Natural Resources and the Environment

GA - Senator Tyler Harper (R)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Senator Bill Heath (R)

Title:

Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Matt Brass (R)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Frank Ginn (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Gail Davenport (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Marty Harbin (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Sally Harrell (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Jack Hill (R)

Title:

Member - (until 04/07/2020)

GA - Senator Zahra Karinshak (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Freddie Powell Sims (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Lindsey Tippins (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator John Wilkinson (R)

Title:

Member

GA - SB123 Waste Management; the coal ash surcharge imposed by host local governments; eliminate

GA - SR88 Georgia's Coastal Tourism and Fisheries; seismic testing and oil and gas drilling activities; oppose

GA - HB201 Board of Natural Resources; promulgate rules and regulations regarding anchoring certain vessels within estuarine areas; authorize

GA - SB182 Seafood; mariculture development; legislative findings; definitions; unlawful acts; permitting; provide

GA - HB458 Fire protection and safety; use of class B fire-fighting foam for testing purposes if such foam contains a certain class of fluorinated organic chemicals; prohibit

GA - HB382 Outdoor stewardship; eligible applicants for and recipients of grants; redefine

GA - SB99 Department of Natural Resources' Online Licensing System; allow applicants to make an anatomical gift; provide

GA - HB501 Game and fish; provide for mariculture development

GA - SR108 Stand4Forests Platform; State of Georgia's endorsement; encourage

GA - SB72 Game and Fish; hunting on wildlife management areas; prohibition; remove

GA - HB223 Conservation and natural resources; provide for an exception to notification of spills or releases; provide for definitions

GA - HB998 Game and fish; effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; change

GA - SR272 Georgia Power; remove the unlined coal ash pile at the McDonough-Atkinson Power Plant and place in lined landfill; urge

GA - HB445 Conservation and natural resources; shore protection; revise various provisions

GA - SB297 Solid Waste Management; conditions for the issuance of a permit for solid waste or special waste handling for a coal combustion unit or landfill; provide

GA - HB833 Waters, ports, and watercraft; promulgate rules and regulations regarding long-term anchoring; authorize

GA - HB93 Water pollution and surface-water use; notice to local governing authorities prior to the dewatering of coal combustion residual surface impoundments; provide

GA - SB319 Rivers and River Basins; dam safety; building of inhabitable structures in the inundation zone of Category II; prohibit

GA - SR369 Department of Natural Resources; recognize September 28, 2019 as National Hunting and Fishing Day in the state of Georgia; urge

GA - SB356 Solid Waste Management; expansion of certain municipal solid waste landfills to areas within two miles of military air space used as bombing ranges; allow

GA - SR690 Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; support implementation of the Coastal Georgia Greenway; encourage

GA - HB929 Solid waste management; post-closure ground-water monitoring at closed coal combustion residual impoundments; provide

GA - SB473 Conservation and Natural Resources; duties, powers, and responsibilities relative to historic preservation; from Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Community Affairs; transfer

GA - SB384 Solid Waste Management; location of any municipal solid waste disposal facility within certain distance of a blackwater river; flows directly into the ocean; prohibit

GA - SB407 Forest Resources and Other Plant Life; harvest and sale of palmetto berries; regulate

GA - SB445 Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; water and sewer authorities to be designated as local issuing authorities for land-disturbing activity permits; authorize

GA - SB426 Air Quality; reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; provide

GA - SB461 Soil Amendments; further regulation of soil amendments derived from industrial by-products by local governments; authorize

GA - SB474 Department of Natural Resources; construct, operate, maintain, and supply informational materials at welcome centers assigned to it by the Governor; provide

GA - HB1057 Agriculture; further regulation of soil amendments derived from industrial by-products by local governments; authorize

GA - SB488 Hunting; any licensee 80 years of age or older who did not obtain the full 2019 turkey gobbler bag limit may rollover to the 2020 turkey hunting season; provide

GA - HB966 Conservation and natural resources; regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries