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GA HB814

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/27/2020

Primary Sponsor

Andrew Welch

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Origin

House of Representatives

2019-2020 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds a new exclusion to the Georgia State-wide Business Court's jurisdiction, prohibiting it from hearing actions or petitions for the appointment of a receiver
  • Removes the administrative attachment of the Georgia State-wide Business Court from the Court of Appeals, making it a standalone budget unit under the state Budget Act
  • Retains all existing jurisdictional exclusions, including claims involving personal injury, death, emotional harm, family law (Title 19), residential landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, individual consumer claims, and collections against family farm entities or individual farmers
  • Preserves the Business Court's authority to hear mass actions and class actions involving individual consumer claims, even though individual consumer claims themselves remain excluded

Legislative Description

State-wide Business Court; remove administrative attachment from the Court of Appeals

Last Action

House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

3/4/2020

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