The Act expands the coverage of Georgia law prohibiting labor strikes by state employees to prohibit labor strikes by all essential public employees. Those public employees whose absence would endanger the health, safety, public welfare, and morals of the populace of Georgia are not allowed to strike, nor are they
The Act provides that the State Commissioner of Insurance can choose either to contract with private examiners or use the Commissioner's own staff to examine group self-insurance workers' compensation funds. The Act further provides that the workers' compensation fund will pay for the examination.
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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 allows for deregulation of the natural gas industry if certain conditions are met. These conditions are that thirty-three percent of the market must be served by marketers of gas, eighteen percent of which must be served by at least five marketers that are not affiliated with the distribution
The Act changes certain provisions of title 40 of the Georgia Code, by defining terms to eliminate confusion, by providing that license plates and revalidation decals be issued to vehicle owners instead of assigned to vehicles, by providing that license plates and revalidation decals be transferred between vehicles in certain
The Act provides for changes in the income taxation of nonresident members of resident limited partnerships. A nonresident member of a resident limited partnership which derives income exclusively from buying, selling, dealing in, or holding securities on its own behalf, not as a broker, is not required to include on
The Act relates to the licensure of medical practice and provides individuals the right to be provided with any medical treatment desired or authorized under certain conditions. The Act specifically authorizes treatment that is experimental or nonconventional. A person licensed to practice medicine is given immunity from disciplinary actions that
Act 6 enacts the Alabama-Coose-Tallapoosa between Georgia and Alabama of surface waters from the basin. Act 7 enacts the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact for allocation among Alabama, Florida, and Georgia of surface waters from the basin. The Acts do not provide specific percentages or formulas under which the surface waters
The Act adds a new chapter to the Georgia Code, the "Georgia Electronic Records and Signatures Act," the goal of which is to promote the use of electronic media by government and commerce. The purpose of the Act is to allow the use of electronic records and signatures
The Act adds to the criteria that a Georgia court can use in determining where proper venue lies for a nonresident. The Act provides for venue over a nonresident to lie in the county where a resident joint obliger or joint tortfeasor lives. The Act also provides for the maintenance
The Act makes several changes to the provisions relating to the affidavit that must be filed by a plaintiff when suing for professional malpractice. The Act provides that the affidavit requirement also applies in such an action against a licensed healthcare facility alleged to be liable based upon malpractice by
The Act provides that in civil actions when the burden of proof rests on the plaintiff, the plaintiff shall be entitled to make the opening and concluding arguments. The Act entitles the defendant to make opening and concluding arguments if the defendant does not introduce any evidence or if the
The Act allows a party to recover attorney's fees and expenses incurred in seeking a court order for payment of attorney's fees and expenses relating to the underlying litigation.
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The Act relates to juvenile proceedings. It provides that superior courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the trial of certain felony offenses involving juveniles and also provides that those offenses are bailable only before a judge of the superior court. Further, the Act states that certain designated felonies are not
The Act provides that youths convicted of driving with alcohol in their blood shall be confined at a camp, institution, or, if neither of those are available, a regional youth detention center, and the youth shall be segregated from youths convicted of other offenses. Youths under the age of twenty-one
