Comité Natural Resources and the Environment del Senado, 23 de febrero de 2026

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   Can anybody hear me?

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   Is that better?

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   Thank y'all for being here today to the Natural Resources Senate, uh, Committee meeting. Um, at this time I wanna ask our newly freshman, the freshman that was late last week at committee meeting. I wanna ask him to pray for his self and all of us. Let's go to Lord in prayer.

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   What number you?

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   11.

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   11. S- Senator Dixon.

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   Thank you, sir. Please bow your heads. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this great and glorious and beautiful day. Thank you for allowing, allowing all of us to come together. Lord, I'm just so grateful for this amazing state. I'd ask you to continue to lay your righteous right hand upon all of us. Just guide us, nurture us, love us, and protect us. Give us the wisdom and fortitude that we need to get through every day. Lord, you've placed an immense amount of responsibility on all of us and all the citizens of the state, and I'd ask you to continue to bless all of us, and just continue to wrap your robe around us and provide us peace and love and warmth and comfort, and let us know that we're doing the right thing.

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   Lord, I'd ask you to continue to guide us today. Give us the wisdom to make the very best decisions we can. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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   Amen. You know, I, um,

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    in life always loved to look at other people and observe and see differences in them, and we have a committee member here that looks different today.

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    I'd just like to, uh, acknowledge Senator Watson for getting his ears lowered over the weekend with a nice-looking haircut. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, getting to serious note, um, we have three, uh, we got, uh, o- one resolution and two bills on the, on the, um, committee, on the agenda today. Um,

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    Senator Brass, I'm gonna give you just a little bit of time to look over your, yours. But I'm, and I, you know, I'm a Southern gentleman, and I think we should always let ladies go first. Agreed. So I'm gonna ask, uh, for the representative that has House Bill 983, Ms. Lisa Hagan, to come forward from District 28. And I thought she would have us some Verde onions today, but apparently we don't have none yet.

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    Are they, they not, they not picking them yet?

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    It's not, we haven't reached the pack date yet. In fact, I don't know that the pack date's been determined yet, has it?

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    And she also has, um-

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    But I'll make sure I bring some to you when we, I can.

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    Um, Johnny Sabo here with us today from the forestry and to help her if it needs help in her committee, but, I mean, in her bill. But usually, as being the lady she is, she doesn't really need no help. So the floor is yours.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. This is a bill that was brought at the request of the Georgia Forestry Commission.

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    Give us the LC, sir.

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    Oh, I apologize. This is, uh, House Bill 983, LC, LC 600230.

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    This bill more clearly defines the term prescribed burning, um, and what it, what that entails more specifically so that, uh, there's reduced confusion for our cities, counties, and property owners regarding what it is. A city and a county may set their rules for burning within their, their jurisdiction, but currently in code we've established that they may not restrict prescribed burnings.

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    However, this bill more clearly defines what a prescribed burn is so that there is no confusion there.

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    And that is the bill.

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    That's it.

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    Mm-hmm.

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    All right. Any questions for the author?

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    Everyone doing the quiet. I believe it's a good bill. Um- Yes, sir.

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    I guess it's a department bill. I guess it's part of department bills. I guess.

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    Correct. It, it is. Am I on here? There I am.

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    Hope-

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    It is a-

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    Yeah.

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    It is a department bill. Um, just to put a little bit more context to it, in, in the past we've had cities and municipalities, uh, try to challenge silvicultural burning when it comes to forestry, traditional forestry practices, um, or, or even agriculture, which we do issue the authorizations for. And, and we've always been able to, um, help manage that. But we recently had a, had a city, um, and I, and I'd, I'd rather leave the city out of it for now. But, um, recently had a city actually take it to superior court and, and rule in favor of the city that a land owner doing a site prep burning for reforestation purposes, a burn which we assisted on, was actually a land debris or land clearing burn by law by definition.

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    And so the city wants, uh, permits through them and for the land owner to use what's ca- called an air current destructor, uh, which is, it, if, if you think about when you walk in a convenience store and you feel that rush of air come over you that separates, you know, your air condition from your hot air, it does the same thing for burning. You dig a hole, you put everything in the, in the hole, and you use an air current destructor to blow over top And, uh, what that does is two things. One, from a financial standpoint, it significantly increases costs that are prescribed burner. But all that aside, from a scientific standpoint, it takes all your topsoil, all your nutrients, all your ashes, and puts them in a hole versus distributing across the landscape.

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    So it creates for a much less healthy forest, uh, uh, really a far less gene- well, I won't say genetic, a far less, uh, growing tree, you know. And, and so when we think about everything that's going on in the world of forestry, the last thing we need right now is to have issues with our reforestation practices. So this bill does, does a couple things. It cleans some of that language up, it defines silviculture for prescribed fire that we've never had before, where we have agriculture very well defined for prescribed fire, and, and it makes it much clearer that Georgia Forestry Commission issues authorizations and, and what a, what a city may or may not do when it comes to silvicultural burning or a municipality.

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    Senator.

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    So, yes, sir.

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    And it, it also, like you said, it, it takes away from the new growth of planting trees. It, it slows them down and weakens their progress also.

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    Correct. Correct, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.

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    Okay. Who is, uh, number 12?

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    That's me.

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    Senator Sims.

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    Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um, just a question. Did we get a definition for silva- silviculture?

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    S- s-

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    Silviculture.

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    Sorry, in that?

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    Mm-hmm. Line 38. It, it's the si-

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    Line 38?

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    Line 38, yes, ma'am. Science and practice of management, managing the establishment growth, composition, health, and quality of forests.

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    39.

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    Correct. I, I apologize, Senator. I should have made that clearer. I live in my own world sometimes. But yeah, silviculture is, is the science and practice of, of forestry, of growing trees.

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    Okay.

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    At its heart.

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    And in layman terms, may I ask follow-up, Mr. Chairman?

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    Go ahead.

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    The city was disturbed about, tell me why they were in opposition to, um, to the-

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    It-

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    ... the way the, the burning took place.

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    It, it wasn't so much the way the burning took place.

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    Mm-hmm.

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    Um, I, personally, I think there was multiple factors involved.

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    Mm-hmm.

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    But I, I could say in general, when we- we've had to deal with other counties or municipalities wanting to take over this authorization, they charge for the permit, where we do not. So.

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    Thank you.

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    Yes, ma'am.

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    Senator Brass, what number are you?

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    Uh, 10.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, Johnny, I know you wanted to leave the city out, but what was the name of the city?

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    Uh-

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    Glenville.

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    Glenville in Tattnall County.

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    Oh.

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    So, yeah, I, I would, uh, yeah.

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    Not yours? Close.

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    Very close.

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    Okay.

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    Thank you.

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    That's interesting.

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    You know, another, like, you know, if you had to do what the city wanted to do, that type burn, it would be a higher risk of erosion control, I mean, over, you know, clearing it. So I mean, you know, the way we burn with the forestry, it, it leaves it natural to where you can go back in and plant, um, and get good, good new growth.

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    That, Mr. Chairman, that's an excellent point. Everything with forestry, we follow what's called best management practices, which involves water quality, and so water, water runoff and, and how our practices are used, all of that is taken into account in, in forestry. So yes, sir, you are correct.

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    Senator Dickerson.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've got two quick questions. So, um, number one, uh, can the local government still regulate the time, place, and manner of the burn, or does this, uh, state law preempt that?

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    Not for silviculture.

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    Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Um, follow-up question on that. So on, it's in the back of the bill, and I apologize for not having the line number on it. It's gonna be line 47 through 50. Um, does previous experience or training require any type of certification, or m- are we merely only looking just, um, uh, for informal experience?

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    So, i- i- right. And, and th- this is, and it, it is current law. Georgia Forestry Commission, um, not only do we administer the, the authorization process, but we also administer what's called the Certified Prescribed Fire Program, where we, we train individuals, um, you know, things like smoke management, what are the current laws, how to be better responsible burners. So that, that is something we do as well.

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    Okay. Thank you, sir.

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    S- Senator Goodman.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, one thing that I wanna add, too, when we talk about this is, you know, you've got local municipalities that's trying to exert their influence on silvicult- silviculture burns, and the truth of the matter is, ever since the days of the Timber Protection Organization that became the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Forestry Commission are the people in this state that have the expert, that are the experts in, in, in prescribed burning and forest fires, and they're also the people tasked with controlling those fires, and they're the people that should be responsible, uh, for, uh, for forest fires and, and the, and, and when they're permitted and, and, and how it's done.

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    And so this is-

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    Is there a question in there somewhere?

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    Yes, sir. I just wanna say that, um, whenever it's, excuse me, whenever it's appropriate, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion do pass.

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    Second.

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    Well, Mr. Leader, you got in... You sure?

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    Yeah, I'm sure. Mr. Chairman.

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    Hold your peace. Hold your peace. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any, uh, any other questions? All in favor, raise your right hand.

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    Carries unanimous. All right. Um, who do you want to carry the-

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    We've asked Senator Goodman to carry it, and he agreed.

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    Okay.

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    Are you sure?

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     I mean, really. Um-

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     I'm gonna take my chances-

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     We will, uh-

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     ... Mr. Leader

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     ... allow, we will allow you to, um, disappear now.

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     Thank you.

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     And, um, go get your, um, your photo with someone on the second floor.

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     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, committee.

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     She's going to get the picture with the governor, with all the Vidalia Onion people.

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     Getting ready for the festival. You're all invited.

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     Sit.

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     Thank you.

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     I was wondering.

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     After the festival.

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     Thank you, ma'am. I have asked, um, Johnny to s- stay back, and I want him to report to us real briefly something that happened last night.

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     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So yesterday about 3:00, uh, we responded to a wildfire in, in Charleston County. And for those that don't know, that corner of the state is exceptionally dry. And so where we're under some drought condition almost everywhere in the state, uh, that corner, that extreme southeast corner is, is really dry. And, uh, so with all the winds, low humidities we had yesterday, um, our units were only probably about a mile and a half from the fire. By the time they got there, it was already 100 acres in size. Um, a lot of, a lot of great work by multiple different counties.

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     Um, I want to say at one point we had 25 resources on scene, 13 tractors. Uh, they held it to about 600 acres last night. Um, stopped it kind of in between, uh, sorry, it's just north of Folkston, just north of the city. Um, stopped it in between 301 and 252. Um, mult- probably about eight or so tractors out there this morning with multiple engines working on trying to hold it. Uh, but we're, we're really starting to get into a critical time of the year, which is very early for us, um, es- especially in that part of the world.

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     But just I, I want to say I appreciate the Senate support. Uh, the new helicopter that we received last year, it was able to make multiple drops on the fire. Uh, we used it for the first time, I want to say, was it Echols County, maybe a week or so ago. Um, it, it just does a lot of good work, and it does it in a hurry. And honestly, that big helicopter was able to fly yesterday in the winds when, say, a smaller aircraft like our previous one would not have been able to. So I want to thank you for your support and, and everything that you do. It, it really made a difference yesterday, so.

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     And I'm happy to take any questions if anybody has any questions about the fire. But we will, we'll be out there on scene. Our crews were out there almost all through the night, and they'll be out there till it's, till it's over, which may be days from now, but.

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     And I also like to emphasize that the helicopter not only, you know, drops water on the fire, but also this size helicopter, correct me if I'm wrong, but it can haul up to fi- eight- 12 firemen?

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     Y- y- yes, sir. Um, so when we were looking at, at purchasing a new helicopter, not only did we want it to carry a lot of water, which this one carries about 350 gallons. To put in that comparison, our old helicopter was 180 gallons, so that makes a difference. Um, but we can also transport up to 12, 12 people. So when you, when you look at, like, a multi-mission, we've had fires on, say, Cumberland Island where we need to go to before and get people in in a hurry. You know, we're able to carry people, equipment, um, just do a lot of things that we've never had the capability of doing before at the Georgia Forestry Commission.

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     So it's a, it is an outstanding tool and resource for us and for the state.

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     Well, I would like for you to, as our committee, I would like you to tell all the men and women thank you-

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     Yes, sir

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     ... for their hard work last night and, and the fight they put, uh, fighting for us today. But, uh, thank them, thank them so much.

125. 0:31:05

     Happy to. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

126. 0:31:07

     Thank you, sir.

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     Thank y'all.

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     All right. Um, Senator Brass, SR 480, would you like to do it there or would you-

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     Wherever you want me, Mr. Chairman.

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     I tell you, I, I like to conserve energy, so why don't you just stay right there?

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     Would you like to conserve mine energy?

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     Yeah. Go ahead. The floor is yours.

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     Number 10.

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     You're on.

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     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, bring to you Senate Resolution 480. Actually, I should say brought to you Senate Resolution 480, dropped this last year. Um, so this bill is recognizing one of the largest threats we have in one of the large- or in the largest sub-sector of our number one industry, uh, that being forestry. Uh, w- and, um, that threat is the southern pine beetle.

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     And Mr. Chairman, I know you like to refer to it as Dendro- Dendroctonus frontalis, but-

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     Dendroctonus

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     ... for us laymen, we call it the southern pine beetle. And, um, we're simply, the, the cur- the, the meat of the resolution is lines 25 through 32, and, uh, we're recognizing that it is a significant threat. We're recognizing the acute and ongoing challenge of the southern bout- pine beetle outbreak in the western region of this state, and we're encouraging all our Georgia landowners to take all the steps necessary to mitigate the spread of this outbreak through proper forest management and adherence to best management practices outlined by our Georgia Forestry Commission.

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     So I do believe, uh, we have probably one of the, if not the best, one of the best, uh, forestry management, um- ... practices and systems in the entire nation, which is, uh, you know, we just heard of how a, an outbreak of fire was, uh, was maintained. Um, you know, yes, the equipment, yes, the manpower is important, but the preemptive work on, on, um, on pre-mitigation practices and, and things that we do for best management in this state are really second to none.

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     And I, I attribute, um, our, uh, lack of major damages from fires due to that. And so, um, making sure that these, we get these pine beetles under control and don't have a bunch of dead trees is a good thing.

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     You know, I, um, it is good to have this right now more than ever because of what we just went through with Helene.

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     Mm-hmm.

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     So this is very much needed, and hopefully-

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     Yes, sir

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     ... everyone would, uh-

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     I was a little ahead of my time on it-

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     ...

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     but I knew bad things were coming. So thanks to-

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     You sure do

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     ... your work and Senator Goodman's work on the, uh, natural disaster preparedness study committee, which I was honored to serve on, uh, this, this was one of those ideas that came up with.

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     All right. Senator Jones.

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     Thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for, uh, this resolution. I'm curious, by the way, because I had an outbreak of pine beetles on my property. In your resolution, what are some of the best management practices in terms of dealing with pine beetles?

153. 0:34:53

     Well, I, I think not leaving dead trees around on the ground or standing up is, is one of the best things we can do. I mean, that's, you're talking about kindling just, just laying around. And then plus with, uh, with the pine beetle, um, I mean, you gotta contain it. And if you, uh, it's gonna, it's gonna spread, so I, I believe you, you wanna... I, and I'll let Senator Goodman, he can probably speak to this better than me, but you take out some of the trees at the perimeter where they did outbreak, uh, would help in that situation as well.

154. 0:35:26

     Senator, what I was advised to do was to, um, uh, I understand that pine beetles kinda jump from tree to tree at the top, and that you really have to take those trees out, um, that are infected. Is that correct?

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     You're correct.

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     Had about 30 of them.

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     It's correct.

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     One of the, one of the biggest pluses if you do controlled burning, do controlled burn to keep your place clean and try to kill all the insects. All right.

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     Thank you.

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     It's a good resolution.

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     We have, uh, our leader.

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     Just quick question for Senator Brass. Um, since you are the homeowners association expert, would you consider yourself the, the HOA expert?

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     I don't know about expert, but I'm involved.

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     We'll call you the expert. Um, don't, wouldn't you say it's probably a good neighborly practice that if an HOA has trees on its property that potentially is adjacent to neighbors on their private property, maybe just cut these trees down to basically save other trees and communities in suburbia Atlanta?

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     I mean, if they had pine beetles.

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     They do.

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     Absolutely.

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     Thank you, Chairman.

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     Senator Goodman.

170. 0:36:46

     Yeah, no problem. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, one of the things that, that we can do, and there's gonna be some legislation, I think, that it may not be coming to this committee, but there'll be some legislation coming forward. Uh, perhaps you'll be serving on the committee that, uh, is gonna be hearing it. But healthy forests, having markets, having markets for our wood, um, that is one of the most important, that's the most important thing that, uh, that we can do, um, for healthy forests is, is having, having markets for that small diameter wood.

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     And so I would just say, uh, as we move forward, perhaps you're in one of those com- committees, uh, as this legislation comes forward trying to, uh, trying to help the timber industry and trying to get new markets in our state for wood, keep that in mind. And then, um, Mr. Chairman, whenever it's, uh, you deem appropriate, I'll make a motion to pass.

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     All right. Senator Dickerson.

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     Yes, ma'am.

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     Senator-

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     Yes, sir.

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     Senator Sims.

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     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, the question about how to mitigate or rid, because you really just wanna get rid of the pine beetles, the Forestry Commission, those individuals are really, really good about coming out if you approach them, uh, in helping you with your, your burns, your everything. So that would be the f- your first go-to person is those individuals in your community, uh, the forestry folks.

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     'Cause I've used them a couple of times over the years. They're really good, very amenable to helping.

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     If you have a whole lot of those palm sized.

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     Go ahead.

181. 0:38:31

     Thank you. Thank you, Senator. Um, um-

182. 0:38:35

     But I do believe that they gonna leave. No, I gonna come for one or two.

183. 0:38:39

     Do y'all, y'all two wanna go off the floor and talk?

184. 0:38:44

     It just cost so much to keep that right.

185. 0:38:48

     All right, Senator, you, you ready to make a motion, Davenport?

186. 0:38:53

     Uh, no, I think you did. I think you did.

187. 0:38:55

     I know, but I was gonna let you beat him to the gun.

188. 0:38:57

     Well, you know-

189. 0:38:58

     Go ahead. You go ahead.

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     I will-

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     Go ahead, Senator Davenport

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     ... I will pass on, um, wait a

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     minute.

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     SR 480.

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     SR 480, and we-

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     0160.

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     Second. I second.

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     You're good. I'll let you do the second.

199. 0:39:19

     No, if you ain't gonna let me make the motion, I don't want to make the second. I'll second it. Yeah.

200. 0:39:25

     All right. Any more questions? Any more comments?

201. 0:39:31

     If you ask Senator Merritt, he has more comments.

202. 0:39:40

     All right. All in favor, raise your left hand.

203. 0:39:48

     The left. He's always trying to mess with us.

204. 0:39:51

     It carries unanimous. Thank you, uh, Mr. Rules Chairman, for bringing that important-

205. 0:39:58

     Thank you

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     ... resolution.

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     Sure takes it long. Appreciate you.

208. 0:40:03

     I'm glad he did.

209. 0:40:07

     All right. We, uh, the, uh... We have one more bill here that I would like for us to... Senator Sims, do you need to...?

210. 0:40:23

     Oh, goodness.

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     Oh, man.

212. 0:40:23

     All right. We have, we have one more bill here. There's a House Bill 115. We passed this bill out last year. The author could not be here today, but I would like to get it on out because I, I'm, I'm, I feel like it's a good bill and it's much needed on the coast. Um, I was gonna try to have Senator Watson and Senator Hodges here to, to, um, if you had any questions.

213. 0:40:55

     But we, like I say, we, we passed this bill out last year. It just didn't get, um, passed on sunny day, and it's about the, um, abandoned, abandoned bills, vessel- vessels in the, on the coast, and this would help clean up our coastal area. And, um, if there's no questions, I'd like to have a motion.

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     Motion.

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     We got a motion from the leader.

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     Second.

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     We got a second. Rahman. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none. You got something on your mind, Senator Brass?

218. 0:41:44

     So my understanding, not every... I'm 10.

219. 0:41:49

     10.

220. 0:41:51

     My understanding, not every water vessel is registered. Is that accurate?

221. 0:41:58

     That's true.

222. 0:41:59

     So how will they, if it's not registered-

223. 0:42:01

     They would track, they would track the ones that they could, and then we-

224. 0:42:05

     Okay

225. 0:42:05

     ... probably more than likely will have to come up with the funds to remove the ones that's not registered.

226. 0:42:14

     Okay.

227. 0:42:16

     We're just trying to clean up our coast for people to have a, a great scenery when they come through-

228. 0:42:23

     Okay

229. 0:42:24

     ... and go fishing or hiking or whatever.

230. 0:42:29

     I like to jog on the beach.

231. 0:42:31

     Jog.

232. 0:42:32

     10, 10 miles a day.

233. 0:42:34

     Uh, please, no lying on, in this committee, please.

234. 0:42:40

     Man can dream.

235. 0:42:41

     All right, we have a motion to get-

236. 0:42:42

     Please.

237. 0:42:43

     All in favor, raise your right hand. Carries. Thank you so much. Um, that- that's all the bills we have on our calendar day. Do we have a motion to adjourn?

238. 0:42:59

     Motion.

239. 0:43:00

     Do we have a second?

240. 0:43:01

     Second.

241. 0:43:02

     Second.

242. 0:43:02

     All in favor rise.

243. 0:43:07

     Rise and get out.

244. 0:43:09

     You said it.

245. 0:43:10

     Thank y'all.