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To provide for breakfast and lunch programs for all public school students in this state; to provide for such meals to be offered at no cost to students who qualify for reduced price meals under federal and state guidelines; to provide for school breakfast programs under the Quality Basic Education Act; to provide for funding; to provide for rules and regulations; to encourage the use of Georgia grown products in school breakfast and lunch programs

House Bill 109, provides for a 5-year pilot program that would require DBHDD to coordinate with the Georgia Department of Community Health to establish a grant program for creating emergency psychiatric assessments, treatment and healing (EmPATH) units in hospitals. House Bill 109 would require the development and operation of at least two EmPATH units, one in a rural county and the other in an urban county.  

 This bill proposes a three-year pilot program to establish mobile health clinics providing postpartum care in Georgia's maternity care deserts and limited maternity care counties.

HB 386 provieds exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of clothing and school related supplies during the last weekend of July each year.

The “Safe Teens Act,” that would authorize local boards of education and other public school governing bodies to offer driver education as an elective course.

Relating to common minimum facility requirements for public elementary and secondary schools under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide for the inclusion of certain visual safety devices in minimum facility requirements

To provide for Medicaid coverage for the prevention and treatment of lymphedema

To provide for grants by the State Board of Education to local units of administration to support students living in poverty (Foster, Migrant, impoverished, homeless youth).