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GA SB365

Bill

Status

Passed

5/8/2018

Primary Sponsor

William Ligon

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Origin

Senate

2017-2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Revises, modernizes, and corrects errors and omissions throughout the Official Code of Georgia Annotated across approximately 30 titles, including fixing punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, incorrect cross-references, and outdated terminology
  • Repeals Code sections and chapters that have become obsolete, been declared unconstitutional, or been superseded by subsequent laws, including redesignating reserved provisions as formally repealed
  • Corrects specific substantive cross-reference errors, such as fixing an incorrect citation in the grand juror qualifications statute (Title 15), a wrong Code section number in the foreclosure filing provision (Title 44), and updating the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council membership count from 25 to 27 members
  • Reenacts the statutory portion of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (except Title 47 on retirement) as published and supplemented through 2017, while specifying that annotations, editorial notes, indexes, and agency rules are not enacted as statutes
  • Becomes effective upon the Governor's approval, with a conflict resolution provision stating that any other Act passed during the 2018 regular session controls over conflicting provisions in this bill

Legislative Description

Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in and reenact

Last Action

Act 562

5/8/2018

Full Bill Text

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