This legislation allows the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to create local mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disease offices, rather than requiring the Department to create regional offices.  This bill also changes the regional boards to advisory councils.  This legislation requires the county governing authority with a  population of 50,000 or less shall appoint one person to the newly created advisory council and one additional person for every 50,000 of population, by July 1.

This legislation changes the requirements for the filing of maps and plats with the superior court clerk.  Under current law, all maps and plats are filed and recorded in the superior court clerk's office. HB 1004 no longer requires that physical maps and plats be maintained in the superior court clerk's office. Instead, digital images will be maintained by the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA). The superior court clerk is required to keep a public computer terminal to provide access to the maps and plats.

This is the General Assembly's 2016 omnibus gun carry legislation, making many revisions to current statute. Among its provisions, the bill addresses fairness in financial transactions with firearms dealers; honors out-of-state gun licenses in Georgia for 90 days for those that move here; allows hunters and fishermen to carry knives; revises school safety zone carry; allows probate courts to distribute gun safety information; addresses the suspension of a carry application; renewing licenses; exempting certain law enforcement officers from license requirements and allowing carry in a courthouse; carrying weapons at a commercial service airport; and appealing the denial of a license to those declared mentally incompetent.       

The provision which would have made it impossible to prohibit weapons in government buildings leased to third parties (e.g. arenas, football domes, baseball fields, concert halls, etc.) was removed from the bill.