| HB 0090 |
Negotiating | Land Purchase - Illegal for Board Member to Discuss if Conflict of Interest |
Robert Gasaway |
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3/30/2017 |
House Withdrawn, Recommitted |
Judiciary Non-Civil |
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| This legislation makes it a misdemeanor for members of the board of commissioners, city council, school board or local board or authority to knowingly and intentionally vote, attempt to influence a vote, or be present in executive or closed session when their respective body is considering or discussion the acquisition of property if the member has direct or indirect ownership interest in the property, or any business in which the member serves in a fiduciary capacity has an ownership interest in the property. |
| HB 0434 |
Support | Eminent Domain - Condemnation of Blighted Property |
Wendell Willard |
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7/1/2017 |
Effective Date |
Judiciary |
Judiciary |
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| This bill establishes a process whereunder a local government can seek initial court determination of whether a property is blighted, and remedy of blight is deemed to be a "public use." If property is determined to be blighted, it can be the subject of condemnation proceedings. Additionally, such blighted property would not be subject to the normal limitations that a government must 1) hold condemned property for at least 20 years and 2) offer the property back to the prior owner if not put to public use within five years. |
| HB 0518 |
Neutral | City Franchise Fees on Telecommunications - Change Calculation |
Lee Hawkins |
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2/20/2018 |
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute |
Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications |
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| This legislation reduces the rate which the Georgia DOT may charge for the installation of telephone and other communications facilities in its right to $100 per linear mile annually. Furthermore, it caps the amount of franchise fees a city can charge telephone companies that do not have retail end user customers within its jurisdiction at $100 per linear mile. |
| HB 0887 |
Oppose | Wireless Industry Preemption of Local Management of Public Right of Way |
Jay Powell |
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3/27/2018 |
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute |
Ways and Means |
Regulated Industries and Utilities |
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| While this bill began, constructively, as a rural broadband bill, the Senate Regulated Industries Committee stripped and replaced it with the language of SB 426. This wireless industry legislation guarantees authorization for wireless providers to construct and place poles (50' high), antennas (up to 6 cubic feet in volume and 10' higher than poles), equipment boxes (up to 25 cubic feet in volume), plus up to 4 cabinets (undefined size) and other infrastructure in county and city right of way (ROW). Local government management of the above is all but entirely usurped; the grounds by which applications can be denied are few; denials are primed to result in litigation; and then locals are set up to lose.
ACCG
has attempted to work with the wireless providers, legislators and other
stakeholders since last year to try to incorporate safeguards into the
legislation. While some of our recommendations were made, most of these
"concessions" are so wrought with legal loopholes that their
purported purpose has been nullified.
For ACCG's concerns with (and suggestions for) this bill and SB 426, please click here.
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| HR 1539 |
Support | Study Committee on Technology and Taxation in the Public Right of Way |
Brett Harrell |
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3/19/2018 |
House Second Readers |
Transportation |
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| This resolution, mirroring SR 1019, creates the House study committee on Advanced Communications Technologies and the Use of State and Local Government Right of Way. The study committee (made up of five House members, one mayor, one county commissioner and three experts on communications deployment or taxation issues) will study state and local laws/regulations pertaining to the use public right of way to deploy advanced broadband, video and voice technologies; whether these advanced technologies are, or should be, treated differently than current technologies in terms of regulation, taxation and other matters; and whether state laws should be changed in this area. |
| SB 0162 |
Negotiating | Eminent Domain - Payment of Assessors' Costs and Condemnee's Attorneys Fees |
Frank Ginn |
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2/14/2017 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Judiciary |
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| This legislation would require the county to pay all assessors' costs, as well as the condemnee's attorneys fees, in a condemnation case where the total amount awarded is 10 percent or more of the highest amount offered by the county. |
| SB 0191 |
Neutral | Designating the Shoal Bass as the State Riverine Sport Fish |
Rick Jeffares |
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3/27/2018 |
House Postponed |
Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications |
Natural Resources and the Environment |
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| This legislation designates the shoal bass as the official Georgia state native riverine sport fish. |
| SR 1019 |
Support | County Right of Way for Telecommunications Deployment - Create Study Committee |
Frank Ginn |
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3/27/2018 |
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute |
- | Regulated Industries and Utilities |
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| This resolution, similar to HR 1698, creates the Senate Study Committee on Advanced Communications Technologies and the Use of State and Local Government Right of Way. The study committee (made up of five Senate members, one mayor, one county commissioner and three experts on communications deployment or taxation issues) will study state and local laws/regulations pertaining to the use public right of way to deploy advanced broadband, video and voice technologies; whether these advanced technologies are, or should be, treated differently than current technologies in terms of regulation, taxation and other matters; and whether state laws should be changed in this area to achieve modernization, fairness and technology neutrality regarding access to the rights of way. |
