Bill Text: GA SB412 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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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-Engrossed.html
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Senate Bill 412
By: Senator Millar of the 40th

AS PASSED SENATE

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
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