| HB 0167 |
Support | COVID-19 Liability Protections
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Darlene Taylor |
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6/23/2020 |
Senate - Senate Transmitted House |
Insurance |
Insurance and Labor |
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| This legislation, titled the "Georgia Pandemic Business Protection Act", seeks to provide liability protection from COVID-19 related lawsuits. County government employees and county government facilities are included in the definition as being afforded liability protection.
No cause of action (lawsuit) shall exist for the transmission or contraction of COVID-19 unless an entity or person performed willful and wanton misconduct or intentional infliction of harm. |
| HB 1090 |
Neutral | Governments Must Provide Time and Location for Expressing Breast Milk - Worker's Compensation Benefit Changes |
Deborah Silcox |
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8/5/2020 |
Effective Date |
Health and Human Services |
Insurance and Labor |
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| This bill requires all Georgia's state and local governments to provide paid break time of a reasonable duration to an employee who desires to express breast milk during work hours. Each government must provide a room or other location, other than a restroom, in close proximity to the employee's work area where the employee can express breast milk in privacy. The legislation also authorizes the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Labor to revise "deductible earnings" (which will change how worker's compensation benefits are calculated); develop rules for revising benefits and their distribution during an emergency; and changes how benefits are calculated. |
| SB 0046 |
Neutral | Increase Georgia's Minimum Wage |
Donzella James |
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2/5/2019 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Insurance and Labor |
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| This legislation increases Georgia's minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $15 per hour. Furthermore, starting January 1, 2021 and continuing forward, the minimum wage is adjusted upwards to reflect the increase in the cost of living, if any, determined by the Georgia Department of Labor. |
| SB 0188 |
Watch | Reinsurance of Risks; adequate regulation of reinsurers; incorporation of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners reinsurance model into the Georgia Insurance Code; provide |
Larry Walker |
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7/1/2020 |
Effective Date |
Insurance |
Insurance and Labor |
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| SB 0374 |
Neutral | Offers to Settle Civil Claims |
John Kennedy |
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3/4/2020 |
House Second Readers |
Insurance |
Insurance and Labor |
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| This bill would expand the list of information to be included in settlement offers in civil lawsuits, and would broaden the statute's applicability to all civil claims rather than only motor-vehicle claims. The bill would also extend the time for accepting such offer to 40 days rather than the current 10 days. |
| SB 0377 |
Neutral | Private 3rd Party Plan Review and Inspections |
Burt Jones |
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6/30/2020 |
Effective Date |
Insurance |
Insurance and Labor |
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| Last year, HB 493 was signed into law and expanded options for private third parties to perform building plan review and inspections; however, it exempted this review process for hospitals, nursing homes, jails, airports, high rises and buildings that impact national and homeland security. SB 377 removes these exemptions, allowing third parties to now perform plan reviews and inspections on the above structures. |
| SB 0415 |
Neutral | Tort Reform Bill |
Steve Gooch |
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3/12/2020 |
Senate Tabled |
- | Insurance and Labor |
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| This bill makes significant changes to procedures and rules of evidence for various civil tort actions, including limiting premises liability claims. |
