Bill Text: GA HB579 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Contractors; eligibility for licensure; provide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-01 - Effective Date [HB579 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HB579-Comm_Sub.html

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09 LC 28 4722S

The House Committee on Special Rules offers the following substitute to HB 579:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 43-41-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility for licensure without examination, reciprocity, and burden upon applicant relative to residential and general contractors, so as to provide for eligibility for licensure without examination under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 43-41-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility for licensure without examination, reciprocity, and burden upon applicant relative to residential and general contractors, is amended by striking "and" at the end of subparagraph (a)(3)(D), by replacing the period with "; and" at the end of paragraph (4) of subsection (a), and by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:

"(5) Any person who, for at least ten consecutive years prior to submitting an application, is affiliated, by employment or ownership, with a business organization having been incorporated in Georgia continuously for at least 20 years and engaged in the business of residential or general contracting."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.