The Act provides for privately-operated prisons to utilize state inmate labor in the same way that state-run prisons utilize inmate labor. Profits from any labor or products by these inmates will go to the state. The Act also provides for an official custodian of the Department of Corrections records and
The Act relates to the general provisions regarding offenses against health and morals, specifically adding sections prohibiting people who have committed certain crimes from residing, being domiciled, or being employed by a facility. The Act refers to a facility as any daycare center, family daycare home, groupcare facility, or group
The Act relates to corporations and provides procedures and requirements for a new or existing partnership to become or continue to be a limited liability partnership. The Act further provides for a determination of when a limited partnership becomes a limited liability partnership. The Act provides for changes that occur
The Act relates to personal injury cases against third parties brought by or on behalf of a person to whom an insurance provider has paid medical benefits. The Act provides general provisions and definitions of insurance, including notice requirements, and provides for reimbursement of medical benefits paid to benefit providers
The Act reduces the continuously published period requirement for a newspaper or journal to become a county's official organ designated to run official or legal advertising.
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The Act removes bomb technician training materials from the domain of the Georgia Open Records Act and requires a judge's order to access the restricted information. The Act also expands the resource sharing authorization for bomb technicians to include emergency medical technicians with specialty training in blast trauma;
The Act concerns issuing subpoenas for taking depositions and for producing documents and tangible things at deposition. The Act provides that, upon agreement of the parties, an attorney may compel the presence of a witness at a deposition or command the production of documents and tangible things at the examination
The Act requires that additional information be provided by creditors to banks and other financial institutions on certain affidavits and summonses when creditors attempt to garnish funds form a debtor's account. The Act immunizes banks and other financial institutions from liability if the fail to pay money from
The Act allows reports by medical or mental health practitioners to be admitted into evidence at trial as nonhearsay, provided the party intending to introduce the report gives the opposing party sixty days notice. The report will not go out with the jury as documentary evidence.
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The Act makes sweeping changes to Georgia's child and spousal support enforcement procedures by shifting the bulk of enforcement authority from the court system to the Child Support Enforcement Agency of the Department of Human Resources (DHR). First, the Act amends several of Georgia's alimony and
