HB 0149 |
Neutral | Requirement for Counties to Use Only GBI Approved Trauma Scene Cleanup Services and Consolidation of Fire Services |
Alan Powell |
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3/29/2018 |
Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation preempts county and city governments from requiring licenses or permits for trauma scene waste management practitioners or regulated waste transporters. When hiring a company to cleanup or remove trauma scene waste, counties and cities must hire a company approved by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. This bill was amended to include S.B. 319 which provides for the Consolidation of all Fire Services into a separate state agency. |
HB 0163 |
Watch | Prohibition for Use of Wireless Devices While Operating a School Bus |
Betty Price |
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1/31/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
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| This legislation prohibits the use of handheld wireless telecommunication devices while driving. An exception is provided for law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMS personnel and ambulance drivers during the performance of their duties. |
HB 0251 |
Support | Allow EMS Personnel Access to Private Property During Declared State Emergency |
Darrel Ealum |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation gives EMS and all first responders the right to enter private property during a disaster declared by the governor, for search and rescue, debris removal and providing aid. |
HB 0426 |
Support | Expands Number of RN's Allowed to Practice Under a Physician in EMS Operations |
Sharon Cooper |
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2/22/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Health & Human Services |
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| This legislation would expand the number of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses who are allowed to work under a physician in an EMS operations conducted by or on behalf of any county or municipality which employs a full time medical director. Identical bill dropped in the Senate, S.B. 242. |
HB 0498 |
Evaluating | Prohibition Against Broadcaster Giving Personally Identifiable Visual Information of a Victim |
Brian Strickland |
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2/28/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Judiciary |
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| This legislation creates a cause of action against a broadcaster depicting an accident or trauma scene to provide personally identifiable visual information or identification of a victim. |
HB 0703 |
Support | Creation of the Governor's Office of Public Safety Support |
Bill Hitchens |
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5/7/2018 |
Act 439 |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation creates the Governor's Office of Public Safety Support which will provide peer to peer counseling for public safety officers who experience traumatic events. This office will be housed within the Department of Public Safety and will be staffed by employees of the department. The legislation is contingent on funding. |
HB 0889 |
Evaluating | Definition Change for Those Eligible for the Georgia Indemnification Fund Payments |
Micah Gravley |
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2/15/2018 |
House Committee Favorably Reported |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
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| This legislation creates a new definition of public safety officer that includes all law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicans, emergency management specialist, state highway employees and prison guards. The bill also clarifies eligibility for payment of benefits in certain circumstances. |
HB 0992 |
Neutral | Deletion of Outdated Requirements for External Defibrillators |
Jodi Lott |
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3/29/2018 |
Senate Conference Committee Appointed 50th, 56th, 11th |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation eliminates sections of the statute relating to external defibrillators that are no longer relavent. |
SB 0040 |
Support | Expand Scope of Practice To Allow EMS Emergency Authorization to Transport Mental Ill |
Renee Unterman |
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3/30/2017 |
House Withdrawn, Recommitted |
Health & Human Services |
Health and Human Services |
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| This legislation allows emergency medical service (EMS) personnel to transport a person within the county to a an emergency receiving facility if EMS has been dispatched in response to an emergency if EMS believes that there is probable cause to believe that the person is mentally ill requiring involuntary treatment, and EMS has consulted with the emergency receiving facility physician, who is of the opinion that it is in the best interest that the person be immediately transported to the facility. |
SB 0081 |
Support | State Health Officer Allow Certain Persons and Entities Access to Opiod Antagonists |
Renee Unterman |
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3/15/2018 |
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute |
Health & Human Services |
Health and Human Services |
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| This legislation enacts the Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr., Act, which allow the state health officers to allow certain persons and entities to obtain opioid antagonists and administer to persons believed to have overdosed on opioids. |
SB 0102 |
Support | Create Office of Cardiac Care Within the Department of Public Health |
Butch Miller |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Health & Human Services |
Health and Human Services |
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| This legislation creates the Office of Cardiac Care within the Department of Public Health to establish a program that identifies emergency cardiac care centers to ensure rapid triage, assessment, treatment and transport of patients who experience cardiac arrest, heart attack or complications. |
SB 0109 |
Support | Authorize the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact and Nurse Licensure Compact |
Michael Williams |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Health & Human Services |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation enacts the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact, and the Nurses Licensure Compact which allows reciprocity with other states licensure requirements for these two disciplines. |
SB 0121 |
Inactive | State Health Officer May Issue Standing Order For Access to Opioid Antagonists |
Butch Miller |
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4/18/2017 |
Effective Date |
Judiciary Non-Civil |
Health and Human Services |
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| This legislation enacts the Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which will allow certain people or entities to obtain and administer opioid antagonists to those believed to have over dosed on opioids. |
SB 0154 |
Evaluating | Additional Penalties for Assault and Battery Against Public Safety Officer While on Duty |
Gregory Kirk |
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3/27/2018 |
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute |
Judiciary Non-Civil |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation provides for tort liability for those who commit an offense of aggravated assault and aggravated battery against a public safety officer, as well as for the parents of any youth who commit the offense. There is also an additional penalty assessed dedicated to the Georgia State Indemnification Fund. The language from this legislation was added to SB 160 "Back the Badge". |
SB 0160 |
Support | Back the Badge Act |
Tyler Harper |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Judiciary Non-Civil |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation provides exclusive jurisdiction of 13 to 17 year olds who commit an offense of aggravated assault or aggravated battery against a public safety official. This legislation includes HB 116, HB 258, and SB 154 which gives superior court full jurisdiction for juvenile cases involving aggravated assault, increasing sentences for assaulting a police officer, and additional penalties for those convicted of assaulting a public safety officer while on duty. |
SB 0228 |
Evaluating | Prohibits Improper Operation of Emergency or Law Enforcement Vehicles by Elected Officials |
Joshua McKoon |
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3/5/2018 |
House Second Readers |
Rules |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation makes it criminal for employees operating emergency vehicles in a manner other than prescribed by law. |
SB 0242 |
Support | Expands Number of RN's Allowed to Practice Under a Physician in EMS Operations |
Renee Unterman |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Health & Human Services |
Health and Human Services |
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| This legislation would expand the number of Advanced Practice
Registered Nurses who are allowed to work under a physician in an EMS
operations conducted by or on behalf of any county or municipality
which employs a full time medical director. |
SB 0277 |
Evaluating | "Consumer Coverage for Emergency Medical Care Act" |
Michael Williams |
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3/13/2017 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Insurance and Labor |
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| This legislation enacts the Consumer Coverage for Emergency Medical Care Act. |
SB 0318 |
Support | Allow EMS to Involuntarily Transport Persons Having a Psychotic Episode |
Michael Rhett |
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3/5/2018 |
House Second Readers |
Health and Human Services |
Health and Human Services |
- |
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| This legislation establishes a pilot program to be administered by the Department of Community Health to allow emergency medical technicans with rthe permission of a physician involuntarily transport patients who are having a mental health episode. |
SB 0367 |
Support | Allows Payment Indemnification Death or Disability Payment to be Awarded to the Estate of Deceased Public Safety/First Responder |
Gregory Kirk |
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3/29/2018 |
Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Public Safety |
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| This legislation allows the payment of death benefits to the estate of a law enforcement officer; firefighter; emergency medical technician, emergency management specialist, state highway employee or prison guard. |
SR 1170 |
Neutral | Study Committee - Are Local Fees Going Toward Intended Purposes? |
Jack Hill |
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3/29/2018 |
Senate Read and Adopted |
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| Following much discussion over the past several years regarding the redirection of state-collected fees from their intended purposes, this Senate study committee (consisting of 5 senators) will examine whether or not local government fees are fairly and equitably imposed and whether the monies collected from them are being appropriately used and directed for the purpose(s) for which they are intended. Examples of fees cited by this resolution include: storm water management fees, fire service fees, and traffic add-on fees. |