--- title: Senate Rules Committee, March 10, 2026 collection: meetings id: 2026-03-10/senate-rules cite_as: Senate Rules Committee, March 10, 2026, video https://vimeo.com/1171893537 (machine transcript by Georgia Commons) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-03-10/senate-rules md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-03-10/senate-rules.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/meetings/2026-03-10/senate-rules/text source_url: https://vimeo.com/1171893537 date: 2026-03-10 status: machine transcript corpus_version: meetings-2026-10-23-8c15ead0f18d license: Machine transcript and summaries by Georgia Commons from the General Assembly's public video; the video stays on the General Assembly's Vimeo channel; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. 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Video, on the General Assembly's Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/1171893537. > This is a machine transcript of the General Assembly's video, made by a speech-recognition model. It is not an official record and can mishear words, names, and numbers. Speakers are not identified. The video is the record: every timestamp links to the moment it plays. ## Summary written by Georgia Commons Written by gpt-6.1-sol from the transcript below. It is not part of the record. Quote the transcript or the video, not the summary. The committee heard brief presentations and requests to schedule bills for Senate floor consideration. By a unanimous voice vote, it approved a calendar containing [HB 162](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb162), [HB 185](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb185), [HB 219](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb219), [HB 483](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb483), [HB 956](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb956), [HB 1020](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1020) and [HB 1199](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1199). Members also discussed recycling, deannexation, manufactured homes, squatting, credit for time spent in jail and reimbursement of police training costs. Other bills and resolutions presented were not included in the approved calendar. ## Bills discussed (15) Each account was written by gpt-6.1-sol from the stretch of the transcript it names. The bill's number is said in that stretch, unless it was the only bill on a committee's agenda. ### HB 956. Solid Waste Trust Fund; authorize use of funds for implementation of provisions of a solid waste management program [HB 956](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb956) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:04:51](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=291s), turns 11 to 232. The sponsor said [HB 956](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb956) would give the Environmental Protection Division director flexibility to take actions needed to implement provisions of the Solid Waste Trust Fund. No questions were asked. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ### HB 219. Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize [HB 219](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb219) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:05:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=317s), turns 21 to 232. The sponsor described [HB 219](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb219) as an alternative discipline bill for nurses. No questions were asked. Later, a committee member requested that it be scheduled for the next day, and the committee unanimously approved including it on the floor calendar. ### SR 610. Senate Study Committee on Improving and Increasing Recycling; create [SR 610](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr610) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:05:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=343s), turns 25 to 58. The sponsor said [SR 610](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr610) would create a study committee on recycling in Georgia. Asked whether tires would be included, the sponsor said yes. When another member asked about earlier tire legislation, the sponsor explained that it concerned removing tires from landfills and handling the $5 fee paid when an old tire is exchanged for a new one, rather than tire recycling. No vote or calendar placement was shown. ### HB 162. Georgia Bureau of Investigation; restriction and seal of First Offender Act sentences until such status is revoked; provide [HB 162](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb162) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:07:52](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=472s), turns 72 to 232. The sponsor said [HB 162](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb162) would make the First Offender Act more effective as a second chance by sealing records at sentencing rather than waiting until successful completion of the sentence. The sponsor explained that records are currently restricted at sentencing and that the bill would both restrict and seal them then. The sponsor said judges could unseal records if an offender violated the sentence or another reason warranted it. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ### HB 185. Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act [HB 185](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb185) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:10:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=607s), turns 116 to 232. The sponsor said [HB 185](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb185) would replace Georgia's older dietetics law and establish separate licenses for dietitians and nutritionists treating medical conditions. The sponsor distinguished that work from general wellness advice provided by coaches or personal trainers. The sponsor said the bill would also allow Georgia to join the dietitian licensure compact and update and expand the licensing board. The sponsor argued that these changes would protect patients, strengthen professional standards and improve access to nutrition care. No substantive questions were asked. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ### HB 521. Local government; deannexation of certain properties; revise procedures [HB 521](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb521) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:11:27](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=687s), turns 123 to 130. The sponsor said [HB 521](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb521) would require notification to the reapportionment office when property is removed from a municipality, complementing an earlier requirement to provide annexation maps. The sponsor said the bill would establish a 90-day deadline for requests to remove wholly county-owned property from a municipality because current requests can remain unresolved indefinitely. The sponsor also described location-specific annexation and deannexation options, including additions made in the Senate, without detailing them. No questions were asked, and no calendar placement was shown. ### HB 1020. Judicial Retirement System; payment of monthly retirement benefits for creditable service as a district attorney at the age of 65 years; provide [HB 1020](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1020) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:12:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=763s), turns 132 to 232. The sponsor said [HB 1020](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1020) would move the retirement age for district attorneys from 60 to 65 in anticipation of forthcoming district attorney pay legislation and a budget adjustment. No substantive questions were asked. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ### SR 697. Colbert, Jason; recognize [SR 697](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr697) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:13:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=797s), turns 136 to 136. The sponsor requested favorable consideration of [SR 697](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr697) alongside another resolution, describing both as agency measures for Technical College System of Georgia awards that had been discussed the previous day. No further explanation or calendar placement was shown. ### SR 698. Mirzakulova, Dr. Ekaterina; recognize [SR 698](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr698) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:13:18](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=798s), turns 136 to 136. The sponsor requested favorable consideration of [SR 698](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr698) alongside another resolution, describing both as agency measures for Technical College System of Georgia awards that had been discussed the previous day. No further explanation or calendar placement was shown. ### HB 165. Income tax credit; business enterprises for leased motor vehicles; repeal and reserve [HB 165](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb165) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:14:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=850s), turns 144 to 162. The Senate presenter said the original contents of [HB 165](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb165) had been replaced. The presenter explained that it now carried manufactured-home language previously removed from another bill, allowing 50 percent of a home's value to count toward real property. The presenter described this as restoring language displaced when another measure was used for income legislation. No vote or calendar placement was shown. ### HB 61. Motor vehicles; issuance of separate license plates for hearses and ambulances; provide [HB 61](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb61) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:15:11](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=911s), turns 163 to 168. The Senate presenter said [HB 61](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb61) no longer matched its original title and now addressed nonpayment and strengthened squatting laws. Asked whether it was another bill with replaced contents, the presenter said no. No further details or calendar placement were shown. ### HB 483. Crimes and offenses; protections for inspectors of code enforcement; provide [HB 483](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb483) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:15:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=928s), turns 169 to 232. The chair briefly described [HB 483](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb483) as increasing penalties involving code enforcement inspectors. There was no substantive discussion or questioning. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ### HB 535. Penal institutions; credit for time served regarding probation revocation sentencing; provide [HB 535](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb535) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:15:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=943s), turns 169 to 172. The Senate presenter said [HB 535](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb535) would give people credit for each day spent in jail while a petition to revoke probation is being resolved. No questions, vote or calendar placement were shown. ### HB 549. Peace officers; extend time frame for which reimbursement of total training expenses by a subsequent employer may be sought [HB 549](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb549) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:16:14](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=974s), turns 173 to 193. The chair described [HB 549](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb549) as addressing reimbursement of peace officer training expenses. A committee member explained that when one agency pays for an officer's academy training and another agency soon hires that officer, the new agency would reimburse the training costs. The member said agencies had experienced officers leaving soon after receiving paid training. Another member asked how long the reimbursement requirement would apply. The responding member said they had not read the bill and had only heard that the period might be three years, leaving the exact deadline unconfirmed. No vote or calendar placement was shown. ### HB 1199. Revenue and taxation; Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Code of 1986; revise terms and incorporate certain provisions of federal law into Georgia law [HB 1199](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1199) (2025-2026 Regular Session). From [0:16:47](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1007s), turns 177 to 232. The chair described [HB 1199](https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1199) as a revenue code update that would bring Georgia law partly into line with federal law. A committee member clarified that it would not match every federal provision. No specific provisions were discussed. The committee later unanimously approved including the bill on the floor calendar. ## Transcript (235 turns) [0:04:01](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=241s) Senator Hufstetler, lead us in a word of prayer, please. [0:04:04](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=244s) Certainly, Chairman. Our dear heavenly Father, we thank you for all that you've blessed us with, all you've provided us with. We know you've been good to us in so many ways and, uh, have been abundant in your mercies to us. We pray that you would give us your wisdom in all that we do today, and that we could do it for your honor and your glory. We ask this in your name. Amen. [0:04:22](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=262s) Amen. All right. Representative Corbett, you're back. [0:04:31](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=271s) I'm, I'm back. [0:04:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=272s) Honored to have you. Just for you, all you House members to know, you don't... If you've presented your bill once, you don't have to come back, but it's always harder for the committee to say no- [0:04:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=283s) Uh, well- [0:04:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=283s) ... to your face. [0:04:44](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=284s) Well, I, I got a invite on my phone, so I said I will absolutely come if, uh- [0:04:48](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=288s) There you go. Well, we're- [0:04:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=289s) ... necessary [0:04:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=289s) ... glad to have you. [0:04:51](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=291s) All right. House Bill 956, uh, fourth one on the second sheet, fourth one down, I believe. Anyway, I asked for this yesterday, but, uh, it just gives the EPD director f- some flexibility- [0:05:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=300s) Mm-hmm [0:05:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=300s) ... uh, take actions necessary to implement provisions of Solid Waste Trust Fund, uh, basically what, what the bill does, so. [0:05:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=307s) Okay. No questions. Thank you. [0:05:09](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=309s) Thank you. [0:05:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=310s) Representative Stevens. [0:05:12](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=312s) Mm. [0:05:13](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=313s) Thank you for being here. [0:05:14](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=314s) I just like coming back to you guys, Mr. Chairman. [0:05:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=316s) We like seeing you. [0:05:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=317s) Uh, House Bill 219 is, uh, as of yesterday, the alternative discipline bill for nurses. [0:05:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=325s) Any questions? No questions. Thank you. [0:05:27](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=327s) Thanks, sir. [0:05:29](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=329s) All right. Senator Hatchett, you got anything? Or actually, I know you do. [0:05:36](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=336s) I have a great bill on, uh, it's a Senate resolution for a study committee on recycling in the State of Georgia. It's SR610. It's a good one. [0:05:45](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=345s) Question. Senator Robertson, you're recognized. [0:05:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=349s) Thank you. Um, Chairman Hatchett, does, does your bill a- Include, uh, tires? [0:05:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=355s) It does. [0:05:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=355s) Thank you. [0:05:56](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=356s) Yeah. Thank you. [0:05:57](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=357s) Tires. [0:05:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=358s) Heard it... I, I've heard it does include that. [0:06:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=360s) Okay. [0:06:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=360s) Yeah. [0:06:01](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=361s) Well, well, we got a question, Dean. [0:06:04](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=364s) Um, just thinking. [0:06:04](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=364s) Well, go ahead. You're recognized. [0:06:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=366s) I, I thought we'd dealt with that, the tire situation before, didn't we? [0:06:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=370s) No, sir. That was not on recycling tires. That was on removing tires from the landfill- [0:06:14](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=374s) Yeah [0:06:14](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=374s) ... and how the $5 fee was paid when, when a old tire was turned in for a new tire. [0:06:18](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=378s) Because they were not doing both. [0:06:19](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=379s) Transferred- [0:06:20](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=380s) Correct [0:06:20](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=380s) ... from the retail to the wholesaler. [0:06:22](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=382s) The chairman is correct. [0:06:23](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=383s) Yes, Mr. Chairman. [0:06:24](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=384s) I was the only no vote. [0:06:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=385s) On the tire. [0:06:27](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=387s) Yes, 'cause you're gonna retire, correct? [0:06:29](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=389s) No. [0:06:30](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=390s) Okay. [0:06:30](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=390s) Retread. [0:06:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=393s) There you go. [0:06:34](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=394s) All right. You got any more study committees you wanna talk about? [0:06:38](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=398s) Just that one, Mr. Chairman. [0:06:39](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=399s) All right. [0:06:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=400s) Thank you. [0:06:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=400s) Moving on. Representative Yerda. [0:06:47](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=407s) Yes, sir. Uh- [0:06:48](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=408s) Glad to have you back [0:06:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=409s) ... glad to be back. I won't thank anybody today. [0:06:51](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=411s) I don't know if you heard me earlier. You don't have to come back, but we offer it. [0:06:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=415s) Yeah, sir. I just, this reminder, 5- 485 is just a, cleans up the code a number of ways and, uh, gets rid of, uh, parts of the code that are unconstitutional. Also, it, uh, repeals provisions contingent upon fun- funding that has not been funded since, some since 1983, so appreciate it. [0:07:21](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=441s) Senator Hatchett was about negative three then, weren't you? How old were you in 1983? Negative what? [0:07:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=448s) Six. [0:07:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=448s) Six. Negative six. I was five. All right, moving on. Representative Hagan. We just passed one of your bills today. [0:07:39](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=459s) You did? [0:07:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=460s) We did. [0:07:41](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=461s) Which one? [0:07:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=462s) Didn't we? I don't know. Maybe not. [0:07:48](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=468s) Oh, thank you. Well, if you did, thank you so much. I have House Bill 162, and I ha- I don't have the... Is there a sheet? I didn't see a sheet. [0:07:57](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=477s) There's a sheet. [0:07:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=478s) 162. [0:08:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=480s) Do you know what it does? [0:08:01](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=481s) I do know what it does. [0:08:02](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=482s) You don't need a sheet then. [0:08:03](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=483s) Okay. Well, it amends and modernizes our First Offender Act, uh, so that it truly is a second chance that it was originally intended to be. I've had this bill, this is the third session now that I've had it. And, uh, it does this by changing when the records would be sealed. Right now they are restricted at sentencing, but they're sealed upon successful completion of the sentence. This would just seal and restrict upon sentencing. [0:08:34](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=514s) Judge reserves the right to unseal them should the judge feel that the offender has violated their, their sentence or there's some other reason to- [0:08:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=522s) Yeah [0:08:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=522s) ... unseal them. [0:08:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=523s) Okay. [0:08:44](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=524s) Mm-hmm. [0:08:45](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=525s) A lot of seals in there. Any questions? Oh, Dr. Rhett. Doc Rhett, I should say. [0:08:53](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=533s) Thank you, Mr. [0:08:53](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=533s) Thank you. [0:08:53](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=533s) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Isn't this her first time passing a bill and coming back and asking for another bill on the same day? [0:09:02](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=542s) Well, technically she's passed a bill. [0:09:03](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=543s) Well, surely that's happened in the past. I feel, I feel like it has. [0:09:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=547s) Good bill. [0:09:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=550s) Good, great question. Great question. [0:09:11](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=551s) It is a great question. [0:09:13](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=553s) All right. No, no other questions. [0:09:15](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=555s) Thank you, Chairman. [0:09:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=556s) Thank- [0:09:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=556s) Good boy [0:09:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=556s) ... thank goodness. [0:09:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=557s) Mr. Chairman. [0:09:18](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=558s) Y- yes, Senator Anderson, you're recognized. [0:09:21](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=561s) Representative, don't you have another bill? [0:09:24](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=564s) You do have another bill, 963, or 983. You discussed it yesterday. You don't have to discuss it again, but you can. [0:09:31](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=571s) Yes, I do have, I do have that other one. And that- [0:09:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=573s) Another department [0:09:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=573s) ... that's a department bill, so request that for the Georgia Forestry Commission. [0:09:39](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=579s) That is a department bill. [0:09:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=582s) Prescribed burning. [0:09:46](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=586s) That is a department bill. [0:09:47](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=587s) Mm-hmm. [0:09:48](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=588s) All right. [0:09:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=589s) Thank you. [0:09:49](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=589s) Thank you. Representative Earnhardt, how you doing? [0:09:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=595s) Doing well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. [0:09:56](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=596s) You got a great bill. [0:09:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=598s) I'm glad you think it's a great bill. I do too. [0:10:00](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=600s) It makes a great Senate sponsor. [0:10:01](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=601s) It certainly does Um, ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee, I present for your consideration HB185, which modernizes Georgia law governing dieticians and nutrition professionals by updating and replacing a very old dietetics practice act. Um, it recognizes that nutrition science plays a critical role in preventing disease, managing medical conditions, and improving overall health. It establishes c- clear guidelines and two separate licenses for licensed dieticians and licensed nutritionists, those that are cre- uh, those that are treating, uh, medical conditions. [0:10:36](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=636s) So this is very different than just generalized health and wellness advice that you might receive from a coach, um, or a personal trainer. Um, it also allows Georgia to enter into the dietician licensure compact, and it updates and expands the Georgia Board of Examiners of licensed dieticians and licensed nutritionists. Uh, in a nutshell, folks, it, uh, protects patients, strengthens professional standards, and ensures that Georgians have access to safe, high-quality nutrition care. And I'll stand for any questions. [0:11:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=666s) Now, my description of that yesterday was a lot shorter. [0:11:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=670s) I know you prefer the abbreviated version. [0:11:12](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=672s) I'll need your talking points at some point. Uh, any other questions? All right, thank you. [0:11:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=677s) Thank you. [0:11:19](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=679s) Representative Anderson, welcome back. [0:11:23](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=683s) Thank you, sir. I'm, uh, back asking for House Bill 521. I did, uh, come the other day, but, uh, uh, doesn't hurt to ask twice. [0:11:35](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=695s) That's right. And that was yesterday, by the way. [0:11:37](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=697s) Yes, sir. I forget. I'm losing track of days. [0:11:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=700s) I understand completely. [0:11:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=702s) House Bill 521 requires, uh, uh, the reapportionment office be notified of annex- of de-annexations. We actually had a bill a couple years ago that required that annexation maps be provided to them, so now we're cleaning that up. Uh, it also presents a, uh, 90-day shot clock on scenarios to where k- property that is 100% owned by the county, uh, is, has been petitioned to be de-annexed from a municipality. Currently there is no timeframe on that, and those, uh, requests can kind of sit there from now on. [0:12:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=736s) And then we've also provided a few other, uh, kind of area-specific options for annexation and de-annexation, and I know that the, the, the Senate has, uh, added to that list for some, some good opportunities for us. [0:12:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=752s) No questions. [0:12:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=753s) Thank you. [0:12:34](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=754s) Thank you. Representative Reeves. [0:12:38](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=758s) Thank you, Chairman Brass and members of the Senate Rules Committee. I'm here to request House Bill 1020. This is a district attorney retirement bill. It moves the retirement age from age 60 to age 65. This is done in contemplation of, uh, forthcoming district attorney pay legislation as well as budget, uh, adjustment. [0:12:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=778s) Questions? 1020, second on the, second from the end. [0:13:05](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=785s) Thank you so much. [0:13:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=786s) Thank you. Senator Burns. [0:13:12](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=792s) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have, uh, two bills we discussed yesterday, Senate Resolution, uh, 697 and 698. These are both, uh, agency bills. I'd appreciate your favorable consideration for TCSG awards. [0:13:24](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=804s) Okay. And Senator Dickerson, did you have something? [0:13:31](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=811s) No, Mr. Chairman. [0:13:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=812s) You're just here to watch greatness? [0:13:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=813s) I am. It's good watching you here. [0:13:35](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=815s) All right. Well, that's what I said. Uh, I saw Senator Hodges earlier. Is he still here or he leave? [0:13:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=822s) He left. [0:13:43](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=823s) Okay. Hey, Senator Duggan's here. Hey. Hey. [0:13:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=835s) Uh, what was that? Would you like to address the crowd? We know you remember. They paid a- They paid a lot of money to see you. Yeah. You need to give them what they came for. All right, let's move on. Uh, Senator Huffstetler, HB165, can you cover that for Representative Franklin since you're carrying it? [0:14:19](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=859s) Yeah, we, um- [0:14:20](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=860s) Oh, yeah [0:14:21](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=861s) ... stripped that and put something else in for somebody else, so that's not what that is. [0:14:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=868s) Um- [0:14:30](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=870s) It's the strip bill. [0:14:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=872s) So we had, uh, we had taken one of Beth Gamm's bills, um- [0:14:35](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=875s) This could take place at the Hawks game [0:14:37](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=877s) ... for, uh, for, uh, Senator Tillery's income bill, and we told her that we would make her whole on her, uh, uh, manufactured home bill that we had passed out last year that lets 50% of the value go towards real property. And- [0:14:53](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=893s) Make it whole by taking all the words out. [0:14:54](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=894s) By, by, by, um, putting her original language back in that we stripped- [0:14:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=898s) Got it [0:14:59](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=899s) ... in another bill. [0:14:59](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=899s) Oh, okay. Fair enough. No questions. Questions? [0:15:05](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=905s) No, thank you. [0:15:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=906s) More questions than answers. [0:15:08](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=908s) That's right. [0:15:08](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=908s) All right. We're gonna resolve debate. [0:15:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=910s) 165. [0:15:11](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=911s) Uh, HB61. Go for it, Senator Albers. [0:15:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=916s) Number four? [0:15:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=917s) Four. [0:15:18](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=918s) Uh, this is, uh, not what the original title was. This is now, uh, the no pay, no stay, and tightening up the squatter laws. [0:15:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=925s) Another strip bill? [0:15:27](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=927s) No, sir. [0:15:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=928s) Oh, okay. All right, uh, 483, this one, uh, increases your penalties on en- code enforcement inspectors. Good bill. Um, HB535. Senator Cowsert, you're carrying that one. Can you speak to it? [0:15:52](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=952s) I can speak to that quickly, Mr. Chairman. [0:15:54](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=954s) Sure. [0:15:54](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=954s) It is to give credit for time served to somebody that's had a probation revocation petition and gets placed in jail, so they get credit for each day they're sitting in jail as that, till that's resolved. [0:16:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=967s) Okay. All right, H- That was 535, first one on the second page. All right, HB 549, just doing training expenses, reimbursement for peace officers, I think is pretty much it, right? [0:16:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=985s) If one agency hires them away, they have to leave- [0:16:27](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=987s) Hold on. Go ahead. [0:16:29](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=989s) It's if... Do you give you an example, if the, if the, um, local police department pays for somebody to go through the police academy and gets all their training, and they come and they're working there for six months, and they all of a sudden want to go to the sheriff's office, the sheriff's office has to reimburse the police department for the amount of money they spent for that training. [0:16:47](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1007s) All right. And then 1199 is our revenue code update, somewhat matching up with federal. [0:16:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1018s) Go- [0:16:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1018s) Not everything. [0:16:59](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1019s) Go back to, go back to 549 please. [0:17:04](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1024s) Are you asking permission? No, I'm just kidding. Go ahead. [0:17:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1027s) Um, Senator Robertson, when you say six months, what- [0:17:12](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1032s) I give that as an example. [0:17:13](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1033s) I noted. I noted. So when would you not have to pay it back? [0:17:17](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1037s) Well, I haven't, haven't- I haven't read this bill yet, but I think it may be three years is what I'd heard in the hallway. [0:17:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1045s) Okay. [0:17:25](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1045s) So, and what we had a problem was agencies were paying for the training, and then officers were leaving so fast. [0:17:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1052s) Yeah, I understand that. [0:17:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1052s) Yes, sir. [0:17:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1052s) I just was wondering when, when would, when the, the other, the sheriff's department wouldn't have to pay it back. [0:17:38](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1058s) Right. I, I haven't read the bill, so. [0:17:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1060s) Okay. Okay. [0:17:41](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1061s) Thank you. [0:17:42](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1062s) It's a good practice. All right. Anything else for the good of the order? All right, let's pick a few. Leader Jones. [0:17:54](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1074s) Mister, uh, HB 483. [0:17:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1078s) 483. Good bill. [0:18:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1086s) All right. [0:18:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1087s) Go on. [0:18:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1087s) My vice chairman. [0:18:11](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1091s) Let's do HB 162. [0:18:14](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1094s) 162. Okay. [0:18:18](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1098s) 162. [0:18:21](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1101s) All right. [0:18:26](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1106s) I need some ding-dings here. [0:18:28](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1108s) I got one. [0:18:29](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1109s) What you got? [0:18:30](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1110s) You said 160. 162. 162. [0:18:33](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1113s) 956. [0:18:36](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1116s) Good job. [0:18:37](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1117s) All right. [0:18:38](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1118s) What about this one? [0:18:39](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1119s) Good job. [0:18:40](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1120s) 956. [0:18:41](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1121s) All right. What's your- [0:18:44](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1124s) And then- [0:18:44](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1124s) We're gonna save it, 'cause I'm running out of bills here. Um, all right, I'm gonna put on 1199 and 1020. [0:18:55](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1135s) You got 956 and 185. Two, three, four, five, six. Okay. [0:19:06](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1146s) And 185. [0:19:07](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1147s) 185, that's correct. All right. I've got- [0:19:10](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1150s) Mr. Chairman, don't have our nurses come tomorrow. [0:19:13](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1153s) Which one was that? [0:19:15](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1155s) 1219. [0:19:16](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1156s) Good call. Add 219. [0:19:21](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1161s) But I would like everyone to make an effort tomorrow that our second vote of the day is not four hours and 10 minutes into the day. [0:19:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1172s) Okay. [0:19:32](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1172s) Makes it very difficult for us to get to committees, and all our house members have to suffer, 'cause their bills wait a little bit longer, and harder to get here. All right. Here we go. HB 162, HB 185, HB 219, HB 483, HB 956, HB 1020, and HB 1199. [0:19:56](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1196s) So moved. [0:19:57](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1197s) Got a motion from Senator Ginn. [0:19:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1198s) Second. [0:19:58](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1198s) Got a second from Senator Williams. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. [0:20:03](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1203s) Aye. [0:20:03](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1203s) All opposed say nay. Motion carries unanimous. On to your committees. [0:20:11](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1211s) On the job. [0:20:12](https://vimeo.com/1171893537#t=1212s) Get us some good house bills. Meeting adjourned.