The final days of the legislative session are usually among the longest, with members of the General Assembly deciding the fate of scores of bills and resolutions. Here's a list of issues still to be settled:
Budget
HB 744: The 2014-15 annual state budget
Status: In conference committee
Will it pass: Yes. It's the only bill lawmakers are required to adopt.
Drugs/Alcohol
HB 772: It would require food stamp recipients to pass a drug test.
Status: Passed House, amended by Senate committee
Will it pass: It barely passed Senate committee, leaving mixed prospects.
Health care
HB 707: It would bar any state or local government or agency from operating a health care exchange or navigator program allowed under the Affordable Care Act. It would make it illegal for any public employee or agency to use state resources or time to advocate for the expansion of Medicaid.
Status: Passed the House, amended in Senate committee
Will it pass: Possible
HB 885: It would allow the use of a marijuana derivative to treat certain seizure disorders.
Status: Passed House, amended by a Senate committee to include language from another bill mandating insurance companies provide coverage for autism-related disorders in children
Will it pass: Prospects are mixed. It has a strong Senate sponsor but needs a vote of the full Senate and the House's approval of changes.
HB 990: It would require an act of the Legislature before Medicaid could be expanded via the Affordable Care Act.
Status: Passed House and a Senate committee
Will it pass: Most likely
SB 98: It would bar abortions from being covered by insurance policies offered through health care exchanges; it would ratify Gov. Nathan Deal's decision to eliminate abortion coverage from state employee health insurance policies.
Status: It passed the Senate; an amended version passed a House committee.
Will it pass: Possibly. House changes would have to be approved by the Senate.
SB 292: It would create a statewide Alzheimer's disease registry to gather data on the disease. The House amended it to include language from HB 707, making the bill more controversial.
Status: The House and Senate passed different versions.
Will it pass: Possibly, although the anti-Obamacare language makes it less likely
Local government
HB 346: It would make the Fulton County tax commissioner an appointed position, instead of elected, starting in 2017. Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, and others proposed it last year to stop current tax chief Arthur Ferdinand from earning fees off city bills that make him the highest-paid elected official in the state. But Sen. Brandon Beach, R-Alpharetta, strongly opposes the measure, saying the choice should remain with the people.
Status: Passed House; tabled in the Senate
Will it pass: Highly unlikely
HB 704: It would allow a referendum to create the city of South Fulton.
Status: Passed House, amended in Senate committee
Will it pass: Possibly
HB 819: It would stop Ferdinand, the Fulton tax chief, from personally profiting when he sells delinquent tax bills to private collectors. His biggest buyer of tax liens, Vesta Holdings, has been lobbying heavily, and a provision that would have prevented such companies from collecting a 10 percent penalty, at the county's loss, has been removed.
Status: Passed House and a Senate committee
Will it pass: Possibly. A vote in the Senate this week is likely.
HB 891: It would allow cities and towns to seek local legislation authorizing them to scale back early voting from three weeks to one week.
Status: Passed House, amended in Senate committee
Will it pass: It has a good chance, although Democrats in the Senate will fight it.
HB 960: It would broaden and clarify existing urban redevelopment laws to give projects such as the Atlanta Beltline the option of using a public-private partnership to build out its transit system.
Status: Passed House, amended in Senate committee
Will it pass: Prospects are good.
SB 270: It would allow a referendum to create the city of Lakeside.
Status: Passed Senate, tabled in House committee
Will it pass: Doubtful
Courts/Law enforcement
HB 845: It would ban the release of police mug shots unless the person requesting them signs a sworn statement the photos will not be published on a website that charges for their removal.
Status: Passed House, in Senate committee
Will it pass: Doubtful. It has yet to get a Senate committee hearing.
K-12 education/Higher education
HB 697: It would pay full tuition for the state's highest achieving technical college students.
Status: Passed House, amended in Senate committee
Will it pass: It has the governor's support, making it more likely.
HB 788: It would allow the University System of Georgia to privatize and pass along tax breaks for the construction of student dormitories and parking decks on the campuses of the state's colleges and universities.
Status: Passed House and a Senate committee
Will it pass: Likely. The majority of lawmakers have seemed satisfied with the Board of Regents' promises that students' rents would not drastically rise.
HB 810: It would lower the SAT/ACT requirement for home school students (and those graduating from unaccredited high schools and GED students) to receive HOPE scholarship funds.
Status: Passed House and a Senate committee
Will it pass: Likely. The change would affect between 50 and 60 students annually, and the fiscal impact to the HOPE program is minimal.
SB 167: It would prohibit Georgia schools from testing students on material tied to any set of national academic standards such as Common Core.
Status: Passed Senate. Defeated in House committee.
Will it pass: Highly unlikely
Taxes
HB 153: It would allow local governments to levy a special local option sales tax at rates less than a penny.
Status: Passed House and Senate in different forms
Will it pass: Very possible
HB 933: It would make permanent a tax exemption on parts and equipment used to repair and maintain aircraft registered outside of Georgia.
Status: Passed House and Senate in different forms
Will it pass: Likely
HB 965: It would grant and extend several tax breaks. Among them, sales tax holidays for back-to-school shoppers Aug. 1-2 and for energy- and water-efficient appliances Oct. 3-5.
Status: Passed House and Senate in different forms
Will it pass: Likely
Other
HB 449: It would bar the release of audio recordings of 911 calls when the caller dies.
Status: Passed House, in Senate committee
Will it pass: Doubtful. It has not passed a Senate committee.
HB 714: Bus drivers and other seasonal school workers who work for private firms would lose unemployment coverage when school is not in session.
Status: Passed House and Senate committee
Will it pass: Most likely
HB 715: It would spell out how land on Jekyll Island may be developed.
Status: Passed House, has not received Senate committee vote
Will it pass: No, but Senate version, SB 296, has passed both chambers.
HB 837: It would make changes to the private probation industry in Georgia.
Status: Passed House, but a Senate committee made major changes
Will it pass: Prospects are mixed. It had rough time in the House, which will have to approve of Senate changes.
HB 875: It would lift restrictions on guns in churches and bars and allow school boards to arm employees. Churches would have to "opt in," meaning they would have to decide to allow guns, a switch from the original version that would have required them to opt out.
Status: Passed House, and Senate committee
Will it pass: Possibly. There is a lot of maneuvering around this issue.
HB 60: Originally written to allow more judges to carry weapons, it was amended in the House to mirror HB 875. It incorporates most of HB 875 but would still require churches to opt out of allowing weapons.
Status: Passed House and Senate in different versions
Will it pass: Possibly, but HB 875 may have a better chance.
HB 913: It would bar anyone who works in health care from serving on the board of the Department of Community Health. Critics claim it is designed to punish Rick Jackson, a board member who has championed tort reform and foster care bills. Its original language was deleted by a Senate committee, which added the governor's foster care privatization bill to it.
Will it pass: Possibly. It's caught up in late-session negotiating ploys.
HB 923: It would require greater transparency from the Division of Family and Children Services in cases of child deaths and move the Child Fatality Review Panel to the GBI. It's one of the governor's priorities.
Status: It passed the House but was held up in the Senate. House leaders intend to add it to an unrelated Senate bill this week.
HB 935: It would make secret many documents related to local governments and school systems' retirement systems.
Status: Passed House, has not received Senate committee hearing
Will it pass: Unlikely. It did not pass a Senate committee in time.
HB 1080: It would allow for a monument of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the grounds of the state Capitol.
Status: Passed House and Senate in different versions
Will it pass: Most likely
SB 283: It would allow students and school staff to offer "traditional greetings" such as "Merry Christmas."
Status: Passed Senate and a House committee
Will it pass: Most likely
SB 350: Would require the Division of Family and Children Services to bid out to private firms some functions, such as case management, family preservation and independent living.
Status: It passed the Senate, but a House committee made major changes, limiting it to a pilot program.
Will it pass: Possibly. It's a priority of the governor. A Senate committee stripped an unrelated bill, HB 913, and added SB 350 to it, so it is still alive.
SB 397: It would require insurance companies to provide coverage for autism-related disorders.
Status: Passed Senate, did not receive vote in a House committee
Will it pass: Most likely not in this form. But the language of this bill has been added to HB 885, the medical marijuana bill, so the idea remains alive.
Already received final passage
HB 310: It moves primary elections for state and local offices from July to May 20. The governor has already signed it.
HB 774: It would allow a maximum speed limit of 70 mph on interstates in urban areas with populations of more than 50,000.
HB 908: It would extend the $1 tire disposal fee for five more years.
SB 213: It would address how the state protects threatened wildlife when drought hits the Flint River basin.
SB 296: It would spell out how land on Jekyll Island may be developed.
SB 299: It would give local authorities leeway in adopting watershed protection standards for buffer areas along streams and reservoirs.
SB 318: It allows bars to sell alcohol on Sundays that fall on the St. Patrick's Day weekend. The governor has already signed it.
Seemingly dead for the year
HB 1: It would subject law enforcement and district attorneys to more scrutiny when they seize property during investigations.
HB 516: University System of Georgia employees who initially — and irrevocably — chose to participate in the Regents Retirement Plan would be given a one-time option to switch to the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia. This bill initially passed the House on a close vote (92-70) but was reconsidered and has been tabled.
HB 541: Last year's bill to double the Fulton County property tax homestead exemption to $60,000.
HB 907: It would require car-service companies such as Uber and Lyft to pay sales taxes, have insurance and conduct background checks.
HB 1023: Supporters say it would protect individuals' religious freedoms against government intervention, but critics worry it would allow private business owners to cite their religious beliefs in declining to serve people they believe are gay or having premarital sex.
SB 377: Same language as HB 1023.
SB 404: It would deny Georgia driver's licenses to immigrants who don't have legal status in the U.S. but have been granted "deferred action," or permission to temporarily stay and work here for humanitarian reasons.
SR 1031: It would mandate that state driver's license exams be given only in English.
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