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O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 28-5-127 (2019)

Separate appropriation for grants in appropriations Acts; appropriation to contain word "grant."

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Any funding for grants in an appropriations Act by the General Assembly shall be separately appropriated, and the appropriation shall contain the word "grant" in its description of the purpose of the appropriation. All appropriations for grants by a particular state agency shall be listed together under a heading that contains the word "grant" or "grants."

History

(Code 1981, § 28-5-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1914, § 20.)

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1993, " 'grants.' " was substituted for " 'grants'." at the end of this Code section.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Applicability to present appropriations. - When the current General Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993-94 was enacted, O.C.G.A. Title 28, Chapter 5, Article 5 requirement that appropriations intended for "grants" be identified as such by use of the word "grant" was not in effect, and that requirement may not be applied to present appropriations. 1993 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 93-13.

The provision regulating the executive expenditure of appropriations may be applied to expenditures of appropriations which took effect on the same day as O.C.G.A. Title 28, Chapter 5, Article 5 (the first day of the fiscal year). 1993 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 93-13.

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CHAPTER 6 INTERSTATE COOPERATION

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28-6-1. Creation of Senate, House, and Governor's committees; membership.

28-6-1.1. "Nonpartisan legislative organization" defined.

28-6-2. Creation of Georgia Commission on Interstate Cooperation; membership.

28-6-3. Functions of commission.

28-6-4. Establishment of delegations, committees, and advisory boards by commission.

28-6-5. Reports by commission; compensation of members of commission, delegations, and committees.

28-6-6. Informal names of committees and commission.

28-6-7. Certain nonpartisan legislative organizations declared joint governmental agencies of the state.

28-6-8. Appointment of delegates to Article V conventions called by the Congress of the United States for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

Cross references. - Military relations with other states, § 38-2-90 et seq.