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Governor Perdue Signs Six Bills Into Law

Monday, June 2, 2003  Contact: Office of Communications 404-651-7774

 

   Atlanta - Governor Sonny Perdue today signed the following legislation into law:

Senate Bills

Senate Bill 255

 

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public officials and employees doing business with the state, so as to provide a limited exception to the general prohibition against doing business with the state for certain employees of the University System of Georgia; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Senate Bill 258 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to remove vote recorders as authorized voting systems in this state and convert to Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems; to provide for the arrangement of polling places where DRE units are used; to prohibit certain persons from providing assistance in voting; to provide for at least one handicapped accessible DRE unit in each precinct; to provide that the state shall accept the absentee ballot oath promulgated by the Presidential designee in accordance with the Help America Vote Act; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Senate Bill 264 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, so as to provide for actions against community living arrangements and drug abuse treatment and education programs licensed by the Department of Human Resources; to provide for the relocation of residents of certain community living arrangements and patients of certain drug abuse treatment and education programs under certain conditions; to include community living arrangements in a definition of long-term care facility for purposes of reporting abuse or exploitation; to amend Title 37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to mental health, so as to provide for the licensing of community living arrangements by the Department of Human Resources; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Senate Bill 272 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to telephone and telegraph service, so as to revise provisions regulating telemarketing to residential telephone subscribers to include telemarketing to cellular subscribers; to revise legislative findings, definitions, and the prohibition of telephone solicitation to certain subscribers; to revise provisions relating to a data base of subscribers who object to telephone solicitations and fees in connection therewith; to provide a penalty for unlawful compilation or dissemination of information from such data base; to revise procedures for persons making telephone solicitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Senate Bill 277 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bona fide conservation use property, residential transitional property, application procedures, penalties for breach of covenant, classification on tax digest, and an annual report, so as to provide that a conservation use covenant may be renewed and continued without a lapse in the agreement; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Senate Bill 291 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-3-58 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to powers, duties, and authority of the Department of Natural Resources and its Division of Historic Preservation relative to a historic preservation grants program, so as to redefine a certain term; to change certain provisions relating to eligibility of historic property for funding under such program; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.