Georgia CommonsHouse Rules Committee, March 10, 2026
2025-2026 Regular Session · 341 CAP · 31 min
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Summary
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The committee approved a Rules substitute for HR 145, a resolution urging vision and hearing screenings in schools for young students. The sponsor explained that the substitute corrected the resolution to refer to the House of Representatives rather than the General Assembly. No opposition was voiced. The chair said the committee would not set a calendar that day because the budget was scheduled to be taken up, and announced a meeting for 11 a.m. the next day to set Thursday’s calendar.
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HR 145. Education and Public Health, Departments of; collaborate to prioritize the expansion of vision and hearing screenings at various grade levels; urge
From 0:28:52 · turns 9 to 13 · Confirmed by the 2026 House Journal, p. 2583
The sponsor described HR 145 as a resolution urging vision and hearing screenings in schools for the youngest students and said it had been recommitted the previous day. The sponsor explained that the substitute changed line 19 to identify the House of Representatives, rather than the General Assembly, as the body adopting the resolution. After a motion and second, the committee approved the Rules substitute with no opposition voiced. No substantive questions or debate followed the presentation.
Official records of this meeting
- 2026 House Journal, pp. 2575 to 2629 (March 12, 2026)
Transcript
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- 0:27:12
Morning, everybody.
- 0:27:21
If you would, go ahead and take your seats, and we'll call the meeting to order. Uh, Chairman Jaspers, would you, uh, lead us in a word of prayer to open our meeting, please?
- 0:27:33
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let's all bow our heads together, please. Heavenly Father, thank you for another day. A beautiful day out in the world, and, you know, we've got ... We're in here. Let's... Put your hands around us. Keep us wise. Keep us fair and kind to one another in these upcoming days. And Heavenly Father, we know we've got needs in their community. You know, Gerald's sister, Angie O'Steen's father, and many others that need y- your consolation, your condolences. And help us learn to love one another in the next few days, and do your work.
- 0:28:06
Amen.
- 0:28:07
Amen.
- 0:28:08
Thank you. We've got some guests with us today, and I'm gonna w- co- recognize, uh, Chairman Newton.
- 0:28:16
Thank- thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, we often hear from our f- friends at the Medical College of Georgia that Georgia is our campus. Just wanted to see if we could all welcome, uh, some third-year medical students plugging away up in Northwest Georgia in the Rome area from the Medical College of Georgia. Please help me welcome them.
- 0:28:31
Good.
- 0:28:34
Thank you all for being here and, and watching us, uh, do our best to, to, uh, make Georgia a better place. Thank you for being here.
- 0:28:41
Great. Thank you. Glad to have y'all with us today. Thank you for visiting. Okay. Uh, let's recognize Chairman Erwin to speak to House Resolution 145.
- 0:28:54
Great. Thank you, Chairman and members. Uh, on the white paper in front of you, you got HR 145. It was recommitted yesterday. Uh, it's the urging resolution for vision and hearing screening in schools for our youngest students. Um, if you'll look on line 19, we had to make a change. Uh, now therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives. We had General Assembly there. We had to replace the words, uh, House of Representative in there.
- 0:29:28
Okay, you've heard the explanation. And do I have a motion that we approve rule substitute to House Resolution 145? That's LC 49-2792S.
- 0:29:40
So moved.
- 0:29:41
Have a motion and a second. Any opposition? Okay, it's approved. Okay.
- 0:29:52
Now, we, we will not set a calendar for today. We have the budget on the table today, and I think at 11:06, we should be able to take that up. It would've been out for 24 hours. So that's what we'll do today, and then we'll meet tomorrow at 11 so that we can set a calendar for Thursday. Anything else? Thank you all for being here.