O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-13-31 (2019)

Commission created; comprehensive state plan for ending family violence; establishment of community task forces

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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There is created a State Commission on Family Violence which shall be responsible for developing a comprehensive state plan for ending family violence. This plan shall include the initiation, coordination, and oversight of the implementation of family violence laws and the establishment in each judicial circuit of a Community Task Force on Family Violence. These task forces shall be supported by and work in collaboration with the state commission. The commission shall be assigned for administrative purposes only, as set out in Code Section 50-4-3, to the Department of Community Supervision.

History

Code 1981, § 19-13-31, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1810, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1543, § 3; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1435, § 4; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-47/HB 310.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the amendment by this Act shall apply to sentences entered on or after July 1, 2015.

Law reviews. For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 151 (1997). For note on the 2002 amendment of this Code section, see 19 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 132 (2002). For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).