Georgia Rep. Ron Stephens (R)

GA - Economic Development & Tourism (House)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Rules (House)

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Member

GA - Ways & Means (House)

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Member

GA - Health (House)

Title:

Member

GA - Special Committee on Economic Growth (House)

Title:

Chairman

GA - HR519 Type 1 Diabetes Day at the state capitol; March 14, 2019; commending the Georgia residents who have Type 1 Diabetes and whose families continually educate and advocate; recognize

GA - HR33 Christie, Officer Anthony; condolences

GA - HB477 Public swimming pools; exempt pools located in condominium complexes

GA - HR1247 Savannah Logistics Technology Innovation Corridor; official technology innovation corridor in Georgia; designate

GA - HB525 Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center; rename to Savannah Convention Center

GA - HR955 Tourism, Hospitality, and Arts Day at the state capitol; January 21, 2020; foster awareness and convey the value of these industries to our state; recognize

GA - HB829 Local school district tax; authorize assessment of residential homesteaded property owned by individuals of 65 years of age or older at 20 percent of its fair market value; provide for local referenda

GA - HB740 Economic Development, Department of; Sports Marketing Fund; create

GA - HR912 Jimmy Burnsed Interchange; Bryan County; dedicate

GA - HB570 State government; sports betting in this state; provide

GA - HR962 Local school district tax; authorize assessment of residential homesteaded property owned by individuals of certain ages at 20 percent of its fair market value; authorize General Assembly - CA

GA - HR913 Fowler-Burnsed Bridge; Bryan County; dedicate

GA - HR34 Darden, Judge Linnie L., III; receiving the Humanitarian of the Year Award from Kirk Healing Centers for the Homeless on February 9, 2019; congratulate

GA - HR1345 Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, General Chairman Lawrence E. Edgerly, and Grand Marshal of the 2020 St. Patrick's Day Parade Michael Roush, Sr.; occasion of the 2020 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Savannah, Georgia; commend

GA - HB731 Excise tax; certain tobacco products; increase

GA - HB827 Georgia World Congress Center Authority; Georgia Major Sporting Event Reimbursement Fund and Georgia Major Sporting Event Reimbursement Board; create

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

GA - HB561 Richmond Hill, City of; Redevelopment Powers Law; provide for a referendum

GA - HB887 Alcoholic beverages; maximum amount of distilled spirits a manufacturer can sell for consumption off the premises per consumer per day; change

GA - HB730 Sales and use tax; all tangible personal property sold to or used by a local host committee for major sporting events; exempt

GA - HB1004 Income tax; credits for higher education for the Fort Gordon Cyber Security and Information Technology Innovation Corridor and the Savannah Logistics Technology Innovation Corridor; provide

GA - HR925 Family and Consumer Sciences; commend

GA - HB214 Vaccine protocol agreements; geographic limitation on pharmacists; remove

GA - HB828 Restroom Access Act; enact

GA - HB421 Education; school year shall not begin prior to the second full week in August; provide

GA - HB560 Income tax credit; production expenditures incurred in the production of televised commercial advertisements in this state may be aggregated to meet the base investment to earn such tax credit; provide

GA - HB559 Bryan County Public Facilities Authority Act; enact

GA - HB658 Savannah, City of; change corporate limits

GA - HB314 Georgia Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act; enact

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

GA - HR496 Duke, Nellie Dunaway; commend

GA - HB420 Revenue and taxation; tax on persons who enter certain rental agreements with certain equipment rental companies within a certain period of time; levy and impose

GA - HR1034 Metts, Dr. James C., Jr.; condolences

GA - HB140 Tax sales; levies and executions; change certain provisions regarding procedures

GA - HB149 Taxation of intangibles; real estate transfer tax; change certain provisions

GA - HR900 Savannah Children's Choir; designate as junior ambassadors from the State of Georgia to the People's Republic of China; invite

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

GA - HR327 General Assembly; provide by law for local authorization of a limited number of licensed destination resort facilities casino resorts within the state; authorize - CA

GA - HB139 Tax sales; levies and executions; change certain provisions regarding procedures

GA - HB148 Revenue and taxation; definitions; change certain provisions

GA - HB483 Controlled substances; Schedules I, IV, and V; change certain provisions

GA - HR378 Georgia Gaming Commission; all forms of betting, bingo games, raffles, and gambling shall be permitted; provide - CA

GA - HR683 House Study Committee on a Tax Deduction for Members of a Health Care Sharing Organization (HCSO); create

GA - HR431 2019 St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee; General Chairman Lawrence E. Edgerly; Grand Marshal Gerald Patrick Counihan, Sr.; 2019 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Savannah, Georgia; recognize

GA - HB147 Revenue and taxation; definitions; change certain provisions

GA - HB791 Pharmacists; dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; authorize

GA - HR415 Areu, Ozzie and Will; founding the first Latino-owned film studio in Georgia and the United States; commend

GA - HB449 Sales and use tax; certain property used in the construction, renovation, or expansion of certain multiuse arenas; create exemption

GA - HR239 Savannah Logistics Technology Innovation Corridor; designate

GA - HB657 Richmond Hill, City of; Redevelopment Powers Law; provide for a referendum

GA - HR109 Tourism, Hospitality, and Arts Day at the state capitol; February 5, 2019; recognize

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 - HB607 Chatham County; State Court judges; provide for an accountability court supplement

GA - HB129 Crimes and offenses; knowingly selling or furnishing knuckles to a person under age of 18 years; provide for an exception

GA - HR238 Savannah, City of; assessed value of commercial property for all ad valorem taxation purposes shall not increase by any amount that exceeds an 8 percent increase over the prior year's assessed value; provide - CA

GA - HB150 Taxation of intangibles; real estate transfer tax; change certain provisions

GA - HB991 Healthcare Transparency and Accountability Act; enact

GA - HB939 Income tax; qualified education tax credit; revise the aggregate tax limit cap allowed each year

GA - HB61 Motor vehicle insurance companies; offer qualified active duty military service members between the ages of 18 and 24 motor vehicle insurance policies underwritten at rates for such service members 25 years of age or older; require

GA - HB946 Insurance; extensive revisions regarding pharmacy benefits managers; provide

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

GA - HB653 Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority; repeal Act

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

GA - HB1165 Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority; repeal Act

GA - HB588 Income tax; nonrefundable earned income tax credit; provide

GA - HB1127 Local government; zoning procedures; provide for suits against counties and municipalities

GA - HB947 Community Health, Department of; engage an actuary to conduct a study of the fiscal impact of carving out pharmacy benefits from the state's current Medicaid care management organizations; require

GA - HB1229 Revenue and taxation; rate of tax on tobacco products; increase or revise

GA - HB343 Income tax; royalties paid to musical artists; provide exemption

GA - HB1037 Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment Act; move certain sound recordings from qualified production activities to production expenditures

GA - HB734 Ethics in Journalism Act; enact

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 - HB530 Education; prohibit parents or guardians from withdrawing or removing a child from a public school for the purpose of avoiding compliance with laws relating to mandatory attendance, school discipline, parental involvement, or parental responsibilities

GA - HB779 Alternative ad valorem tax; motor vehicles; revise distribution of the proceeds of such taxes among local governments

GA - HB1241 Professions and businesses; licensure of individuals in the practice of applied behavior analysis; provisions

GA - HB1027 Insurance; rebates received from pharmaceutical manufacturers; provide requirements

GA - HB409 Professions and businesses; authorize delegation by a physician to an advanced practice registered nurse to order radiographic imaging tests in non-life threatening situations

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 - HB1022 Property; dispossessory proceedings; revise procedures for the initiation of dispossessory actions

GA - HB1024 Health; freestanding emergency departments under the certificate of need program; provide

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

GA - HB1228 Community Health, Department of; submit 1115 waiver request for the uninsured up to a maximum of 138 percent of federal poverty level; authorize

GA - HB335 Alternative ad valorem tax; certain motor vehicles owned or leased by or to a nonprofit organization or entity; provide exclusion

GA - HB341 Crimes and offenses; reproduction of recorded material; update terminology

GA - HB412 Alternative ad valorem tax; exclusion for motor vehicles owned or leased by or to a nonprofit organization or entity that is exempt from taxation; provide

GA - HB450 Game and fish; provide for mariculture development

GA - HB243 Public utilities and public transportation; limitations on fees that may be charged for installation of telephone facilities; provide

GA - HB347 Income tax; all expenditures of a production company's state certified productions may be combined to meet spending thresholds; provide

GA - HB672 Free Market Solutions to Insure all Georgians Act; enact

GA - HB673 Special license plates; Tybee Island Historical Society; establish

GA - HB405 Revenue and taxation; Level 1 Freeport Exemption; modify provisions

GA - HB387 Property; liens in favor of private, nonprofit, volunteer fire departments for instances of fire services that are requested by property owners; provide

GA - HB434 Education; campus policeman who is employed by a private educational institution of higher learning and who commits a tort while acting within the scope of official duties shall not be subject to lawsuit or liability; provide

GA - HB178 Mental health; provide for assisted outpatient treatment programs

GA - HB200 Excise tax; hotel and motel rooms for transportation purposes; exempt certain persons from tax

GA - HB448 Excise tax; rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; revise definition of innkeeper to include lodging facilitators

GA - HB501 Game and fish; provide for mariculture development

GA - HB864 Excise tax; sale of vapor devices and consumable vapor products; provide

GA - HB759 Controlled substances; Schedule IV; change certain provisions

GA - HB727 Domestic Violence Helping Hands Act; enact

GA - HB905 Motor vehicles; commissioner of driver services to enter into certain reciprocal agreements with foreign jurisdictions; provide authority

GA - HB254 Income tax; film, gaming, video, or digital production; increase amount of tax credits allowed per year

GA - HB518 Emergency medical services; authorize adjacent municipalities that would qualify for seven or more ground ambulances to request that territory be established concurrent with the boundaries of adjacent municipalities

GA - HB507 Ad valorem tax; criteria used by tax assessors to determine the fair market value of real property; revise

GA - HB837 Local government; development authorities; provisions

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 - HB41 Income tax credit; film, video, or digital productions that employ veterans; provide additional credit

GA - HB48 Excise tax; public mass transit vehicles; reinstate exemption

GA - HB182 Sales and use tax; lower threshold amount for certain dealers

GA - HB215 Georgia Scenic Trails System; electric assisted bicycles; provide for permitted operation

GA - HB493 Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act; enact

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

GA - HB1060 Vulnerable Child Protection Act; enact

GA - HB426 Criminal procedure; imposition of punishment for crimes involving bias or prejudice; revise criteria

GA - HB8 Sales and use tax; certain menstrual products; create exemption

GA - HB94 Solid waste management; safe disposal of coal ash in municipal solid waste and commercial industrial solid waste landfills; provide

GA - HB301 Georgia Educational Scholarship Act; enact

GA - HB854 Local government; battery charged fences; provisions

GA - HB1 Senator Eric Johnson Scholarship Act; enact

GA - HB644 Pooler, City of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee

GA - HB476 Education; child entertainer students performing during one or more school days shall not be counted absent from school; provide

GA - HB906 Heritage Trust Program; condition the method utilized for conveyance of heritage preserve property on the property's amount of acreage

GA - HB183 Ad valorem tax; right to appeal for any taxpayer that fails to file a property tax return or whose property tax return was deemed returned; provide

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

GA - HR887 Easterseals Georgia and its Champions for Children Program Day at the state capitol; January 17, 2020; recognize

GA - HR1646 Hursey, Elizabeth Zoller; outstanding public service as the Clerk of Court of Effingham County; commend

GA - HR687 Victims of the C-130 plane crash near Savannah, Georgia; May 2, 2018; condolences

GA - HR380 General Assembly; provide by law for sports betting; authorize - CA

GA - HR602 Brosh, Special Agent Margaret A.; commend

GA - HR228 President of the United States and Congress; enact legislation securing the citizenship of internationally adopted adult individuals; urge

GA - HR50 House Study Committee on a Nancy Hanks Passenger Rail Line from Savannah to Atlanta; create

GA - HR1041 Jones, Mark Jason; compensate

GA - HR987 St. Joseph's/Candler Health System's African-American Health Information and Resource Center; completion of two decades of continuous service to the citizens of Savannah and surrounding areas; commend

GA - HR745 Thomas, Lee; Georgia Trend 2019 Georgian of the Year; work in attracting and growing the motion picture and television industry in Georgia; commend

GA - HR254 State Restaurant Day at the state capitol; February 20, 2019; commending the restaurant industry of Georgia; recognize

GA - HR1271 Hungary Day at the state capitol; February 8, 2020; supporting economic, cultural, security, and educational cooperation with Hungary; recognize

GA - HR143 Georgia's retirees and the Georgia State Retirees Association (GSRA); GSRA Day at the capitol; February 6, 2019; recognize

GA - HR1713 Coffer, M.L.; condolences

GA - HR1215 Judge Willie J. Lovett, Jr., Juvenile Justice Center; City of Savannah; dedicate

GA - HR551 Mohr, Mary Georgia; Distinguished Older Georgian for 2019; commend

GA - HR1369 Coastal Marshland Protection Act; 50th anniversary; March 27, 2020; recognize

GA - HR1216 Rappé Way; City of Savannah; rededicate

GA - HR1193 Georgia Studio & Infrastructure Alliance; representative for the tens of thousands of hard-working citizens in the State of Georgia's film and television industry; commend

GA - HR164 General Assembly; dedication of revenues derived from fees or taxes to the public purpose for which such fees or taxes were imposed; authorize - CA

GA - HR1506 Kaye, Ari Isaac; birth; commend

GA - HR929 State of Georgia; establish Georgia Gullah Geechee Heritage Society; encourage

GA - HR880 Al St. Lawrence Memorial Bridge; Chatham County; dedicate

GA - HR1238 Blondean Newman Highway; Bryan County; dedicate

GA - HR1039 Lucci, Dominic Brian; compensate

GA - HR52 Education; all schools, local educational agencies and state educational agency to recognize that dyslexia has a profound educational impact that must be addressed; encourage

GA - HR54 Atlanta Super Bowl Host Committee; commend Super Bowl LIII Day at the state capitol; 01/29/2019; recognize

GA - HR104 Georgia Automatic Merchandising Council (GAMC) Day at the state capitol; February 10, 2019; recognize

GA - HR72 Georgia; host world's largest startup pitch competition; encourage

GA - HR476 Morris, Kevin; selected as a Marshall Scholar; commend

GA - HR408 Joint Innovation and Emerging Technologies Study Committee; create

GA - HR382 Georgia Aerospace Industry; significant beneficial impact to the people and economy of the State of Georgia; commend

GA - HR306 Personal and corporate income tax rates; reduction by 0.25 percent; provide

GA - HR478 Harris, Judy Cecelia; condolences

GA - HR430 Brown, Reverend Abram "Abe" Fitzgerald, Sr.; condolences

GA - HR959 Georgia House of Representatives; Georgia Economic Developers Association; efforts to improve the economic development climate of the State of Georgia; commend

GA - HR1014 Dyslexia Day at the state capitol; February 11, 2020; urging schools, local educational agencies, and the state educational agency to address the profound educational impact of dyslexia; recognize

GA - HR725 Policy recommendations and outcomes; co-prescribing naloxone with opioids; recognize

GA - HR244 Flau'Jae; commend

GA - HR1714 Burkhalter, J. Mark; nomination as the United States Ambassador to Norway; commend

GA - HR1038 Gardiner, Kenneth Eric; compensate

GA - HR324 Eleven Black Men of Liberty County, Inc.; 25th anniversary; recognize

GA - HR48 Georgia's coastal tourism and fisheries; support

GA - HR902 Service Providers Association for Developmental Disabilities (SPADD) day at the capitol; January 16, 2020; recognize

GA - HR137 House Study Committee on the History of Historically Black Colleges and Universities; create

GA - HR896 James "Jimmy" A. Petrea Bridge; Chatham County; dedicate

GA - HR402 President of the United States and Congress; enact legislation securing the citizenship of internationally adopted adult individuals; urge

GA - SB80 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Authority; expired provisions; issuance and review of requests for proposals for a new location, ownership; remove

GA - SR841 Legislative Acts; void; people of this state may petition the judiciary for declaratory relief from certain acts of this state that violate the laws or Constitution of this state or the Constitution of the United States; provide -CA