Ben Watson

Sponsored bills

• SR0004: United State Citizens; right to register and vote- CA
• SB0500: Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals
• SB0207: Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create
• HB0717: Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provide (primary sponsor)
• HB0115: Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide (primary sponsor)
• SB0553: Professions and Businesses; repeal Chapter 14, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low voltage contractors, and utility contractors and enact a new Chapter 14
• SB0552: "True Patriotism and Universal Student Access (TPUSA) Act"; enact (primary sponsor)
• SB0542: Sexual Offenses; clergy members to be charged with certain improper sexual contact offenses; permit
• SB0540: Online Internet Safety; certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; require
• SB0485: Professional Counselors; applicants for a license in social work enrolled in a master's degree program to take the master's social work licensing examination in their final semester of the program; authorize
• SB0447: Control of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; denial or nonacceptance of permits; revise provisions
• SB0432: Education; nonlapsing revenue of institutions of the University System of Georgia and units of the Technical College System of Georgia; extend automatic repeals
• SB0428: Medical Assistance; Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; direct
• SB0427: Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provide (primary sponsor)
• SB0395: Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board
• SB0384: Motor Vehicle; optional five-year motor vehicle registration and revalidation for certain motor vehicles; provide
• SB0293: License Plates for Certain Veterans; the number of free license plates issued to certain veterans; increase
• SB0033: "Georgia Hemp Farming Act"; total THC concentration of consumable hemp products; provide limits
• HB1209: Sales and use tax; purchases of tangible property and construction materials used for or in the construction and furnishing of certain buildings; provide exemption (primary sponsor)
• HB0382: Controlled substances; Schedule I; psilocybin; revise a provision (primary sponsor)