Georgia Legislative Watch

Senate Finance Commitee (pdf)

• SB 298, Senator Mitch Seabaugh’s bill to rename the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services as the Office of the State Treasurer

House Judiciary Non-Civil Ramsey Subcommittee (link)

• HB 615, the Committee Substitute to the bill revising Georgia’s gun laws

House Governmental Affairs Committee (link)

• HB 665, Rep Mark Hamilton’s bill to allow a pilot program to test electronic transmission of ballots for military and overseas citizens

House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee (link)

• HB 938, Rep Allen Peake’s bill to ban texting while driving
• HB 944, Rep Amos Amerson’s bill to ban texting while driving

The Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee will have an update from the Water Task Force. (pdf) The House Appropriations General Subcommittee will hear from Patrick Moore of the GTA. (link) The House State Institutions and Property Committee will hear from Commissioner Brian Owens of the Department of Corrections. (link) The House Appropriations Education Subcommittee will have a public hearing regarding the 2010 Amended Budget. (link)

The House Insurance Committee (link) will have an organizational meeting, as will the House Science and Technology Committee (link).

The Senate Ethics and Rules Committees, as well as the House Rules and Health and Human Services Committees, will also meet but have no agenda available online at the time of this writing. The Senate Science and Technology Committee has an agenda available online (pdf), but says the agenda is to be announced. The Senate Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security Committee had a link to an agenda, but the link was faulty as of the time of this writing. The Senate State and Local Governmental Operations, Government Oversight, and Public Safety Committee meetings have been canceled for today.

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