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Committee hears a slate of brief bill presentations and places multiple bills on supplemental calendar
Summary
Representatives briefly presented a range of bills on topics from grandparent definitions and prosecutor pay to auditing reports and criminal background procedures; the committee then placed a large set of bills on the supplemental calendar with motions recorded and no recorded opposition in the transcript.
Several representatives made brief floor presentations to the committee on a range of bills. Presenters summarized primary aims without extended committee debate.
Among the measures introduced or described in the transcript:
- House Bill 57: Presenter said the bill "amends the law of Georgia to add step grandparent step grandchild relationship." The presenter said the bill had passed the House previously two years ago and was reintroduced.
- House Bill 35: Presenter said the bill raises pay for special prosecutors. The presenter stated the current cap is $66.87 per hour; the presenter said the bill "raises it up to $2.50 for attorneys and up to 110 an hour for staffers" and that pay would be adjusted yearly for inflation. The transcript contains those figures as spoken; the committee record does not include the bill text, an amendment, or a vote on the bill during the excerpt.
- House Bill 471 (noted on the blue sheet): Emphasizes water safety for infant children (presenter referenced placement on page 4 of the committee sheet).
- House Bill 704: An agency bill, introduced last year by Clay Pirkle, that the presenter said would require the Department of Audits to replace a monthly report with an annual, dashboard-searchable report on the Open Georgia website. The presenter said the bill is an agency bill.
- House Bill 675: Presenter said the bill "creates an offense and penalty for materially intangible and financial terroristic acts," enabling prosecutors to pursue people who "are propping up terrorism." No questions or votes were recorded in the transcript excerpt.
- House Bill 133: Presenter said the bill "simply allows local school agencies... to create policy to allow release time for religious studies, off school premises" and referenced a 1952 Supreme Court ruling in support of the approach.
- House Bill 101: Presenter described a transparency measure requiring health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to report to the state on rebates and savings for state health plans, teachers' health care plans and public school employee health plans.
- House Bill 285: Presenter said it provides a process for people involuntarily committed to the hospital to be removed from the criminal background checklist via a procedure rather than an automatic computer purge.
After the presentations, the committee set the supplemental calendar and recorded motions and seconds to place many bills on that calendar. In each instance in the provided transcript a motion and second were recorded and the chair said, "It's on," or similar; the transcript records no opposition for these calendar placements.
Votes at a glance (committee action recorded in transcript):
- House Bill 54 — placed on supplemental calendar (motion and second recorded; no opposition recorded). - House Bill 56 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 161 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 224 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 250 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 331 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 433 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 439 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 447 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 466 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 491 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 513 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 521 (rule substitute) — placed on supplemental calendar (separately described above; committee announced approval of rule substitute earlier). - House Bill 535 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 571 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 593 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 614 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 618 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 627 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 638 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 718 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Resolution 7 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 248 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 429 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 445 — placed on supplemental calendar. - House Bill 511 — placed on supplemental calendar.
For each calendar placement, the transcript shows a motion, a second and the chair’s statement that the bill was "on" or that there was no opposition; no roll-call tallies or named votes are recorded in the provided excerpt.
The transcript does not include full bill texts, fiscal notes, committee amendments, or final roll-call vote tallies for these calendar placements; all such details were not specified in the meeting record.
