Georgia Legislative Watch

Whats good for the goose is good for the gander:

Senate Regulated Industries Committee Chairman David Shafer (R-Duluth) submitted a bill that would eliminate the need for telecommunications companies to separately negotiate franchise agreements with each city in which they want to do business.

Last year the Senate R&I committee heard legislation (which became law) to allow AT&T to negioiate a single state-wide franchise for TV Service. This now allows phone companies to do the same and compete with AT&T.

This year’s bill is SB 408

SB59 - Social Networking Website; illegal for owner to allow minor to create/maintain profile; provide for penalties
Sponsored by: Staton,Cecil 18th

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forgery and fraudulent practices, so as to provide definitions; to provide that it shall be illegal for the owner or operator of a social networking website to allow a minor using a protected computer to create or maintain a profile web page on a social networking website without the permission of the minor’s parent or guardian and without providing such parent or guardian access to such profile web page; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

HB161 - Right of way acquisition; additional method; definitions; provisions
Sponsored by: Lunsford,John 110th

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 32 and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating, respectively, to highways, bridges, and ferries and revenue and taxation, so as to provide for an additional method of right of way acquisition by the Department of Transportation; to provide for income tax credits with respect to qualified right of way acquisition; to provide for definitions; to provide for conditions, limitations, and exclusions; to provide for authority of the state revenue commissioner and the Department of Transportation with respect to the foregoing; to provide for reassessment of property with respect to which a right of way has been acquired; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

SB24 - Computer Security; persons provide identifying information by falsely representing themselves to be a business; definitions; penalties
Sponsored by: Staton,Cecil 18th

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to computer systems security, so as to prohibit persons from using the Internet or electronic mail to induce another to provide identifying information by falsely representing themselves to be a business without the authority or approval of the business; to provide definitions; to provide for penalties and sanctions; to provide for civil actions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.