House adopts local calendar and passes several uncontested committee bills, including forestry and foreclosure-disclosure measures
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The House approved an uncontested local calendar en bloc (yays 158–0) and cleared multiple committee bills on the rules calendar, including HB 983 to clarify prescribed burning and HB 948 to improve foreclosure excess-fund disclosure; vote tallies were recorded on the floor.
The Georgia House adopted its local calendar by recorded vote and passed a number of committee-sponsored bills without extended floor debate.
The local calendar — a package of local bills affecting counties and cities — passed en bloc by recorded vote: yays 158, nays 0. Clerk-read bills on the local calendar included measures for Thomas County, Garden City, Austell, several Spalding County items and other local ordinances.
On the rules calendar the House passed House Bill 983, presented by Chairlady Hagen, which revises language at the request of the Georgia Forestry Commission to clarify the definition of "prescribed burning" and to confirm that prescribed silviculture burns confined to a predetermined area are exempt from certain notice and permit requirements. The floor recorded yays 162, nays 0 on that bill.
Chairlady Beth Camp presented House Bill 948, which adds foreclosure-document disclosures so homeowners are informed if excess funds exist after a tax sale or foreclosure and the process to recover those funds. The committee substitute was adopted on the floor and the bill passed by recorded vote: yays 161, nays 0.
Members also heard committee reports from defense and veterans, education, game, fish and parks, governmental affairs, higher education, intergovernmental coordination and others announcing 'do pass' recommendations on dozens of bills. The House completed the rules calendar and advanced the bills to the next steps in the legislative process.
