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Votes at a glance: Key House bills the Georgia Senate acted on March 31
Summary
The Senate took recorded votes on many House bills during the March 31 session. This roundup lists bills the chamber passed by recorded roll or otherwise moved forward, including vote tallies where recorded on the floor.
The Georgia Senate recorded floor action on numerous House bills on March 31. Below are brief summaries and the Senate’s recorded outcomes for items considered on the rules calendar and later floor calendar. Only outcomes recorded on the transcript are listed; items returned to committee or for conference are noted.
Votes and actions
- House Bill 116 (renaming motor carrier compliance division): Passed, 52-0. The bill renames the Motor Carrier Compliance Division to Commercial Vehicle Enforcement and ensures officers are sworn and certified.
- House Bill 137 (raises public-works competitive-bid threshold from $100,000 to $250,000): Passed, 45-5.
- House Bill 150 (university foreign funding transparency): Passed by substitute, 32-19 (full article above).
- House Bill 268 (comprehensive school-safety bill): Passed by substitute, 45-9 (full article above).
- House Bill 199 (protecting personally identifiable information of judges/former judges): Passed by substitute, 54-0.
- House Bill 288 (revisions related to sheriffs and Giglio-type reviews of officers): Passed by substitute, 55-0.
- House Bill 495 (moves Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation to Department of Agriculture): Passed, 50-1.
- House Bill 303 (monument honoring the 'Original 33' on Capitol grounds): Passed, 52-0.
- House Bill 74 (Georgia Lottery/administrative procedure correction for COAAM): Passed, 51-0.
- House Bill 94 (insurance coverage for fertility‑preservation services in specified cases): Passed by substitute, 52-1.
- House Bill 123 (pretrial process for capital cases involving intellectual disability): Passed by substitute, 53-1.
- House Bill 144 (extension/revisions to medical preceptor tax credits): Passed, 48-5.
- House Bill 153 (extension for sales/use tax exemption for concrete mixer replacement parts): Passed, 44-7.
- House Bill 155 (annexation procedure changes and arbitration deadlines; includes a floor amendment on spoke annexation requiring a county referendum): Passed by substitute, recorded as 54-0.
Other procedural actions included committee reports, engrossing motions and the appointment of a conference committee on the state appropriations bill (House Bill 68). The House subsequently informed the Senate it disagreed to the Senate substitute on HB68 and appointed a conference committee.
Where the transcript recorded amendment votes those tallies are noted in the bill-specific coverage above; for details on particularly contentious items (notably HB150 and HB268) see the full articles.
