Governmental Affairs

GA - Representative Shaw Blackmon (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Ed Rynders (R)

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Chairman - (until 09/05/2019)

GA - Representative Todd Jones (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Representative Bruce Williamson (R)

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Secretary

GA - Representative Rhonda Burnough (D)

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Member

GA - Representative J Collins (R)

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Member

GA - Representative J. Collins (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Barry Fleming (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Micah Gravley (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Joseph Gullett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Eddie Lumsden (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Bee Nguyen (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Alan Powell (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jay Powell (R)

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Member - (until 11/26/2019)

GA - Representative Renitta Shannon (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Darlene Taylor (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Darlene K. Taylor (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Robert Trammell (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Scot Turner (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Mary Frances Williams (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Rick Williams (R)

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Member

GA - HB6 Elections; certain electors list maintenance activities; eliminate

GA - HB15 Housing authorities; develop and implement policies granting housing preferences to veterans who are homeless; require

GA - HR8 Elected officials; office shall be declared vacant upon official qualifying for certain other offices; provide - CA

GA - HB24 Public officers; members of state and local boards, authorities, commissions shall be appointed by an elected official or officials; require

GA - HB27 Elections; method for certain small municipalities to shorten the advance voting period for municipal elections and runoffs; provide

GA - HB29 Skidaway Island, City of; compliance with constitutional requirements; provide

GA - HB34 Local government; taxpaying business owners to be appointed to development authorities; provide

GA - HB57 Elections; eligible electors mailed an absentee ballot for each primary, election and runoff in which they are eligible to vote; provide

GA - HB73 Public officers and employees; prohibition of persons engaged in bail bond business from serving in certain elected offices; revise

GA - HB90 Administrative Services, Department of; create Division of Supplier Diversity

GA - HB117 Elections; county superintendent may permit any elector of the county to vote in any precinct of the county which such elector chooses in a primary, election, or runoff under certain conditions; provide

GA - HB175 State government; prohibit display of monuments or memorabilia related to the Confederate States on public property except for museums and Civil War battlefields

GA - HB176 Elections; any agency that utilizes applications to provide services or assistance to persons in this state shall provide voter registration applications; provide

GA - HR138 Federal government; oversee election changes in Georgia under the Voting Rights Act of 1965; urge

GA - HB186 Health; sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise provisions

GA - HB191 Elections; law regarding ballot access for political body and independent candidates; revise provisions

GA - SB71 Hospital Authority; sale or lease of a hospital; provisions; revise

GA - SB77 State Flag, Seal, and other Symbols; additional protections for government statues; provide

GA - HB210 Elections; revise times for opening and closing of polls

GA - HB211 Elections; types of acceptable identification for voting; provide

GA - HB222 Elections; nonpartisan general election; change date

GA - HB248 Elections; delivery of absentee ballots to disabled electors; provide

GA - HB249 Elections; prompt notice shall be provided to electors of the rejection of their absentee ballots; provide

GA - HB250 Elections; procedures for processing voter registration applications; provide

GA - HB251 Elections; persons who may assist electors in voting; revise

GA - HB252 Elections; same day registration and voting; provide

GA - HB255 Elections; delivery of absentee ballots to certain persons in custody; provide

GA - HB262 Death investigations; coroner or county medical examiner is authorized in an additional circumstance to conduct an investigation; provide

GA - HB270 Elections; certain driver's licenses and identification cards shall not be proper identification for presentation to a poll worker; provide

GA - HB275 Elections; persons may register to vote at age 16 but shall not vote until 18; provide

GA - HB283 Georgia Voting Rights Act; enact

GA - HB284 Cobb County; Magistrate Court chief judge; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB285 Cobb County; probate judge; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB299 Elections; time period allowing for public comment on precinct realignments; extend

GA - HB308 State government; public records shall not be held exclusively by private entity; provisions

GA - HB315 Local government; certain agreements from consultants who enter into contracts or arrangements to prepare or develop requirements for bids; provide

GA - HB316 Elections; definitions; provide for uniform equipment and ballot marking devices

GA - HB322 Local government; advertisement of certain bid or proposal opportunities; change provisions

GA - HB334 Courts; compensation of various local government officials; modify

GA - HB348 Public officers and employees; application for limited paid leave for the purpose of volunteering and providing nonprofit support in this state; authorize

GA - HB349 Local government; counties to exercise powers in incorporated areas; authorize

GA - HB363 State government; reasonable access to public services for non-English speakers; require

GA - SB130 Office of Probate Judge of Johnson County; future nonpartisan elections; provide

GA - SB134 Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; commission for administrative purposes; reassign

GA - HB388 Local government; funding a development project's proportionate share of system improvement when such development project is exempt from development impact fees and such project creates affordable housing; exempt counties and municipalities

GA - HB392 Board of Public Safety; expense allowance and travel cost reimbursement for members in like fashion as other state boards and commissions; provide

GA - HB400 Elections; certain driver's licenses and identification cards shall not be proper identification for presentation to a poll worker; provide

GA - HB404 Cobb County; Superior Court; restyle the executive assistant and the executive secretary of the clerk as administrative managers

GA - HB433 Elections; new voting systems for use in this state; provide

GA - SB154 Georgia Coroner's Training Council; hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; provide

GA - HR325 Elected constitutional executive officer; vacancy in the office upon qualifying for election of another elective constitutional executive office; provide - CA

GA - HR345 Persons who are 17 years of age and older; may register to vote and vote in elections in this state; provide - CA

GA - SB171 Courts, Primaries and Elections, and Ad Valorem Taxation; compensation of various local government officials; modify

GA - SB177 General Assembly; requirements for consideration of local legislation revising existing districts or creating new districts; provide

GA - HB466 Elections; clerks of state courts and clerks of superior courts; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB467 Cobb County; clerk of the Superior Court; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB468 Cobb County; clerk of the State Court; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB503 Aviation; certain local governments to lease property to private parties for development; authorize

GA - HB520 Elections; change date of nonpartisan general elections

GA - HB522 Elections; means and manner of establishing identity and eligibility to vote for voter registration purposes; provide

GA - SB213 Campaign Contributions; content of and certain reporting times for certain campaign disclosure reports; revise

GA - HB547 Local government; bill to incorporate a new municipality cannot contain any territory that is a part of an existing municipality; provide

GA - HB548 Stone Mountain Memorial Association; Stone Mountain Park shall not be subject to annexation into any municipality or to becoming part of any newly created municipality

GA - HB566 State government; provide notice of meetings

GA - HR416 House Study Committee on Georgia County Boards of Elections and Registration; create

GA - HB567 Local government; annexations by certain governing authorities; prohibit

GA - HB568 Elections; judges of probate courts, chief magistrate judges and certain other magistrate judges; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB571 Ben Hill County; Magistrate Court chief judge; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB572 Ben Hill County; probate judge; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB575 Vista Grove, City of; DeKalb County; incorporate

GA - HB587 Mableton, City of; Cobb County; incorporate

GA - HB669 State government; placement of a statue in honor of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on Stone Mountain; provide

GA - HB671 Vista Grove, City of; DeKalb County; incorporate

GA - HB710 Chatham Islands, City of; Chatham County; incorporate

GA - HB718 East Cobb, City of; Cobb County; incorporate

GA - HB723 Elections; clarify a term

GA - HB742 Public officers and employees; suspension of compensation for officials who are suspended because of indictment for a felony; provide

GA - HB749 Local government; protection of naturally occurring affordable housing and naturally occurring workforce housing in certain designated areas; provide

GA - HB757 Elections; determination of qualifying periods for special elections; provide

GA - HR893 Persons at least 16 years of age; vote in school district elections and elections affecting school funding; provide - CA

GA - SB295 Courts and Revenue and Taxation; cost-of-living and general performance based increases; revise

GA - HB782 Georgia public holidays; number that are observed; revise

GA - HB784 Open and public meetings; discussions of school safety plans by members of a local board of education may be conducted in executive session; provide

GA - SB312 Georgia Commission on African American History and Culture; create

GA - HB812 Elections; revise times when referendum elections may be conducted

GA - SB316 Military Spouses; licensed in other states to practice certain professions; obtain a license by endorsement to practice in this state; provide

GA - SB322 Development Impact Fees; exemption of development projects from funding such projects' proportionate share of system improvement; authorize

GA - HB832 Local government; require authorities operating parks and recreation facilities used by youth athletic organizations to insure such facilities are equipped with certain vessels for heat related injuries

GA - HB834 Local government; definition of term "undertaking" to include the provision of access to the internet; expand

GA - HB848 State government; provide the Department of Administrative Services additional options when disposing of surplus property in the best interest of the state; change certain definitions

GA - HB852 Aviation; certain publicly held lands; revise taxability

GA - HB854 Local government; battery charged fences; provisions

GA - HB866 Local government; abolition of a county police department and returning the law enforcement functions of such department to the sheriff of the county; provide method

GA - HB867 Local government; county operated airport property; provisions

GA - HB898 Local government; counties and municipalities to consider the effect of a proposed zoning action on local school systems; allow

GA - HB902 Elections; candidates to swear at the time of qualifying that neither the candidate nor his or her surrogate has colluded with a foreign state; require

GA - HB914 Professions and businesses; military spouses licensed in other states to practice certain professions and occupations in this state; provide

GA - HB948 Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; reassign the commission for administrative purposes

GA - HB953 Administrative Services, Department of; certain terms in particular types of state contracts shall be void and unenforceable and should not be included in such agreements; provide

GA - HB955 Crimes and offenses; simple battery against a person 65 years of age or older; repeal enhanced penalties

GA - SB410 Ad Valorem Tax Appeals; alternative means of recovering costs of litigation and attorney's fees; provide

GA - SB413 Conflicts of Interest in Zoning Actions; definition of the term applicant; expand

GA - HB962 Administrative Services, Department of; new authority to enter into or authorize agreements with private for profit organizations; provide

GA - HB973 State holidays; June 19 of each year; designate

GA - HB980 Local government; zoning procedures; define term "family"

GA - HB981 Georgia Smoke-free Air Act; enact

GA - HB986 Local government; members of a county or municipal governing authority appointed as directors of development authorities shall not serve as chairpersons or chief executive officers of such authorities; provide

GA - SR793 Joint Private Financing of Infrastructure Study Committee; create

GA - HR1251 Congress; propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a two-thirds' approval vote of the House of Representatives in order to begin impeachment proceedings against a sitting president; urge

GA - HB1014 Local government; downtown development authorities; remove provision providing perpetual existence to such authorities

GA - HB1029 Twiggs County; office of probate judge; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB1030 Twiggs County; office of chief judge of the Magistrate Court; provide nonpartisan elections

GA - HB1045 Insurance; include flood risk reduction in the enumerated list of county purposes for which certain proceeds from county taxes shall be used

GA - HB1048 Local government; compensation and benefits for employees and members of governing authorities; revise provisions

GA - HB1058 State government; state contracting certification that a boycott of Israel is not to be conducted by the other party; revise applicability

GA - HB1073 Local government; creation of regional development authorities; provide

GA - SB463 Primaries and Elections; provisions and references regarding direct recording electronic voting machines; remove

GA - HB1099 Public officers and employees; coroners are full-time county employees; provide

GA - HB1107 Georgia Anti-Corruption Act; enact

GA - HB1122 Regional commissions; appointment of nonpublic members to the councils; revise provisions

GA - HB1139 Civil practice; designating a biweekly paper as the official legal organ; allow

GA - HB1155 Local government; no municipal charter shall be enacted where a portion of the proposed corporate boundary was ever part of an existing municipality; provide

GA - SB504 Electors of Glynn County; nonbinding advisory referendum; provide

GA - HB1172 Elections; manner of giving notice of changes in voter registration as a result of using the change of address information supplied by the United States Postal Service; revise

GA - SB509 Glynn County Police Department; abolish; transfer of assets and property of such police department; provide

GA - HB1211 State symbols; protection of government statues, monuments, plaques, banners, and other commemorative symbols; revise provisions

GA - HB1212 State symbols; display of monuments, memorials, plaques, markers, or memorabilia related to the Confederate States of America, slave owners, or persons advocating for slavery on public property except for museums and Civil War battlefields; prohibit

GA - HR1552 Georgians; participate in 2020 Census to ensure a complete and accurate count; urge

GA - HB1235 State holidays; June 19 of each year as Juneteenth Independence Day; designate

GA - HB1236 State government; local workforce development boards to conduct meetings via teleconference; authorize

GA - HB1238 Elections; electors to change their addresses and vote on primary and election days; provide

GA - HB1244 Law enforcement officers and agencies; Georgia State Law Enforcement Citizen Review Council; create

GA - HR1621 Georgia Legislative Black Caucus; policy recommendations regarding election reform; support

GA - HB1257 Local government; municipal corporations cannot change the zoning or increase land use density of an annexed property for a period of two years; provide