Billy Hickman

Sponsored bills

• SB0003: Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee; establish
• SB0010: Sales and Use Taxes; any existing special district option sales and use tax (FLOST) cease to be imposed and levied immediately prior to the imposition of any local homestead option sales tax (LHOST); require
• SB0589: "Quality Basic Education Act"; the date by which a child must attain a certain age to be eligible for enrollment in kindergarten or first grade; revise
• SB0500: Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals
• SB0472: Local Boards of Education; audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; provide for the suspension of members (primary sponsor)
• SB0220: "Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact
• SB0179: Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require
• SB0059: Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; a limitation on leased property; remove
• HB1164: Education; require State Board of Education to appoint an audit committee (primary sponsor)
• HB1077: Sales and use tax; exemption for sales of tickets, fees, and charges of admission to certain museums and fine arts performances or exhibitions at nonprofit facilities; extend sunset date (primary sponsor)
• HB0519: Revenue and taxation; amount of federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit; provide (primary sponsor)
• SB0587: Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide
• SB0575: City of Metter; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide a homestead exemption (primary sponsor)
• SB0574: City of Metter; ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes; provide a homestead exemption (primary sponsor)
• SB0556: HOPE Scholarship; the inclusion of advanced placement and international baccalaureate fine arts courses in the calculation of grade point averages; provide
• SB0552: "True Patriotism and Universal Student Access (TPUSA) Act"; enact
• SB0542: Sexual Offenses; clergy members to be charged with certain improper sexual contact offenses; permit
• SB0524: License Plates; specialty license plate honoring Girl Scouts of Georgia; establish
• 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
• SB0443: Offenses Against Public Order; the punishment for the offense of obstructing highways, streets, sidewalks, or other public passages; increase