Bill Text: GA SB412 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: County Boards of Education; homestead option sales and use tax; county sales and use tax for educational purposes; delay effective date of Code section
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-05-02 - Effective Date [SB412 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB412-Introduced.html
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Senate
Bill 412
By:
Senator Millar of the 40th
AS
PASSED
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 20-2-52.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to composition and election of county boards of education in counties in which
there is a homestead option sales and use tax and a county sales and use tax for
educational purposes and terms of service, so as to delay the effective date of
such Code section until January 1, 2015; to provide for related matters; 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 20-2-52.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
composition and election of county boards of education in counties in which
there is a homestead option sales and use tax and a county sales and use tax for
educational purposes and terms of service, is amended by revising subsection (a)
as follows:
"(a)
On and after January 1,
2013
2015,
in counties in which there is being collected a homestead option sales and use
tax pursuant to Article 2A of Chapter 8 of Title 48 and a county sales and use
tax for educational purposes pursuant to Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 8
of Title 48 and the county board of education consists of more than seven
members, such county boards of education shall comply with this Code section.
Such county boards of education shall consist of seven members elected from
single-member districts of approximately equal population. The number of
members may be reduced to less than seven members by local legislation, but such
members shall be elected from single-member districts of approximately equal
population."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.