Bill Text: GA HB55 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Weapons; school and postsecondary facilities; repeal prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-26 - House Second Readers [HB55 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB55-Introduced.html

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11 LC 21 0972

House Bill 55

By: Representative Franklin of the 43rd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 16-11-127.1, relating to carrying a weapon within a school safety zone, at school functions, or on school property, so as to repeal a prohibition against carrying a weapon at postsecondary facilities; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 16-11-127..1, relating to carrying a weapon within a school safety zone, at school functions, or on school property, is amended by revising paragraph (1) of subsection (a) as follows:

"(1) 'School safety zone' means in or on any real property owned by or leased to any public or private elementary school, secondary school, or school board and used for elementary or secondary education and in or on the campus of any public or private technical school, vocational school, college, university, or institution of postsecondary education."

SECTION 2.

Said Code section is further amended by revising subsection (f) as follows:

"(f) In a prosecution under this Code section, a map produced or reproduced by any municipal or county agency or department for the purpose of depicting the location and boundaries of the area of the real property of a school board or a private or public elementary or secondary school that is used for school purposes or the area of any campus of any public or private technical school, vocational school, college, university, or institution of postsecondary education, or a true copy of the map, shall, if certified as a true copy by the custodian of the record, be admissible and shall constitute prima-facie evidence of the location and boundaries of the area, if the governing body of the municipality or county has approved the map as an official record of the location and boundaries of the area. A map approved under this Code section may be revised from time to time by the governing body of the municipality or county. The original of every map approved or revised under this subsection or a true copy of such original map shall be filed with the municipality or county and shall be maintained as an official record of the municipality or county. This subsection shall not preclude the prosecution from introducing or relying upon any other evidence or testimony to establish any element of this offense. This subsection shall not preclude the use or admissibility of a map or diagram other than the one which has been approved by the municipality or county."

SECTION 3.

This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

SECTION 4.

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