Bill Text: GA HR139 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: General Assembly; telephone subscriber charges; fund trauma services; provide - CA
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-29 - House Second Readers [HR139 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR139-Introduced.html
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House
Resolution 139
By:
Representatives Geisinger of the
48th,
Cooper of the
41st,
Willard of the
49th,
Porter of the
143rd,
Oliver of the
83rd,
and others
A
RESOLUTION
Proposing
an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly by
general law to provide for the imposition and collection of charges to telephone
subscribers in this state for the specific purpose of funding any and all costs
or any portion of the costs of providing trauma services by public and private
hospitals and medical facilities in this state that maintain trauma centers; to
provide that the General Assembly may provide by general law for the
administration of such fund by such authority as the General Assembly may
determine; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or
rejection; and for other purposes.
BE
IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
III, Section IX, Paragraph VI of the Constitution is amended by adding a new
subparagraph (o) to read as follows:
"(o)
The General Assembly is authorized to provide by general law for the imposition
and collection of charges to telephone subscribers in this state for the
specified purpose of funding any and all costs or any portion of the costs of
providing trauma services by public and private hospitals and medical facilities
in this state that maintain trauma centers. Moneys appropriated for such
purposes shall not lapse. The General Assembly may provide by general law for
the administration of such fund by such authority as the General Assembly shall
determine."
SECTION
2.
The
above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as
provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot
submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon
the following:
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"( ) YES
( ) NO
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Shall
the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that the General
Assembly by general law may provide for the imposition and collection of charges
to telephone subscribers in this state for the purpose of funding any and all
costs or any portion of the costs of providing trauma services by public and
private hospitals and medical facilities in this state that maintain trauma
centers?"
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All
persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote
"Yes." All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment
shall vote "No." If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said
Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of
this state.
