Comité Rules del Senado, 5 de marzo de 2026

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   10:02.

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   That's for your reading.

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   March 5th-

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   2026

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   ... 2026, in the year of our Lord.

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   I just have to leave to go present a bill at 11:00, so.

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   All right. Senator Ginn, you were the first to arrive. I'm gonna allow you to do the prayer, and you're gonna get first pick for your punctuality.

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   Hey.

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   Go ahead with the prayer. We're not picking yet.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If everybody would please bow. Dear Lord, please hold us in your hand as we make decisions that infect, uh, affect every citizen in our state. We're here to do the people's work. We hope that you'll guide us and direct us in what you want us to do, and do it for y- your grace and your g- glory. Again, these names, may, uh, your name, we ask for your forgiveness for all the things that we do wrong, and your, uh, leadership in all the things that we do correct.

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    The, uh... God bless us all. Amen.

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    Amen. Amen. All right. Today is the moment of truth.

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    Got some great bills here. Got it. All right. Got a few not-so-great bills here.

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    Shall they make it to the floor or not?

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    All right. So we reveal- All right. Committee members, listen up.

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    You're all gonna get two picks, so be prioritizing. I have several ding-dings. And your ding-ding, you will go... You won't get it immediately. We'll come back to you. Just FYI. You'll get a mulligan. So I'll be tracking. You'll get a mulligan. As Senator Gooch says, you will get a mulligan.

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    All right, let's start with members not on the committee. So Senator Payne, you're right by the podium. Would you like to-

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    I've got it on me.

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    You got one on here?

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    Yeah.

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    A couple on here.

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    Just, I got four.

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    All right. Let's go. You're on. Let's get started. Y'all listen up. Order. Meetings.

24. 0:19:06

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm bringing, uh, Senate Bill 556, which is a DOE bill. Um, this bill just, uh, changes advanced placement for International Baccalaureate and upper level Cambridge Fine Arts, and it just adds fine arts to the one, two, three, four, five, six different subject matters for those fine art specialties. I mean, for those baccalaureate a- specialties.

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    So they won't count towards your GPA?

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    Yes. Fine arts would count for your-

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    It would count

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    ... for, for those higher level courses.

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    Okay.

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    Yeah.

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    Does it current... It currently does not?

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    No.

33. 0:19:42

    Hey. I misunderstood that. All right. Any questions? Hear none. Moving on. Senator Hickman.

34. 0:19:53

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is, uh, Senate Bill 515, and we've talked about the teacher shortage in the state for several years, and this is another way of helping, uh, fill that gap, is a teacher tax credit. Uh, came out of committee very strong. Uh, finance committee, uh, uh, Chairman Hufstetler helped me out with it, and I really appreciate it. So I appreciate your support on it. Thank you, sir.

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    Any questions? Senator Albers, you got a question?

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    No, sir.

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    Okay. Moving on. Senator Harrell.

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    You got a corn bill.

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    Yeah, I do. 'Cause I'm... I have a corn bill because I'm originally from Indiana, so I know corn.

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    Oh. I thought y'all were Hoosiers.

41. 0:20:31

    I, we are Hoosiers, and we grow corn. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committees. Uh, Senate Bill 278 requires that corn flour be fortified with folic acid, which is a B vitamin, because what we know is that if women of reproductive age have enough folic acid in their system, then it predet- prevents the development of spina bifida, which is a spinal cord disability that happens early in fetal development.

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    There we go.

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    And it's my birthday too.

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    Oh. Aw. Happy birthday.

45. 0:21:03

    Is it your birthday?

46. 0:21:04

    Pretty much.

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    Y'all make note of that. All right. Any... No questions-

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    Okay

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    ... of corn mesa. Is it mesa or mesa?

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    Masa.

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    Masa.

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    Masa?

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    Masa.

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    Masa.

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    Corn masa. Corn masa. Corn masa. All right, moving on. Senator Strickland, the illustrious chairman of judiciary.

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    I appreciate that. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. I have three bills on page three, starting with Senate Bill 547. This'll make the offenses of pimping and pandering a felony, even on the first offense. This'll help us continue our efforts to take on human traffickers in our state.

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    And that bill came from a group of students, didn't it?

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    It did. A group of students out in Fayette County brought the idea to me, some young, young ladies that said there's more work to be done on human trafficking in our state, and this is one of the things you could do.

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    Yep. It's good to see these young ladies doing their civic duties.

60. 0:22:02

    That's right. Keeping it moving.

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    All right, moving on. What else?

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    Also, Senate Bill 569, this'll help us clear wrecks faster on the interstate. This allows for emergency lights to be issued to tow companies with a new process we're gonna set up with the colonel of state patrol.

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    Okay.

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    And lastly, Senate Bill 572, this creates a new pretrial process for claims of immunity for self-defense to be raised in criminal cases.

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    It's a circle. All right, any questions?

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    That's all I have.

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    That's a circle.

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    Okay.

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    All right.

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    Thank you.

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    Thank you. Great job. Senator Burns.

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    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have one bill, Senate Bill 418. This is an image protection bill. It protects Georgians, especially minors, from abuse and unauthorized exploitation of their image, uh, representing them inappropriately in a nude or a sexually explicit manner.

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    Any questions? No questions.

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    Thank you.

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    Senator Harbin.

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    Thank you, sir.

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    I want you to write out your statement in cursive.

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    Yes, sir. You have the time.

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    I voted against that, by the way.

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    I appreciate that. Thank you, sir. Did, did you do it in cursive or, or did you print?

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    I just hit the button.

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    Okay. That's why we make it simple for us, isn't it?

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    That's right.

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    First one is on page one, is, uh, SB 324. It is a policyholder bill of rights. Currently, under Georgia law, the insurance companies, the life insurance companies, are required to check the National, uh, Death Ben- Death Benefit, uh, excuse me, D- Social Security Death Benefit list, and any claims that do not get, uh, found are s- sent to the Unclaimed, uh, Property, uh, Fund. What this does, it adds to it the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' policy locator, which is to be able to find a policy that is a national program.

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    This requires the g- Georgia to search the national that's created by the insurance commissioners. It also does this, it requires the companies, in this respect, if a company is sold, to s- continue to send to the agent the annual reports. Currently, when a company sells their book of business, they do not send it. I have this, uh, in my own business right now, where a company was sold, the Hartford Insurance Company was sold to Telcott, and there was no... I have, I can't get any reports anymore. I have to work through the, uh, insured, which I think is wrong, because he's hired me in for that purpose as far as that.

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    Uh, the other is for the insurance commissioner to create a-

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    Are you on the same bill?

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    Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'll go faster. Okay.

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    It, it-

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    Are these policies backed in gold written in cursive?

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    Yes, sir. They, they're, uh, yeah, as long, as long as it... The insurance commissioner makes a simple form to do that.

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    All right, next bill.

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    Next bill. Next bill. 424 is the gold bill, which I know-

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    Lower it a bit

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    ... you have been waiting for. Uh, and basically it does this.

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    424, second page.

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    424, second page. It makes gold a, um, legal tender for the State of Georgia. It is a voluntary, not anybody has to participate in it. It has a zero cost to the state. We have, uh, an audit, had the audit department do that, and we would have a depository that would be r- uh, regulated or looked at by the State of Georgia in case-

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    All right. You got anything else?

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    That's it, sir.

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     Any questions?

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     Sheriff.

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     Uh, he explained it for 30 minutes, so- ... there shouldn't be any questions.

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     You want me in cursive, right?

104. 0:25:42

     Yeah, you're good. Thank you.

105. 0:25:43

     Thank you, sir.

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     Thank you. Great work this session. Senator Bearden.

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     My Carroll County delegation brother.

108. 0:25:55

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman of Rules, and Chairman of Freedom Corner, and caucus members.

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     Co-chairman, Freedom Corner.

110. 0:26:01

     Uh, page two, Senate Bill 423. It's printed, not in cursive. Uh, campaign transparency. This shines light on dark money and makes sure that Georgians are electing Georgians by not allowing 50% or more of contributions being from outside the state.

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     Mm, good bill.

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     Uh, page four. One, two, three, five down, Senate Bill 594 creates a new offense of, um, digital identity fraud. It protects all our citizens, even our children, from exploitation and holds, uh, platforms accountable. That's all we got.

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     Questions? Senator Robertson.

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     Yes. Uh, I heard some testimony on 594 where there's an obligation to remove.

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     Correct.

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     Is that on conviction, accusation, or indictment? How's that, how's that work?

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     If there's an active, uh, police report and the online platform receives the, uh, police report, they will remove the, uh, content.

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     How, how do they receive that? Does the law enforcement agency-

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     Yes

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     ... reach out and, and send that?

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     Yes, sir.

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     All right. And, and I, I'm, I don't know how to get on social media. Thank goodness I have people who do that for me, two guys a whole lot younger than me.

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     Me either.

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     Uh, exactly. Um, how long do we give them to take that down?

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     If there's a police report, there's 48 hours. If it's a citizen that's been exploited, they have 72 hours to make sure that the, uh, information is, uh, fraudulent, and they got 72 hours to let the, uh, victim know.

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     I- if they determine it's not fraud, does it go back up?

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     Correct. It can go back up if it's, uh, not fraud. But if there's an active police investigation from-

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     An active police investigation.

129. 0:27:41

     Correct, with a case number. The, within 48 hours they need to take it down. And we are working with TikTok on this as well.

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     Okay. I don't have TikTok, but I appreciate that.

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     Well, I know you don't, but I just figured I'd throw it out there for you. Throw you a softball.

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     That was it.

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     I thought the majority leader banned TikTok.

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     He's on it right now.

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     Looking at Chinese-

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     No other questions. Thank you.

137. 0:28:07

     Thank you, sir. Thank you, committee.

138. 0:28:08

     One thing I do, um, meant to mention at the beginning of this, so just so everybody understands the posture of us adjourning yesterday a little early, we had, I believe, 11 bills that we did not hear. Um, those all came back in here to Rules. They are not on your yellow sheet, and I am putting them back on as the chairman's privilege. So those will all go back on. Um, and then we tabled SR 668. It remains on the table. It is available on the floor to come off the table.

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     So that's the posture. So-

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     Thank you

141. 0:28:42

     ... your bills, you don't need to talk about your bills from yesterday, anybody out there. Senator Setzler. I challenge you to beat Senator Harbin.

142. 0:28:51

     I quit.

143. 0:28:53

     It shouldn't be hard. Well, for you it might be.

144. 0:28:55

     Mr. Chairman, uh, page two, Senate Bill 488, um, allows for AI systems that harm children to be held accountable civilly. Go, go ahead and take questions.

145. 0:29:08

     Any questions? Are you losing your voice?

146. 0:29:12

     I've, I've got, I got a little bit left. I'll use all I got, Mr. Chairman.

147. 0:29:15

     Well, hang in there. We need you for tomorrow.

148. 0:29:20

     Um, and page three, Mr. Chairman, near the bottom, uh, Senate Bill 573, a bill that makes, uh, local, certain local elections in the core metro counties nonpartisan.

149. 0:29:30

     All right. Good bill.

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     Good.

151. 0:29:33

     Any questions? You got a question? Your face is all red. I love that with all the non-controversial bills- Oh, okay. I

152. 0:29:45

     have any questions. All right. Usually when you have a question, your red light goes off on your face, and it was going off, so.

153. 0:29:53

     All right, no questions. Thank you. Senator Hatchett, the illustrious Florida leader. How are things on the second floor?

154. 0:30:04

     Things are great.

155. 0:30:06

     Thanks to you.

156. 0:30:07

     That's right.

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     All right, go ahead.

158. 0:30:09

     I have two bills. Uh, the first is on page three, Senate Bill 553. This is a governor's bill that deals with streamlining the licensure process in the State of Georgia, dealing with electricians, plumbers, utility contractors, and HVAC contractors. It's a good bill.

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     Yep.

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     Next bill is on page four. This is Senate Bill 593. It deals with impact fees. So if you are a developer and you're going into a county, when you submit your application and request the amount of impact fees, this would require the county to disclose those to you and not hide the ball-

161. 0:30:51

     Okay

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     ... so that you're hit with a big fee later.

163. 0:30:55

     I believe that happened in your district, didn't it?

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     It did.

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     Okay. Any questions? Hearing none, thank you, sir.

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     Thank you.

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     Senator Dickerson.

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     This your second bill?

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     No.

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     Ever?

171. 0:31:13

     Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee. Uh, Senate bill, uh, this is gonna be on the second page. It's gonna be Senate Bill 442. It's about commercial driver's licenses. Uh, and it revises the li- license expiration date and testing requirements for non-citizens.

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     Any questions? Oh, Senator Ginn.

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     Hopefully it's more restrictive than the federal government requires.

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     Correct.

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     Thank you.

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     Any other questions? No questions.

177. 0:31:44

     Okay. Thank you, Chair.

178. 0:31:46

     Consider yourself lucky. All right. Uh, Senator Kemp.

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     Not to be confused with the governor.

180. 0:31:58

     Hey, that's all right. I had to get my bill passed.

181. 0:32:02

     I hear you.

182. 0:32:02

     Mr. Chairman, page two, Senate Bill 475 does two critically important but simple things. First, it, uh, addresses the opportunity for folks in our communities to petition to have, uh, school districts consolidate. Uh, it up- updates a very old bill from the 1920s. It lowers that threshold from 25% to 10%, and thankful to have the support of the pro tem on that. Uh, and then finally, it brings some parity to charter schools that are locally approved to ensure that they have access to ESPOLST funding in their districts.

183. 0:32:34

     Okay. What bill is this of yours? How many have you done?

184. 0:32:38

     This is my second one.

185. 0:32:39

     Ooh. Senator Dickerson's been here for, like, just a few weeks-

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     I know

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     ... and he's already on his second.

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     Man.

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     What you been doing?

190. 0:32:47

     I got to work.

191. 0:32:48

     Time to get to work.

192. 0:32:49

     Yeah, that's right.

193. 0:32:50

     All right. Any questions? All right. Thank you, sir.

194. 0:32:53

     All right. Thank you.

195. 0:32:55

     Let's see. Am I missing anyone? Any other members out there not on the committee? All right, let's go back to the top.

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     Kenya Wicks.

197. 0:33:04

     Oh, oh, Senator Wicks. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Come on. You gotta get that hand up higher. I'm short, I can't see down here.

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     Good morning, Mr. Chairman.

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     Good morning.

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     On Senate Bill 190 on the first page, this recognizes, uh, the Georgia service members and veterans and Gold Star families, uh, expanded access to our state parks, uh, historical s- uh, sites with reduction or a waived, uh, park fees.

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     Okay. And they currently get what, 50% off?

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     Yes, sir.

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     And we're giving her another 50%.

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     Correct.

205. 0:33:36

     Did you have another one? Okay, well, hold on. Hmm?

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     Senate Bill 450.

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     On what?

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     Senate Bill 450. Just to clarify.

209. 0:33:44

     Okay, hold on. Let me finish with Senator Wicks. All right, any questions for Senator Wicks? Uh, Senator Kirkpatrick.

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     Thank you. Just to clarify, I think this is not a reduction, this is a waiver, correct?

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     Correct.

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     Of the fee?

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     The waiver fee. This is for-

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     Yeah, it's a reduction of the additional 50% that they own.

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     Already get.

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     Or that they pay.

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     Yeah.

218. 0:34:05

     So... And it's only for disabled veterans?

219. 0:34:09

     No.

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     Or is it for all veterans?

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     All veterans.

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     All veterans.

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     Gold Star families.

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     Okay.

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     Yep.

226. 0:34:14

     And my understanding, we had about 300 apply for the-

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     Right

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     ... for the fee last year reduction.

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     Yes, sir.

230. 0:34:22

     And we anticipate maybe a little bit more than that. Okay.

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     And we, and we, um, took out the active duty because they already get the services already on post.

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     Okay.

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     Yes.

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     Another question. Senator Ginn.

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     Uh, different state parks have different features and amenities. Some of them do cabins, some of them do, uh, parking spaces for campers and that kind of stuff. Does this apply to just an entrance fee into the park or does it apply to cabins and, and park locations for campers and that kind of stuff?

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     Right now it just applies to the entrance fee

237. 0:34:56

     Which on the yearly pass is what $50?

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     Yes, sir.

239. 0:34:59

     They're currently paying 25, it would be an additional 25 off.

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     That's good.

241. 0:35:05

     All right.

242. 0:35:07

     Physical.

243. 0:35:08

     Physical note would be about a little over $11,000 roughly.

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     That's a physical note?

245. 0:35:16

     That was, that was a joke.

246. 0:35:21

     But it was-

247. 0:35:22

     All right. Thank you, Senator. Senator Burns.

248. 0:35:26

     Yep.

249. 0:35:26

     You're chomping at the bit over here.

250. 0:35:28

     I was. I, I just noted that the summary on the sheet is incorrect. This is not a cause of action. It is not a tort. Enforcement is through a civil enforcement by the attorney general, this is on 418, by the attorney general or the appropriate, uh, prosecuting authority. So this does not create a cause of action. It does not create, um, a challenge from, uh, the citizens. It is by the prosecuting attorney or the DA or in, perhaps, the attorney general.

251. 0:35:56

     Okay. Well, just so you know, these titles are pulled from your bill, so.

252. 0:36:01

     I know.

253. 0:36:03

     So if y'all made changes in, in committee, you have to change the preambles as well, which we've been better about, everybody's been better about this year. But in the past, we have not been good about that.

254. 0:36:14

     Changes will be made before this year, sir.

255. 0:36:17

     So, well, I think the judiciary chairman was in here. Maybe we should take it up with him, but we'll do that at a later date. All right, back to the top. Senate Bill 11, Senator Rhett. And I'm gonna go in order, so if you got multiples, just do the one we're on. All right, Senator Rhett, SB 11.

256. 0:36:35

     Veterans who have served-

257. 0:36:37

     Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on. 10.

258. 0:36:38

     I'm sorry.

259. 0:36:39

     There you go. Go ahead.

260. 0:36:41

     Veterans who have served, who-- This is for veterans who have worked for the state and have worked for 10 years. They're eligible to buy one, two, or three years into the state retirement system at full cost. No cost to the state at all. Department of Revenue chair endorsed it. We did a fiscal note, came back zero. We also did a, um, what was that other report?

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     DOAS.

262. 0:37:13

     No, uh-

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     DOAS.

264. 0:37:17

     Actuarial note. Um-

265. 0:37:18

     Actuarial

266. 0:37:18

     ... actuary. And that came back in good shape, no cost to the state.

267. 0:37:22

     Beautiful.

268. 0:37:22

     And it helps us to recruit and maintain good veterans.

269. 0:37:26

     And it was very well vetted in the Retirement Committee.

270. 0:37:30

     Very well vetted in the Retirement Committee- ... under the chairman, Mr. Williams.

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     Senator Williams.

272. 0:37:39

     All right.

273. 0:37:40

     Good job. Good job.

274. 0:37:41

     Moving on. Any questions? All right, Senate Bill 202, Senator Jones.

275. 0:37:47

     Uh, thank, thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, currently under the law, the, um, the, the prosecution in misdemeanor cases have to give all of their discovery over to the defense. The defense d- does not have to give theirs to the prosecution. This means now that the defense would also have to give their discovery to the prosecution in misdemeanor, uh, cases such as DUI and domestic violence.

276. 0:38:07

     All right. Good bill. All right, Senate Bill 209. Senator Goodman's not here. That came through Retirement. Senator Williams, you familiar with that one?

277. 0:38:19

     Uh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is one that, um, would allow employees of the, of the county school s- systems, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, to opt into teachers' retirement. It would be up to the local school board to adopt that, whether or not if they wanted to.

278. 0:38:44

     Okay. Any questions?

279. 0:38:48

     I got a question on it.

280. 0:38:49

     Question from Senator Hufstetler.

281. 0:38:51

     Um, I, I did have some concerns on this in committee and, and couldn't support it because it would be giving county employees money from the state for a divine, defined benefit plan that we are not giving to our state employees. So I think this is a, a dangerous path to be spending state money on county employees that we won't provide for our own employees.

282. 0:39:17

     We'll mark you down as not gonna select that bill.

283. 0:39:24

     All right, moving on.

284. 0:39:25

     Senator Goodman, we did it-

285. 0:39:25

     Uh, Senate Bill 301, Senator Williams

286. 0:39:28

     ... for county, so you really don't want it picked.

287. 0:39:31

     Senator Williams.

288. 0:39:33

     301.

289. 0:39:33

     301.

290. 0:39:34

     Okay. Th- thank you. I'm sorry. I was, uh, conferring with my mentor here. This is, uh, a bill that protects all monuments and sets up guidelines how if a city or a community wants to remove monuments, how to go about it.

291. 0:39:52

     Mm-hmm.

292. 0:39:53

     So, uh, this just clarifies that and, uh, brings a lot of that into code.

293. 0:40:01

     Right, 'cause currently they're not allowed to remove them, and this would set up a-

294. 0:40:06

     A-

295. 0:40:06

     ... a process to which-

296. 0:40:07

     ... a process

297. 0:40:07

     ... they could remove them and give the, either give or sell the, to a third party.

298. 0:40:13

     That is correct.

299. 0:40:14

     Correct.

300. 0:40:14

     That is correct.

301. 0:40:15

     Okay. Any questions on that one?

302. 0:40:21

     Yeah, I got one.

303. 0:40:21

     Thank you for

304. 0:40:22

     All right.

305. 0:40:22

     признаizing me.

306. 0:40:22

     Senator Dolezal. You're up.

307. 0:40:24

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe the intent of the bill we passed a couple years ago is to ensure that monuments were not removed. Would this set up a pathway for people to just purchase monuments they wanted to have removed and have them destroyed, or do they need to be maintained somewhere else? 'Cause I thought that was-

308. 0:40:38

     No, it's clear in the bill. You still cannot destroy. You cannot-

309. 0:40:41

     Does it need to remain publicly visible?

310. 0:40:43

     Um, it will-- That would be up to the third party that they, they can, they can do it visibly in a- It's, but it has to, it, but it would be in that same jurisdiction. They would get priority, um, uh-

311. 0:40:57

     They would not be moved to a cemetery to be out of sight. Uh, it just gives the county guidelines on how they can allow them to be removed.

312. 0:41:08

     Should I say relocated?

313. 0:41:09

     They go through a process.

314. 0:41:09

     Is, is that the actual... What we're doing is opposed to removed? Are they being relocated?

315. 0:41:13

     Essentially, they would be relocated, yes.

316. 0:41:19

     But under current law, they are not. There's no process to which they can be removed.

317. 0:41:24

     At all.

318. 0:41:25

     And so-

319. 0:41:26

     Or relocated.

320. 0:41:27

     Or relocated. There's, this does add in, I think, the words destroy or lost, so they c- you know, some have been taken down and then, quote unquote, lost. And so that language has been added. But then the main part of the bill is setting up that process saying, "All right, look, if you don't want it displayed on the courthouse steps or whatever, you know, here's a process to which you can move it." And I, I think this does kind of thread the needle on, on both sides of this issue.

321. 0:42:01

     It's a good, good cleanup bill.

322. 0:42:02

     I agree.

323. 0:42:03

     Thank you.

324. 0:42:04

     All right, moving on. Uh, Senator Parent with us. Don't see her. You wanna cover it? Oh, that's just adding a Clayton County judge. You wanna add anything?

325. 0:42:14

     No, I don't.

326. 0:42:15

     Sixth judge, to be exact. Uh, which actually, I'll add this. Uh, Clayton County will be responsible for, and is responsible for, processing, um, at the, at the airport. And with us having FIFA coming, it would be a good timing to add that. And I think she said it's the number one caseload in the state.

327. 0:42:37

     That's correct.

328. 0:42:37

     So.

329. 0:42:38

     You got it all.

330. 0:42:40

     Is the judge going to be in place by FIFA?

331. 0:42:42

     Hold on. Hold on. We're, we're gonna have a committee here.

332. 0:42:46

     Okay.

333. 0:42:46

     Mr. Leader, you're recognized.

334. 0:42:48

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You said FIFA. So is this judge gonna be in place by FIFA, which is a few months away?

335. 0:42:55

     Probably not.

336. 0:42:56

     Okay.

337. 0:42:59

     But to be clear-

338. 0:43:00

     But-

339. 0:43:00

     ... the cases will be processed just to keep up

340. 0:43:01

     ... yeah, I mean, those cases aren't gonna be processed right away anyway, so.

341. 0:43:05

     Do we expect a lot of problems, that they're gonna have to process a lot of cases?

342. 0:43:09

     I would think people traveling from all over the world to come get drunk and watch soccer, yes- ... I anticipate problems.

343. 0:43:19

     And just, and just-

344. 0:43:19

     Any other questions?

345. 0:43:20

     And just checking, the, the city of Atlanta does run the Hartsfield Airport, correct?

346. 0:43:24

     Uh, they do run it, but the, a lot of those cases-

347. 0:43:27

     Right

348. 0:43:27

     ... if not all of those cases, are processed at the, in Clayton County.

349. 0:43:31

     Right. Now I'm learning.

350. 0:43:32

     As, as that's where the airport lies.

351. 0:43:33

     But it is run by the city of Atlanta though, right? Okay.

352. 0:43:36

     Clayton County International Airport.

353. 0:43:41

     They wish.

354. 0:43:44

     I'm just kidding-

355. 0:43:45

     He said them

356. 0:43:46

     ... sort of.

357. 0:43:46

     We can-

358. 0:43:46

     All right, SB 410. Uh, this is my bill. It, uh, the original bill has, uh, doing away with the, um, sales tax exemption on equipment for data centers for all future projects. It does grand- grandfather in existing projects. Um, language added, uh, we had 68.1, which is the high technology equipment. We added, uh, uh, computer equipment, which I believe is 68.

359. 0:44:18

     I don't know what those numbers mean. But anyway, uh, so both those equipments are covered. And then we added in language, the language that came out of committee from SB 34, uh, which is Senator Hufstetler's bill, ensuring that ratepayers are not picking up the tabs for data centers. And we added in language of the intent to ensure that ratepayers are not picking up the tab of upgrades in the system from data centers.

360. 0:44:48

     Any questions?

361. 0:44:51

     Did you skip one?

362. 0:44:52

     Yeah.

363. 0:44:53

     67.

364. 0:44:53

     Through 67.

365. 0:44:54

     Oh, I'm sorry. Not intentionally. Senator Cowsert.

366. 0:44:58

     This is a-

367. 0:44:59

     Senate Bill 367

368. 0:45:00

     ... to eliminate the requirement for a certificate of need when providing cancer care.

369. 0:45:05

     Any questions?

370. 0:45:09

     All right, moving on.

371. 0:45:12

     Yeah.

372. 0:45:12

     Senate Bill 445, Senator Dolezal.

373. 0:45:17

     Oh, wow. Um, this is actually an agency bill for, uh, cleanup language to the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, passed unanimously out of committee with bipartisan support, despite it being, uh, impacting the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act.

374. 0:45:30

     Okay.

375. 0:45:30

     Thanks.

376. 0:45:31

     Questions? New questions. Senate Bill 473, the majority whip. Very talkative today.

377. 0:45:41

     Yes, sir. This is a bill cleaning up, uh, DUI training, uh, raising the fees that have not been raised in over 15 years.

378. 0:45:49

     All right. Senate Bill 499, Senator Ginn.

379. 0:46:00

     Yes, sir.

380. 0:46:03

     Just circled. Go ahead.

381. 0:46:06

     Well, it's a silencer bill. You can't hear it.

382. 0:46:13

     Well played.

383. 0:46:18

     Wow.

384. 0:46:18

     That's really good.

385. 0:46:18

     How long you been working on that one?

386. 0:46:22

     You, you told me I got to be first.

387. 0:46:24

     You do get to go first today. First to show up, after me. Um, all right, Senator Halpern's got SB 532. Came out of Judy. Anyone wanna cover that?

388. 0:46:44

     Uh, you wanna go, bud?

389. 0:46:46

     Anyone?

390. 0:46:46

     Yep.

391. 0:46:48

     What was the number?

392. 0:46:48

     Senator Jones. 532. Bottom of page two.

393. 0:46:52

     Mm-hmm.

394. 0:46:53

     Oh, 532. Yes, on that particular thing, when, you know, when you get notice to come to court, sometimes you miss it and then you go into default. This allows you to actually still be able to file an answer later instead of being automatically in default and can't do anything about it.

395. 0:47:07

     Just gives you opportunity to kind of fight if you get proper notice.

396. 0:47:11

     All right. Any questions? Oh, we got a question from the whip. He's-

397. 0:47:15

     Does it, does it just create a process-

398. 0:47:18

     It just creates-

399. 0:47:18

     ... to do that?

400. 0:47:18

     It creates a process. It doesn't necessarily open it back up. It allows you to just kind of know that you're going to be there now. That they're gonna not do everything without your presence. Yeah, it doesn't necessarily open back up. I kind of misspoke and let you file an answer. What it does is says, "Now you have to be there. You can be there," that's all.

401. 0:47:34

     All right. Thank you.

402. 0:47:35

     So you know what's going on.

403. 0:47:36

     Yes, sir.

404. 0:47:36

     Yeah.

405. 0:47:36

     Thank you.

406. 0:47:40

     All right. No more questions. Senate Bill 540, top of page three, Senator Anan- Anavitarte, the majority leader.

407. 0:47:48

     Aye.

408. 0:47:48

     Aye, Bill.

409. 0:47:52

     Is that all we got? Any questions? All right, moving on. Uh, Senate Bill 555, Senator Williams.

410. 0:48:03

     Yes, sir. This, uh, was brought forth by the, uh, Commissioner of Veterans Affairs. This would allow immediate family member, a spouse or a child of a veteran to be admitted at the same time that the veteran's admitted to Georgia War Veterans Home in Milledgeville. They would actually be, uh, private pay. Uh, where the VA pays for the veterans, uh, to be admitted, the spouse would have to pay this either through a long-term care insurance policy or pay it out of private funds to be admitted into the room with the veteran.

411. 0:48:47

     You got a question from Senator Kirkpatrick? Yeah. Uh, Senator, isn't that true that veterans would always have priority?

412. 0:48:54

     Veterans would always have priority, and they would have a reserve number of beds so that they wouldn't run short, uh, in the event, uh, that other veterans applied. Uh, they would always have priority, yes.

413. 0:49:09

     And this is a department bill?

414. 0:49:11

     Yes, sir.

415. 0:49:15

     All right. Moving on. Senate Bill 566, Senator Hufstetler.

416. 0:49:22

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This bill is, uh, a couple of things. One, we've had, uh, tax digest that were delayed a week in towns that don't maybe have publications every day, if there was a publication error that was made by a newspaper. And so this says you've got to correct it and get the correct notice out and put it online immediately, but you don't delay the process. These are notices that go out three different times. And the other thing it does is, uh, we worked with the, uh, tax assessors, uh, the head of that organization's from Paulding County, and tried to get a bill.

417. 0:49:58

     Right now we send a bill out that's confusing, misleading and upsets people and gets them mad at all of us. And so we've cleaned that up, and then we took what we wanted the bill to look like and then wrote the law to, to match that. And, um, that's what we have, uh, for the committee.

418. 0:50:14

     Any questions?

419. 0:50:18

     Senator Dixon, you look like you got a question or something. All right, moving on. Senate Bill 568, Senator Dolezal.

420. 0:50:28

     This bill moves our elections to paper ballots and adds a number of other audit and security provisions.

421. 0:50:36

     Questions? I'm sure you won't get any questions should that make it to the floor. Senate Bill 570, Senator Still, our caucus chairman.

422. 0:50:50

     Thank you, Chairman. The Georgia Human Trafficking Prevention Training Act. This is for our frontline workers, hotels, motels, short-term rentals, uh, mandatory coordination with CJCC on, um, education and reporting of human trafficking. Good bill in preparation for FIFA, since that seems to be the theme.

423. 0:51:10

     Is it FIFA or World Cup?

424. 0:51:12

     Yes.

425. 0:51:12

     FIFA World Cup. It's both. Yeah. Soccer.

426. 0:51:18

     Mercedes can pronounce it and it's Spanish.

427. 0:51:19

     Futbol. Futbol. Okay. Is that how you say it, Mercedes? Futbol. Futbol. Hold up, let's, let's get-

428. 0:51:29

     It would be futbol.

429. 0:51:33

     That's the only-

430. 0:51:34

     Did you get that? Uh, that translates as soccer. I'm her translator if y'all didn't know that. In cursive. In cursive. In gold. All right, moving on. Senate Bill 586, Senator Williams.

431. 0:51:50

     Yes, sir. This is a protection bill for our K-9 law enforcement heroes. This just, uh, recognizes, um, very important bill.

432. 0:52:03

     Very important bill. All right, moving on. Senate Bill 587, Senator Still.

433. 0:52:09

     In the same vein as the senator from the 25th, this is a database. If you have been convicted of abusing an animal, you'll go into a database maintained by PAC and you can never adopt an animal again.

434. 0:52:21

     Ooh. I'm understanding the lieutenant governor's wife might have a little interest in this one.

435. 0:52:35

     All right, moving on. Senate Bill 589. This is mine. It's on, um... It, right now a, if you're four-years-old before, if a child is four-years-old before September 1st, you can go to pre-K. If you are five before September 1st, you have to go to kindergarten. If you did not go to pre-K and you're five years old- It is up to the county as to whether you can, or up to your school system as to whether you can go to pre-K or have to go straight to kindergarten.

436. 0:53:16

     So this takes away the county's ability to say you cannot. So this puts the power back into the parents. I've had, um, several constituents back home this has happened to. I talked with my superintendent, and he agreed that this was good policy to, to put the power back into the parents' hands to decide what's best. So we were, it, we were moving some dates. I do think at some point we need to line up all our dates around schools from, uh, most of them are set at 9/1, September 1st, of when we used to go to school after Labor Day.

437. 0:53:55

     We no longer do that. We, most schools go in in August. I think at some point we need to come back and fix all those dates. We are not doing that in this bill. We took that out, that piece out in, in, um, Education and Youth, so.

438. 0:54:09

     Chairman.

439. 0:54:10

     Uh, hold on. Senator Kirkpatrick had the, had hands first.

440. 0:54:13

     Uh, Mr. Chairman, does this preserve the parents' right to decide if their kid is ready for kindergarten if they have a late birthday?

441. 0:54:22

     Uh, that's exactly what it does. 'Cause right now, you know, it, again, it's up to the school system, but if they don't... Like I've, I've got kids born prior, that are five prior to 9/1 that are, weren't able, able to get into pre-K and now they're being forced to go to kindergarten. So that's exactly what the bill does.

442. 0:54:44

     Thank you.

443. 0:54:45

     Senator Rhett, did you have a question?

444. 0:54:46

     Yes, Mr. Chairman. How old were you when you entered the Senate, I mean kindergarten?

445. 0:54:53

     Uh, I was... Let me think about this. I came in in '17, so I would've been 39. No. I was 38 and then turned 39 when I entered the Senate. I was five when I entered kindergarten.

446. 0:55:09

     They didn't have kindergarten.

447. 0:55:10

     You want to, you want me to go through K through 12-

448. 0:55:12

     No, no.

449. 0:55:12

     ... tell you how old I was? All right. Any other questions? All right. Yes, Senator Jackson.

450. 0:55:19

     Yes. And just, uh, to be clear, this bill does not make anyone have to attend, uh, 4K or 5K. It still leaves the option. It's just allowing parents to choose if they feel like their five-year-old really does need to be in pre-K.

451. 0:55:34

     Correct.

452. 0:55:34

     They're not quite ready.

453. 0:55:35

     Correct.

454. 0:55:35

     It's just giving them some choice, but it's not making anybody have to do either of those.

455. 0:55:38

     Correct, and there are a limited number of slots.

456. 0:55:41

     Okay, exactly.

457. 0:55:41

     And this doesn't touch that. Would it make, will it make it more competitive? A little bit. I mean, there's-

458. 0:55:47

     You could have five

459. 0:55:47

     ... we're talking about very few children that this affects, but it does affect and can have a generational impact, so we're gonna fix it, I hope.

460. 0:55:57

     It's a good bill.

461. 0:55:58

     Thank you. Appreciate your support on it. All right, moving on. Uh, Senate Bill 591, Mr. Gooch. Senator Gooch.

462. 0:56:09

     Oh, yes, sir. Let me get back from my back page.

463. 0:56:11

     Offenses against public order.

464. 0:56:12

     First strike.

465. 0:56:14

     Where are you?

466. 0:56:15

     Well, okay, so currently in current law, it's against the law to disrupt a funeral service. This just adds a religious service to that same, um, section of the code.

467. 0:56:26

     Oh.

468. 0:56:27

     So it would be a criminal act to interrupt or cause, um, a, uh, protest or what have you at a church service.

469. 0:56:36

     All right. Any questions? All right, you got the next one.

470. 0:56:39

     I do.

471. 0:56:39

     That's SB 592.

472. 0:56:41

     So there's various sections of the code dealing with violent criminal sentencing. This increases the minimum sentences, uh, for example, from one year up to three years. There's various different ones throughout the, the, uh, the code on violent crimes. Does not deal with the non-violent crimes at all, just sentencing on violent crimes.

473. 0:57:02

     Okay.

474. 0:57:04

     Uh, any questions? Hearing none. Senate Bill 604, Senator Cowsert.

475. 0:57:12

     This bill, uh, gives local district attorneys an option to ask for assistance from the attorney general's office to prosecute certain crimes.

476. 0:57:22

     Okay. Any questions? Seeing none, 605 is yours as well.

477. 0:57:28

     This bill sets forth very clear, clearly defined codes of conduct for prosecuting attorneys so they have some certainty as to what is permissible and impermissible.

478. 0:57:40

     All right. Any questions? And Senate Bill 606. You just dropped all your bills-

479. 0:57:46

     Yeah

480. 0:57:46

     ... right there together, didn't you?

481. 0:57:46

     These all came out of the Special Investigative Committee. This is a pay raise bill for district attorneys and assistant district attorneys.

482. 0:57:53

     Okay. Senate Bill 607.

483. 0:57:57

     This sets up a provision for a special grand jury to prosecute, uh, any type of election crimes or election fraud.

484. 0:58:06

     Any questions? None. All right. SRs 262 is yours as well.

485. 0:58:12

     And this is for a balanced budget amendment, uh, for the United States budget. It calls for an Article 5 convention to, uh, accomplish that goal.

486. 0:58:22

     Senator Kirkpatrick has a question.

487. 0:58:24

     Senator, didn't we already pass that bill?

488. 0:58:27

     We did. It sunsetted.

489. 0:58:29

     Ah.

490. 0:58:31

     It was my bill. It passed in 2014. It had a 10-year sunset, and regrettably, now I have to go through the motions again. It's a good bill.

491. 0:58:42

     It's actually a resolution.

492. 0:58:43

     Mm-hmm. I stand corrected- ... Mr. Chairman. Your Honor.

493. 0:58:50

     Messing with you. All right, SR838.

494. 0:58:56

     Uh, this is the SAVE amendment. This would hope to do in Georgia what they're unable to do in DC, ensure that only United States citizens can vote in our elections, and you have to provide photographic ID.

495. 0:59:06

     Okay. And any questions?

496. 0:59:09

     Senator.

497. 0:59:10

     Senator Still, you got a question?

498. 0:59:14

     Thank you, uh, Chairman. I was just confirming, uh, this would be a CA on, uh, our ballots in November.

499. 0:59:20

     Okay. And your answer was?

500. 0:59:24

     Yes.

501. 0:59:26

     Thank you. All right. Senate Resolution 875, Senator Cowsert.

502. 0:59:31

     And this is the CA that goes along with Senate Bill 607.

503. 0:59:38

     All right.

504. 0:59:43

     I tell you what, we will package those together should they get selected.

505. 0:59:51

     Okay.

506. 0:59:54

     Mr. Chairman?

507. 0:59:55

     Yes, Senator Jones.

508. 0:59:56

     Any chance of adding anything to this?

509. 0:59:59

     What do you wanna add?

510. 1:00:00

     Well, to add SB 34 and 94.

511. 1:00:03

     SB 34. SB 34 is already in SB 410, so no. And Senate Bill 94 did not make the cut.

512. 1:00:16

     Didn't make it?

513. 1:00:16

     No, sir.

514. 1:00:17

     Thank you, Mr. Chair.

515. 1:00:18

     All right.

516. 1:00:21

     Let's pick a few.

517. 1:00:27

     Mm-hmm.

518. 1:00:29

     Which one?

519. 1:00:31

     Yeah, yeah. We-

520. 1:00:33

     Okay

521. 1:00:33

     ... already mentioned that. Okay.

522. 1:00:38

     I know, Senator Ginn, I told you you're number one. You are in my heart. But today you're gonna be number two. The dean of the Senate-

523. 1:00:48

     Hey

524. 1:00:49

     ... who announced his retirement.

525. 1:00:58

     And we're not clapping 'cause you're retiring. We're clapping for your service. You've been a, a great member and a great friend to all of us, and we appreciate your service and your friendship and all you've done for this state and all you've done to represent your community. And y- you're just a great American, and we love having you and hate to see you go.

526. 1:01:18

     Thank you.

527. 1:01:18

     So with that, you get the first pick.

528. 1:01:21

     All right. Thank you, sir.

529. 1:01:23

     So if anybody else wants to announce their retirement, I'll- ... well, you can have the next one.

530. 1:01:27

     SB 11.

531. 1:01:29

     SB 11.

532. 1:01:33

     Thank you.

533. 1:01:33

     Taking care of his seatmate over there.

534. 1:01:37

     There you go.

535. 1:01:40

     All right. Um, let me circle that. Okay. Senator Ginn.

536. 1:01:46

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Always proud to, uh, play second fiddle behind our dean. Thank you for all your great years of service. Thank you, sir. Yeah. Uh, maybe a self, uh, uh, sacrifice, but, but, uh, I, I'm gonna go ahead and take the abuse for picking Senate Bill 499.

537. 1:02:17

     It's a good gun bill, and it's very quiet.

538. 1:02:19

     Yep, yep, yep, yep. All right. You know what? I'm gonna... I was gonna go in order of how you arrived since most of y'all are late, but the dean of the Republican caucus, who's also leaving us-

539. 1:02:36

     Sure do

540. 1:02:37

     ... I appreciate your service and your friendship, and your service may continue. We shall see. But I will let give you the next pick.

541. 1:02:49

     Ooh, so many to choose from. I'm gonna take, um, Senate Bill 607 on page four, since you said it was a package deal.

542. 1:02:59

     607.

543. 1:02:59

     A little twin killing there.

544. 1:03:01

     Yep. So 607 packaged with SR 875.

545. 1:03:11

     Okay. Let's circle those.

546. 1:03:18

     All right. My next that arrived on time today was Senator Albers.

547. 1:03:25

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, you know, in honor of my good friend, the, the, the dean of the Republican caucus, I'm gonna pick Senate Bill 367.

548. 1:03:35

     Three-

549. 1:03:36

     He retired last year. Didn't you know?

550. 1:03:41

     He should retire every year. All right. Let's see. 367, and then my next to arrive was Senator Dolezal.

551. 1:03:53

     Senator, you can take it.

552. 1:03:54

     Go with-

553. 1:03:54

     Uh, my own bill, Senate Bill 568.

554. 1:03:58

     568.

555. 1:04:01

     No interest like self-interest.

556. 1:04:06

     All right. Moving on. Senator Williams.

557. 1:04:12

     Yes, sir. Thank you. Um,

558. 1:04:18

     gonna go with Senate Bill 301.

559. 1:04:22

     301. Okay.

560. 1:04:37

     Senator Albers, the only one that has not picked his own bill.

561. 1:04:41

     I want that boy this time.

562. 1:04:43

     He picked them all earlier. Yeah. That's exactly right. All right. My next that arrived was Senator Robertson.

563. 1:04:54

     Yes, sir. Um, I know we're gonna get two picks today, so my first one is gonna be SB 587.

564. 1:05:03

     SB 587.

565. 1:05:06

     Nice. Yeah.

566. 1:05:10

     It should be, shouldn't it? It's a Bi- it's a big Dan Jones bill.

567. 1:05:20

     Hey. Nice. All right. We'll come back to you on the... We'll go through twice- Yes ... and then come back and do ding dings. All right. Let me just make sure. Senator Gooch, who's also leaving us, and he's left us. Too late. He gave, he gave me his pick. And he's back. And he's back. I could hear y'all talking about me out there. I did.

568. 1:05:50

     I've given you a pick. I can tell you all new but me. We appreciate your service to this great state- What's the number of- ... and this committee ... 591? Yeah, 591. I'm gonna pick somebody else if they pick mine. I think that, I think that ship has sailed. Everybody's picking their own. Good while it back in. That's the way we operate around here. Yep. Are you picking one? Oh, I ... Yeah.

569. 1:06:16

     She just did.

570. 1:06:17

     SB 591. 591. How about that? Man. Back page. Every man for himself. That's right. That's right. This is a- Dog eat dog ... dog eat dog world/committee. Survivor. Man. That's a hint out there. If you want your bill picked, get somebody on the committee to carry it. All right. Uh, Senator Dixon, you arrived seventh today.

571. 1:06:50

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll take SB 604.

572. 1:06:56

     604. Which bill is that? Senator Cowsert, popular guy today. Wow. Lucky you. All right. Senator Kirkpatrick, you arrived eighth. Thank you. And then I quit counting. Thank you very much. Senate Bill 573.

573. 1:07:16

     573.

574. 1:07:26

     Aha.

575. 1:07:30

     All right.

576. 1:07:34

     All right, we're gonna go back to the top. Senator Walker, president pro tem.

577. 1:07:42

     Uh, I wanna pick, uh, Senate Bill 570, Mr. Chairman.

578. 1:07:52

     570.

579. 1:07:54

     And can I recognize somebody in the audience, Mr. Chairman?

580. 1:07:57

     Absolutely.

581. 1:07:58

     So we have in the audience former Senator Janiece VanNess with us today.

582. 1:08:04

     Oh. Hello, Senator.

583. 1:08:05

     And, uh, she and I came in at the same time, so-

584. 1:08:10

     All right.

585. 1:08:11

     Thank you.

586. 1:08:11

     That would've been, what, 16 or 15?

587. 1:08:13

     15.

588. 1:08:14

     15. That's right. She's, she's a chairman.

589. 1:08:16

     She's a county commissioner now, I think, so.

590. 1:08:19

     Commissioner Senator.

591. 1:08:20

     Yep. Yep.

592. 1:08:21

     Chair one.

593. 1:08:22

     Good-

594. 1:08:22

     Madam Chair.

595. 1:08:23

     Good public servant.

596. 1:08:24

     Thank you for being here. You wanna make a pick? I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. All right. Majority Leader Senator Anavitarte.

597. 1:08:35

     Senate Bill 424.

598. 1:08:37

     424.

599. 1:08:42

     The goat. The go- wow. Wow. Just calls more of your candidates. Leader Jones.

600. 1:08:55

     Um, SB 190.

601. 1:08:58

     190. Take care of our veterans.

602. 1:09:04

     My Vice Chairman, Senator Watson.

603. 1:09:09

     So in honor of my seatmate, uh, SB 515. 515.

604. 1:09:27

     Ooh. I'll add that. You like my bell. I do, too. I take it home with me every night. All right.

605. 1:09:47

     The Whip Kim Jackson. Senator Jackson.

606. 1:09:51

     Thank you, sir. In honor of my suitmate, SB 532.

607. 1:09:57

     5-

608. 1:09:57

     532.

609. 1:09:59

     532.

610. 1:10:04

     Watermelon. 32. All right, Senator Rhett, you don't have to pick your own bill.

611. 1:10:13

     Thank you, sir. Uh, Senate Bill 475.

612. 1:10:19

     Senate Bill 475. Ding ding.

613. 1:10:28

     Hmm? You could make that one. We can make it one. All right. Let's see. Senator Anderson gave me all his picks, so I'm gonna take them later. Senator Hufstetler.

614. 1:10:43

     Senate Bill 566.

615. 1:10:46

     566.

616. 1:10:56

     How convenient, you pick your own bill and it's a ding ding.

617. 1:10:59

     And it's a ding ding.

618. 1:11:00

     Wayne.

619. 1:11:00

     I mean, what a win, Bo.

620. 1:11:01

     It is. Win-win. I'm excited. All right. Senator Still.

621. 1:11:10

     Thank you, Chairman. Uh, I'm gonna pick the non-controversial everybody loves, SB 410.

622. 1:11:17

     Great bill. Great pick.

623. 1:11:22

     Another ding.

624. 1:11:29

     14, great pick.

625. 1:11:34

     All right, let's go back up to the dean of the Senate. Everybody got a pick, right?

626. 1:11:40

     Yeah, one.

627. 1:11:41

     I didn't miss anybody? Everybody got one? All right. Senator Harbison.

628. 1:11:46

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, Senate Bill 327.

629. 1:11:50

     327.

630. 1:11:54

     Uh, 327. All right, good pick.

631. 1:12:05

     I guess I've gotta go in the same order again. Senator Ginn.

632. 1:12:10

     Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman. I've got a constituent down on the second floor that's got a bill, SB553. I wanna make sure my-

633. 1:12:18

     Five

634. 1:12:18

     ... constituent's taken care of.

635. 1:12:20

     5-

636. 1:12:27

     ... 3. Oh.

637. 1:12:28

     Thank you.

638. 1:12:30

     If we get too many dings, we're gonna pick them all. Uh, let's see. Add you, 553. All right. Senator Albers.

639. 1:12:44

     Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm gonna help out my, uh, Cherokee delegation mate with Senate Bill 442.

640. 1:12:52

     442.

641. 1:12:53

     Thank you.

642. 1:13:00

     Ooh.

643. 1:13:00

     Oh.

644. 1:13:00

     That was a surprise one.

645. 1:13:02

     Un- surprising.

646. 1:13:02

     Surprised me. A freshman getting a dinger.

647. 1:13:05

     Mm.

648. 1:13:06

     Smart.

649. 1:13:06

     Got some powerful people that like that bill.

650. 1:13:09

     He's a visionary.

651. 1:13:11

     I've gotta add that. All right.

652. 1:13:16

     Senator Dolezal.

653. 1:13:17

     SB 445.

654. 1:13:19

     445.

655. 1:13:33

     All right. Let's see. Senator Williams.

656. 1:13:37

     Senate Bill 586.

657. 1:13:40

     586.

658. 1:13:48

     Nope.

659. 1:13:49

     No.

660. 1:13:49

     Not a dinger.

661. 1:13:50

     It wasn't a ding-ding?

662. 1:13:50

     Not a dinger. I just wanted to play with your emotions.

663. 1:13:56

     You're a heartbreaker.

664. 1:14:00

     I've never been told that before. Uh, Senator Robertson.

665. 1:14:03

     Uh, 473.

666. 1:14:07

     473. Where is-

667. 1:14:13

     You gonna go ahead and do the zing ding out of the way?

668. 1:14:15

     Nah. Nice try, though. All right. Um, S- Senator Gooch.

669. 1:14:25

     Last page, Senate Bill 592.

670. 1:14:28

     Oh, surprising.

671. 1:14:30

     592.

672. 1:14:34

     Two picks. You pick your own on both.

673. 1:14:38

     You got self-preservation.

674. 1:14:40

     Shocker. All right. Senator Dixon.

675. 1:14:47

     Senate Bill 594.

676. 1:14:50

     594.

677. 1:14:54

     Okay.

678. 1:14:59

     Senator Kirkpatrick.

679. 1:15:01

     Thank you, Mr. Chair. Senate Bill 540.

680. 1:15:05

     540.

681. 1:15:11

     Okay.

682. 1:15:16

     President Pro Tem Larry Walker III.

683. 1:15:21

     Man.

684. 1:15:23

     And if you pick one that's already been picked-

685. 1:15:26

     Ooh

686. 1:15:26

     ... you shall get heckled heavily.

687. 1:15:31

     And if you do it twice, I may, you may lose a pick. Just depends on what kind of mood I'm in.

688. 1:15:36

     Is that like, like the red flag in foot ball?

689. 1:15:39

     Yes. Foot.

690. 1:15:41

     Crap. Hang on.

691. 1:15:41

     They don't have red flags in football. It's red cards.

692. 1:15:44

     Red card, whatever.

693. 1:15:46

     Yellow cards, red cards.

694. 1:15:50

     This is, um, Senate Bill 418.

695. 1:15:53

     418. I think his clarification might've got him over the hump.

696. 1:16:00

     Yeah, right.

697. 1:16:02

     Uh, 418. All right. Senator Anavitarte.

698. 1:16:09

     Hmm.

699. 1:16:13

     Grab something good for a change.

700. 1:16:16

     I'm trying. I'm, uh-

701. 1:16:17

     We need a shot clock.

702. 1:16:19

     There's not, there's not too much good ones left.

703. 1:16:21

     Oh, you don't think the one the young lady stood on 542-

704. 1:16:24

     There's still some dingers out there, just FYI

705. 1:16:26

     ... Senate Bill, that's not too bad.

706. 1:16:29

     I'm not telling you what they are, though.

707. 1:16:30

     There's good ones. Paul said there's still some dingers out there.

708. 1:16:34

     You're out of picks anyway.

709. 1:16:37

     605 is a good one.

710. 1:16:40

     All right. Let's go.

711. 1:16:43

     Oh, there's 605, Andy Willis.

712. 1:16:45

     Yeah.

713. 1:16:46

     I'm getting hungry.

714. 1:16:46

     257, let's do 572.

715. 1:16:49

     572.

716. 1:16:53

     Oh, that's a good one.

717. 1:16:57

     Andrew Ryle.

718. 1:16:59

     That's a good one.

719. 1:17:01

     Two of the other one.

720. 1:17:06

     Ooh.

721. 1:17:06

     All right. Leader Jones.

722. 1:17:09

     Thank you, Mr. Chair. SB 278.

723. 1:17:12

     278. The corn masa. I just like saying it. Masa. 278. All right.

724. 1:17:29

     My vice chairman.

725. 1:17:32

     SB 605.

726. 1:17:35

     605, last page. All right. Good bill.

727. 1:17:48

     For the record, that was a dinger, but you already got one. So, um, where am I? Senator Cowsert, I skipped you.

728. 1:17:59

     Oh.

729. 1:18:00

     Not intentionally.

730. 1:18:01

     That's okay. Uh, Senate Resolution 262 to keep the theme alive.

731. 1:18:05

     Senate Resolution 262.

732. 1:18:08

     You got that, too. Just one, 606. There's a chance Kim Jackson might-

733. 1:18:15

     262?

734. 1:18:17

     Senate resolution. That's all. All right. Senator Jackson.

735. 1:18:25

     Senate Bill 606.

736. 1:18:27

     606. Interesting.

737. 1:18:32

     606.

738. 1:18:34

     Very interesting. All right. Senator Rhett.

739. 1:18:43

     Yes, sir. Senate Bill

740. 1:18:48

     202.

741. 1:18:50

     202.

742. 1:18:51

     First page, second one down.

743. 1:18:53

     That's the old election bill.

744. 1:18:55

     Third one down.

745. 1:18:56

     Interesting. Senate Bill... We should have retire, we should retire, yeah. We'll draw up that bill next year to retire numbers. It's a bipartisan number.

746. 1:19:13

     All right. Senator Anderson is next. I'm reserving, he gave me his. It hasn't been picked yet, so. Senator Still.

747. 1:19:28

     Senate Bill 555.

748. 1:19:32

     555. Department Bill.

749. 1:19:41

     All right, that was a dinger, but you already got one. You don't get one. All right. Oh, Senator Hostetler, I missed you.

750. 1:19:51

     Senate Bill 556.

751. 1:19:54

     556.

752. 1:19:59

     Okay.

753. 1:20:08

     All right. I am going to, for Senator Anderson, I'm going to select, he wanted Senate Bill 423.

754. 1:20:19

     Hey, dinger. He gets another one.

755. 1:20:26

     And

756. 1:20:30

     SR838.

757. 1:20:35

     That was a dinger, but he doesn't get another one.

758. 1:20:40

     Okay, let's do our dingers. Hold on. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. One, two, three. One, two, three.

759. 1:20:59

     After the dingers, that's the whole page. All pages.

760. 1:21:05

     Several. Yeah. So let's just circle them all.

761. 1:21:27

     Unfortunately, some of those are gonna be at the back of the calendar. Yeah. All right, here we go. I'm gonna call out bills from yesterday first. Senate Bill 439, Senate Bill 454, Senate Bill 458, Senate Bill 465, Senate Bill 482, Senate Bill 485, Senate Bill 498, Senate Bill 501, Senate Bill 542, Senate Bill 551, Senate Bill 405.

762. 1:21:58

     Those were all from yesterday. For today, from today's meeting, we have Senate Bill 11, Senate Bill 190, Senate Bill 202, Senate Bill 209, Senate Bill 278, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 324, Senate Bill 327, Senate Bill 367, Senate Bill 410, Senate Bill 418, Senate Bill 423, Senate Bill 424, Senate Bill 442, Senate Bill 445.

763. 1:22:29

     I'm just gonna skip the Senate Bill part, so I'm just gonna say 47- these are all Senate bills. 473, 475, 488, 499, 515, 532, 540, 547, 553, 555, 556, 566, 568, 569, 570, 572, 573, 586, 587, 589, 591, 592, 593, 594, 604, 605, 606, 607.

764. 1:23:06

     And we've got Senate Resolution 262, Senate Resolution 838, and Senate Resolution 875.

765. 1:23:16

     I've got a motion from Senator Albers. I've got a second from Senator Cowsert. Is there any further discussion? What's the lunch? Uh, you have lunch in Mez 1 for the committee and committee staff, in Mez 1. And then I think there's some other stuff in another room that's not ours. Okay.

766. 1:23:47

     But have, help yourself. Thank you. Any other discussion? Senator Still.

767. 1:23:53

     Just a reminder for the majority caucus. We will, um, begin our meeting at 12:00 PM.

768. 1:24:02

     Okay.

769. 1:24:03

     In the Mez.

770. 1:24:04

     So we are meeting.

771. 1:24:06

     The committee, but also the majority caucus will be caucusing as well.

772. 1:24:11

     Okay. So y'all go get your food quickly. All right. Any other questions or discussion? All right. All in favor raise your hand.

773. 1:24:25

     Motion carries unanimous. See y'all on the floor tomorrow. Meeting adjourned.