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Georgia House Rules Committee hears wide slate of bills on crossover day, no votes taken
Summary
On crossover day the Georgia House Rules Committee heard brief presentations on scores of bills — from changing how involuntary mental-health commitments affect gun background checks to updates to transfer-on-death deeds, school roofing procurement, TANF adjustments and HOPE scholarship changes — with members asking clarifying questions but taking no formal votes.
The Georgia House Rules Committee met for a crossover-day briefing and heard short presentations on dozens of bills; members asked procedural and policy questions but the committee took no formal votes.
Several bills with statewide impact were presented in rapid succession. Miss David introduced House Bill 285, which would change the automatic electronic purge that currently removes records of people involuntarily committed to mental-health facilities from the state criminal background check list used for firearm purchases. Miss David said the bill would substitute a clinical evaluation process "so that they will not harm themselves or others to be able to be able to purchase a gun." She urged the committee’s favorable consideration.
A presenter described House Bill 899 as a technical but consequential update to Georgia’s transfer-on-death deed law, saying the statute as enacted created conflicts with other code provisions and caused problems ranging from lost homestead…
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