|
2010 Introduced Bills
|
|
SB 309
|
Authorizes insurers licensed in selected states to issue health insurance policies across state lines to Georgia citizens.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 310
|
Provides for regulating and licensing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), including mail-order PBMs that provide pharmacy services to Georgia citizens.
|
Passed. |
|
SB 316
|
Requires insurers who offer Medicare Supplemental policies to provide the policies to citizens under the age of 65 who have Medicare because of a disability.
|
Passed.
|
|
SB 320
|
Enacts a bill of rights for Georgia teachers, i.e. have independent thought, express constructive criticism, right to a grievance, have a non-attorney representative at any disciplinary hearing, etc.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 329
|
In the insurance code removes a requirement for covering in medical policies dependent children up to age 26 only when the children are students.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 330
|
Redefines “Major Medical” to prohibit lifetime maximums for coverage, limits ability of insurers to rescind or cancel policies, requires coverage for dependent children up to age 26 regardless of student status.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 331
|
Permits small employers to join together to purchase insurance for employees outside of an association arrangement.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 363
|
Authorizes Student Finance Authority to contract with the Department of Community Health for health insurance for its employees.
|
Passed
|
|
SB 399
|
Provides for no state department to implement federal health care reform legislation until it reports to the General Assembly.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 407
|
Allows Insurance Commissioner to identify states with laws consistent with Georgia to approve sale of individual health insurance to Georgia citizens.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 408
|
Authorizes small employer health group cooperatives.
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 436
|
Repeals obsolete and inoperative provisions of the Employees Retirement System Code.
|
Passed.
|
|
SB 445
|
Requires insurance companies to offer policies that include wellness incentives.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 478
|
Requires the State Accounting Officer to contract for auditing state contracts, except for Medicaid, Peach Care and SHBP, for errors and abuse
|
Did Not Pass
|
|
SB 515
|
Protects educators from furloughs when the school system has unencumbered reserves equal to 6% of that year’s total budget.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SR 794
|
Resolution to amend GA’s constitution so that no law or rule or regulation shall compel any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SR 795
|
Resolution to amend GA’s constitution to prohibit any restriction to a person’s freedom to choose medical coverage or to choose any plan.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SR 829
|
Resolution to request the Attorney General of Georgia to investigate the constitutionality of mandating health care coverage on Georgia citizens as required under H.R. 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SR 830
|
Requests the Attorney General to determine the constitutionality of the special exemption included in H.R. 3590 for Medicaid payments and to join other state attorneys general to investigate other provisions.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SR 1290
|
Creates a Joint Study Committee on Performance Based Salaries for Teachers.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 916
|
Provides for nullifying retirement for persons under age 60 who return to State Government work within two consecutive months as an employee or a contract employee, unless the contract work for State Government is incidental to the contract employer.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 960
|
Defines the order of payments to beneficiaries for deceased members of the defined contribution plan when no beneficiary is on file.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 968
|
Prohibits DOT from issuing RFPs for constructing traffic tunnels.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 969
|
Changes state law to comply with federal IRC regarding retirement issues and normal retirement age although TRS states that the TRS pension plan is administered in compliance with IRS retirement law. A section of this bill impacts the Public School Employees Retirement (PSERS) in that it provides for suspension of the retirement benefit for a person under age 60 returning to work within two months or to choose not to receive retirement credit for work.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 997
|
Transfers the state’s administration of the federal social security plan for Georgia’s state and local governments from the ERS to the State Personnel Administration.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 1023
|
Provides an unemployment tax credit for employers who employs someone who is receiving unemployment benefits.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 1024
|
Provides for tax credit for a jobs program.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1086
|
Excludes release of e-mail addresses of employees of public and nonpublic schools to the public.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 1110
|
Prohibits Education Board Members from employment in a local school system within 1 year.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1136
|
Restores salary increases for persons receiving certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1162
|
Prohibit bonus for state employee in calendar year unless investment performance exceeds the S&P Index.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1184
|
Authorizes Insurance Commissioner to approve insurance policies of companies in other states
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1194
|
Authorizes county DFACS to outsource work to volunteers.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1205
|
Provides for awarding leave for each furlough day (up to 3 in a calendar year) for teachers and state employees and restrict usage until years when revenue is up by 6%
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1223
|
Provides for the segregation of the Group Term Life Insurance provided through the ERS from pensions and authorizes the State Employees Assurance Department to provide group term life insurance in accordance with federal law. It also provides for separation of trust funds, liabilities, and disposition of funds following consideration of all liabilities
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1263
|
Requires insurance policies to reimburse orally
administered chemotherapy at the same rate as
intravenously administered chemotherapy.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1278
|
Adds a 7% tier to Georgia Income Tax schedules for net income of $400,000 and over.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1316
|
Provides for a bill of rights for Georgia teachers and
requires annual evaluations of principals and assistant principals by teachers.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1339
|
Requires all bills that have a significant impact upon
anticipated revenues or expenditures of a local school system must have a fiscal note from the State Auditor and must be introduced no later than the 20th day of any session.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1376
|
Establishes an “Irish Heritage and History Month” and encourages observance of Saint Patrick’s Day by educational and governmental entities.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1380
|
Provides that the state (and any political subdivision thereof) has an insurable interest in the employees and retirees of that entity. Premiums are paid from the respective pension plan March 14, 2010 and www.mygsra.com (Legislative GSRA Analysis) for additional information.
See the GSRA Action Alert of March 14, 2010 and www.mygsra.com (Legislative GSRA Analysis) for additional information.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1397
|
Provides that monies appropriated for salaries for
school system personnel shall not be diverted to other
purposes.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 1431
|
Creates the Georgia Services Administration and
transfers functions of the Department of Administrative Services, State Personnel Administration, and Properties Commission to GSA. It assigns the Georgia Aviation Authority, the State Accounting Office, the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services, the Georgia Building Authority, the Office of State Administrative Hearings and the Georgia Technology Authority to GSA for administrative purposes.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HR 1360
|
Urges the Georgia Lottery Corporation to reconsider paying bonus in years with other educational personnel experience loss of pay through furloughs,etc.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HR 1768
|
Provides for a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the State Personnel Board.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
2009 Introduced Bills – Active during 2010 Session
|
|
SB 3
|
Requires the Commissioner of Insurance to oversee the operation of pharmacy benefits managers (PBM), including the ones used by the State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP). The response to a request for prior authorization must be completed within 24 hours, step-therapy must be used for medications excluded from the preferred drug list, and a physician must be reimbursed when prior approvals exceed 10 in a 30-day period, at the rate of $10 per approval.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 129 See HB 249 Also
|
Amends Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law to allow retirement funds to be placed in “alternative investments”. Applies to large retirement systems, including the Employees Retirement System (ERS), but not the Teachers Retirement System (TRS).
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 161 & HB 426
|
SB modified to establish within the Dept of Behavioral and Development an Autism Task Force to develop a plan regarding educating the public, etc. on autism.
Original bill amends the insurance code and the State Health Benefit Plan code to require coverage of autism. Later versions of SB 161 deleted reference to the SHBP.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 171
|
Amends the retirement code to require divestiture of investments in companies doing business with Sudan.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 176
|
Amends Public Retirement Systems Standards Law to require full funding of any bill during the first year that creates liability so that no unfunded liability will be created.
(See GSRA Newsletter of 2/28/09 for analysis)
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 181
|
Increase Judicial Retirement Board by 2 and specifies the courts from which the Governor’s appointees shall be appointed.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 245
|
Amends the insurance code to require insurers, including contracts for the SHBP, to provide coverage for oral cancer chemotherapy if other forms of chemotherapy are covered.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 257 & HB 740
|
Allows a Board of Regent faculty member or principal administrator to revoke his/her choice to participate in the Board of Regents optional retirement plan.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 260
|
Allows any school system employee to join the Teachers Retirement System.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
SB 283
|
Eliminates eligibility for local future (7-1-2010) tax collectors, commissioners, and receivers in ERS
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 54
|
Amends the Georgia Judicial Retirement System to allow members who initially rejected spouses’ benefits to elect such benefits by paying an actuarially determined amount.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 171
|
Provides that public disclosure will not required for personal contact information of individuals obtained by local governments.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 172
|
Amends the ERS law to require the periodic re-examination of a disability beneficiary to be performed by a physician designated by the ERS medical board and to include workers’ compensation payments to the exclusions in the amount earnable by the beneficiary.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 194
|
Requires pharmacies to include both the brand and generic names for prescription drugs where the generic has been dispensed.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 211
|
Amends the retirement code for the state supported retirement systems to assure that Fulton County is the exclusive jurisdiction of any action against the respective retirement systems.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 249
Originally the same as SB 129
|
Original bill amended Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law to allow retirement funds to be placed in “alternative investments”. HB 249 was amended in the House Retirement Committee to apply only to the Firefighters Pension Plan. See GSRA’s Feb. 13 Action Alert! HB 249 amended to apply only to the Firefighters Pension Plan.
|
Passed as HB 249.
|
|
HB 277
|
Amends methods of funding Transportation.
|
Passed.
|
|
HB 305
|
Allows the issuance of a group life insurance policy to certain groups. HB 305 was passed by the House and amended in the Senate. Upon its return to the House, the author, Rep Knox, agreed to add the provisions of HB 1380 to HB 305. On a vote to reconsider the Bill’s changes, HB 305 lost.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 345
|
Changes the vesting provisions for the Teachers Retirement System from 10 to 5 years of service.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 354
|
Separates the Division of Aging Services from the Department of Human Resources and establishes a new Department of Aging.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 377
|
Requires that all Department of Community Health contracts, fee reimbursements, contract rates and schedules be subject to open records.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 426 & SB 161
|
Amends the Insurance Code and the State Health Benefit Plan Code to require coverage for autism. SB 161 amended in Committee to delete references to SHBP and Medicaid.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 489
|
Amends the Insurance Code and the State Health Benefit Plan Code to require coverage for infertility.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 542
|
Amends the monthly retirement payment from $15 to $16 for each year of employment for persons in the Public School Employees Retirement System, if funded.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 546
|
Amends the Firefighter Pension Fund to include part-time firefighters, repeal certain prohibitions relative to creditable service and other matters
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 605
|
The Transforming Transportation Act to abolish the State Road & Tollway Authority and create the State Transportation Agency and State Transportation Authority. The act changes the role of the Transportation Authority and transfers many of the Transportation Board duties to the State Transportation Authority.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 671
|
Allows furloughed State employees to continue to accumulate sick and annual leave as though they were not furloughed.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HB 739
|
Allows service credit for an Assistant District Attorney to buy credit under certain conditions at a cost not to create an unfunded liability.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
|
HR 642
|
Establish a Study Committee to study the Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESAs) services and assistance to local school systems and other educational institutions.
|
Did Not Pass.
|
