Public Safety

GA - Senator Tyler Harper (R)

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Chairman

GA - Senator John Albers (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Mike Dugan (R)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Hunter Hill (R)

Title:

Ex-officio - (until 09/06/2017)

GA - Senator Harold V. Jones II (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Valencia Seay (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Michael Williams (R)

Title:

Member

GA - SR282 Joint Peace Officer and Firefighter Occupational Disease Study Committee; create

GA - SR558 General Assembly; proceeds of excise taxes on sale of fireworks; funding of trauma care -CA

GA - SB240 Motor Vehicles; require motor vehicle headlights to emit only white light

GA - SB134 Speed Detection Devices; provide for a rebuttable presumption for law enforcement agencies' use of speed detection devices

GA - HB206 Uniform rules of the road; procedure for passing sanitation vehicles; provide

GA - SB46 Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; provide definitions; require peace officers be equipped with audio/video recording device

GA - HB118 Drivers' licenses; issuance of commercial licenses and instruction permits to comply with federal law; amend certain provisions

GA - SB160 Alcoholic Beverages; revise penalties for a violation of Code Section 3-3-23

GA - HB147 Motor vehicles; initial two-year registration period for certain vehicles; provide

GA - SB192 License Plates and Registration; civil penalty; commercial vehicle drivers; violation of provisions relating to display of license plates

GA - HB210 Drivers' licenses; provide for dissemination of certain information by the Department of Driver Services; provisions

GA - HB325 Safety belts; definition of term passenger vehicle; modify

GA - SB72 "Tanja's Law"; provide measure of equivalency in punishment of crimes committed against police dogs in performance of their official duties

GA - HB492 Crimes and offenses; carrying in unauthorized locations; revise provisions

GA - HB110 Fireworks; provide for sale of consumer fireworks; provisions

GA - SB68 Firearms; provide for training requirement for the issuance of a weapons carry license

GA - SB67 Firearms; prohibit all carrying of weapons in government buildings

GA - SB57 Handicapped Persons; provide any motorized wheelchair or scooter operated on public ways and sidewalks shall be equipped with reflectors

GA - SB6 "Georgia Road Safety and Driver's License Integrity Act"; provide persons who possess lawful alien status are only category of noncitizens

GA - HB114 Drivers' licenses; provide for use of paper eye charts for testing of noncommercial driver's vision; provisions

GA - SR460 Senate Minor Traffic Offense Study Committee; create

GA - SB73 Firearms; allow person to be detained by law enforcement; purpose of investigating whether such a person has a weapons carry license

GA - SB70 Armed Security Guard; require that a criminal background check be performed prior to the issuance of a license

GA - SB71 Crimes and Offenses; clarify it shall be lawful; peace officers to use law enforcement agency issued devices to observe, photograph; any private place

GA - SR119 Law Enforcement Agencies; encouraged to equip peace officers who conduct traffic stops; primary duties; body cameras

GA - SB83 Motor Vehicles and Traffic; require policies; prohibit law enforcement officers from impermissibly using race/ethnicity to stop motor vehicle

GA - HB310 Penal institutions; create Board of Community Supervision, Department of Community Supervision, and Governor's Office of Transition, Support, and Reentry; provisions

GA - HB123 Motor vehicles; use of safety chain or cable when operating a motor vehicle drawing a trailer; provide

GA - HB278 Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Rights to Know Act of 1988; transfer responsibility to Safety Fire Commissioner; provisions

GA - SB76 "Motorcycle Mobility Safety Act"; safe operation of a motorcycle; inoperative traffic-control signal

GA - SB365 License Plates; establish special license plate for the Georgia Pet Foundation

GA - SB100 Motor Vehicles and Traffic; provide for applicability with current federal reg. in the safe operations of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles

GA - HB393 Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception

GA - HB48 Special license plates; include surviving spouse of a sibling of service member killed in action; extend eligibility

GA - SB301 Fireworks; revise the days and times in which consumer fireworks my be lawfully used or exploded

GA - SB320 Driver's License; revise exemptions afforded to nonresidents issued to them in in home state/country

GA - SB316 Bingo; remove the daily permissible prize limitation while preserving the weekly permissible prize limitation

GA - HB421 Retirement and pensions; officers employed by Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; provide

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

GA - HB730 Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; commissioner of juvenile justice as a voting member; add

GA - HB747 Motor vehicles; safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; update reference date to federal regulations

GA - HB767 Motor vehicles; add utility service vehicles to the "Spencer Pass Law"; provisions

GA - SB350 Taxation on Consumer Fireworks; dedicate moneys collected; trauma care, fire services, and local public safety purposes

GA - HB375 Motor vehicles; driving with suspended, canceled, or revoked registration; change provisions relating to plea of nolo contendre

GA - SB268 Rules of the Road; require county dept. of family and children services be notified; endangering a child by driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs

GA - SB263 Law Enforcement Officers; provide governing authority; employs sworn police officers who are P.O.S.T certified; policies; disability in line of duty

GA - SB270 Firearms; authorize qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry handgun anywhere within this state

GA - SB279 Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; include Commissioners of Juvenile Justice/Natural Resources as voting members

GA - SB303 Brady Law Regulations; require a gun lock be furnished to buyer in all retail firearm sales made by firearm dealers

GA - SB304 Criminal Records; allow for the preservation of a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by Georgia Crime Information

GA - SB369 Fireworks; revise the standard of compliance from explosion to ignition; definitions

GA - SB415 Road Rules; revise criminal penalty for operating a vehicle without adequately securing load

GA - SB384 Controlled Substances; provide for mandatory minimum sentences for sale of or trafficking in heroin

GA - SB404 Public Safety Department; off-duty use of motor vehicles by certain law enforcement officers; revise provisions

GA - HB777 School buses; drivers use cellular telephones in similar manner as a two-way radio; allow

GA - HB764 Motor vehicles; drivers to stop at crosswalks with pedestrian-activated rectangular rapid flash beacons; require

GA - SB407 State Sexual Offender Registry; increase a sexual offender's reporting requirements under certain circumstances

GA - SR1032 Senate Sexual Offender Registry Study Committee; create

GA - SB416 GBI; establish Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center; provide fusion center for sharing and analysis of homeland security activity information

GA - SB414 Law Enforcement; provide a standard by which state, county, and local authorize the engagement of vehicular pursuits

GA - HB1064 Public Safety, Department of; off-duty use of motor vehicles; revise provisions

GA - HB970 Fire protection and safety; issuance of certificates of compliance for fire departments; revise requirements

GA - HB93 Motor vehicles; law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems for certain periods; prohibit

GA - SB422 Building and Housing; provide for legislative findings; unlawful for responsible agent of a vacant structure; neglected condition; shall constitute a public nuisance

GA - HB736 Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide

GA - HB806 Drivers' licenses; expiration of certain licenses and identification cards; provisions

GA - HB166 Motorcycle Mobility Safety Act; enact

GA - HB727 Fireworks; certain further regulations by counties and municipal corporations; provide