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INSURANCE Insurance Regulations: Requires Pooling of Small Groups For Premium Rating and Higher Deductibles for Individual Health Policies

The Act requires state-wide pooling of all of an insurer's small groups for group premium rating purposes. Certain deviations from the pool rating are allowed. Individual major medical policies must offer deductibles of at least five thousand dollars. Download PDF

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DOMESTIC RELATIONS Comprehensive Child Abuse Legislation

This package of bills revised and added a number of code sections to Georgia's child protection legislation. The package includes requirement for reporting abuse and provides a civil penalty for failure to do report. The package also includes provisions for a state-wide registry to improve information sharing between

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT General Provisions: Allow Municipal Governing Authorities to Empower Mayor to Enter Into Contracts on Municipal Corporation's Behalf

The Act empowers the governing authorities of municipal corporations to authorize the mayor to enter into contracts with public and private entities, involving property or facilities used for criminal justice purposes, on behalf of municipal corporations. Monetary, durational and population, limitations on the exercise of this power are provided. Download

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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Personnel Administration: Establish Sanctions for Drug Use and Drug Related Offenses

These two Acts provide for random drug testing of state employees involved in certain high-risk occupations, for the suspension of any state employee convicted of drug-related offenses, and for prescribed periods of ineligibility from state employment for applicants who have been convicted of drug-related offenses. Download PDF

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CRIMES AND OFFENSES Sexual Offenses: Establish Offenses of Sexual Battery and Aggravated Sexual Battery and Revise Definition of the Offense of Sexual Assault Against Persons in Custody

The Act creates two new offenses, sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, and provides penalties for those offenses. The Act also amends the statutory definition of the offense of sexual assault against persons in custody to include assault against persons enrolled in a school. Download PDF

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HEALTH Clinical Laboratories: Amend Provisions for the Disclosure of AIDS Confidential Information and for the Ordering of HIV Tests

The Act creates a new exception to nondisclosure of AIDS confidential information by providing for disclosure of such information in certain proceedings pertaining to incapacitated adults and the mentally ill, mentally retarded, alcoholic or drug dependent person. Also, the Act provides for additional conditions under which an HIV test may

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CONTRACTS Contracts in Partial Restraint of Trade: Restrictive Covenant Act

The Act provides that contracts in partial restraint of trade that are reasonable are valid and enforceable. The Act establishes rules for determining when a restrictive covenant is reasonable and establishes procedures for identification, clarification and reformulation of such covenants. Courts must enforce restrictive covenants independently of the enforceability of

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