Some key bills left on the table as Legislature adjourns

ATLANTA - Here is a look at some of the activity on the final day of the Legislature's 40-day session. <br /> <br /> CONSUMER: <br /> The Senate voted unanimously to give final passage to a bill that would allow Georgians to freeze their credit for just $3 apiece. Senior citizens and residents who can prove they are the victims of identity theft would eligible for free credit freezes. <br /> <br /> CRIME: <br /> The House and Senate gave final passage to a bill that would fix part of the sex offender law struck down by the state's top court. The bill, which passed 41-8, would allow a sex offender who owns his or her home to stay there if a center where children gather later opens up nearby. <br /> A bill that would allow Georgians with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in state parks, restaurants and on public transportation won final passage. The bill would also allow employees to leave their weapons in their car at work if the employer said it was OK. And it would outlaw straw purchasers. <br /> The House gave its final approval to a plan to add new restrictions on the copying of sexually explicit material involving minors used as courtroom evidence. <br /> The fate of a bill that would ban retailers from selling candy flavored to taste like marijuana to children is up in the air. The House passed its own version of the bill despite critics who said it could ``legislate taste,'' sending it back to the Senate. <br /> <br /> DROUGHT: <br /> Lawmakers voted to pass a measure designed to streamline the reservoir permitting process and allow state dollars to help expand existing lakes and build new ones. <br /> Some outdoor swimming pools and permanent car washes would be exempt from outdoor watering restrictions under legislation that received unanimous final passage in the Senate. <br /> Both chambers voted to empower the governor to settle Georgia's disputed border with Tennessee. But the latest version of the bill, which must now pass the Senate, dropped an attempt to create a border commission after Tennessee lawmakers refused to send representatives to the panel. <br /> <br /> EDUCATION: <br /> House lawmakers defeated a plan to require elementary school students to complete a physical fitness test and send the results to the state Department of Education by a 103-61 vote. <br /> <br /> EALTH: <br /> The House and Senate voted to tweak state health care regulations, adopting a plan that would help general surgeons open ambulatory surgery centers. <br /> Legislative leaders couldn't come to terms to put a $10 fee on annual car tag registrations to bolster Georgia's fragile trauma care network. Both chambers adopted similar plans, but they refused to send them to the governor when they failed to pass a tax break. <br /> <br /> IMMIGRATION: <br /> Both chambers voted to adopt a bill pushed by opponents of illegal immigration that would allow authorities to seize the cars of unlicensed drivers involved in accidents. <br /> <br /> TAXES: <br /> A bill that would provide a $146 million tax break for insurance companies by exempting certain providers that offer high-deductible health insurance plans from certain premium taxes passed the Senate 30-20, going next to Gov. Sonny Perdue. <br /> Legislative leaders failed to craft a compromise plan to slash taxes. The Senate's push for a 10 percent reduction in the state income tax over five years and the House's plan to eliminate the car tag tax over two years never reached a final vote. <br /> <br /> TRANSPORTATION: <br /> A plan to allow voters to adopt a 1-cent sales tax to pay for transportation improvements failed in the session's final hours. It passed the House, but failed by three votes to get the two-thirds majority in the Senate. <br />