Georgia Sen. Ben Watson (R)

GA - Appropriations (Senate)

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Member

GA - Ethics (Senate)

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Member

GA - Health and Human Services (Senate)

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Member

GA - Public Safety (Senate)

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Ex-officio

GA - Retirement (Senate)

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Ex-officio

GA - Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security (Senate)

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Chairman

GA - Community Health (Senate)

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Member

GA - Insurance (Senate)

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Member

GA - Abusive Billing Practices (Senate)

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Member

GA - Pharmacology (Senate)

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Member

GA - SR63 Self-Care Month; recognize February, 2017

GA - SR72 Physician's Day; recognize January 25, 2017

GA - SB395 Georgia Joint Defense Commission; create

GA - SR683 Resurgens Orthopaedics Advocacy Day; recognize February 21, 2018

GA - SB157 State Health Planning and Development; certificate of needs requirement; create additional exemptions

GA - SR1162 Guidera, Gabriella; commend

GA - SR62 Resurgens Orthopaedics Advocacy Day; recognize March 1, 2017

GA - SB96 Health; pronouncement of death by registered professional nurses; nursing homes and hospice care; authorize; county medical examiner's duties after notice of suspicious death; make a conforming change

GA - SR620 Physician's Day; recognize January 31, 2018

GA - SR684 Self-Care Month; recognize February, 2018

GA - SB298 City of Skidaway Island; incorporate

GA - SR609 National Guard Day; recognize January 25, 2018

GA - SR979 Members of St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee; recognize

GA - SR1164 Students and Teachers of Islands High School; recognize

GA - SB16 Low THC Oil; definition; provisions relating to conditions eligible for use; change

GA - SB240 Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority; reconstitute

GA - SR391 Gulfstream Day at the State Capitol; recognize March 24, 2017

GA - SB397 Real and Personal Property; municipalities to hire state licensed real estate brokers to assist in sale; allow

GA - SR660 Wasden, Jr., Wiley Anderson; honor

GA - SB158 State Health Planning and Development; certificate of need requirement; create additional exemptions; freestanding emergency services; create certificate of need process

GA - SR1063 Senate Study Committee on Certificate of Need Reform; create

GA - SR499 Lyons, Garden City's Police Chief David L.; recognize

GA - SR567 Benson, Andrew; recognize

GA - SR281 National Immunization Awareness Month; recognize August 2017

GA - SR382 Members of St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee; recognize

GA - SB73 Recorder's Court of Chatham County; chief judge; revise the responsibilities

GA - SR1163 Floyd, Abigail; commend

GA - SR1165 Schulke, Cera; commend

GA - SR619 National Guard Day; recognize January 25, 2018

GA - HB125 Sales and use tax; certain tangible personal property sold or used to maintain a boat; create exemption

GA - HB165 Medical practice; maintenance of certification shall not be required; provide

GA - HB354 Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center; reconstitute and authorize Department of Economic Development to contract for certain projects

GA - HB405 Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; establish state-wide system to facilitate the transport and distribution of essentials in commerce during a state of emergency; require

GA - HB422 Veterans Service, Department of; nonprofit corporation as a public foundation; authorize incorporation

GA - HB427 Physicians and Health Care Practitioners for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact

GA - HB515 State house districts; revise boundaries of a certain district

GA - HB647 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for treatment and management of obesity; provide

GA - HB657 Firearms; providing to person on probation as a felony first offender; make unlawful

GA - HB700 Georgia Student Finance Authority; service cancelable educational loans; include graduate degree programs

GA - HB701 State employment; drug testing; allow testing for all forms of opioids

GA - HB739 Tracy Rainey Act; enact

GA - SB6 Georgia Regional Transit Council; definitions; membership; powers; duties; create

GA - SB46 Torts; space flight activities; provide facilitation; definitions; exceptions

GA - SB47 Physicians; visiting sports teams' physicians; provide for licensure exemption; requirements; limitations; agreements with other states

GA - SB52 Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor; sunset provision; repeal

GA - SB68 'Individual Student Education Account Act'

GA - SB72 Corporations; land conveyances to churches or religious societies; change provisions

GA - SB88 'Narcotic Treatment Programs Enforcement Act'

GA - SB101 Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; full-time hourly employee with Department of Natural Resources; provide for creditable service for prior service

GA - SB102 Emergency Medical Services; emergency cardiac care centers; designation; Office of Cardiac Care within Department of Public Health; establishment

GA - SB122 Open Seasons for Hunting Deer; provisions; change

GA - SB125 Physician Assistants; authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant

GA - SB142 Speed Detection Devices; automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; provide

GA - SB153 Hearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers; exempt certain activities

GA - SB165 Solid Waste Management; dispose of such coal ash in event of a release; impose liability

GA - SB191 Petroleum Pipelines; regulation and permitting in this state; definitions; provide

GA - SB201 Labor and Industrial Relations; employees to use sick leave for the care of immediate family members; allow

GA - SB218 Motor Vehicles; definitions; operation of autonomous vehicles; require such vehicles to comply with federal and state equipment laws; provide

GA - SB219 Motor Vehicles; definitions; operation of motor vehicles with automated driving systems on certain public roads; provide

GA - SB222 'Local Government 9-1-1 Authority Act'; Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; create

GA - SB241 Controlled Substances; electronic data base of prescription information; provisions; change

GA - SB245 'Cory Joseph Wilson Act'

GA - SB249 "Chatham County Urban Development Authority Act"

GA - SB277 "Consumer Coverage for Emergency Medical Care Act"

GA - SB325 "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act"; Georgia Composite Medical Board to administer the compact in this state; authorize

GA - SB328 Income Tax; expiration of certain income tax credits; provide

GA - SB333 Deferred Compensation Plans; governing authority of a municipality may pay costs/fees associated with employee's participation; provide

GA - SB341 Ignition Interlock Devices; use of cameras; provide

GA - SB342 Licensing of Motor Vehicles; owner with valid license plate without the required revalidation decal to retain custody of vehicle under certain conditions; permit

GA - SB354 Technical College System of Georgia; classify certain active duty service members as in-state for tuition purposes; require

GA - SB357 Health Coordination and Innovation Council of the State of Georgia; create

GA - SB359 "Consumer Coverage and Protection for Out-of-Network Medical Care Act"

GA - SB414 Charitable Solicitations; local governing authorities to issue written notices for failure to clean and maintain collection receptacles; allow

GA - SB429 Department of Family and Children Services; may contract for the purchase of or purchase services for children or families to whom it is providing child welfare services without competitive bidding; provide

GA - SB435 School Buses; civil monetary penalties regarding violations of the duties of a driver; enforcement; revise

GA - SB444 Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; create

GA - SB459 "Rural Hospital Infusion Plan (RHIP) Act"

GA - SB462 State Health Planning and Development; integrated surgery centers from certificate of need requirements; exempt

GA - SB491 State Health Planning and Development; definitions; exemptions; provide

GA - SR10 Effingham County Day; recognize January 23, 2017

GA - SR12 Burgess, Joe E. recognize

GA - SR13 Gay, Dallas; recognize

GA - SR14 Rural Health Day; recognize March 1, 2017

GA - SR18 Addiction Recovery Awareness Day; recognize January 12, 2017

GA - SR19 Testa, Hannah; commend

GA - SR20 "Plastic Pollution Awareness Day" designate February 15th each year

GA - SR77 Georgia Association of Broadcasters; recognize

GA - SR96 Golf Day; recognize January 30, 2017

GA - SR117 Physicians who have completed the "Scholarship Program"; recognize

GA - SR134 Officer Kevin Jordan Memorial Highway; Spalding County; dedicate

GA - SR141 Georgia Southern University; commend

GA - SR155 Prostate Cancer Awareness Day; recognize February 6, 2017

GA - SR172 National Guard Day; recognize March 6, 2017

GA - SR222 Senate Special Tax Exemption Study Committee; create

GA - SR287 Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig; recognize

GA - SR293 "Kumbaya"; recognize Georgia's first state historical song

GA - SR337 March of Dimes Day; recognize March 1, 2017

GA - SR338 Hencely, Army Specialist Winston; honor

GA - SR361 Harrell III, Joel Edward; recognize

GA - SR388 Reid, Lucille Etta Coats; condolences

GA - SR389 Georgia Hospital Community; honor

GA - SR401 Swain, Danny; recognize

GA - SR407 Georgia Congressional Delegation; enact legislation with sole purpose of reestablishing a Nuclear Waste Program per the Nuclear Waste Policy Act; encourage

GA - SR452 Georgia's First Historical Song; "Kumbayah"; recognize

GA - SR466 Brain Tumor Awareness Month; recognize May, 2017

GA - SR509 McGill, George Edwin "Ed"; honor

GA - SR535 Staton, Dr. Cecil P.; congratulate

GA - SR536 Georgia Injured Workers Week; recognize September 3-9, 2017

GA - SR589 Republic of Korea; host of the 2018 XXIII Winter Olympic Games and the XII Winter Paralympic Games; recognize

GA - SR613 State of Georgia; English as official language; declare -CA

GA - SR635 Prostate Cancer Awareness Day; recognize February 6, 2018

GA - SR644 Military Chaplains; recognize

GA - SR650 Georgia Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants; recognize

GA - SR674 Emergency Medical Services Recognition Day; recognize February 13, 2018

GA - SR675 Firefighters Recognition Day; recognize February 6, 2018

GA - SR689 Georgia Stop The Bleed Day; recognize February 14, 2018

GA - SR706 Georgia's Coastal Tourism and Fisheries; seismic testing and oil drilling activities;oppose

GA - SR753 Department of Public Health; promote shingles vaccinations; urge; Shingles Awareness and Improvement Month; recognize August 2018

GA - SR756 Physical Therapy Day; recognize February 13, 2018

GA - SR761 Senate Study Committee on Dyslexia; create

GA - SR786 Rural Health Day; recognize March 1, 2018

GA - SR805 Skin Cancer Awareness Day; recognize March 14, 2018

GA - SR808 Law Enforcement Appreciation Day; recognize March 14, 2018

GA - SR811 Police Chiefs and Heads of Law Enforcement Agencies Recognition Day; recognize March 14, 2018

GA - SR821 Cyber Security And Information Technology Innovation Corridor; recognize Augusta; Logistics Technology Innovation Corridor; recognize Savannah

GA - SR829 Ragan, David; recognize

GA - SR848 Council for Quality Growth Day; recognize March 5, 2018

GA - SR903 94th Airlift Wing at Dobbins Air Reserve Base; recognize

GA - SR916 Senate Special Tax Exemption Study Committee; create

GA - SR936 Taiwan; relations with the United States; commend

GA - SR950 University System of Georgia Outstanding Scholars; commend

GA - SR955 Georgia Hearing Day; recognize March 19, 2018

GA - SR981 National Nurses Week; recognize May 6-12, 2018

GA - SR983 Joint Study Committee on Low THC Medical Oil Access; create

GA - SR996 Mobley, Delia; recognize

GA - SR1004 Crider Foods; recognize

GA - SR1005 McCollar, Mayor Jonathan; recognize

GA - SR1021 Walker, Dr. H. Kenneth; condolences

GA - SR1089 Beggs, Sheriff Bruce C.; condolences

GA - SR1094 Child Abuse Prevention Month; recognize April 2018

GA - SR1095 Pinewood Christian Girls Basketball Team; commend

GA - SR1096 Gagel, William Durden; commend