Bill Text: GA HB626 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ware County; performance audits as condition to make payments; provide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-11 - House Withdrawn, Recommitted [HB626 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB626-Introduced.html

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11 LC 25 5905

House Bill 626

By: Representative Hatfield of the 177th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act creating a board of commissioners for Ware County, approved March 15, 1963 (Ga. L. 1963, p. 2237), as amended, so as to provide for receipt of performance audits as a condition precedent to making certain payments; 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 a board of commissioners for Ware County, approved March 15, 1963 (Ga. L. 1963, p. 2237), as amended, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"SECTION 17.2.

(a)(1) The board shall not make any payment to the Okefenokee Area Development Authority unless and until the board has received a copy of the report of an independent performance audit regarding such authority which was completed during the twelve month period immediately preceding the time of such payment. Any such audit report received by the board shall be a public record.

(2) The board shall not make any payment to the Waycross and Ware County Development Authority unless and until the board has received a copy of the report of an independent performance audit regarding such authority which was completed during the twelve month period preceding the time of such payment. Any such audit report received by the board shall be a public record.

(b) This section shall not impair any right or obligation of any contract entered into prior to July 1, 2011."

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All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.