Today 3/11/2008 is the day that Senate Bills (SB) and House Bills (HB) have to be approved and crossed over to the opposite legislative body. Georgia Legislature is compiled of the Senate and the House, all bills need to be approved by both sides before they go to the Governor to be signed into law.
HB-950 (House bill) and SB-437 (Senate bill) were both heard and voted to be passed to the other side. Both these companion bills deal with tags/titles and are on course to become a law. HB-950 is presently assigned to the Public Safety committee in the Senate for review and vote; SB-437 is in the Motor Vehicle committee in the House for review and vote. Since there appears to be no opposition to these bills they should both be approved, and signed by the Governor. We still need to contact the respective committees and request a hearing for these bills.
House of Representatives Motor Vehicle Committee--SB-437: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/house/Committees/motorVehicles/gahmotv.htm
Senate Public Safety Committee--HB-950:
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/senate/publicsafety.php
We have a Senate Bill (SB-438) which has passed out of committee and been approved by a vote of 51-1 on the floor of the senate. This bill, which deals with increased penalties for 2nd and subsequence violations of Right of Way has crossed over to the House and has been assigned to the Judiciary Non-Civil committee. Please find attached a link to the official copy of bill SB-438
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/fulltext/sb438.htm
This next link is to the House of Representatives/Judiciary Non-Civil committee members and contact information.'
WE NEED TO CONTACT THESE MEMBERS AND REQUEST THEIR SUPPORT FOR SB-438
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/house/Committees/judiciaryNonCivil/gahjudync.htm
Most of these committee members have email links if you place your cursor on their name and click! Give you name and address and ask for support of SB-438, if you recognize someone on the committee, definitely write them.
All our other bills (HB-356 & SB-446)"red light proceed", (HB-726 & SB-409)"Freedom of choice" ; have all failed to get out of committee and are therefore DEAD FOR THIS SESSION/