Judiciary

GA - Representative Wendell Willard (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Barry Fleming (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Representative Trey Kelley (R)

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Secretary

GA - Representative Beth Beskin (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Roger Bruce (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Jr. Caldwell, Johnnie (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Stacey Evans (D)

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Member - (until 09/06/2017)

GA - Representative Rich Golick (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Scott Holcomb (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Randy Nix (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Jay Powell (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Dale Rutledge (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Pam Stephenson (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Andrew J. Welch (R)

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Member

GA - SB138 Social Services; provide for various reforms regarding the state's child welfare system

GA - HB367 Superior courts; fourth judge of Western Judicial Circuit; provide

GA - HB347 Interest and usury; interest on certain domestic relations cases; clarify provisions

GA - HB354 State health benefit plan; require insurer to include certain trauma centers on provider network; provisions

GA - HB342 Nursing homes; violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; provide

GA - HB377 Courts; collection of delinquent fees and statutory surcharges; provide

GA - HB381 Revised Georgia Law on Notarial Acts of 2015; enact

GA - HB405 Contracts and marriage; change provisions relating to agreements required to be in writing; provisions

GA - SB65 Property; change provisions relating to an exemption

GA - HB418 Grand jurors; prohibit certain individuals from serving; provisions

GA - HB434 Cooper's Law; enact

GA - HB685 Georgia Real Property Common Interest Act; enact

GA - HB680 Children's Hope for Family Act; enact

GA - HB686 Breach of restrictive covenants; provide accrual periods of rights of action; provisions

GA - HB691 Municipal courts; removal of appointed judges under certain circumstances; provide

GA - HB51 Taxes; amount payable at redemption of property; change provisions

GA - HB59 State tort claims; waiver of sovereign immunity for declaratory judgment or injunctive relief; provide

GA - HB480 Municipal courts; creation of office of prosecuting attorney and name of prosecuting attorney to be served on Administrative Office of the Courts; require notice

GA - SB34 Torts; provide immunity from liability; persons entering a parked motor vehicle; purpose of removing a child from motor vehicle; definitions

GA - HB452 Protective Order Registry Act; enact

GA - HB456 Trusts; establish qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; provisions

GA - HB74 State government; assisting the armed forces in the investigation of any citizen under certain circumstances; prohibit any agency

GA - HB387 Debtor and creditor; enact new chapter in Title 7; provisions

GA - HB524 Trade names; require registration with clerk of superior court; provisions

GA - HB17 Hidden Predator Act; enact

GA - HB90 Code Revision Commission; revise, modernize, and correct errors of said Code

GA - HB531 Nonresidents; grounds for exercising personal jurisdiction over nonresidents; change provisions

GA - HB547 Estates; taxes and tax liens; change provisions

GA - HB98 Appellate courts; provide direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals pertaining to courts-martial; provisions

GA - HB87 Retirement and pensions; Code Revision Commission; revise title

GA - SB168 State Symbols; designate the Old Governor's Mansion as the official state historic house

GA - SB129 "Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act"; provide for the preservation of religious freedom

GA - HB572 Commerce and trade; statutory form for financial power of attorney to provide additional protection for principals by allowing for termination upon occurrence of specified disability, incapacity, or mental incompetence; revise

GA - HB567 Alimony and child support; jurisdiction of courts that hear contempt proceedings; expand

GA - SB135 Clerks of Superior Courts; provide for protection and disclosure of records held; procedure for disclosure

GA - HB99 Property; joint tenants divorce or have marriage annulled under certain circumstances; provide procedure for tenancy in common

GA - HB115 Foreclosure Cure Act; enact

GA - HB119 AIDS; disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; change provisions

GA - HB154 Magistrate courts; fine amount for contempt of court; increase

GA - HB171 Laws and statutes; revise provisions relating to effect and enforcement of foreign laws; provisions

GA - SB183 Animals; provide for liability protection for certain activities related to livestock; limitations

GA - HB168 Courts; maximum compensation allowable for trial and grand jurors; increase

GA - SB128 Corporations; directors and officers; enact reforms consistent with the Model Act; functions of a board of directors; change provisions

GA - HB173 Foreclosure; inclusion of a conspicuous statement regarding accrual of fines, fees, and taxes on notice of foreclosure proceedings sent to debtor; provide

GA - HB178 Georgia Ports Authority; comply with terms of certain authorized agreements with federal government; reassert power

GA - HB207 Courts; judge, judicial officer, grand juror, or trial lawyer may be disqualified for presiding or serving due to being related by consanguinity or affinity to a party; change provisions

GA - HB197 Debtor-Creditor Uniform Law Modernization Act of 2015; enact

GA - HB228 Sheriffs; collect and deposit certain fees; provide

GA - HB204 Civil Practice Act; opposing affidavits shall be served in motions for summary judgment; change provisions

GA - HB218 Preventing Government Overreach on Religious Expression Act; enact

GA - HB233 Georgia Uniform Civil Forfeiture Procedure Act; enact

GA - HB239 Animals; liability protection for certain activities related to livestock; provide

GA - HB245 Condominiums; amount permissible as a special assessment fee; change

GA - HB267 Property; witnessing requisites of deeds, mortgages, and bills of sale; change and clarify provisions

GA - HB295 Corporations, partnerships, and associations; change certain provisions relating to definitions; provisions

GA - HB298 Certified process servers; sunset and legislative review provisions; repeal

GA - HB323 Fair Employment Practices Act of 1978 and merit system; prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation; change certain provisions

GA - HB303 Uninsured motorist coverage; recovery when an insurer refuses to pay for a loss within 60 days after a demand has been made by the insured and a finding has been made that such refusal was made in bad faith; change provisions

GA - HB274 Estates; administration; provide for a definition; provisions

GA - HB287 Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act; enact

GA - SB3 'Supporting and Strengthening Families Act'; power of attorney from parent to another person; care of minor child; provide for

GA - HB322 Foreclosure; provide for recording of deeds under power within a certain time after sale; provisions

GA - HB741 Supreme Court; terms of court; change provisions

GA - HB616 Dispossessory proceedings; summons shall be served within ten days; provide

GA - HB615 Water; suppliers of such service seek reimbursement for unpaid charges only from person who incurred charges; provide

GA - HB734 "Georgia Space Flight Act"; enact

GA - HB808 Courts; Judicial Qualifications Commission; create

GA - HR1091 State of Georgia; paramount right to life of all human beings; recognize - CA

GA - HB762 Crimes and offenses; disposal of aborted human fetuses; change certain provisions

GA - HB757 Domestic relations; religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies in violation of their legal right; provide

GA - HB759 Courts; financial institutions; certain activities shall not constitute the unauthorized practice of law; provide

GA - HB756 Commerce and trade; protect certain sellers of goods and services against infringement of religious freedom; provide

GA - HR1113 Judicial Qualifications Commission; create - CA

GA - HB804 Superior courts; fifth judge of the Clayton Judicial Circuit; provide

GA - HB849 "Georgia Civil Rights in Public Accommodations Act"; enact

GA - HB816 "Georgia Student Religious Liberties Act of 2016"; enact

GA - HB837 "Religious Freedom Restoration Act"; enact

GA - HB832 Civil practice; conclusion of criminal proceedings prior to civil forfeiture proceedings; require

GA - HR1136 United States Congress; set term limits on members elected to the House of Representatives and Senate; request

GA - HR1159 House of Representatives and Senate; members serve staggered, four-year term limits; provide - CA

GA - HB856 Probate courts; bond required for judges; change provisions

GA - HB858 Torts; property damage caused by the rescue or attempted rescue of dogs locked in motor vehicles; limit liability

GA - SB255 Garnishment Proceedings; modernize, reorganize, and provide constitutional protections

GA - HB871 "Georgia Lemon Law"; consumer fees forwarded to the Department of Law for deposit in the new motor vehicle arbitration account; require

GA - HB881 Domestic relations; adoption; substantially revise general provisions

GA - HB896 Alcoholic beverages; social host's criminal responsibility and civil liability; provisions

GA - HB927 "Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 2016"; enact

GA - HB918 Commerce and trade; powers of attorney to a uniform Act; update and conform provisions

GA - HB920 Health; hospitals and related institutions; restrict civil actions against passive investors in nursing homes and intermediate care homes

GA - HB914 Fair Business Practices Act; requirements for solicitations of services to obtain a copy of an instrument conveying real estate; provide

GA - HB957 Probate courts; judges and clerks publicly post notice of the availability of the affidavit of indigence; require

GA - HB950 Human Services, Department of; certain individuals identified in a diligent search conducted as part of a dependency proceedings; specify additional information

GA - HB938 Tax; maintenance of the property so sold; provide

GA - HB1052 Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations; provisions

GA - SB262 Courts; when a judge, judicial officer, grand juror; may be disqualified by being related by consanguinity/affinity to a party; provisions

GA - HB1017 "Georgia Civil Practice Act"; general provisions governing discovery; change provisions

GA - HB1004 Courts; maps, plats, and plans to be filed for record; provide requirements

GA - HB1027 Courts; filing of documents in superior and state courts by electronic means; provide

GA - HB1025 Courts; service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; change provisions

GA - HB1026 Counties and municipal corporations; certain owners of real property; provisions

GA - HB1041 Evidence; particular matters of proof; provide authority for the use of other mortality tables

GA - HB1063 Property; renewal of covenants which restrict land to certain uses affecting planned subdivisions; provide

GA - SB370 Superior Courts; sponsor of training requirements; change provisions

GA - SB275 Local Government; governing body shall not adopt policy that has effect of preventing free exercise of the right of freedom of speech by the members

GA - SB331 Courts; causing a child to be conceived; violating certain prohibitions relating certain offenses; additional ground for terminating parental rights

GA - HB1070 Domestic relations; adoption; permit the department to use certain information in the records concerning the adopted child's biological parents

GA - SB356 Animals; provide definition of term "owner"; impoundment of animals for any violation; caring for an impounded animal

GA - HB1095 "Patient Compensation Act"; enact

GA - SB269 Counties; require local governing bodies; provide certain entities with certification of compliance with Code section; condition of funding

GA - SR388 Constitution; prevent discrimination in the public funding of social services; allow religious/faith based organization to receive public aid -CA

GA - SB206 Counties and Municipal Corporations; revise provisions relating to water liens; procedures

GA - SR675 State of Georgia; English as official language -CA

GA - HR1612 Senator Isakson and Senator Perdue; support efforts in the United States Senate to oppose the confirmation of any nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia; encourage

GA - HB1150 State government; public records; remove exemption regarding the acquisition of real property

GA - SB333 NonProfit Corporations; allow for a nonprofit corporation organized in foreign jurisdiction to change its jurisdiction of organization to this state

GA - SB345 Corporations, Partnership, and Associations; provide for the policy of state determining property rights of religious organizations