Recent action on legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Sen. Lester Jackson:
SB 12 Quality Basic Education Formula; require the full funding (referred to Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 13 HOPE Scholarships and Grants; provide amount; shall be accepted as full payment of tuition by University System of Georgia institutions (referred to Senate Higher Education Committee)
SB 14 'Pay Forward, Pay Back Student Grant Act' (referred to Senate Higher Education Committee)
SB 15 Minimum Wage Law; provide for substantive and comprehensive reform; provisions (referred to Senate Insurance & Labor Committee)
SB 16 Job Creation Standards Act of 2015 (referred to Senate Finance Committee)
SB 17 Taxation and Revenue; allow an individual with no taxable income to claim a tax credit (referred to Senate Finance Committee)
SB 18 Technical College System of Georgia; establish policies for granting academic credit for college level learning from military service, work experience (referred to Senate Higher Education Committee)
SB 19 "Employment Security Law"; change certain provisions (referred to Senate Insurance & Labor Committee)
SB 20 Citizens' Redistricting Commission; create; membership and duties (referred to Senate Reapportionment & Redistricting Committee)
SB 21 "Ethics in Government Act"; revise; change the name; reconstitute the membership (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 23 Evidence; privileges; expand for information obtained by news media for news gathering or dissemination (referred to Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 24 General Assembly; provisions; provide definition; local bill (referred to Senate State & Local Governmental Operations Committee)
SB 25 Elections; provide for election day voter registration and voting; procedures and methods (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 27 Election; change the time periods for advance voting (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 28 Elections; remove certain requirements regarding proof of voter identity at the polls (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 30 Income Taxes; require the department to prepare a tax return for certain taxpayers (referred to Senate Finance Committee)
SB 31 Elections; provide for automatic voter registration in certain circumstances (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 32 Community Health, Board of; reopen the 2014 open enrollment; major medical facility declared out of network; define certain terms (referred to Senate Insurance & Labor Committee)
SB 33 Elections; provide for election by plurality vote; date of the general primary (referred to Senate Ethics Committee)
SB 37 Law Enforcement Officers; require certain persons with arrest powers at university or college campuses; report allegations of rape to local law enforcement (introduced)
SR 11 Senate Study Committee on Employee Misclassification; create (referred to Senate Insurance & Labor Committee)
SR 12 General Assembly; authorize to provide limitations by general law on the amount of tuition charged to students receiving lottery funded scholarships - Constitutional Amendment (referred to Senate Higher Education Committee)
SR 14 Appropriations Bills; preparation, submission and enactments; education appropriations act - Constitutional Amendment (referred to Senate Appropriations Committee)
SR 22 4-H Day; recognize February 23 (adopted by Senate)
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