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Senate Rules Committee, March 30, 2026

2025-2026 Regular Session · 450 CAP · 3 h 02 min

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Summary

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The committee set the Senate floor calendar for legislative days 39 and 40. Sponsors gave brief presentations, members selected bills, and the chair added several measures. After a lunch recess, members held an informal vote to choose one additional bill, selecting HB 421. The committee then unanimously approved the full calendar. The selections covered taxes, education, health care, public safety, local government and other subjects. Separately, the committee unanimously moved 12 study committee resolutions to the consent calendar. Several measures presented or nominated were not included in the final calendar. The chair said no Wednesday meeting was planned and cautioned that some calendar bills could later be tabled on the floor. The meeting ended in recess.

Bills discussed (114)

Each account covers the stretch of the meeting it names. The bill's number is said in that stretch, unless it was the only bill on a committee's agenda.

HB 187. Professions and businesses; contractors; change certain provisions

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The chair announced that HB 187 was a late addition available for selection. The sponsor described it as allowing vehicle owners to protect their equity through coverage similar to gap insurance, saying consumers could not currently protect equity as lenders protect loans. After lunch, a committee member nominated it for the final calendar slot and described it as dealing with automobile insurance. The chair later called it a contractor bill, without resolving that difference. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 1027. Local government; authorize certain long-term contracts for sale of electric power

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The sponsor said HB 1027 would allow Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia members to enter electricity sales contracts lasting up to 20 years. The sponsor described it as a ratepayer protection measure and said the Senate committee had strengthened those protections. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

SR 432. Senate Higher Education in Prison Study Committee; create

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The chair included SR 432 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 482. Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC); create a study committee; urge

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The chair included SR 482 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 533. Senate Study Committee on Enhancing Public Safety and Civic Health; create

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The chair included SR 533 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 545. Senate Paid Student Teaching Study Committee; create

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The chair included SR 545 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 553. Senate Study Committee on Funding for Charter School Capital Improvements; create

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The chair included SR 553 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 610. Senate Study Committee on Improving and Increasing Recycling; create

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The chair included SR 610 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 789. Senate Study Committee on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence; create

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The chair included SR 789 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 890. Senate Study Committee on Protecting Free and Fair Markets in Georgia; create

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The chair included SR 890 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 925. Senate Study Committee on a Museum of African American History and Culture of Georgia; create

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The chair included SR 925 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 927. Senate Pharmacy Benefits Managers and Consumer Access to Prescription Medications Study Committee; create

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The chair included SR 927 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 952. Senate Rosenwald Schools Study Committee; create

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The chair included SR 952 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

SR 978. Senate Study Committee on Higher Education Funding; create

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The chair included SR 978 in a group of 12 study committee resolutions. The chair said Capitol study committee meetings during the interim would need to use the legislative office building because other meeting rooms would be under renovation. The committee unanimously moved the group to the consent calendar.

HB 1245. Walker County; Board of Education; members shall be elected by voters of the respective education districts; provide

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The chair designated HB 1245 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 1317. Fort Oglethorpe, City of; levy an excise tax

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The chair designated HB 1317 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 1523. Sumter County Public Facilities Authority; create

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The chair designated HB 1523 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 1526. Early County; repeal a former local constitutional amendment

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The chair designated HB 1526 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 1543. Chattooga County; school district ad valorem tax; homestead exemption; increase income cap

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The chair designated HB 1543 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 1544. Chattooga County; ad valorem tax; county purposes; provide a homestead exemption

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The chair designated HB 1544 for the floor calendar as part of a group of local measures that, according to the chair, had gone through the general-bill process because a Senate seat was vacant. No substantive presentation followed. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 659. Health; rural assistance; expand medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program to include optometrists

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The sponsor said HB 659 would add optometrists to the health practitioners eligible for loan forgiveness when practicing in rural Georgia. There were no substantive questions. The chair added it to the selections, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 350. Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions

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The sponsor described HB 350 as allowing infant safety devices to be placed at various locations in Georgia. After lunch, the chair added it to the calendar selections as a measure missed earlier. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 466. State symbols; marsh tacky horse as official Georgia heritage horse breed; designate

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The sponsor said HB 466 would designate the Marsh Tacky horse and Pineywoods cattle as heritage breeds to support preservation of breeds the sponsor said were disappearing. The chair added it after the initial calendar list was recited. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 291. Health; certification of community health workers; provide

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The sponsor described HB 291 as a training and certification program for community health workers, intended to add help in health care and organize their work without mandating costs or payments. After lunch, a committee member nominated it for the final calendar slot, arguing that community workers should have certification. It received support during the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 421. Interstate Sexual Predator Prevention Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 421 would add language making it unlawful to travel from another state to Georgia for child molestation. After lunch, the vice chair nominated it for the final calendar slot, describing difficulties charging out-of-state sexual predators. Members held an informal vote in which each member could support two different bills. After clarifying the tally, the chair recorded five votes for HB 421 and selected it. The committee then unanimously approved the full calendar containing it.

HB 77. Motor vehicles; encountering funeral procession on two-lane highway; revise responsibilities

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The sponsor said HB 77 would require motorists to pull over for funeral processions to protect law enforcement officers from being struck. During selections, an exchange initially used another bill number before the chair settled on HB 77. The committee unanimously approved the final calendar containing it.

HB 158. Commerce and trade; filing of registration statements with the office of the Secretary of State; provide

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The sponsor said HB 158 would consolidate information about businesses operating under trade names into one database, rather than requiring searches across 159 counties. A member asked for the number to be repeated. The measure was not included in the final calendar.

HB 1132. Sales and use tax; exempt materials used in construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of affordable housing by purely public charities

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The sponsor said HB 1132 would exempt construction materials used for Habitat for Humanity houses from state and local sales taxes. No substantive questions followed. The chair added it to the selections, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 970. Quality Basic Education Act; expand which healthcare professionals may conduct preparticipation physical examinations

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The sponsor described HB 970 as addressing high school sports physicals. The sponsor said physicians, osteopathic physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants would perform the examinations, which would include a cardiovascular examination, and said the Georgia High School Association supported it. After confusion over bill numbers, the sponsor clarified which measure concerned physicals. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 971. Quality Basic Education Act; home study students and private school students to enroll in college and career academies located in certain RESA service areas and adjacent local school systems; provide

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The sponsor said HB 971 would let private-school and home-study students attend career academies without charge while allowing school systems to retain state education funding. The sponsor argued that it would help public education and local workforce development. After lunch, the chair added it as a measure missed earlier. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 975. Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

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The chair initially told members to add HB 975 to the selection sheet during a discussion of school physicals and career academies. After the sponsor clarified the intended numbers, the chair told members to remove HB 975 and said the chair did not know what it concerned. No substantive presentation or calendar approval followed.

HB 413. Agriculture; prohibit local ordinances that prohibit operation of mobile sawmills on agricultural land

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The sponsor said HB 413 no longer concerned sawmills despite its listed title, and instead corrected problems with Georgia's transfer-on-death deed law. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1434. Aviation; air facilities; identification of airport affected areas; provide

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The sponsor said HB 1434 would protect general aviation airport infrastructure by protecting the airspace above airports. A member asked for its number, which the sponsor repeated. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 460. Evidence; exclude certain communications made between attorney and client when client is in a penal institution

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The sponsor said prosecutors and law enforcement could listen to jail calls between attorneys and clients, and described HB 460 as stopping that practice. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1283. Family Justice Center Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 1283 would create voluntary family justice centers to help survivors of abuse and rape leave abusive situations. The sponsor argued that the centers would save survivors' and officers' lives, saying domestic violence calls accounted for about 29 percent of law enforcement deaths. A member later selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1131. Criminal procedure; personal service of process for notice of a warrant application hearing; provide

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The sponsor said HB 1131 would allow personal delivery of notices for warrant application hearings because mailed notices were not reaching many people. The sponsor also said it would allow individuals to post cash bonds for family members an unlimited number of times each year. The chair added it to the selections, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1187. Trey's Law; enact

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The sponsor said HB 1187, presented on behalf of the governor, would make settlement nondisclosure agreements void in child sexual abuse cases. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1259. Education; prohibit virtual instruction to out-of-system students if the local school system has a College and Career Ready Performance Index below the state average

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The sponsor said HB 1259 would require a school system to meet a minimum educational performance level before serving out-of-district students through a locally approved virtual school. A brief question clarified the word minimum. The chair added it to the selections, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 310. Student Teacher Promotion Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 310 would address teacher shortages through a pilot program providing grants during unpaid student teaching and an additional incentive to teach in Georgia public schools. No substantive questions followed. It was selected on behalf of an absent member, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 52. Ad valorem tax; qualified disabled veterans; extend homestead exemption to unremarried surviving spouses or minor children

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The sponsor said HB 52 would guarantee a homestead exemption for unremarried spouses of disabled veterans. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 948. Property; debtors in foreclosures to receive certain information and forms in a notice of foreclosure; provide

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The sponsor said HB 948 would help borrowers recover excess money remaining after foreclosure. The sponsor said borrowers did not always know how to obtain those funds. The measure was not included in the final calendar.

HB 1061. Mandi Ballinger Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 1061 would create an implementation committee for moving nonviolent 17-year-olds into the juvenile justice system. The sponsor said Senate changes added two sheriff representatives to the committee. After lunch, the chair nominated it on behalf of an absent member for the final calendar slot. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 1409. Domestic relations; revise mandated reporting of child abuse

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The sponsor said mandated child-abuse reporters did not always learn the outcomes of reports. The sponsor described HB 1409 as updating the reporting system and guidelines to improve transparency and accountability. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1022. Motor vehicles; prohibit electric tinting

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The sponsor said HB 1022 combined several measures and was not on the selection sheet. The sponsor described provisions prohibiting electronic window tinting, changing the tint standard from 32 percent to 28 percent to align with Florida, and imposing a mandatory month in jail for each mile of fleeing specified state law enforcement agencies. No substantive questions followed, and it was not included in the final calendar.

HB 1161. Motor vehicles; proper operation upon approach by an authorized emergency vehicle or by a law enforcement vehicle for purposes of a traffic stop; provide

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The sponsor said HB 1161 would make traffic stops safer by directing motorists to pull right when safe and aligning that requirement with existing emergency-vehicle rules. The sponsor also said added fleeing language would clarify standards involving the Department of Public Safety without changing minimum or maximum penalties. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 297. Ad valorem tax; define multipurpose off-highway vehicle; provisions

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The sponsor described HB 297 as a transportation efficiency measure developed with the Senate majority leader, without explaining its provisions. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 521. Local government; deannexation of certain properties; revise procedures

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The sponsor said HB 521 addressed annexation and removal of property from city boundaries, describing it as cleanup of changes made over the previous three or four years. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 334. Sickle Cell Disease Protection Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 334 would provide parents with educational information about respiratory syncytial virus and require the Department of Community Health to review sickle cell medications and treatments annually. No substantive questions followed. It was selected on behalf of an absent member, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 419. Education; require possession of opioid antagonists by institutions within University System of Georgia

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A presenting legislator said HB 419 contained cleanup language for the Promise Scholarship program and the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, rather than the subject shown on the selection sheet. In response to the chair, the presenter said the original sponsor had permitted the changes and identified a Senate floor carrier by role. It was selected on behalf of an absent member, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 646. Coroners; provide minimum salaries

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A presenting legislator requested HB 646 on behalf of an absent sponsor and identified it as a coroner measure, without explaining its provisions. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1001. Income tax; reduce rate of tax

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A presenting legislator said HB 1001 would reduce the income tax rate to 4.99 percent. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 634. Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; expedited completion of a student's first Individualized Education Program; revise provisions

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The sponsor said HB 634 would address problems families, schools and the education department had identified in the Special Needs Scholarship program. The sponsor highlighted authority for the Department of Education to correct inaccurate scholarship amounts. The sponsor said there was no opposition and that the House had passed it unanimously twice in three years. A member selected it, a later duplicate selection was corrected, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 892. Professions and businesses; prohibit massage therapy businesses from operating during certain set hours

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The sponsor said HB 892 would limit massage business hours to address human trafficking. The sponsor argued that illicit businesses operated around the clock and legitimate businesses did not need those hours. After lunch, a member nominated it for the final calendar slot. Members discussed possible operating hours, but the exact hours were not clearly established. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 256. Social services; foster parents bill of rights; revise provisions

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The sponsor said HB 256 revised foster parents' rights and also carried language granting access to court proceedings. No substantive questions followed. The chair added it to the selections, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1432. Georgia Public Defender Council; provide for vacancies on the legislative oversight committee

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The sponsor said HB 1432 addressed vacancies on the legislative oversight body for the Georgia Public Defender Council. The sponsor also said it included a requirement to retain rape kits for 30 years. Members asked for the number to be repeated. It was not included in the final calendar.

HB 169. Ad valorem tax; breach of a covenant for bona fide conservation use related to solar generation of energy; limit exceptions

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The sponsor said HB 169 would provide a small-business tax credit for contributions to employees' health reimbursement arrangements. After lunch, a member nominated it for the final calendar slot as an incentive for businesses to provide health insurance and noted that the listed title did not match the current contents. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 506. Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provide

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The sponsor described HB 506 as addressing surprise emergency medical services bills. During selections, a committee member clarified that it was an ambulance measure, that its contents differed from the listed description, and that a substitute had been adopted. No details of the billing changes were given. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1290. Crimes and offenses; protection of elder persons; sexual abuse; revise definition

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The sponsor said HB 1290 would strengthen protections against sexual abuse of older people and mentioned an additional amendment without explaining it. Members asked for its number to be repeated. It was not included in the final calendar.

HB 1075. Sexual offenses; modify penalty for offenders previously convicted of the offense of trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude

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The presenter said HB 1075 would make a fourth conviction for specified misdemeanor crimes against people or sex offenses a felony. The presenter described it as a repeat-offender measure and said the original sponsor had allowed use of the bill. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 632. Professions and businesses; clarify certain veterans' eligibility for exemption with regard to payment of occupation taxes, administrative fees, and regulatory fees

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The sponsor said HB 632, requested by the Department of Veterans Service, clarified an existing occupational-tax benefit for disabled veterans. The presentation provided no further details. It was not included in the final calendar.

HB 1087. Disabled Veteran Home Modification Act; enact

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The sponsor said HB 1087 would waive permit fees when disabled veterans modify their homes to accommodate a disability. A member asked whether eligibility required a service-connected disability or could include a disability acquired after military service. The sponsor said the Department of Veterans Service would certify eligibility as for other benefits. Another speaker said disabled-veteran status required a service disability. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1023. Education; utilize weapon detection systems in certain school buildings; require local boards of education and other public school governing bodies

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The sponsor said HB 1023 would require weapons detection systems in all Georgia public schools. Asked whether funding accompanied the requirement, the sponsor said the budget under negotiation included $166 million and expressed hope that the money would remain. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1129. Local government; designation of enterprise zones; provisions

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The sponsor presented HB 1129 as a governor-backed measure updating Georgia's enterprise zones and redevelopment tools. No substantive questions followed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 657. Mental health; qualifications of recovery community organizations for substance use; provide

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The sponsor said HB 657 established definitions and guidelines for recovery community organizations and now also included Department of Public Health legislation. No details of the added provisions were given. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1142. Courts; require certain agreements for certain offenses to be eligible for a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program

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The sponsor said HB 1142 would create a repeat domestic violence offender registry maintained by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The sponsor described it as complementing a separate animal-abuse database measure. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 309. Local government; require adoption of a resolution or ordinance and voter approval prior to abolishment of a police force that was created by such method

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The sponsor said HB 309 would require counties to use the same process to abolish a law enforcement agency as they used to create it. The sponsor also mentioned added plan-review and development-moratorium provisions, but the chair ended the presentation before the explanation was completed. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 957. Motor vehicles; operation of miniature on-road vehicles on certain highways; provide

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The sponsor identified HB 957 as the mini-truck measure and referred to repeated prior hearings, without explaining its operating rules. The chair said this would be its last appearance regardless of the outcome. A member later selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HR 1670. RESCUER initiative; recognize importance of voluntary community based resource recovery efforts; encourage counties to explore voluntary resource recovery programs

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A legislator asked to present HR 1670, identifying it as a resource recovery initiative and saying it had been presented in Rules previously. The chair said it was not before Senate Rules or on the Senate general calendar. After clarification that the earlier presentation had been in House Rules, the chair directed the presenter back there. No Senate action was taken.

HB 689. Housing; establish a homelessness prevention program

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The sponsor said HB 689 would allow the Department of Community Affairs to help prevent homelessness. The sponsor argued that prevention cost less than addressing homelessness afterward. Asked about a Senate carrier, the sponsor said one had not yet been secured. It was selected on behalf of an absent member, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 792. Courts; increase amount of magistrate court claims from $15,000.00 to $30,000.00

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The presenter requested HB 792, saying it was not on the selection sheet and had been taken over by a Senate sponsor. The presenter said it concerned online fraud but acknowledged not knowing its provisions. It was not included in the final calendar.

HB 629. Education; remove requirement of having a licensed physician in automated external defibrillator programs

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A presenting senator said HB 629 would expand school emergency preparedness beyond cardiac events to severe bleeding emergencies. The presenter also said it would protect teachers' duty-free lunch and planning time by preventing those protections from being waived. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

SB 628. Richmond County and City of Augusta; council-manager form of government; provide

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The presenter said SB 628 would let Richmond County and Augusta voters decide whether to adopt a stronger county-manager form of government. The presenter described the existing administrator's authority as weak. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1116. Homeownership Opportunity and Market Equalization Act of 2026; enact

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The sponsor described HB 1116 as containing taxpayer-friendly measures developed jointly with a Senate committee chair, without explaining specific provisions. A member selected it, and the committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 87. Insurance; require health benefit policy coverage for medically necessary orthotic and prosthetic devices and their materials and components

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A presenting senator said HB 87 would show consumers the state tax they pay on insurance and express percentage-based deductibles as dollar amounts. A member asked for the number to be repeated. It was not included in the final calendar.

SR 851. Georgia Senate; creation of a life sciences caucus; encourage

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A member asked whether SR 851, described as establishing a science caucus rather than a study committee, would advance automatically. The chair initially said it had not left Ethics, then clarified that it was not before Rules or on the general calendar. Another member said the committee had voted it out, and the chair said staff would look into it. No calendar placement was shown.

HB 1344. Georgia Insurance Affordability and Claims Integrity Act; enact

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The president pro tempore selected HB 1344, describing it as an insurance reform package without explaining its provisions. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1393. Hospitals; allow rural hospitals to join together to allow further purchasing power with third-party payors but retain their independence

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The vice chair selected HB 1393 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1263. Insurance; premiums made within three years of payment to the Commissioner; provide for a claim for a refund of certain fees and taxes

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A member selected HB 1263 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 445. Ad valorem tax; language required to be included in notices of current assessment; revise

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The chair recorded HB 445 as an absent member's calendar selection. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

SR 882. Department of Community Affairs; to refrain from adopting the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code in order to protect housing affordability and maintain the current energy code framework of this state; urge

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A member selected SR 882 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 770. Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; additional supplement for chief judge; provide

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A member initially named HB 770 during calendar selections. The exchange was unclear, but the chair ultimately recorded HB 77 instead. No provisions of HB 770 were discussed, and it was absent from the final calendar.

HB 964. Revenue and taxation; state and local title ad valorem tax fee; exempt certain motor vehicles used in fire protection services for local governments

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A member selected HB 964 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 432. Game and fish; Georgia turkey stamps; provide

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A member selected HB 432. Asked whether it was the turkey measure, another speaker confirmed that description, but no provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1209. Sales and use tax; purchases of tangible property and construction materials used for or in the construction and furnishing of certain buildings; provide exemption

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The vice chair selected HB 1209 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 283. Motor vehicles; issuance of a refusal to sign citation; provide

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The chair recorded HB 283 as an absent member's calendar selection. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 267. Riley Gaines Act; enact

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A member selected HB 267 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1272. Banking and finance; licensing of payment stablecoin issuers; provisions

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A member selected HB 1272, and another speaker identified its subject as stablecoin. A later duplicate selection was redirected to another measure. No provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1215. Middle Judicial Circuit; superior courts; provide for a third judge

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A member selected HB 1215 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 66. Ad valorem tax; expand definition of rental motor vehicle

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A member selected HB 66 for the floor calendar, repeating its number in response to questions. No provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1077. Sales and use tax; exemption for sales of tickets, fees, and charges of admission to certain museums and fine arts performances or exhibitions at nonprofit facilities; extend sunset date

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The president pro tempore selected HB 1077 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 447. Crimes and offenses; crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; provide

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A member selected HB 447 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 382. Controlled substances; Schedule I; psilocybin; revise a provision

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The vice chair selected HB 382 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1193. Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026; enact

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A member selected HB 1193, referring to it as the House speaker's measure and noting a desire to advance the member's own bills in the House. No provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 181. Vital records; issuance of a Certificate of Foreign Birth by the state registrar without a judicial order if certain criteria is satisfied; provide

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A member selected HB 181 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 248. Income tax; tax credit for certain expenses incurred by taxpayers for certain geothermal machinery installations at residential dwellings; provide

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A member selected HB 248 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1211. Insurance; guidelines and recommendations for colorectal cancer screening, examinations, and laboratory tests; provide

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The vice chair selected HB 1211 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1274. Auto Insurance Excess Profits Act; enact

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A member selected HB 1274 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HR 1300. Representative Penny Houston Roundabout; Cook County; dedicate

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A member selected HR 1300 for the floor calendar. Members clarified its number and location on the selection sheet, but did not explain its provisions. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 295. Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions

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A member selected HB 295 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1220. Education; student eligibility and maximum scholarship amounts; revise provisions

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A member selected HB 1220 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1202. Georgia Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advisory Board; correct a scrivener's error in a cross-reference

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A member selected HB 1202 for the floor calendar. Another speaker briefly said a body had been dissolved, without identifying it or explaining the change. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 903. Georgia Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to all executive branch agencies; provide

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A member asked whether HB 903 had reached the consideration calendar. The chair said it had not. No provisions were discussed, and it was not selected.

HB 963. Elections; prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to or participating in any campaign

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A member selected HB 963 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 485. Official Code of Georgia Annotated; various provisions enacted prior to 2013 which are contingent upon funding and which remain unfunded; repeal

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A member selected HB 485 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 943. Social services; establish a pilot program for autism spectrum disorder to children in foster care; provide

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A member selected HB 943 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HR 251. Local government; probate judges shall be elected in nonpartisan elections; provide - CA

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A member selected HR 251 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HR 1243. Georgia Next Generation 9-1-1 Fund; authorize creation - CA

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A member selected HR 1243, and the chair identified it as concerning next-generation 911. No provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1310. State symbols; cotton as official state fabric; designate

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A member selected HB 1310 for the floor calendar. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1015. Self-insurers Guaranty Trust Fund; revise certain funded levels

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The chair added HB 1015 to the floor calendar selections. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1238. Community Health, Department of; submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the qualification of certain caregivers for Medicaid reimbursement

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The chair added HB 1238 to the floor calendar selections. No substantive explanation or debate followed. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 323. Bridging the Gap for ALS and Chronic Kidney Disease Act of 2025; enact

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After lunch, the chair added HB 323 as a measure missed in the earlier selections. A member later nominated it, describing it as improving transparency in physician billing, and other speakers clarified that it was already selected. No further provisions were explained. The committee unanimously approved the calendar containing it.

HB 1303. Crimes and offenses; offense of possession of a controlled substance in the presence of a child; provide

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A member nominated HB 1303 for the final calendar slot and described it as addressing child endangerment involving controlled substances in the home. Members clarified that description but did not discuss the proposed offense in detail. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 147. Georgia Technology Authority; annual inventory of artificial intelligence usage by state agencies; provide

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A member nominated HB 147 for the final calendar slot, saying it would examine artificial intelligence use by state agencies. The member argued that the issue would affect all 11.2 million Georgia residents, and the chair later described the measure as tracking agency AI use. It received support in the informal vote but was not selected for the final calendar.

HB 471. Health; licensed general hospitals and birthing centers make available a water safety education video to parents or guardians of newborn infants; require

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A member nominated HB 471 for the final calendar slot. Speakers described it as providing water-safety information to new mothers in hospitals, but gave no detailed explanation. The chair recorded three supporters during the informal vote. It was not selected for the final calendar.

Transcript

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  1. 0:23:56

    We're gonna call this meeting to order. This is our Rules Calendar meeting for Friday, March 27th, 2026- ... in the year of our Lord. And today we will be setting the calendar for day 39 and-

  2. 0:24:16

    40

  3. 0:24:16

    ... day 40. Oh yeah, this is day...

  4. 0:24:19

    No.

  5. 0:24:20

    You're right. Sorry, sorry. But it is the year of our Lord.

  6. 0:24:23

    Yes, it is.

  7. 0:24:25

    Father

  8. 0:24:25

    This is March 30th. Sorry, I was reading this, which another glitch, I guess.

  9. 0:24:30

    That went correctly.

  10. 0:24:31

    So anyway, before we get started, uh, do want to keep in our prayers, uh, our colleague, Senator Freddie Powell Sims, whose husband passed away last Thursday, and that funeral will be today at 11:00 AM. Uh, so some of our, uh, colleagues from the minority party, uh, most of which are, are gonna be at that funeral. So, um, amazingly enough, they've given me their picks, and I'll be handling those for them.

  11. 0:25:02

    Um, and, uh, with that, uh, I'm gonna have my vice chairman lead us in our prayer.

  12. 0:25:12

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let's, uh, go to prayer, please. Uh, dear Lord, thank you for looking over each and every one of us, and especially remember, uh, Senator Freddie Powell Sims and her family, and how much respect we have for her for putting her family first. And please continue to bless us in our travels, and keep us, uh, mindful of the season that we're in. And, um, continue to bless us, uh, with our choices and our judgment, and help us, uh, remain calm and, uh, quiet and in your presence, uh, throughout these last few days.

  13. 0:25:47

    Uh, in Christ's name I pray, amen.

  14. 0:25:49

    Amen.

  15. 0:25:50

    Very nice.

  16. 0:25:51

    All right. So for some of us, it's our last Rules Committee meeting. Actually, probably last committee meeting for several of y'all. Could be our last Rules Committee for all of us. Uh, we are all on a two-year contract that can be terminated by our employer at any time. Um, anybody has questions on how that works, see Senator Albers. Um, but it can, you can also be reinstated at any time.

  17. 0:26:25

    Also, see Senator Albers for that.

  18. 0:26:29

    I'll be here all day.

  19. 0:26:32

    And you got a good haircut. I like that. It looks good.

  20. 0:26:34

    I was trying.

  21. 0:26:35

    Almost as good as mine. So-

  22. 0:26:37

    Thanks for noticing that

  23. 0:26:38

    ... sign up for the Air Force. All right. All right. So we did have a couple late additions. They were, um... I'll, I'll go ahead and make note of those. HB187 and HB1027, they are not in order on your yellow sheet, but they are on your yellow sheet. They're both on page two, fourth from the top and fifth from the top, in non-sequential order. So they are available.

  24. 0:27:08

    Now, first order of business, we're going to move some study committees. And keep in mind with study committees, for this year, or for this interim, that all study committees that are held at the Capitol will have to be in CLOB. This room will be under renovation, and Senate Mez will be under renovation. So CLOB is where you're meeting. Um, so we, we have SR432, SR482, SR533, SR545, SR553, SR610, SR789, SR890, SR925, SR927, SR952, and SR978 that all need a motion to move to the consent calendar.

  25. 0:28:07

    Motion to second.

  26. 0:28:10

    I've got a motion from my vice chairman. I got a second from the majority whip. Is there any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

  27. 0:28:19

    Aye.

  28. 0:28:20

    All opposed. All right, motion carries unanimous. Now, if you were here to present for a, uh, for a study committee and that was all you had, bailiff, um, you can leave now. We'll try to make some room. Now-

  29. 0:28:39

    Nobody right now

  30. 0:28:40

    ... next thing, order of business. I'm trying to expedite things here. We have some local legislation, uh, that had to go through as general bills because, uh, the senator was not, uh... the seat was vacant. And there are several of those. So I want y'all to go ahead and circle these on your yellow sheet, 'cause they will be on the floor either tomorrow or Thursday.

  31. 0:29:10

    We've got HB1245,

  32. 0:29:15

    and most of these are towards the back. That's last one on page seven. Go ahead and circle that. HB1317,

  33. 0:29:28

    HB1523,

  34. 0:29:33

    HB1526, HB1543, and HB1544. No action needs... I don't need a motion. That'll... But those are circled. Those will, will go on the calendar. So if you were here for local legislation to present, and that was all you had, you can leave now. Now on to the Yellow sheet.

  35. 0:30:07

    Representative Green, you are recognized.

  36. 0:30:11

    Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that.

  37. 0:30:15

    All right. Well, real quick, here's how we're gonna do this. Everybody's got 20 seconds. You gotta explain to this committee your problem, your solution, and be passionate about it so they will pick it.

  38. 0:30:31

    3, 1.

  39. 0:30:32

    20 seconds. If you go over, that's, that's usually a strike, so just keep that in mind. All right, 20 seconds, and my vice chairman's timing all these.

  40. 0:30:41

    The top of page five, uh, House Bill 659. House Bill 659 simply adds optometry to the list of healthcare practitioners who have their loans forgiven if they practice in rural areas of Georgia.

  41. 0:30:55

    All right. Good bill. Good job.

  42. 0:30:58

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

  43. 0:31:00

    Good carrier of that one. All right.

  44. 0:31:04

    Good morning, Mr. Chairman.

  45. 0:31:04

    Go for it.

  46. 0:31:05

    HB 350 on page three to place infant safety devices in various places in the state of Georgia. HB 466 at the bottom of page three is, uh, to make the Marsh Tacky Horse and the Pineywoods Cattle heritage breeds, because these are going out of, uh, existence. They're trying to preserve those breeds. That's it.

  47. 0:31:24

    466. 350 and 466.

  48. 0:31:27

    Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman.

  49. 0:31:28

    All right.

  50. 0:31:29

    Thank you.

  51. 0:31:29

    Thank you. All right. Come on, Representative Taylor.

  52. 0:31:34

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. I bring you House Bill 291, the Community Health Worker Certification bill, and it's on the second page, halfway down. This will bring us, uh, additional helping hands in the healthcare arena, and it doesn't do any mandating of any particular cost or payment, just that they'll all be organized and we know what they're doing. It's a training program.

  53. 0:31:57

    And 421.

  54. 0:31:59

    Yes, I also have 421. Um, that is a simple bill about a child predator, and it adds five words, that if someone travels from another state to our s- our state, um, for the purpose of child molestation, that that's against the law.

  55. 0:32:12

    Okay. Thank you.

  56. 0:32:14

    Thank you.

  57. 0:32:16

    All right. Representative Franklin.

  58. 0:32:19

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. I've got three bills to present to you today. The first one is on page one, House Bill 77, which I'm sure half the committee has memorized by now, but it's the funeral r- uh, um, procession bill. You just pull over on the side of the road to keep our law enforcement safe from getting hit by any vehicles.

  59. 0:32:40

    All right. Next one.

  60. 0:32:41

    The next one is House Bill 158. It's also on your first, uh, page, second from the bottom, and this is a, uh, in, in regards to commerce and trade. If you're doing business as in Georgia, then it goes into one, uh, database so that you don't have to go to a- every, uh, 159 counties to find the, the business. It just consolidates it more, it makes it more efficient, more effective.

  61. 0:33:01

    What was that number again?

  62. 0:33:02

    House Bill 158.

  63. 0:33:02

    Senator Rhett was wondering.

  64. 0:33:04

    158.

  65. 0:33:05

    All right.

  66. 0:33:09

    All right, next.

  67. 0:33:10

    Let's see. The next one I got is on page six, second from the bottom. Uh, House Bill 1132 is probably one I'm most proud of this session. It's, uh, in regards to Habitat for Humanity, and it allows a, uh, a tax, um, exemption for state and local taxes when they do, when they construct their businesses, I mean, uh, their houses, for, uh, construction material only. Um, it's a great bill, Mr. Chairman.

  68. 0:33:34

    All right. No questions. Thank you.

  69. 0:33:36

    Thank you, sir.

  70. 0:33:37

    Representative Townsend.

  71. 0:33:39

    Thank you, Chair. I have two, two bills. First, HB 970, bottom of page five. If you believe in helping high school kids or helping save their lives in the fall after, uh, they get their physicals, this is a Georgia High School Physical Bill.

  72. 0:33:51

    Yeah.

  73. 0:33:51

    This requires, uh, MDs, DOs, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants to do those physicals, also-

  74. 0:33:58

    We want

  75. 0:33:58

    ... have a cardiovascular exam.

  76. 0:34:00

    We want to see that.

  77. 0:34:01

    Um, this is, uh, also supported by Georgia High School Association. HB 971, the Career Academy Bill, that's also on bottom of page five. This is where we talked about it's a win for everybody, guys. It's a win for public education, career academies. It builds a workforce in your neighborhoods and your communities. This helps private school kids, homeschool kids attend a career academy at no charge. School system gets to keep the QBE money. It's a win-win.

  78. 0:34:26

    All right. Uh, everyone write in 975, HB 975 after 971. That was a oversight, and that's Townsend's. That's the, uh-

  79. 0:34:37

    Yeah, 970 and 971. Yes, sir

  80. 0:34:39

    ... right. So that's your physical on high school students for heart, heart physical.

  81. 0:34:46

    It- it's cardiovascular. Yes, sir.

  82. 0:34:50

    970.

  83. 0:34:50

    It was in Senator Watson's committee. That was 971.

  84. 0:34:51

    Oh, it was 97.

  85. 0:34:53

    971.

  86. 0:34:53

    970, 971.

  87. 0:34:54

    Yeah, 970 is the Georgia Sports Physical Bill, and the 971's the Career Academy Bill.

  88. 0:34:59

    All right. I thought you said 975.

  89. 0:35:00

    You did.

  90. 0:35:02

    Okay. All right. Take 975 off your list.

  91. 0:35:06

    Please do. No, just kidding.

  92. 0:35:07

    I don't even know what it is.

  93. 0:35:09

    Thank you.

  94. 0:35:09

    All right. Thank you.

  95. 0:35:13

    Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I have two bills to present today. My first bill, House Bill 413, it is not related to sawmills as the title indicates. It actually fixes a lot of issues with, uh, Georgia's new transfer on death deed law. Uh, that is, uh, middle of page three. Um, my second bill is, uh, House Bill 1434. It's, uh, on the top of page nine. Uh, this bill protects, uh, Georgia's general aviation airport infrastructure by protecting the airspace, uh, above these airports.

  96. 0:35:46

    What number?

  97. 0:35:47

    1434.

  98. 0:35:49

    Oh, okay. Too many numbers on here. Okay.

  99. 0:35:52

    I'm pending your questions.

  100. 0:35:53

    All right. No questions.

  101. 0:35:58

    How we doing?

  102. 0:35:59

    Good morning. I have two bills to present. HB 460, the problem is that prosecutors and law enforcement can listen to calls between lawyers and their clients while they're in the jail, and the solution is to stop that. Next one, middle of page eight, 1283, HB 1283. There are too many obstacles for survivors of abuse and rape to get out of their abusive situations. The solution is to create family justice centers throughout the state which are voluntary, that s- will save lives.

  103. 0:36:31

    It'll save survivors' lives, it will save law enforcement lives, because domestic violence calls represent about 29% of the deaths to law enforcement. Thank you.

  104. 0:36:39

    All right, I'll note Representative Payne has actually listened to my instructions. She stayed under 20 seconds. She gave us a problem and a solution. Just noted.

  105. 0:36:47

    Ding, ding.

  106. 0:36:47

    Thank you. I like it. Representative Hall, how are you?

  107. 0:36:54

    Good. Good morning, Chairman and members of the committee. I have HB 1131 at the bottom of page six. This bill will allow for personal service of any warrant application hearings. Currently, they're being mailed, and many people are not receiving them, so. Um, in addition, it will allow individuals to post cash bonds, uh, for family members unlimited times per year. Then I have another bill, which is at the top of page seven, HB 1187. Proud to be carrying this on behalf of the governor.

  108. 0:37:24

    It's Trace Law. It makes non-disclosure, uh, settlement agreements void in child sexual abuse cases.

  109. 0:37:31

    Okay.

  110. 0:37:32

    Thank you.

  111. 0:37:33

    No questions. How's my chairman doing? Representative Dubnant.

  112. 0:37:39

    Anytime I can be with you, it's always a good day, Mr. Chairman. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the top, very top bill, page eight, House Bill 1259, this bill requires a minimum educational performance level for an LEA to serve out of school, out of district students through a locally approved virtual school.

  113. 0:37:58

    Did you say minimal?

  114. 0:37:59

    Minimum.

  115. 0:38:02

    Someone like me likes minimum education requirements. So, any questions? All right, hearing none. You good?

  116. 0:38:13

    Good morning, Chairman, uh, committee members. I'm presenting House Bill 310. It's at the top of page three. Uh, addresses our growing teacher shortage across the state through a targeted pilot program that provides grants to our student teachers going through their unpaid student teaching semester and, uh, an additional incentive to keep them in state teaching at Georgia public schools.

  117. 0:38:37

    Okay.

  118. 0:38:37

    Thank you.

  119. 0:38:38

    No question. Representative Rice.

  120. 0:38:42

    Good morning. I have House Bill 52. It's the third on the first page. And what this bill does is guarantee homestead exemption to the un-remarried spouses of disabled veterans.

  121. 0:38:53

    All right. Thank you.

  122. 0:38:54

    Thank you.

  123. 0:38:55

    Representative Camp.

  124. 0:38:58

    Mr. Chairman, I like your new haircut.

  125. 0:38:59

    Thank you.

  126. 0:39:01

    You're very welcome. All right, so the first bill I have is HB 948, is on page five, and this bill, uh, there have been times where excess funds have existed after a foreclosure, and-

  127. 0:39:12

    Yes

  128. 0:39:13

    ... unfortunately, the borrowers do not, not always know how to get these funds back. This solves that problem, HB 948. Uh, the next bill I have is on page six. It's HB 1061, also known as the Mandy Ballinger Act. We, um, in the Senate it was perfected. We added two additional, um, sheriff's representatives to the committee, and what this does is it forms an implementation committee to raise the age for non-violent 17-year-olds to be adjudicated through the juvenile system.

  129. 0:39:43

    Okay.

  130. 0:39:44

    And then the last bill I have is HB 1409. Unfortunately, mandated reporters in our state currently, uh, it's on page eight, I'm sorry, um, do not always know, um, the outcome of situations when they report abuse and neglect. This is gonna be a more transparent system. So it updates the mandated reporting system in its entirety, and also changes some reporting guidelines so there's more accountability and more trans- trans-

  131. 0:40:11

    Transparency

  132. 0:40:14

    There you go.

  133. 0:40:15

    Transparency.

  134. 0:40:15

    Transparency. It's been a morning.

  135. 0:40:18

    I understand. All right, no questions.

  136. 0:40:21

    Thank you.

  137. 0:40:21

    Representative McDonald.

  138. 0:40:24

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, standing in line, I noticed that Senate rules hair is a lot better, those, than those that are in House rules, so y'all, I noticed that going along the line.

  139. 0:40:32

    Thank you.

  140. 0:40:32

    So, um-

  141. 0:40:33

    Lots of hair comments today

  142. 0:40:34

    ... uh, today, I've got, uh, House Bill 1022. It's kind of a ghost bill, because it's not on the yellow sheet. But it was a combined, got out of public safety at the end of last week, and it combined a bunch of bills, um, making electronic window tinting illegal. It also, uh, Chairman Bearden added, the, made us, aligned us with, uh, Florida, bringing us from 32% down to 28%. Uh, and then the last part of it's the mile a month. Every mile you run from the Georgia State Patrol or the Capitol Police or, uh, commercial vehicle enforcement, it's a mandatory month in jail.

  143. 0:41:05

    Okay. Thank you. You just made it.

  144. 0:41:09

    Is that on the second? Thank you.

  145. 0:41:10

    Oh. Representative Lamb, how are you?

  146. 0:41:13

    I'm doing well. How are you?

  147. 0:41:14

    Great.

  148. 0:41:15

    Great. So I am here presenting House Bill 1161. It's at the top of page seven. This attempts to make our traffic stops safer by stating that, uh, when you are stopped by an emerg- uh, excuse me, by a law enforcement vehicle, you should pull to the right if safe to do so. It harmonizes our existing, with our existing law on passing emergency and traffic vehicles, and then it also has Representative McDonald's fleeing language, which, without changing, uh, minimum or maximum, clarifies the standard for fleeing from Department of Public Safety, creating c- more consistent outcomes.

  149. 0:41:45

    All right. I think you missed the memo on 20 seconds, but... Did we say 20 or 30?

  150. 0:41:51

    I think we said 20.

  151. 0:41:52

    20.

  152. 0:41:52

    I apologize.

  153. 0:41:53

    All right. You were close, though.

  154. 0:41:54

    19.

  155. 0:41:54

    All right. Representative Anderson, come on.

  156. 0:41:57

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've got three bills. I'll just go in the order they are on the page. Page two- Fourth from the top, House Bill 1027. This, uh, allows MEAG members to enter into electric sales contracts up to 20 years. It's a rate payer protection bill. And, uh, working with the Regulated Industry Senate Committee, we actually strengthened that.

  157. 0:42:19

    All right, next.

  158. 0:42:20

    Uh, the bottom of that page, second from the bottom, House Bill 297. This is the Georgia Transportation Efficiency Act that, uh, worked with the, uh, majority leader in the Senate on. And then, uh, page four, fifth from the top, House Bill 521. This deals with certain, uh, de-annexation and annexation issues, and, uh, it's kind of a cleanup from some things we've done over the last three or four years.

  159. 0:42:48

    All right. Thank you.

  160. 0:42:49

    Thank you.

  161. 0:42:50

    No questions. All right. Come on up.

  162. 0:42:57

    Good morning, Mr. Chairman-

  163. 0:42:58

    Good morning

  164. 0:42:58

    ... and good morning, members of the committee. I'm presenting to you House Bill 334. It's on page three, the third from the top. This is legislation that's going to address two important health issues. The first being respiratory syncytial virus, giving educational information to parents so they are better aware of the virus. And section 2 would require the Department of Community Health to do an annual review on medications and treatments available for people impacted by sickle cell.

  165. 0:43:26

    All right. No questions.

  166. 0:43:28

    334.

  167. 0:43:30

    Oh, one question. That's a standard question. All right. Thank you.

  168. 0:43:35

    Thank you.

  169. 0:43:36

    Good job. Representative Wade.

  170. 0:43:41

    Chairman, committee members, I'm here to, uh, request three bills. Uh, first bill is on page three, House Bill 419. This is the, uh, Promise Scholarship and GOSA cleanup language. Um, and then on page four-

  171. 0:43:54

    419

  172. 0:43:54

    ... four, HB 419. The description on the page doesn't match. Uh, Representative Hawkins worked with the governor's office on, uh, this cleanup for Promise and GOSA.

  173. 0:44:06

    So the description and the representative don't match?

  174. 0:44:09

    Um, the representative does not match, but I think it is still his bill. He gave permission, and Bo will be carry- Bo Hatchett, Senator Hatchett will be carrying it in the Senate.

  175. 0:44:18

    Okay.

  176. 0:44:18

    He's not here today. Uh-

  177. 0:44:19

    What else?

  178. 0:44:20

    House Bill 646. Uh, I believe your office received a letter from Representative Stinson. Due to the events of last week, she was unable to be here today. Uh, we're still praying for that family, but this is for the coroner's bill, uh, House Bill four s- 646. And then last, top of page six, House Bill 1001, which is cutting the income tax down to 4.99%. Happy to answer any questions on all three.

  179. 0:44:47

    No questions. Thank you.

  180. 0:44:47

    Thanks, sir.

  181. 0:44:49

    Representative Barrett.

  182. 0:44:52

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, House Bill 634 is on page four on the yellow sheet. House Bill 634 improves the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program by finally addressing problems parents, schools, and the department have identified over the years. One of the big problems it fixes is to authorize the Georgia Department of Education to fix incorrect scholarship amounts so families can get what they're finally en- uh, entitled to receive. HB 634 is non-controversial, has no opposition, has passed the House unanimously twice in the past three years.

  183. 0:45:21

    You got any other bills?

  184. 0:45:22

    Uh, no, sir. That's it.

  185. 0:45:23

    Okay.

  186. 0:45:23

    Thank you.

  187. 0:45:24

    No questions.

  188. 0:45:27

    Representative Holcomb.

  189. 0:45:28

    Good morning, Mr. Chairman-

  190. 0:45:29

    How are you?

  191. 0:45:29

    ... and members of the committee. I present House Bill 892. It's on page five. Um, this measure would limit the hour of massage parlors to address human trafficking. There are illicit massage parlors that are open 24 hours a day, and those are places of human trafficking, and there are no le- legitimate places that are open those hours, so this would limit the hours accordingly.

  192. 0:45:48

    All right.

  193. 0:45:49

    Thanks.

  194. 0:45:49

    No questions. Representative Gullett.

  195. 0:45:53

    Thank you. Have two bills. Uh, House Bill 256, page two. Uh, this revises the f- foster parent's bill of rights. Uh, it also is, riding along with it, is SB 525, which, uh, grants access to court proceedings. Second bill is page nine, House Bill, uh, 1432. Um, this provides for vacancies for the Georgia Public Defender's, uh, Council Oversight, Legislative Oversight Commission. Uh, additionally, it's includes the Stephanie Colquitt Sherman Act of 2026, which keeps rape kits for 30 years.

  196. 0:46:28

    What was the bill before that you mentioned?

  197. 0:46:30

    256.

  198. 0:46:31

    And then 14...

  199. 0:46:33

    14, page nine.

  200. 0:46:35

    32.

  201. 0:46:35

    1432.

  202. 0:46:36

    There we go. All right. Thank you.

  203. 0:46:38

    Thank you. Thank you.

  204. 0:46:39

    All right. Representative Hilton.

  205. 0:46:41

    Three bills, 20 seconds. Let's go. Top of page two, H- House Bill 169, small business tax credit if they contribute to the employee's HRA plan. Top of page four, House Bill 506. It's cheaper to run for governor than to pay your EMS bill. Surprise billing. And number three, House Bill 1290, page eight, provides sexual, uh, uh, protections for sexual abuse against elders and the Epstein amendment.

  206. 0:47:06

    Almost made it.

  207. 0:47:08

    Golly.

  208. 0:47:08

    But you did good.

  209. 0:47:10

    Thank you, sir.

  210. 0:47:11

    What was the last one?

  211. 0:47:12

    1290.

  212. 0:47:13

    1290, 506, 169.

  213. 0:47:15

    1290. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Representative Crow.

  214. 0:47:20

    Morning, sir.

  215. 0:47:21

    Morning.

  216. 0:47:21

    Uh, House Bill 1075, five down on page six. This bill was originally, uh, Representative Chastain's. He was gracious enough to let me borrow it. Um, this bill would cause the fourth of, uh, conviction of a violation of Title 16, Chapter 5 or Chapter 6 misdemeanors to become a felony. So a type of habitual violator law for persons who continue to break the laws of crimes against persons or sex crimes.

  217. 0:47:46

    All right. No questions.

  218. 0:47:47

    All right. Thank you.

  219. 0:47:48

    Thank you. Representative Bonner. How are you?

  220. 0:47:51

    I'm great. How you doing today?

  221. 0:47:53

    Great.

  222. 0:47:54

    Great to be here. Uh, two good, uh, veteran bills. First on page four, House Bill 632, a request to the Department of Veteran Services, clarifies an existing benefit for our disabled veterans related to payment of occupational tax. Second bill's on page six. House Bill 1087 just says that if you're a disabled veteran, you make improvements to your home to accommodate that disability, you do not pay the permit fees.

  223. 0:48:19

    Mr. Chairman.

  224. 0:48:20

    That's the clock.

  225. 0:48:22

    Mr. Chairman.

  226. 0:48:24

    All right. Uh, Senator Ginn, you have a question.

  227. 0:48:26

    Yeah. Uh, representative, does the bill spell out that the disabled veteran has to have a, a military service disability or can it be any disabled veteran? Because they could've gotten, you know, disabled the, a motorcycle accident when they got home. And, you know-

  228. 0:48:43

    Yeah

  229. 0:48:43

    ... which way does that work out?

  230. 0:48:44

    Th- th- this is, uh, they go through the Department of Veteran Services to certify that disability, just as they would for any other benefit.

  231. 0:48:51

    Okay.

  232. 0:48:51

    You, if, uh, if-

  233. 0:48:53

    The you-

  234. 0:48:53

    ... the way it works with the VA, you're, you're either a disabled veteran or not, which you either have a service disabled dis- you have a service disability or you don't.

  235. 0:49:03

    Yeah.

  236. 0:49:04

    It's c- it's pretty clear.

  237. 0:49:05

    I- I- the, uh, I know you're disabled yourself, so, then yeah.

  238. 0:49:08

    20%.

  239. 0:49:09

    Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate your service.

  240. 0:49:11

    Mm-hmm.

  241. 0:49:12

    Thank you.

  242. 0:49:14

    All right. Leader Estration, how are you?

  243. 0:49:17

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Great. Hope y'all are, um, top of page six or third down page six, HB1023. This is, uh, the, a school safety measure require weapons detection systems in all Georgia public schools.

  244. 0:49:31

    Is there money with it?

  245. 0:49:32

    There is in the budget. I know the budget's still being worked out right now.

  246. 0:49:35

    Mm.

  247. 0:49:36

    But there's $166 million in the budget which I'm hopeful will stay in. I wanna thank Chairman Albers for the work in his committee on this bill.

  248. 0:49:44

    All right. Any other questions? No other questions. Thank you.

  249. 0:49:48

    Thank you.

  250. 0:49:51

    Representative Seabaugh.

  251. 0:49:53

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, bringing you a governor's bill, 1129. It's on page six, two step from the bottom. This updates Georgia's enterprise zones and redevelopment tools for the state.

  252. 0:50:06

    All right.

  253. 0:50:07

    Also have, uh, 1415. It's on page nine. It, um, secures the original property boundaries for Stone Mountain Park.

  254. 0:50:16

    All right. No questions. Thank you.

  255. 0:50:18

    Thank you.

  256. 0:50:20

    Representative Hagen.

  257. 0:50:23

    Good morning. I have on the bottom of page four, House Bill 657. It, originally, this was a bill that establish, and it still is, a bill that establishes definitions and guidelines for Georgia's recovery community organizations. But it now also incorporates Senate Bill 440, which is a DPH department bill.

  258. 0:50:44

    All right.

  259. 0:50:44

    And then I have on the bottom of page six, House Bill 1142. This is a public safety measure that creates a repeat domestic violence offender registry for Georgia to be maintained by the GBI. I think this is a, a great companion bill to Senator Still's bill, uh, creating the animal abuse database. So that's it.

  260. 0:51:12

    No questions.

  261. 0:51:13

    Thank you.

  262. 0:51:13

    Great job. Representative Clifton.

  263. 0:51:19

    Good morning. I have House Bill 309 on the bottom of page two. Um, this is a county law enforcement bill. Uh, it requires that how county law enforcements are created if they want to, um, if a county wants to get rid of them, you do it the same way you create it. Um, we also have a, um, plan review bill that's been, uh, added on top of this, along with a, um, moratorium, let's see, let me say that a little differently.

  264. 0:51:49

    Um, i- if a county has allowed a project to be cleared and approved, uh-

  265. 0:51:55

    All right, any questions? I'm helping you out.

  266. 0:51:59

    That's all right. Thank you.

  267. 0:51:59

    I don't want you to get a strike. Anything else?

  268. 0:52:01

    I do.

  269. 0:52:01

    You got another bill?

  270. 0:52:02

    957.

  271. 0:52:03

    What is it?

  272. 0:52:03

    Um, this is the, what I hope the umpteenth time hearing and I pray the last time, the mini truck bill.

  273. 0:52:09

    Oh, it'll be the last time.

  274. 0:52:10

    I appreciate that, sir.

  275. 0:52:11

    Regardless of what happens.

  276. 0:52:13

    Ooh. We gotta, we gotta kill it to, to, for it doesn't come back, or prove it. Uh-

  277. 0:52:19

    All right

  278. 0:52:19

    ... lastly, we have, um, 676, which is my frivolous lien bill.

  279. 0:52:24

    What number is that again?

  280. 0:52:25

    676. Both those are on page five.

  281. 0:52:27

    Yeah.

  282. 0:52:27

    676 at the top.

  283. 0:52:28

    All right.

  284. 0:52:28

    957's on the bottom.

  285. 0:52:30

    All right. Thank you.

  286. 0:52:31

    Thank you.

  287. 0:52:34

    How's it going?

  288. 0:52:36

    All right. Representative Adina. Uh, my HR number 1670 isn't on the yellow sheet. I presented in rules last week.

  289. 0:52:44

    HR 1670.

  290. 0:52:45

    But just wanted to, it's called the G, Georgia Rescue Initiative.

  291. 0:52:51

    I am with you.

  292. 0:52:52

    1670.

  293. 0:52:53

    Hold on. Was that a study committee?

  294. 0:52:56

    Not even right.

  295. 0:52:59

    You sure that number's right?

  296. 0:53:01

    Yes.

  297. 0:53:02

    It's not-

  298. 0:53:02

    It's not on your yellow sheet, but I, it was on the other sheet last week

  299. 0:53:04

    ... it's not on, it's not on the general calendar either.

  300. 0:53:06

    Oh, well it's-

  301. 0:53:07

    It's, it's not in, it's not on the Senate Rules Committee.

  302. 0:53:10

    Ah.

  303. 0:53:10

    Period.

  304. 0:53:11

    It was-

  305. 0:53:11

    Excuse me. He presented in house rules.

  306. 0:53:14

    Did you present it in house rules?

  307. 0:53:15

    Yes, I did.

  308. 0:53:16

    All right, I would go back to house rules and present it there again.

  309. 0:53:19

    Okay.

  310. 0:53:19

    This is Senate Rules.

  311. 0:53:21

    All right. Thank you.

  312. 0:53:22

    I can't pass house rules-

  313. 0:53:25

    I appreciate it. Thank you

  314. 0:53:25

    ... uh, bills. It'd be great if I could. 'Cause I got a couple over there I'd like to get out.

  315. 0:53:34

    Representative Carpenter, how are you, my friend?

  316. 0:53:35

    I'm good, sir.

  317. 0:53:37

    What-

  318. 0:53:37

    Fifth page, fi- uh, 689, a bill to allow DCA to help prevent homelessness. Obviously, homelessness is a big issue. It's cheaper to deal with it on the front side than the back side.

  319. 0:53:49

    All right. Thank you. Is that what you came in last week about?

  320. 0:53:52

    Yeah.

  321. 0:53:52

    All right, we made it.

  322. 0:53:55

    We did.

  323. 0:53:55

    You got somebody to take it?

  324. 0:53:57

    Uh, nope. Maybe one of y'all like it

  325. 0:54:00

    Somebody may be bluffing over there.

  326. 0:54:02

    Is this your first bill?

  327. 0:54:05

    Get out of the way, Bill.

  328. 0:54:06

    Good morning.

  329. 0:54:06

    Representative Monaghan.

  330. 0:54:07

    Hey, good morning. I got House Bill 187, which are vehicle value protection agreements problem. Consumers can't protect equity like a lender can protect their loan. With gap insurance solution, House Bill 187 will allow consumers to protect their equity value with a gap-like insurance. I have another bill.

  331. 0:54:23

    What you got?

  332. 0:54:24

    Okay, House Bill 792. It's not on your sheet, but it's, uh, been absorbed by Senator Bearden. He's riding on that one. Uh, I really don't know what it does, but it has to do with online fraud. Seems like a great bill. The problem is that we don't have the bill, and the solution should be to pass the bill.

  333. 0:54:39

    Okay.

  334. 0:54:39

    Good one.

  335. 0:54:39

    Thank you. Senator Payne, did you have something?

  336. 0:54:44

    Yes.

  337. 0:54:45

    Go ahead.

  338. 0:54:48

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee. I, I'm asking for House Bill t- 629. It's on four, page four, halfway down. This bill is about two things, saving lives in our schools and protecting our t- teachers' time. First, on school safety, this legislation modernizes emergency preparedness by expanding protocol beyond cardiac events to include severe bleeding emergencies. Secondly, the bill p- protects educators by ensuring duty-free lunch and planning time which cannot be waived.

  339. 0:55:15

    All right. No questions. Or do we have a question? No, no questions. Thank you. Senator Burns, you got something?

  340. 0:55:21

    Yep. Real quick.

  341. 0:55:24

    Shaw, are you in line?

  342. 0:55:26

    I have Senate Bill, uh, 628. The problem is that currently, uh, Richmond County, Augusta, has a weak form of administrator, and this is a opportunity for the citizens to vote on whether or not they should have a stronger county manager form of government. Appreciate your concern.

  343. 0:55:42

    628.

  344. 0:55:42

    628.

  345. 0:55:42

    First on the page.

  346. 0:55:44

    First page, first one.

  347. 0:55:46

    Yep.

  348. 0:55:46

    Thank you.

  349. 0:55:47

    All right. Chairman Shaw. Blackmon.

  350. 0:55:52

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On page 6, 1116, just, uh, some good taxpayer-friendly measures that Chairman Hufstetler and I have, have worked together to, to come together on.

  351. 0:56:01

    All right.

  352. 0:56:01

    Thank you, sir. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee.

  353. 0:56:03

    Thank you. Maybe. Maybe not. Only, uh... Oh, Senator Harbin, did you have something?

  354. 0:56:14

    Do you have that one, sir?

  355. 0:56:15

    You can stop it now.

  356. 0:56:16

    Thank you.

  357. 0:56:16

    HB 87-

  358. 0:56:18

    87

  359. 0:56:18

    ... is a insurance bill that shows the tax that w- the consumer pays the state, and also, if they're on a percentage deductible, it shows the dollar amount.

  360. 0:56:28

    Senator Rhett, you had a question.

  361. 0:56:30

    What number was that?

  362. 0:56:32

    87.

  363. 0:56:32

    87. HB 87. Thank you.

  364. 0:56:40

    All right, is there anyone else out there? Okay, we've covered everything else, unless y'all wanna go through them again.

  365. 0:56:49

    No.

  366. 0:56:50

    All right. Well, let's get rolling. All right, keep in mind... Oh, you got a question?

  367. 0:56:59

    Yeah. Um, I don't know where this would show up at. We had a, uh, science caucus we'd set up. Does that come on automatically or just-

  368. 0:57:05

    A science caucus?

  369. 0:57:06

    Yeah. See, it was SR 851.

  370. 0:57:09

    It's right next to the denim shirt caucus.

  371. 0:57:14

    Your vice-chairman was my co-sponsor of it.

  372. 0:57:17

    What's the, what's the number?

  373. 0:57:19

    SR 851. It was... I know you did the study committees. That's not really a study committee, but we're setting up a caucus.

  374. 0:57:25

    851. I tell you what, we will... When we... We're gonna pick some, and then we're coming back after lunch, and we're gonna do a, uh, supplemental, if you will. It's not technically a supplemental, but... That was still in ethics. Oh, that one actually never came out of ethics.

  375. 0:57:47

    Oh, it didn't?

  376. 0:57:48

    So you may wanna-

  377. 0:57:50

    It just has to get through by ethics.

  378. 0:57:52

    I thought ethics did. I'm sorry.

  379. 0:57:53

    Yeah, you did.

  380. 0:57:54

    Well, let me rephrase it. It's not in rules.

  381. 0:57:57

    Okay.

  382. 0:57:58

    It's not in Senate rules. It's not on the general calendar.

  383. 0:58:00

    It doesn't have to go through rules. It just has to go through

  384. 0:58:04

    Everything has come through,

  385. 0:58:13

    doesn't it?

  386. 0:58:18

    We voted that one out.

  387. 0:58:20

    Looking into it.

  388. 0:58:21

    I'm not in a caucus.

  389. 0:58:21

    It's not in rules, so call your senator.

  390. 0:58:26

    Okay.

  391. 0:58:29

    What are you doing? I'm glad somebody picked up on that.

  392. 0:58:34

    Oh.

  393. 0:58:34

    All right. All right, here's the deal. I have a few ding-dings. We're gonna get, um, two picks a piece. For my, uh, committee members that are attending the funeral of, um, Senator Freddie Powell Sims's husband, I have their picks. I will make it, I will make theirs for them at the approp- when it's their turn. Um, so two picks.

  394. 0:59:07

    Ding-dings, we're just gonna go ahead and, uh, you'll, we'll come back to them at the end. All right, you'll get your pick on the, on the back end. Does that, everybody understand what we're doing here? Is there any questions? All right, and when we come back, for bills that did not get picked, I'm gonna come up with some way to let the committee decide one or two more. So good luck.

  395. 0:59:39

    Very kind of you, Mr. Chairman.

  396. 0:59:40

    Yes, very kind. I'm a kind person. Just remember that next year when I'm science and technology chairman.

  397. 0:59:57

    A caucus anyway.

  398. 0:59:59

    Huh?

  399. 0:59:59

    You'll have your own caucus anyway.

  400. 1:00:00

    Well, yeah, I could... Actually, yeah, that's not a b- They'll have a, they will have a caucus Well, Science and Technology now comes with its own caucus. If that thing got out of ethics, we're gonna have to run it down- ... after Senator Hostetler calls his senator. All right, let's get going. All right, we're gonna start at the top. Oh, oh, oh, by the way, if you'll notice, everyone has this. It was your, uh, motion to table remaining legislation that you did on, what was that, Thursday?

  401. 1:00:36

    Friday. Friday. So, if you voted yes, now is your chance to repent. Senator Cowsert, you're recognized this time.

  402. 1:00:48

    Mr. Chairman, once I realized the ramifications of my vote, I went down to the secretary of the Senate and I changed my vote on the floor. It just doesn't show, but I'm with you.

  403. 1:00:57

    All right.

  404. 1:00:59

    I was with Mr. Chairman Cowsert.

  405. 1:01:00

    Noted. Noted.

  406. 1:01:01

    Yeah.

  407. 1:01:03

    Senator Albers, do you have s- would you like to publicly-

  408. 1:01:06

    Yes

  409. 1:01:06

    ... confess?

  410. 1:01:07

    I, I was right behind Chairman Cowsert, following his lead.

  411. 1:01:09

    All right. All right. Noted. Uh, anyone else? This could have bearing on how many picks you get.

  412. 1:01:19

    It's not too late, Chairman.

  413. 1:01:20

    It's not too late. Se- Senator Ginn.

  414. 1:01:24

    I, I, I ran out of the hall, I looked at my colleague to my left, and, and, uh, you know, h- he was now to my right, said, "He's, he's, he's repented and I have as well." So, you know-

  415. 1:01:34

    Noted

  416. 1:01:34

    ... I'm trying to-

  417. 1:01:34

    You get a check mark. Oh. Oh, we got, you know, we got the floodgates open here.

  418. 1:01:41

    Mr. Chairman, if you remember, there was another bill that I had a malfunction on my machine. It was voting yes when it was supposed to vote no. Remember that?

  419. 1:01:49

    Noted. Noted. Noted. All right.

  420. 1:01:52

    I got a question. Was yes good or bad on this one?

  421. 1:01:54

    Yes was bad. You d- you've-

  422. 1:01:55

    I-

  423. 1:01:55

    ... undermined the authority.

  424. 1:01:58

    Tabling was bad. Okay. Well-

  425. 1:01:59

    When I said an order, I expect that order to stay

  426. 1:02:02

    ... you're sure

  427. 1:02:03

    So you're repenting?

  428. 1:02:04

    Absolutely.

  429. 1:02:05

    All right. This actually has no bearing on what we're doing, so- So y'all can just, uh, all publicly... We'll, we'll just pretend you did. All right, moving on. Just thought I'd have fun with y'all one last time before I go chair my new caucus.

  430. 1:02:26

    Yeah, that's funny.

  431. 1:02:29

    All right. And before we do, I do wanna recognize, um, all the people that have helped this year and every year that I've been chairman. Um, first and foremost, Mercedes Benitez, thank you for all your help. You have truly kept this train on the rails, and I appreciate that. Uh, we got Jack Tripp, Natalie Simpson, and the entire Secretary of the Senate's office, thank y'all for all you do.

  432. 1:03:01

    Y'all do great work.

  433. 1:03:05

    Again, they don't just keep this committee on track, they keep every committee on track, inc- including the Committee of the Whole, which is the entire Senate. So, um, and we know we're about to create a lot of work with y'all, for y'all over these next couple days, so thank y'all. Uh, Senate press, we've got Jackson Fuentes and Ethan Mulinour. Thank y'all. Did I say it right?

  434. 1:03:35

    All right. And out of Office of Policy and Legislative Analysis, we have Haley Williams. Haley, thank you.

  435. 1:03:45

    And Leg Counsel, Betsy Harrelson, but all the leg counsel, 'cause they, uh, they do great work. And then two very special guests to me and to Mercedes, we have, uh, we've had the pleasure of through the years having great interns, but this year, um, they have really truly gone above and beyond. So I've got, uh, Maya and Betsy. Are they even here?

  436. 1:04:10

    They're sitting out front on lunch.

  437. 1:04:12

    Oh, they're getting lunch ready for you. But, um, Ma- Betsy and Maya have been great, uh, great for our office, and have, have truly been a blessing to work with, so we appreciate their help.

  438. 1:04:22

    What about your bailiff?

  439. 1:04:23

    Uh, my bailiff, well, he's still interning. So we'll see how he does. He might get hired. If he can open that door right now in one try... Oh, wow, okay. Okay. All right, you're hired. And my bailiff, Ronnie Chance. All right, let's pick some bills. All right, this is gonna be a little slow. Jackson, you work the microphones for me, and I'm going to...

  440. 1:04:54

    We're gonna start at the top with the president pro tem. I need those.

  441. 1:04:59

    Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to pick House Bill 1344, Good Insurance Reform Package.

  442. 1:05:04

    1344.

  443. 1:05:12

    All right.

  444. 1:05:16

    All right, so-

  445. 1:05:19

    Time for the ladies.

  446. 1:05:22

    All right, we'll do that later. All right, uh, Leader Anavitarte.

  447. 1:05:27

    House Bill 297.

  448. 1:05:32

    297. All right, we're coming out hot.

  449. 1:05:38

    Ooh.

  450. 1:05:38

    That's what I'm talking about.

  451. 1:05:40

    Hold the plot pickings.

  452. 1:05:45

    Just wait.

  453. 1:05:46

    I'm comfortable.

  454. 1:05:47

    All right, uh, Leader Jones has requested HB334.

  455. 1:06:01

    I know the dean of the Senate has put a lot of work on that through the years. All right, my vice chairman.

  456. 1:06:13

    House Bill 1393.

  457. 1:06:15

    1393.

  458. 1:06:24

    Man, we're doing good today.

  459. 1:06:26

    Ooh.

  460. 1:06:26

    1393.

  461. 1:06:32

    So actually, I think we'll do that for that. All right. Now, we got the dean of the Senate, and he has requested 1413.

  462. 1:06:54

    All right. That was 1413. All right. Senator Cowsert.

  463. 1:07:02

    I'll go with House Bill 1263.

  464. 1:07:05

    1263.

  465. 1:07:15

    1263.

  466. 1:07:19

    Hey, now we're talking.

  467. 1:07:21

    All right. Senator Robertson.

  468. 1:07:24

    I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here. Um, 1116.

  469. 1:07:29

    1116.

  470. 1:07:40

    Ooh, good job. All right. We've got the minority whip would like 689, HB 689.

  471. 1:07:59

    Okay. Uh, Senator Gooch, does anybody have his picks?

  472. 1:08:06

    Of course. Sure.

  473. 1:08:09

    Actually, he sent me those too. So-

  474. 1:08:13

    I can upgrade them

  475. 1:08:14

    ... we'll come back to him. Actually, no we won't. He wanted

  476. 1:08:21

    445.

  477. 1:08:26

    Not a ding ding, though. All right. Senator Dolezal.

  478. 1:08:32

    SR882.

  479. 1:08:35

    SR882.

  480. 1:08:36

    Top of the first page.

  481. 1:08:44

    Okay. Senator Rhett.

  482. 1:08:48

    HB 460, champion.

  483. 1:08:52

    4?

  484. 1:08:52

    6-0.

  485. 1:08:54

    460?

  486. 1:08:55

    Yes, sir.

  487. 1:08:55

    Okay.

  488. 1:09:02

    460. All right. Senator Ginn.

  489. 1:09:04

    Uh, on page two, out of order, but, uh, HB 1027.

  490. 1:09:09

    1027.

  491. 1:09:10

    Fourth from the top.

  492. 1:09:12

    Okay. Senator Kirkpatrick.

  493. 1:09:17

    House Bill 1187, Mr. Chair.

  494. 1:09:23

    1187. Trey's Law.

  495. 1:09:27

    Is that a ding ding, Mr. Chair?

  496. 1:09:30

    Not at this time. Senator Anderson.

  497. 1:09:37

    Of the league.

  498. 1:09:39

    Oh, man.

  499. 1:09:44

    I thought we were talking about the other Senate guy.

  500. 1:09:44

    Well, there is another one.

  501. 1:09:45

    Let's go with-

  502. 1:09:45

    Just not on this committee

  503. 1:09:46

    ... let's go with, um, House Bill 770.

  504. 1:09:52

    770?

  505. 1:09:54

    No, 770.

  506. 1:09:56

    77. Okay. 77.

  507. 1:10:03

    All right.

  508. 1:10:08

    Man.

  509. 1:10:08

    Might have been a pity ding ding. He been back so much. Senator Hufstetler.

  510. 1:10:15

    House Bill-

  511. 1:10:15

    Chairman of the Denim Shirt Caucus and Science Caucus.

  512. 1:10:19

    Yes. House Bill 1001.

  513. 1:10:24

    001.

  514. 1:10:24

    Top of page six.

  515. 1:10:32

    Okay. Good one. Senator Dixon.

  516. 1:10:37

    Um,

  517. 1:10:41

    HB 309.

  518. 1:10:43

    HB 309.

  519. 1:10:55

    309. Y'all are doing very good today. I'm proud of y'all. Normally, y'all fail miserably at this. Senator Williams.

  520. 1:11:07

    Senate Bill 628.

  521. 1:11:10

    Let me guess. Six what?

  522. 1:11:14

    2-8.

  523. 1:11:15

    First one.

  524. 1:11:16

    First one. I'm sorry. Senate Bill 628, and it's not a funeral home or cemetery bill.

  525. 1:11:23

    How about that?

  526. 1:11:24

    You feel okay?

  527. 1:11:25

    Yes, sir.

  528. 1:11:26

    Everything all right?

  529. 1:11:27

    We're good.

  530. 1:11:28

    All right. Just making sure.

  531. 1:11:30

    Been outside in your barn.

  532. 1:11:31

    Yep.

  533. 1:11:35

    Senator Albers.

  534. 1:11:37

    To, uh, page five, House Bill 964, please.

  535. 1:11:41

    964.

  536. 1:11:43

    Is that a new one? That could be a ding ding.

  537. 1:11:46

    You were very close.

  538. 1:11:47

    Oh.

  539. 1:11:48

    So close. All right. Senator Still.

  540. 1:11:53

    House Bill 506 is different than the description, but, uh-

  541. 1:11:58

    Um-

  542. 1:11:58

    ... that's our ambulance bill

  543. 1:12:00

    ... 06. All right.

  544. 1:12:08

    Well done.

  545. 1:12:09

    Is this the same bill you already had?

  546. 1:12:10

    Basically. They substituted.

  547. 1:12:14

    It really is. I didn't feed these. All right. Back to the top. President Pro Tem.

  548. 1:12:23

    Um, let's do House Bill 1434.

  549. 1:12:30

    1434.

  550. 1:12:39

    Okay.

  551. 1:12:43

    Leader Anavitarte.

  552. 1:12:48

    There's so many interesting choices, Chairman. Let's do, um-

  553. 1:12:53

    Oh my God. It's cold in here

  554. 1:12:56

    ... House Bill 432.

  555. 1:13:01

    432.

  556. 1:13:03

    Kingfish.

  557. 1:13:04

    Okay. Is that the turkey one?

  558. 1:13:08

    Yes, sir.

  559. 1:13:09

    All right. All right, next is be Leader Jones. He wants 419.

  560. 1:13:26

    Okay.

  561. 1:13:30

    Next up, my vice chairman.

  562. 1:13:33

    Oh, uh, House Bill 1209.

  563. 1:13:38

    1209.

  564. 1:13:48

    Oh, double.

  565. 1:13:49

    Double dinger.

  566. 1:13:50

    Doubled twice in a row.

  567. 1:13:53

    All right, uh, next would be the dean, and he wants 283.

  568. 1:14:11

    Okay.

  569. 1:14:14

    Senator Cowsert.

  570. 1:14:20

    We'll go with House Bill 1161, top of page seven.

  571. 1:14:25

    1161.

  572. 1:14:33

    Ooh, boy. Man, I gotta start some researching here.

  573. 1:14:37

    Double dinger. Senator Robertson.

  574. 1:14:41

    Let's do, um, House Bill 267 for my good friend, Floor Leader.

  575. 1:14:51

    267.

  576. 1:14:58

    All right. Now, Senator Jackson, she wants 1161, which is already picked, so we'll go next. I think 310 has been picked. Has it?

  577. 1:15:17

    What'd she pick?

  578. 1:15:18

    310.

  579. 1:15:19

    310.

  580. 1:15:21

    Okay. 310. All right, and then Senator Gooch wanted

  581. 1:15:35

    1413.

  582. 1:15:41

    It's already picked.

  583. 1:15:43

    Is it?

  584. 1:15:43

    Yes, sir.

  585. 1:15:47

    Yeah. All right. Well, he'll come back with his other pick. Uh, Senator Dolezal.

  586. 1:15:54

    Uh, let's go HB 1272.

  587. 1:15:58

    1272.

  588. 1:16:12

    Stablecoin.

  589. 1:16:13

    Great one.

  590. 1:16:15

    All right, Senator Rhett.

  591. 1:16:17

    1470.

  592. 1:16:21

    1470.

  593. 1:16:23

    Page nine.

  594. 1:16:26

    1470.

  595. 1:16:30

    All right, Senator Ginn.

  596. 1:16:34

    How about HB 1023 on page six?

  597. 1:16:44

    That ought to be a bill.

  598. 1:16:46

    1023. Not today. Senator Kirkpatrick.

  599. 1:16:52

    House Bill 657, Mr. Chair, on page four, bottom of page four.

  600. 1:16:58

    657.

  601. 1:17:07

    There's a dinger.

  602. 1:17:08

    Very quiet ding ding.

  603. 1:17:13

    All right, Senator Anderson.

  604. 1:17:16

    Let's go with, uh, House Bill 1075.

  605. 1:17:27

    1075.

  606. 1:17:37

    Good one.

  607. 1:17:38

    Yeah.

  608. 1:17:38

    All right, Senator Hufstetler.

  609. 1:17:40

    House Bill 646.

  610. 1:17:44

    646.

  611. 1:17:53

    All right, Senator Dixon.

  612. 1:17:57

    646.

  613. 1:18:01

    Okay.

  614. 1:18:01

    House Bill 521.

  615. 1:18:06

    521.

  616. 1:18:14

    He's got two more picks. All right, Senator Williams.

  617. 1:18:16

    Let's go 500.

  618. 1:18:18

    Uh, House Bill 1215. 1215. Ooh

  619. 1:18:33

    Have you another one ready. Senator Albers.

  620. 1:18:37

    Uh, House Bill 66, first page.

  621. 1:18:41

    66.

  622. 1:18:44

    What's the number?

  623. 1:18:44

    66.

  624. 1:18:45

    66.

  625. 1:18:45

    Uh, 66.

  626. 1:18:47

    Almost the mark-

  627. 1:18:48

    Fourth from the top.

  628. 1:18:50

    All right.

  629. 1:18:50

    All right. Senator Still.

  630. 1:18:59

    House Bill 1142.

  631. 1:19:02

    1142.

  632. 1:19:17

    Good job. All right, let's come back to first round of dingers. President Pro Tem.

  633. 1:19:26

    House Bill 1077.

  634. 1:19:29

    1077. Man, it's like you made this list or something.

  635. 1:19:39

    Another dinger. Was that three in a row?

  636. 1:19:41

    No.

  637. 1:19:42

    No, he whiffed on the last one. Lieutenant Governor Tarte.

  638. 1:19:51

    Huh?

  639. 1:19:52

    He helps me. Very good.

  640. 1:19:53

    Two for three ain't bad, though. Gets you in the All Stars.

  641. 1:19:56

    Right.

  642. 1:19:59

    Actually, that gets you in the Hall of Fame.

  643. 1:20:01

    Okay.

  644. 1:20:03

    Leader.

  645. 1:20:04

    Of course.

  646. 1:20:05

    Speak now-

  647. 1:20:06

    Yes

  648. 1:20:06

    ... or forever hold your peace.

  649. 1:20:09

    I'll speak now. Let's do, uh, 447.

  650. 1:20:15

    447.

  651. 1:20:27

    All right, that took care of that for now.

  652. 1:20:35

    All right, uh, Vice Chairman.

  653. 1:20:39

    House Bill 382.

  654. 1:20:41

    382.

  655. 1:20:48

    Three for three.

  656. 1:20:49

    Three for three. He's hot.

  657. 1:20:56

    All right, uh, Chairman Cowsert.

  658. 1:21:00

    I still have some bills I need to get on the floor in the House, so I'm gonna pick, pick the old Speaker's bill, House Bill 1193.

  659. 1:21:09

    1193. That is a savvy, savvy move- ... by the dean of the Republican Party in the Senate. Let me add a little blink. All right, Jordy Webb.

  660. 1:21:29

    HB 52.

  661. 1:21:32

    52.

  662. 1:21:33

    Good veteran bill.

  663. 1:21:36

    Okay. And Senator Kirkpatrick.

  664. 1:21:41

    House Bill 181.

  665. 1:21:43

    181.

  666. 1:21:51

    All right. Senator Anderson.

  667. 1:21:53

    Let's go with, uh, House Bill 413.

  668. 1:22:01

    413. Man, he's hot.

  669. 1:22:10

    Yeah.

  670. 1:22:10

    All right, Senator Hufstetler.

  671. 1:22:12

    Uh, House Bill 634.

  672. 1:22:22

    634. Senator Dixon.

  673. 1:22:32

    Um, House Bill 1272.

  674. 1:22:41

    Ooh.

  675. 1:22:45

    Go, go one below it.

  676. 1:22:47

    Should be-

  677. 1:22:48

    Go one below it.

  678. 1:22:48

    Oh, 12- 1283.

  679. 1:22:50

    Yeah, two below it.

  680. 1:23:00

    See.

  681. 1:23:00

    All right, uh, Senator Williams.

  682. 1:23:02

    629.

  683. 1:23:08

    629.

  684. 1:23:15

    All right. Senator Still.

  685. 1:23:22

    Thank you, Chairman. Um,

  686. 1:23:31

    14...

  687. 1:23:35

    No, it's already picked. Sorry. Um,

  688. 1:23:41

    248 for my leader.

  689. 1:23:47

    248.

  690. 1:23:51

    All right, now the second round of dingers. Senator Watson.

  691. 1:23:58

    Uh, Vice Chairman.

  692. 1:24:00

    House Bill 1211.

  693. 1:24:04

    1211.

  694. 1:24:08

    See what happens when I don't let him see my sheet.

  695. 1:24:15

    Chairman Cowsert.

  696. 1:24:20

    Let's see. I think I just noticed one that needs to be picked. Um,

  697. 1:24:27

    my friend, uh, Representative Reeves, House Bill 1274.

  698. 1:24:34

    1274. He listens.

  699. 1:24:42

    74 and

  700. 1:24:46

    Very good. Very good.

  701. 1:24:48

    All right, uh, Senator Anderson.

  702. 1:24:53

    Let's go with, um...

  703. 1:25:04

    Let's go with, uh, HR 1300.

  704. 1:25:11

    HR 13-

  705. 1:25:12

    What number? HR 1300.

  706. 1:25:16

    All right. That's the-

  707. 1:25:19

    HR 1300

  708. 1:25:20

    ... very last one.

  709. 1:25:22

    Oh.

  710. 1:25:22

    Page nine.

  711. 1:25:33

    All right.

  712. 1:25:33

    All right, Senator Dixon.

  713. 1:25:37

    Go with HB 295.

  714. 1:25:40

    HB 295. All right.

  715. 1:25:50

    Sen- let's see. Senator Still.

  716. 1:25:55

    This'll be it for you unless you get a dinger.

  717. 1:25:58

    Ooh.

  718. 1:25:59

    No pressure.

  719. 1:26:01

    HB, uh, 1220.

  720. 1:26:03

    1220. That's in the hot bed, but nope.

  721. 1:26:07

    Ooh.

  722. 1:26:08

    Nice try.

  723. 1:26:09

    You were so close.

  724. 1:26:14

    Ooh.

  725. 1:26:14

    All right. Back to round three of the dingers. We're narrowing down our survivors. My vice-chairman is still alive.

  726. 1:26:27

    Yes, he is.

  727. 1:26:27

    All righty. House Bill 970.

  728. 1:26:31

    970.

  729. 1:26:35

    Oh, he just died.

  730. 1:26:40

    His eyesight's bad.

  731. 1:26:41

    Yeah. Guess so. Senator Cowsert.

  732. 1:26:49

    All right. Well.

  733. 1:26:59

    Slim pickings.

  734. 1:27:06

    Let's see. Two, three, four.

  735. 1:27:09

    Sir.

  736. 1:27:10

    Seven, eight,

  737. 1:27:14

    nine, 10, 11. I've still got 11 dingers out there.

  738. 1:27:17

    Wow.

  739. 1:27:20

    Wow.

  740. 1:27:20

    Well, I think I'm gonna go with House Bill 1087.

  741. 1:27:24

    1087. Good bill. That just wasn't one of them. All right.

  742. 1:27:33

    One handed.

  743. 1:27:34

    Senator Anderson.

  744. 1:27:37

    Let's go with, um,

  745. 1:27:41

    House Bill 1202.

  746. 1:27:47

    1202.

  747. 1:27:57

    All right.

  748. 1:27:58

    All right. Uh, Senator Dixon.

  749. 1:28:01

    We dissolved them.

  750. 1:28:02

    Go with, uh, HB 634.

  751. 1:28:06

    634. Been picked.

  752. 1:28:12

    Ooh.

  753. 1:28:12

    There's two strikes.

  754. 1:28:15

    Go with, uh, 1409.

  755. 1:28:18

    1409.

  756. 1:28:28

    All right. Now to the fourth round of dingers, where I have two survivors.

  757. 1:28:39

    Senator Cowsert, would... You only have one dinger, Senator Anderson has two. Would you like to go first or second?

  758. 1:28:47

    I think I'll go second. I wanted-

  759. 1:28:48

    All right

  760. 1:28:49

    ... House Bill 903. Did it make it to your consideration calendar?

  761. 1:28:54

    903 did not.

  762. 1:28:58

    Okay.

  763. 1:29:03

    No, it did not. All right, Senator Anderson, you're up.

  764. 1:29:14

    Let's go with, um, House Bill 963.

  765. 1:29:21

    963. Did he cheat?

  766. 1:29:34

    Make Cowsert go this time.

  767. 1:29:43

    That's fun. I'll go-

  768. 1:29:46

    You're up

  769. 1:29:47

    ... I'm House Bill 485.

  770. 1:29:49

    485.

  771. 1:29:55

    Oh, oh, we only have one survivor left.

  772. 1:30:03

    All right, Senator Anderson, you're the winner.

  773. 1:30:07

    I thought I got it on that one.

  774. 1:30:09

    You did. You picked 1077 with it.

  775. 1:30:11

    Oh. Let's go with, uh-

  776. 1:30:14

    You knew the dingers.

  777. 1:30:18

    Some of them anyway.

  778. 1:30:19

    House Bill-

  779. 1:30:20

    He picked 1070

  780. 1:30:20

    ... 943.

  781. 1:30:22

    Yeah, you did. 943.

  782. 1:30:29

    Yeah.

  783. 1:30:30

    All right. You already won.

  784. 1:30:34

    What else?

  785. 1:30:39

    He does his homework. He puts forth the effort

  786. 1:30:43

    Stayed up all night, Mr. Chairman

  787. 1:30:51

    What else you got?

  788. 1:30:52

    Let's go with, um

  789. 1:30:58

    ...

  790. 1:30:58

    Make 'em quick if you already know 'em. 1129 is for online, I bet.

  791. 1:31:05

    1129. House Bill 1129.

  792. 1:31:08

    1129. He's hot. Wow. What else? Definitely

  793. 1:31:18

    is. He did come in my office before this meeting. I don't know what he got when he was in there, but I'm guessing I know now.

  794. 1:31:24

    Let's go with House Bill 957.

  795. 1:31:30

    Uh-oh. Nope.

  796. 1:31:35

    Oh.

  797. 1:31:37

    Always go state where we can.

  798. 1:31:39

    All right, what else you got? You got two more dingers.

  799. 1:31:43

    Okay.

  800. 1:31:43

    Two more dinger picks. You maybe didn't help.

  801. 1:31:48

    At least when it came to it. Let's ask a bunch of them. Yeah.

  802. 1:31:56

    Let's go with HR 251.

  803. 1:32:02

    Okay. Keep going.

  804. 1:32:14

    1243.

  805. 1:32:14

    Who's picking?

  806. 1:32:15

    He knows of which he speaks.

  807. 1:32:18

    Uh, let's go with HR1243.

  808. 1:32:22

    All right. Keep going. What else?

  809. 1:32:25

    Let's go with House Bill 1310.

  810. 1:32:31

    Oh. All right, you're out. Is there a 14, 12, 43 card? They got it? HR 1243, that's the next Gen 911. What's the last one?

  811. 1:32:42

    12-

  812. 1:32:43

    1310.

  813. 1:32:44

    1310.

  814. 1:32:47

    All right, I am going to pick a few.

  815. 1:32:55

    Putting on 1015, top of page six, second from the top. Putting on 1131, same page.

  816. 1:33:10

    1132.

  817. 1:33:15

    1238.

  818. 1:33:20

    1259.

  819. 1:33:25

    1415.

  820. 1:33:33

    I think that's everything, right?

  821. 1:33:37

    There you go. 256.

  822. 1:33:56

    And 659.

  823. 1:34:01

    I think that's everything.

  824. 1:34:06

    All right, I'm gonna call 'em out. We're gonna hold the motion and go into recess. I just wanna make sure everybody's ... We got it right. All right, I got SB 628, SR 882. The rest of these are House Bills: 52, 66, 77, 181, 1027, 248, 256, 267, 283, 295, 297, 309, 310, 334, 382, 413, 419, 432, 445, 447, 460, 485, 506, 521, 629, 634, 646, 657, 659, 689, 943, 957, 963, 964, 970, 1001, 1015, 1023, 1075, 1077, 1087, 1116, 1129, 1131, 1132, 1142, 1161, 1187, 1193, 1202, 1209, 1211, 1215, 1220, 1238, 1245 ...

  825. 1:35:34

    Is that right? 1259, 1263, 1272, 1274, 1283, 1310, 1317, 1344, 1393, 1409, 1413, 1415, 1434, 1470, 1523, 1526, 1543, 1544. Now, HR 251, HR 1243, and HR 1300.

  826. 1:36:06

    Um, and then I missed, uh, circle HB 466.

  827. 1:36:23

    All right. That ain't many left. How many is that? 23. How many?

  828. 1:36:32

    23 reps.

  829. 1:36:33

    Oh, that's all? Okay. All right. Plus what we have on the table in special action. Okay. Well, let's, uh, let's go eat lunch. We're gonna go into recess. We'll come back- What time is it? Not yet, I don't. I'm gonna ...

  830. 1:36:55

    ... Yes.

  831. 1:36:56

    What time-

  832. 1:37:00

    And staff, you've got your menu here, and where to go.

  833. 1:37:06

    What time do you want us back?

  834. 1:37:09

    Uh.

  835. 2:33:45

    Can we get extra picks for on time, Mr. Chairman?

  836. 2:33:48

    Oh. Tell you what, I'm gonna allow... I've got three we missed according to other people. Um .

  837. 2:34:01

    Well, some of them we did.

  838. 2:34:03

    So, uh, but here's what we're gonna do. So go ahead and circle 323,

  839. 2:34:15

    350,

  840. 2:34:18

    and 971. Now-

  841. 2:34:23

    What was that last one on?

  842. 2:34:24

    971. It's, uh, it's a, uh, college and career academy thing we need to do. All right. Uh, I'm a let the committee, we're gonna pick one more, and it's gonna be by majority vote. This is unofficial. So, uh, Dr. Kirkpatrick, what would you like to nominate as potential?

  843. 2:34:50

    Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to nominate House Bill 1303.

  844. 2:34:55

    13-

  845. 2:34:55

    That's, uh-

  846. 2:34:55

    ... 03

  847. 2:34:56

    ... child endangerment for controlled substances in the home.

  848. 2:35:00

    Y'all listen up. This is important.

  849. 2:35:02

    Child-

  850. 2:35:03

    Child endangerment for substance. For what?

  851. 2:35:05

    For controlled substances in the home.

  852. 2:35:08

    Okay. Child endangerment.

  853. 2:35:10

    What number?

  854. 2:35:11

    1303.

  855. 2:35:15

    Child endangerment for substance in the home. Controlled substance.

  856. 2:35:21

    Yeah, it's about causing the drug.

  857. 2:35:25

    All right.

  858. 2:35:27

    You got some.

  859. 2:35:28

    Senator Albers, you want to nominate anything?

  860. 2:35:30

    I would love to, Mr. Chairman.

  861. 2:35:31

    Sure. Go for it.

  862. 2:35:32

    I'd like to nominate House Bill 147 so, uh, we, uh, start looking at everything the state and agencies are gonna use for artificial intelligence. It's gonna be very impactful to all our 11.2 million citizens.

  863. 2:35:45

    AI-

  864. 2:35:45

    State budget

  865. 2:35:46

    ... for state agencies, 147, first page. Okay. Senator Cowsert, you want to nominate anything?

  866. 2:35:55

    I would nominate House Bill 187 on page two.

  867. 2:35:59

    187 on page two.

  868. 2:36:03

    What problem does that solve?

  869. 2:36:06

    I can't remember, but it came out of my committee.

  870. 2:36:11

    So it must be good. Uh-

  871. 2:36:12

    It must be.

  872. 2:36:13

    Okay.

  873. 2:36:14

    It deals with automobile insurance.

  874. 2:36:25

    All right. Um, somebody else want to nominate something?

  875. 2:36:30

    What about-

  876. 2:36:30

    I bet everybody does.

  877. 2:36:31

    HP.

  878. 2:36:32

    Go ahead, my vice chairman. What do you nominate?

  879. 2:36:35

    HP 421. Uh, that was... So if a sexual predator comes to the state of Georgia, uh, and commits a crime, then we have a difficult time, uh, charging them, 'cause they're out of state. So this is having to do with that.

  880. 2:36:59

    That's the way I remember it.

  881. 2:37:02

    Okay.

  882. 2:37:05

    And that was 421.

  883. 2:37:09

    Mm-hmm. Got a good one.

  884. 2:37:11

    Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Who else? Senator Ginn.

  885. 2:37:17

    The, uh, at the top of page three, HB 323. It, it brings some transparency into, uh, medical physician billing.

  886. 2:37:29

    It's selected.

  887. 2:37:30

    All right. I'll tell you what, we'll put it on.

  888. 2:37:33

    Thank you.

  889. 2:37:33

    It's selected.

  890. 2:37:34

    Exactly. All right. Senator Steele.

  891. 2:37:37

    It's already there.

  892. 2:37:39

    Good job.

  893. 2:37:40

    Thank you, Chairman. Um, I, I'm, I'm torn. We've got two great bills that I had hoped were gonna be on the list. Um-

  894. 2:37:47

    Oh

  895. 2:37:47

    ... 818, the, uh, Georgia Judicial Retirement System. Uh, Georgia Tax Court, we gotta be able to add them to our retirement system in order to really be effective.

  896. 2:38:00

    What was that number?

  897. 2:38:01

    818.

  898. 2:38:05

    Okay. Senator Rhett.

  899. 2:38:09

    HB 291, sir. We want our health workers in the community who are doing the good work to at least be s- have their certification.

  900. 2:38:19

    All right. Who else?

  901. 2:38:21

    Dave.

  902. 2:38:23

    Uh, Senator Williams.

  903. 2:38:24

    You had a favorite one.

  904. 2:38:25

    892.

  905. 2:38:28

    I did. 892?

  906. 2:38:31

    Yes, sir.

  907. 2:38:32

    What's it do? I'm not looking at it. You want to describe it?

  908. 2:38:39

    Yeah. That's, uh-

  909. 2:38:40

    Oh, that's the hours of massage parlors.

  910. 2:38:43

    Right.

  911. 2:38:45

    What this man does?

  912. 2:38:48

    892. Limits it to, like, what, 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM or something like that?

  913. 2:38:56

    Only open from 6:00 AM.

  914. 2:38:59

    Yes.

  915. 2:38:59

    They're closed. Stops them from doing traffic.

  916. 2:39:05

    Okay. Um, is that it? Senator Hufstetler.

  917. 2:39:11

    HB, uh, 169. It, uh, uh, incentivizes businesses to provide health insurance. It's not the same as the title.

  918. 2:39:35

    All right, that's one, two, three, four, seven, eight. Senator Dixon. HB471. 471.

  919. 2:39:55

    What's it do?

  920. 2:39:59

    I'll find a minute. Oh, water safety for- Water safety for something ... water safety at- I found it. ... for all the mothers in hos- There's another one coming in ... in, in the hospital. Water in the hospital. I remember that one from committee, for new mothers. Yeah, okay. All right. Did everybody get one they wanted one? All right. Gooch wanted House Bill 1061, Mandy Ballinger. 1061. 1061. We'll add that for Gooch. Ballinger.

  921. 2:40:29

    All right. 17 vote. Here's what we're gonna do. So I've got- We're gonna put one of these on.

  922. 2:40:39

    Everybody gets two votes. Highest vote getter advances. Will you read the full list again? Yep, I'll go through them again. 1061, offered by Senator Gooch, is the Mandy Ballinger bill. 471, offered by Senator Dixon, is the water safety for, um, taught by new, for new mothers.

  923. 2:41:09

    Uh, Senator Hufstetler, 169, incentivizes businesses to provide health insurance. Senator Williams, 892, limits the hours of massage parlors. Uh, Senator Kirkpatrick, 1303, is the child endangerment for controlled substances in the home. Senator Albers offered 147, which is, uh, tracks AI use by state agencies.

  924. 2:41:40

    Senator Cowsert offered 187, is a contractor bill. My vice chairman offered 421. What was that one? Child molesters. Oh yeah, child molesters. Child. Those are from out of state. Yeah, out of state child molesters. If they come, they've, they've joined the law enforcement. It's been an issue.

  925. 2:42:07

    Uh, 818 is judicial retirement for tax court judges, and 291. 818 was offered by Senator Still. 291, offered by Senator Rhett, is... What does it do? Health bill. Community health workers. Community health workers. All right. Y'all got those written down? You're gonna track. Well, we'll do it on, off the sheet here. I'm doing like this. I got it right here.

  926. 2:42:38

    Wait, you want, you want a new one? Again, you get... Oh yeah, that's perfect. Two votes. Top vote getter advances. You double up on two bills. Uh, you cannot double up. Have to vote for two bills. I was gonna do ranked choice voting, but it would take too long. Boo.

  927. 2:43:01

    So, or do y'all want three votes? We could do three. Give them all one each. We'll, we're gonna stay two. All right. Here we go. First up, HB1061, Mandy Ballinger bill. Raise your hand. All right, Cowsert. And you keep track of the- Yeah. Yep, you got it. And Kirkpatrick. Okay. Was that Gooch's vote?

  928. 2:43:31

    I had to vote for Gooch. All right, I'll give you g- I'll give that to you. All right, um, 471 is the water safety for your new mothers. I got three, so

  929. 2:43:47

    Still, Dixon, Walker.

  930. 2:43:53

    Okay.

  931. 2:43:57

    169, that incentivizes businesses to provide health insurance. Got Dolezal, Hufstetler, Hufstetler, Williams, and Anderson. Williams and Anderson. Okay. I got one. No. It was close. That was- Never mind All right, 892, massage parlors.

  932. 2:44:27

    Dolezal. Burnt, burned them early. All right, Dolezal, Williams, burned them early. And my vice chairman, Watson. Oh no. Andr- Were you voting on that or no? No, no. All right. They seem strong against them. He wanted to know what time they open.

  933. 2:44:46

    He wanna know when they close. All right. 303, or 1303, child endangerment of controlled substances in homes. Got Kirkpatrick, who is done voting, and Ginn with his first vote. Okay. 147, AI by state agencies. Two, Anavitarte and Albers. Throw me in there, Jake. And Ginn is now done.

  934. 2:45:17

    Okay, got it. Come on, Brad. Come on, Doc. Join us. All right. Um- Don't burn one in there, Doc. All right, 187, contractor bill. Got Cowsert,

  935. 2:45:34

    Cowsert, Cowsert, Cowsert. All right, he's done, and Dixon, he's done.

  936. 2:45:44

    Okay. We've got 421, out-of-state child molesters. We've got, Rick, you're already done. Um, Albers.

  937. 2:45:58

    Yeah.

  938. 2:45:58

    Albers is done. Randy-

  939. 2:46:01

    I think you bought that Tim right there too.

  940. 2:46:02

    Randy Rober-

  941. 2:46:06

    Gooch already did.

  942. 2:46:06

    Gooch already voted. I got Randy, I got Watson. You're now done. And Anderson is now done. All right.

  943. 2:46:17

    You still got Cowsert, right?

  944. 2:46:20

    And Cowsert, Cowsert, Cow- Cowsert has already-

  945. 2:46:25

    That should be five

  946. 2:46:26

    ... Cowsert already used his two votes.

  947. 2:46:29

    I thought one of them was Gooch.

  948. 2:46:31

    Well, I, I

  949. 2:46:34

    Oh.

  950. 2:46:34

    I don't know.

  951. 2:46:34

    I see that. Gooch has been nominated. I didn't want him to get-

  952. 2:46:38

    All right, Gooch is done. Oh, wow.

  953. 2:46:41

    Lee ding-ding Anderson. Don't act like someone's-

  954. 2:46:44

    All right, 81... All right, so Goo- it's Gooch, not Cowsert. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on.

  955. 2:46:52

    How-

  956. 2:46:52

    Down here-

  957. 2:46:53

    I have you, I have-

  958. 2:46:55

    We have-

  959. 2:46:57

    Mr. Chair.

  960. 2:46:58

    Robertson, Anderson, and Watson.

  961. 2:47:00

    But, and then you got Gooch.

  962. 2:47:02

    Oh.

  963. 2:47:04

    Was that everybody? Wasn't there five?

  964. 2:47:06

    One, two, three-

  965. 2:47:07

    And Albers

  966. 2:47:08

    ... four, five. Yes.

  967. 2:47:09

    That was Albers.

  968. 2:47:10

    Five.

  969. 2:47:16

    Um-

  970. 2:47:17

    That's right. This is where paper ballots would matter.

  971. 2:47:19

    All right, 818, judicial retirement.

  972. 2:47:22

    Nobody showed on that.

  973. 2:47:23

    Huff and Still.

  974. 2:47:24

    That's right.

  975. 2:47:27

    Y'all two are done, and Doc has saved all his votes for... Wait, did you vote for the 818?

  976. 2:47:34

    Yeah, I voted for 818.

  977. 2:47:36

    All right, so you're using all two votes to count for one vote for 291.

  978. 2:47:42

    Ballots, that's, that's ballots. Or ballot box.

  979. 2:47:47

    Um-

  980. 2:47:49

    Yeah.

  981. 2:47:49

    Randy, did you vote twice?

  982. 2:47:51

    No, sir. I only voted once.

  983. 2:47:52

    Okay. All right. What we got?

  984. 2:47:58

    It says nine, nine candidates, one-

  985. 2:47:59

    I got a four, and I got a one, two, three, four, five, and I got a five. All right, looks like 421. Circle it.

  986. 2:48:12

    421.

  987. 2:48:17

    All right, let me go through the whole thing again.

  988. 2:48:20

    You, you did two fours.

  989. 2:48:22

    Hmm?

  990. 2:48:23

    You did two fours.

  991. 2:48:24

    He had a four and a five.

  992. 2:48:25

    I had two fours and a five. All right, we've got 628, Senate Bill 628, Senate Resolution 882. We've got House Bill 52, 66, 77, 181, 1027, 248, 256, 267, 283, 295, 297, 309, 310, 323, 334, 350, 382, 413, 419, 421, 432, 445, 447, 460, 466, 485, 506, 521, 629, 634, 646, 657, 659, 689, 943, 957, 963, 964, 970, 971, 1001, 1015, 1023, 1075, 1077, 1087, 1116, 1129, 1131, 1132, 1142, 1161, 1187, 1193, 1202, 1209, 1211, 1215, 1220, 1238, 1245,

  993. 2:49:41

    1259, 1263, 1272, 1274, 1283, 1310, 1317, 1344, 1393, 1409, 1413, 1415, 1434, 1470, 1523, 1526, 1543, 1544, and HR 251, HR 1243, and HR 1300.

  994. 2:50:06

    Second.

  995. 2:50:07

    Was there any I called out that weren't supposed to be on there? Well, there's a few. Is there any I didn't call out that we had said that I'd told you to circle? We got them all? All right, I got a motion from Senator Albers of do pass.

  996. 2:50:20

    Second.

  997. 2:50:21

    Got a second from Senator Anderson. Is there any further discussion? Senator Dolezal.

  998. 2:50:26

    Are we going into recess at the end of this, Mr. Chairman, in case we need time?

  999. 2:50:30

    We are going into recess.

  1000. 2:50:31

    Okay.

  1001. 2:50:32

    And it automatically adjourns at midnight.

  1002. 2:50:37

    Don't ask me that question, Mr. Chairman.

  1003. 2:50:42

    No.

  1004. 2:50:45

    So-

  1005. 2:50:45

    So we're not in meeting schedule for Wednesday?

  1006. 2:50:47

    Hmm?

  1007. 2:50:47

    Do we have a meeting scheduled for Wednesday or-

  1008. 2:50:49

    We're not meeting Wednesday.

  1009. 2:50:50

    Okay.

  1010. 2:50:50

    This is it. This is the calendar for day 39 and 40. As you know, at some point we will table bills, and then it will be up to, um, everyone in- if you care about a bill, once it's tabled, I would, I would strongly suggest you advocate for it. Y'all know the drill by now. So I would imagine around bill 30-ish we table, but that's a g- complete guess.

  1011. 2:51:26

    That could be... I mean, if y'all undermine me again, it could be on bill two. Who knows?

  1012. 2:51:32

    Are we, um- We're not having joint special privilege on Thursday, correct?

  1013. 2:51:38

    That is correct.

  1014. 2:51:39

    Joint means that we- Points of personal privilege, you have special presentations.

  1015. 2:51:42

    Oh, that's what it... I'm sorry, yeah. But it is limited, so-

  1016. 2:51:51

    20-

  1017. 2:51:51

    March 23rd, 6:00 AM

  1018. 2:51:54

    All right. We can-- A lot of this can be discussed after our motion gets voted on. Is there anything else around these bills that needs to be discussed? All right. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion carries unanimous. Good work. Enjoyed serving with each and every one of you-

  1019. 2:52:15

    Great committees

  1020. 2:52:16

    ... for the last four years. This is a good committee. And maybe there's more, maybe there's not.

  1021. 2:52:24

    You've been amazing with it.

  1022. 2:52:25

    Time, only time will tell. But been a good year. We've got some good stuff we've done. More good stuff to do. Senator Rhett?

  1023. 2:52:35

    Before you gavel out, should we have-

  1024. 2:52:37

    Oh, I'm not gaveling out. I'm just glad you said that

  1025. 2:52:39

    ... those people who might not be back in this capacity, have them say a few words?

  1026. 2:52:45

    Sure. Chairman Cowsert, would you like to start us off? You're not coming back.

  1027. 2:52:50

    It's, uh, been a pleasure to serve with you, Mr. Chairman. I always love your seriousness with the humor, making it a little more bearable.

  1028. 2:52:59

    Thank you.

  1029. 2:52:59

    You've done a fine job. We've passed a lot of good bills during your tenure.

  1030. 2:53:03

    Yes, sir. You've, you've been one of the best chairmen I've seen operate. Uh, you can run a meeting like no other.

  1031. 2:53:10

    Thank you.

  1032. 2:53:10

    So I've, I've always meant that. And, um, you're, you're a wise fox. You-

  1033. 2:53:20

    I've 48 hours left to play in the-

  1034. 2:53:22

    That's That's right.

  1035. 2:53:25

    Yeah.

  1036. 2:53:26

    No, it's, it's been an honor serving with you. I've learned, truly have learned a lot by just watching you and, and listening to you, your wealth of knowledge, and I appreciate you.

  1037. 2:53:35

    You bet.

  1038. 2:53:35

    So, uh, Senator Dolezal.

  1039. 2:53:40

    Your Eminence. Um, appreciate your leadership. I've sat next to you for eight years. You're a true friend, and you've been a surprise for me of the honor to serve in this general assembly. Uh, the times we've had together has been, has been fun.

  1040. 2:53:53

    Absolutely. You're, you're one of the smartest people I've ever met. You've, uh... You can-- You understand the politics, you understand the policy, and, um, you've, you've been a, you've been great to sit by because you've helped me. You've kept me out of trouble a lot of times. So, and for someone like myself, I need all the help I can to stay out of trouble. So thank you. You've been a true friend. Let's see.

  1041. 2:54:20

    You want to do Frank just in case?

  1042. 2:54:30

    Wow, that might've been the funniest thing you've ever said.

  1043. 2:54:36

    I mean, Frank, you want it just in case? Anybody? I mean, I could need to say something just in case. I mean, I've, I could lose my next election. Senator Rhett, you're not leaving.

  1044. 2:54:48

    Just in case I end up being your vice chair on science and technology- ... I want to thank everybody for laughing at my corny jokes.

  1045. 2:54:58

    Or at least trying to. All right. Well, y'all, uh, we'll go into recess part B. Thank y'all.

  1046. 2:55:08

    Deep recess.

  1047. 2:55:08

    Deep recess.

  1048. 2:55:12

    We're-

  1049. 2:55:15

    We're doing four square, four square this recess. Anybody wants some, let me know. I've been practicing.

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