| HB 0203 |
Neutral | Breach of Restrictive Covenants - Statute of Limitation |
Brian Strickland |
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1/8/2018 |
Senate Recommitted |
Judiciary |
Judiciary |
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| This legislation alters various provisions regarding private restrictive covenants on land, including dictating circumstances under which control of such development may transfer to the unit/lot owners for failures on the part of the developer (for example, failure to pay property taxes for two or more years). The text of this bill was added to SB 46. |
| HB 0367 |
Negotiating | Public Employees Privacy Protection |
Brian Strickland |
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2/16/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Judiciary |
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| This legislation allows certain public safety and judicial officials to execute a certificate of redacted information that requires counties to redact the home address and telephone number of the public safety or judicial official and their relatives from the county's website or other Internet access point within the county's control. |
| HB 0478 |
Neutral | Strengthen Requirements for Access to Booking Photographs |
Brian Strickland |
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2/27/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Judiciary Non-Civil |
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| This legislation prohibits law enforcement from providing booking photographs of any who has not been convicted. It also requires that the requesting party have a Georgia driver's license and physically pick up the copy of the photographs. |
| 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 0541 |
Evaluating | Guns - Prohibit Certain Persons from Owning or Transporting |
Brian Strickland |
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3/9/2017 |
House Second Readers |
Public Safety and Homeland Security |
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| This legislation prohibits individuals convicted of [domestic] simple assault, simple battery, battery, or pointing or aiming a gun at another from receiving, possessing or transporting firearms. |
| SB 0377 |
Neutral | State Workforce Development Board |
Brian Strickland |
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3/22/2018 |
Act 289 |
Industry and Labor |
Higher Education |
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| This bill would create a State Workforce Development Board for purposes of participating in certain federal programs, and would place the Board under the jurisdiction of the Technical College System of Georgia. |
| SB 0406 |
Neutral | Requirement for Background Check for All Long Term Care Providers |
Brian Strickland |
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5/7/2018 |
Act 420 |
Human Relations and Aging |
Public Safety |
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| This bill enacts background checks for long term care providers via a registry within the Department of Community Health. |
| SB 0407 |
Support | Criminal Justice Reform |
Brian Strickland |
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5/7/2018 |
Act 416 |
Judiciary - Non-Civil |
Judiciary |
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| This bill is the Governor's annual criminal justice reform bill. Please click here for a detail summary of the original bill. H.B. 15 was added to this legislation and it requires attorneys to electronically file all civil cases in state and superior court. The maximum a vendor may charge is $30.00 per side with $2.00 of each electronic filing to be retained by the county off set the costs of equipment, etc. |
| SB 0436 |
Neutral | Probate Court Code Modernization |
Brian Strickland |
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5/3/2018 |
Act 405 |
Judiciary |
Judiciary |
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| This legislation updates and modernizes the code that governs the operation of probate courts. The bill also increases the surety bond requirement from $25,000 to $100,000. Additionally the bill changes the current process of filling a vacancy, from appointment of the associate judge to requiring a special election. |
