Bill Text: GA HB122 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Counties and municipalities; budget excess; searchable website; provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-01 - Effective Date [HB122 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HB122-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Counties and municipalities; budget excess; searchable website; provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-01 - Effective Date [HB122 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HB122-Comm_Sub.html
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The
House Committee on Governmental Affairs offers the following substitute to
HB
122:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 80 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to general provisions relative to counties, municipalities, and other
governmental entities, so as to define certain terms; to provide that each local
government having an annual budget in excess of $1 million shall post certain
information to a website accessible by the public; to provide for the
information required to be posted on such website; to authorize the development,
operation, and maintenance of such website; to provide for training; to provide
for exceptions; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
80 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general
provisions relative to counties, municipalities, and other governmental
entities, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as
follows:
"36-80-21.
(a)
As used in this Code section, the term:
(1)
'Audit' means an annual report of the financial affairs and transactions of a
county, municipality, or consolidated government as required by Code Section
36-81-7 and an annual report of a school district as required by rule and
regulation of the State Board of Education.
(2)
'Budget' means:
(A)
A plan of financial operation embodying an estimate of proposed expenditures
during a budget period and the proposed means of financing such expenditures for
a county, municipality or consolidated government as required by Article 1 of
Chapter 81 of this title and such plans of financial operation for the general
fund, each special revenue fund, each debt service fund, each internal service
fund, each enterprise fund, and each fiduciary fund in use by such unit of local
government as such funds are defined in Code Section 36-81-2; and
(B)
A plan of financial operation of a school district as required by rule and
regulation of the State Board of Education and paragraph (3) of subsection (a)
of Code Section 20-2-167.
(3)
'Local government' means any local school board or a governing authority of a
county or municipality having an annual budget in excess of $1
million.
(4)
'Vinson Institute' means the Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the
University of Georgia.
(5)
'Website' means a website which shall be developed, operated, and maintained by
the Vinson Institute that shall allow the public to review and analyze the
information identified in subsections (c) and (d) of this Code section at no
cost to the public or the local governments that post to the
website.
(b)
Each local government shall post the information required by this Code section
to the website for each fiscal year beginning on and after January 1,
2011.
(c)
As soon as a local government has adopted, by ordinance or resolution, a final
budget for an upcoming fiscal year, a copy of the budget shall be
electronically transmitted in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file to the
Vinson Institute and posted on the website by the Vinson Institute as soon as
practicable. In no event shall the PDF copy of the budget be transmitted to the
Vinson Institute more than 30 calendar days following the adoption of the budget
ordinance or resolution.
(d)
After the close of a fiscal year, a copy of the audit of each local government
shall be electronically transmitted in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file to
the Vinson Institute and posted on the website by the Vinson Institute as soon
as practicable. The PDF copy of the audit of a county, municipality, or
consolidated government shall be transmitted to the Vinson Institute concurrent
with submission of the audit to the state auditor as required by subsection (d)
of Code Section 36-81-7. The audit of a school district shall be transmitted to
the Vinson Institute concurrent with submission of the audit to the State Board
of Education as required by rule and regulation of the State Board of
Education.
(e)
Concurrent with the submission of the annual report by local law enforcement
agencies required by division (u)(4)(D)(iii) of Code Section 16-13-49, a copy of
such report shall be electronically transmitted in a Portable Document Format
(PDF) file to the Vinson Institute and posted on the website by the Vinson
Institute as soon as practicable.
(f)
The Vinson Institute shall, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly,
develop the website for use by local governments under this Code section and
provide all necessary training for local government officials in its operation
in order to allow local governments to upload the information required by this
Code section on a timely basis at no cost to such local
governments."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.