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STATE GOVERNMENT Open and Public Meetings: Provide a New Exclusion from Open Meeting Requirements; Provide a New Exemption from Public Records Inspection for Certain Records of an Agency Engaged in a Program of Economic Development; Provide for Related...

The bill would have created a new exemption from the open records requirements for records of agencies that were engaged in a economic development program and a parallel exclusion from open meeting requirements for agency meetings that discuss any of the newly exempted records. The bill excluded records that would

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HEALTH Health: Enact the "Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005"; Provide for Definitions; Prohibit Smoking in Certain Facilities and Areas; Provide for Exceptions; Provide That Entire Establishments, Facilities, or Outdoor Areas Shall Be Nonsmoking; Provi...

The Act prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places in Georgia. The Act exempts private residences, hotel and motel rooms (as long as the hotel or motel does not designate more than 20% of the rooms as smoking), retail tobacco stores, long term care facilities, outdoor areas of employment, smoking

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT Act to Incorporate the City of Sandy Springs; Incorporate the City of Sandy Springs in Fulton County; Provide for a Charter for the City of Sandy Springs; Provide for Incorporation, Boundaries, and Powers of the City; Provide for Gener...

The bill provides for a charter for the City of Sandy Springs. Most importantly, the bill provides for a referendum whereby the citizens of Sandy Springs will vote to decide whether to become an independent city. The bill outlines the boundaries of Sandy Springs and provides for a governing authority

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