Bill Text: GA HB608 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cobb County State Court; charge technology fee; authorize

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-11 - Senate Read and Referred [HB608 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB608-Introduced.html

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11 LC 14 0511

House Bill 608

By: Representatives Manning of the 32nd, Ehrhart of the 36th, Parsons of the 42nd, Jones of the 44th, Evans of the 40th, and others

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act creating the State Court of Cobb County, approved March 26, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964, p. 3211), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 27, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4490), so as to authorize the court to charge a technology fee for each civil case filed, each criminal fine imposed, and each traffic case fined; to specify the uses to which said technology fees may be put; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act creating the State Court of Cobb County, approved March 26, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964, p. 3211), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 27, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4490), is amended by designating the existing text of Section 20 as subsection (a) and adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The clerk of the state court shall be entitled to charge and collect a technology fee to be set by the court not to exceed $15.00 for the filing of each civil case filed, each criminal fine imposed, and each traffic case fined as a surcharge to each. Such technology fee shall be used exclusively to provide for the technological needs of all county court systems, to include only the following uses: computer hardware and software purchases, leases, maintenance, and installation; imaging, scanning, facsimile, communications, projection, and printing equipment and software purchases, leases, maintenance, and installation; and associated personal technology services. The funds collected pursuant to this subsection shall be maintained in a segregated fund by the Cobb County Finance Department and shall be used only for the purposes authorized in this subsection through the budget appropriation process of the county."

SECTION 2.

This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2011.

SECTION 3.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.