Chuck Payne

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
• SB0406: "Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act"; enact
• 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
• SB0143: Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide
• SB0587: Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide
• SB0556: HOPE Scholarship; the inclusion of advanced placement and international baccalaureate fine arts courses in the calculation of grade point averages; 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
• 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
• SB0489: Board of Commissioners of the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia; allow to set monthly dues
• 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 (primary sponsor)
• SB0470: "Emergency & Public Safety Signal Protection Act"; enact
• 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
• SB0431: Education; enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; require
• SB0427: Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provide
• SB0402: Children and Youth; pilot program provision for screenings, clinical evaluations, training for autism spectrum disorder to children in foster care; establish
• SB0293: License Plates for Certain Veterans; the number of free license plates issued to certain veterans; increase