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Floor Action
The Senate took up the following measures on the floor today:
HB 90 - Torts; certain persons, firms, or corporations who are buyers of land for conversion of timber shall be exempt from certain liabilities; provide PASSED 47-0
HB 245 - Professions and businesses; podiatry; amend a provision relating to fingerprint and criminal background checks PASSED 46-0
HB 367 - Controlled substances; Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V; change certain provisions PASSED 47-0
The House did not have a Rules Calendar today.
Committee Reports
House Health and Human Services Committee
The House Health and Human Services Committee, chaired by Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), met to consider the following measures today:
Committee Reports
House Small Business Development Incentives and Education Workforce Subcommittee
Subcommittee Chairman Dale Washburn (R-Macon) called up one bill, HB 611, authored by Representative Mike Cheokas (R-Americus). HB 611 seeks to provide a new definition in O.C.G.A. 50-5-121(3) for the term, ‘small business.’ This legislation was brought to the General Assembly by Scott Hilton with the Georgia First Commission. The new definition creates three tiers:
Tier 1 - 10 or fewer employees or $1 million or less in gross receipts per year;
Tier 2 - 100 or fewer employees or $10 million or less in gross receipts per year; and
Tier 3 - 300 or fewer employees or $30 million or less in gross receipts per year.