Bill Text: GA HB1236 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Court reports; reduce number of reports to distribute; change provisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-06-04 - Veto V11 [HB1236 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HB1236-Comm_Sub.html

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10 LC 29 4277S

House Bill 1236 (COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)

By: Representative Willard of the 49th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to court reports, so as to change provisions relating to the procedure for distribution of court reports and discontinuance and resumption of distribution; to reduce the number of reports that the reporter has to distribute; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to court reports, is amended by revising Code Section 50-18-31, relating to the procedure for distribution of court reports and discontinuance and resumption of distribution, as follows:

"50-18-31.

The reporter shall make distribution of the reports which shall be handled in accordance with this Code section:

(1) The reporter shall place all orders for the reports with the publisher. At any time the state librarian adds or eliminates a particular exchange point or determines that the number of copies of either of the reports needs to be changed, he or she shall notify the reporter of this fact in writing, and the reporter shall adjust his or her orders for new reports accordingly;

(2) All volumes distributed within this state to the state or to any of its subordinate departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, or to public officers or public employees within the state, other than to the state librarian for exchange purposes, shall be the property of the appropriate public officer or employee during his or her term of office or employment and shall be turned over to his or her successor; and the reporter shall take and retain a receipt from each such public officer or employee acknowledging this fact. Volumes distributed to the state librarian for exchange purposes, but handled for delivery to exchangees by the reporter on behalf and in the name of the state library, shall become the property of the recipient. The reporter shall at all times use the most economical method of shipment consistent with the safety and security of the volumes; and

(3) The reporter shall make distributions of the reports in accordance with the following:

Archives, State	one copy
Commissioner of Insurance	one copy
Court of Appeals of Georgia	23 copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Chief Judge to the reporter)
Executive Department	one copy
Georgia Institute of Technology	one copy
Georgia State University	one copy
Historical Society, Georgia	one copy
Human Resources, Department of	one copy
House Judiciary Committee	one copy
Labor, Department of	one copy
Law, Department of	six copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Attorney General)
Legislative Counsel	one copy
(which number may be increased upon written order of the Legislative Counsel)
Library, State
Exchange Program:
Each foreign government authority participating	one copy
Each state participating	one copy
Shelving	two copies
Newly created superior court circuits or judgeships	as appropriate
Whenever a new superior court circuit or a new judgeship within a circuit shall be created, if the officer entitled to reports shall notify the reporter in writing of his or her assumption of office, the reporter shall add his or her position to those to receive reports and shall supply him or her with all earlier volumes.
Judge of the Probate Court (each county)	one copy
Each probate court shall place a written order with the reporter on or before October 1. A written order from a probate court shall remain in effect until changed by a subsequent written order. The reporter shall not provide reports to any probate court without a written order.
Public Service Commission	one copy
Recipients not named herein but named on the librarian's distribution list as of the date of his or her last distribution of the reports next preceding April 18, 1975 (each)	one copy
The reporter is authorized to add such names, in whole or in part, to his or her listing of distributees to receive future reports.
Reporter
Assistant reporter's desk	one copy
Copyright	three copies
Reporter's clerical staff	one copy
Reporter's desk	one copy
Secretary of State	one copy
Senate Judiciary Committee	one copy
Special or emergency circumstances	as appropriate
When it shall appear to the reporter that a worthy state purpose will be served thereby, he or she may add agencies or officers to the list of recipients of reports, provided that no courts or agencies of a local nature shall be added to the list.
Superior Courts
Clerks (each)	one copy
District Attorneys (each)	one copy
Judges (each)	one copy
Each superior court judge shall place a written order with the reporter on or before October 1. A written order from a superior court judge shall remain in effect until changed by a subsequent written order. The reporter shall not provide reports to any superior court judge court without a written order.
Supreme Court of Georgia	18 copies
(which number may be increased upon written order from the Chief Justice to the reporter)
United States Courts
Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit	one copy
District Courts, Georgia	four copies
University of Georgia Law School Library	25 four copies
Workers' Compensation, State Board of	six copies
The reporter may add additional recipients or additional copies to named recipients upon written order from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Code section regarding distribution of reports to superior courts and to judges of the probate courts, the chief judge of the superior courts of any judicial circuit may, for any county within that circuit, have discontinued or restored the distribution of any of that county's authorized number of copies of reports, as such judge determines the needs therefor, upon written request to the librarian. In any event, at least one copy of each report shall be distributed to each county to be placed in the county law library or, if no such library is maintained, in the office of the judge of the probate court for the use of the general public."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.