| SB 0065 |
Support | Tire Disposal Restrictions and Fees |
Frank Ginn |
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1/8/2018 |
Senate Recommitted |
- | Natural Resources and the Environment |
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| This legislation requires tire retailers to collect the full amount of the scrap tire fee regardless of whether the customer leaves a scrap tire. The intent of this bill is to remove the incentive for individuals to take tires and illegally dump them. This bill does not apply to purchasers who are local governments or public utilities. |
| SB 0116 |
Oppose | Storm Water Utility Fees - Water Neutral Properties |
Frank Ginn |
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2/7/2017 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Regulated Industries and Utilities |
- |
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| This legislation prohibits counties and cities from assessing stormwater utility fees on properties certified as a water-neutral site by a professional engineer. The property owner would be responsible for submitting the proof of certification. |
| 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 0266 |
Neutral | Stop Sign Usage |
Frank Ginn |
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3/3/2017 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Transportation |
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| This legislation requires counties and cities to study the stop signs currently placed on their public roads and consider whether they should be replaced with yield signs before July 1, 2028. |
| SB 0299 |
Evaluating | Requirement for an Attorney's Signature In order to File a Deed |
Frank Ginn |
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1/9/2018 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Judiciary |
- |
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| This legislation requires deeds to be signed by an attorney before being filed and makes it a felony offense for a notary to sign unless the attorney signature is on the document. |
| SR 0152 |
Neutral | Joint Study Committee on Stream Buffers |
Frank Ginn |
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3/16/2017 |
House Passed/Adopted |
Natural Resources & Environment |
Natural Resources and the Environment |
- |
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| This legislation creates a Joint Study Committee on Stream Buffers in Georgia. |
| SR 0224 |
Support | Joint Study Committee on Stormwater Management Fees |
Frank Ginn |
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3/16/2017 |
House Passed/Adopted |
Natural Resources & Environment |
Regulated Industries and Utilities |
- |
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| This legislation creates the Joint Study Committee on Stormwater Management Fees. Local governments would have representation on the study committee that would be tasked with reviewing the existing data and current practices relating to storm-water management fees. |
| 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. |
