shall not be a defense to a prosecution for sodomy, aggravated sodomy, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, sexual battery, and aggravated sexual battery; to make conforming changes; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that the governing authority of each county comprising the Waycross Judicial Circuit may supplement the compensation, salary, expenses, and allowances of each of the judges of the superior courts of the Waycross Judicial Circuit, approved March 20, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 3879), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 8, 2018 (Ga. L. 2018, p. 3975), so as to increase the amounts of such supplements; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-8-8.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the funding of services, or reduction of ad valorem taxes, in unincorporated areas of counties and powers and duties of governing authority, so as to include flood risk reduction in the enumerated list of county purposes for which county ad valorem taxes or county corporation taxes based upon gross direct insurance premiums shall be used; to provide for a definition; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency management, so as to provide a limitation on the Governor's power to control the practice of any religion during an emergency; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
A RESOLUTION honoring the life and memory of Caden Lee Musgrove; and for other purposes.
