Rick Townsend

Sponsored bills

• HB0012: Brunswick, City of; ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption (primary sponsor)
• HB0011: Glynn County; ad valorem tax; provide homestead exemption (primary sponsor)
• SB0500: Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals (primary sponsor)
• HB0115: Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide
• HB0986: Motor vehicles; personal delivery devices; revise operation procedures and restrictions
• HB0117: Food service establishments; require notification of the country of origin of seafood items
• HR1008: State-wide water management plan; ratify amendments
• HB0165: Income tax credit; business enterprises for leased motor vehicles; repeal and reserve
• HB1107: Excellent Teacher Preparation Act; enact
• SB0131: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; Georgia Health Care Professionals Data System; establishment (primary sponsor)
• HB0971: Quality Basic Education Act; home study students and private school students to enroll in college and career academies located in certain RESA service areas and adjacent local school systems; provide (primary sponsor)
• HB0970: Quality Basic Education Act; expand which healthcare professionals may conduct preparticipation physical examinations (primary sponsor)
• HB0634: Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; expedited completion of a student's first Individualized Education Program; revise provisions
• HR1665: House Study Committee on Environmental Protection Division Permit and Variance Procedures and Rights to Review; create (primary sponsor)
• HB0372: Teachers Retirement System; certain beneficiaries hired to work in certain areas; provisions
• HR1747: House Study Committee on Restoring Georgia's Salt-Water Ecosystems; create (primary sponsor)
• HR1771: Goodman, Patricia; receipt of a Lifetime Achievement Award; commend
• HB1056: Education; replace term auto-injectable epinephrine with epinephrine and consolidate provisions relating to epinephrine and schools (primary sponsor)
• HB0984: Crimes and offenses; court order to locate an alleged victim of child or elder abuse; provide
• HB0969: Georgia State Employees Post-employment Health Benefit Fund; certain fund beneficiaries to not be disqualified from postretirement health benefits; provide (primary sponsor)