Regulated Industries and Utilities

GA - Senator Bill Cowsert (R)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Senator Matt Brass (R)

Title:

Vice Chairman

GA - Senator John F. Kennedy (R)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Ed Harbison (D)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator P. K. Martin IV (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Lindsey Tippins (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator John Albers (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Frank Ginn (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Steve Gooch (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Steve Henson (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Jack Hill (R)

Title:

Member - (until 04/07/2020)

GA - Senator David Lucas (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Butch Miller (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Jeff Mullis (R)

Title:

Member

GA - SB2 Public Utilities and Public Transportation; electric membership corporations and their affiliates; authorize; broadband services; provide

GA - HB23 Public utilities and public transportation; electric membership corporations and their affiliates to provide broadband services; specifically authorize

GA - HB76 Alcoholic beverages; counties and municipalities may regulate alcohol licenses as to certain distances in a manner that is less but not more restrictive than those distances specified by the state; provisions

GA - SB17 Public Utilities and Public Transportation; authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates; provide broadband services

GA - SB43 Revenue Bonds; definition of the term "undertaking" as it relates to electric systems; revise

GA - SB61 Health Planning and Development; integrated surgery centers from certificate of need requirements; exempt

GA - SB66 "Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act"

GA - HB184 Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act; enact

GA - HB192 Professions and businesses; real estate management companies; change certain provisions

GA - SB74 Health; certificate of need requirements for all health care facilities except certain long-term facilities and services; eliminate

GA - HB208 Local government; contracts for utility services; change the terms

GA - HB242 Georgia Massage Therapy Practice Act; enact

GA - HB244 Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require

GA - HB253 Georgia Occupational Therapy Practice Act; enact

GA - SB95 Local Government; terms for contracts for utility services; change

GA - SB100 Telephone System for the Physically Impaired; state-wide dual party relay service and audible universal information access service; provisions; change

GA - HB324 Georgia's Hope Act; enact

GA - HB337 Georgia Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Program Act; enact

GA - SB112 Public Service Commission; recovery of certain financing costs of the construction of nuclear generation plants from public schools; prohibit

GA - SB114 Health; certificate of need requirements; provisions; revise; Health Strategies Council; establish

GA - SB122 Motor Vehicle Franchise Practices; protection of certain consumer data in motor vehicle sales or lease transactions; provide

GA - SR184 General Assembly; local authorization of a limited number of licensed destination resort facilities casino resorts within the state; authorize to provide - CA

GA - SB144 Taxes on Tobacco Products; issuance of special event tobacco permits; authorizing off-premise sales of certain tobacco products; provide

GA - SB146 Alcoholic Beverages; retail package liquor stores conduct tasting events; samples of alcoholic beverages may be served; provide

GA - HB417 Law enforcement officers and agencies; comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; provide

GA - SB152 Alcoholic Beverages; certain limitations upon manufacturers; change

GA - SB153 Trauma Scene Cleanup Services; comprehensive regulation; provide

GA - SB162 Local Government; disaster mitigation improvements and broadband services infrastructure; downtown development authorities; provide

GA - SB198 Alcoholic Beverages; manufacture, distribution, transportation, or sale of ice cream or frozen dessert made with alcoholic beverages; without an alcoholic beverage license or permit; authorize

GA - SB205 Alcoholic Beverages; issuance of the call and the setting of dates for elections relating to the question of Sunday sales during certain hours; provisions; change

GA - HB486 Professions and businesses; power and duties of the Division of Electrical Contractors as to the approval of continuing education courses; change

GA - HB493 Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act; enact

GA - HB499 Public utilities and public transportation; use of electric easements for broadband services; permit

GA - HB516 Professions and businesses; profession of professional structural engineer; provide

GA - SB214 Barbers and Cosmetologists; the number of apprenticeship hours required; change

GA - SR454 Georgia's Congressional Delegation and United States Congress; authorize the study of medical marijuana in Georgia; urge

GA - SB296 Funeral Directors and Embalmers; alternative cremation process; provide

GA - SB298 Crimes and Offenses and Education; protections for and education to minors regarding smoking and vaping; provide

GA - SB310 Professions; regulations; provide; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial arts associations and federations; provisions

GA - HB857 Conservation and natural resources; burning of certain chemically treated wood products for purposes of commercial energy generation; prohibit

GA - HB879 Alcoholic beverages; legislative intent of the General Assembly to exercise strict regulatory control over the three-tier system; provide

GA - SB355 Professions and Businesses; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial art associations and federations; provisions; change

GA - SB364 Public Utilities and Public Transportation; percentage limitation; amount of the investments an electric membership corporation may make in a gas affiliate; eliminate

GA - SB375 Cigarettes and Tobacco Related Products; additional penalties regarding any person under 21 years of age; provide; definition of vapor product; revise

GA - SB379 Barbers and Cosmetologists; certain provisions; change

GA - SB385 Prevention and Control of Air Pollution; burning of certain chemically treated wood products for purposes of commercial energy generation; prohibit

GA - HB932 Georgia Podiatry Practice Act; podiatric medicine and surgery; change certain provisions

GA - SB397 Bona Fide Coin Operated Amusement Machines; number that may be prohibited in local ordinance; change

GA - SB403 Lottery for Education; lottery game of sports wagering in this state; provide

GA - SB411 Electric Membership Corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require

GA - HB972 Public utilities and public transportation; penalties for violations of pipeline safety standards and regulations prescribed and enforced by the Public Service Commission; provide

GA - HB987 Health; additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; provide

GA - SB424 "Accessible Health Care for Rural Georgia Act"; general cancer hospitals; provide 3 percent uncompensated indigent or charity care; require; enact

GA - SB428 "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975"; deceptive practice of musical performance; without recording group's permission; prohibit

GA - HB1032 Health; certificate of need laws; provisions

GA - SB454 Food Service Establishments; mobile food service units that provide food for pickup and delivery via a smartphone or web-based application; provide

GA - SB459 Public Utilities and Public Transportation and State Government; funding for the deployment of certain communications services throughout this state; provide

GA - SR821 Lotteries and Nonprofit Bingo Games; sports betting in this state under certain circumstances; provide -CA

GA - HB1071 Public utilities and public transportation; text messages as a method of making unwanted telephone solicitations; prohibit

GA - SB467 Bona Fide Coin Operated Amusement Machines; certain fines for violations by location owners and location operators; increase

GA - SB478 Distilled Spirits; number of retail dealer licenses that a person may hold or have a beneficial interest in; change

GA - SB481 Crimes and Offenses; low THC oil, marijuana, and tetrahydrocannabinols do not include certain federally approved products; provide

GA - SB496 Public Utilities and Public Transportation; governmental entities; adopting any policy that prohibits the connection or reconnection of any utility service based upon the type or source of energy or fuel; prohibit

GA - SR938 US Federal Communications Commission; reconsider its proposed rule regarding use of the 5.850-5.925 GHz band; urge