O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-1-29 (2019)

Suspension of license for nonpayment of student loans prohibited

✓ 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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A professional licensing board shall not suspend the license of a person licensed by that board because he or she is a borrower in default under the Georgia Higher Education Loan Program as determined by the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation or because he or she has been certified by any entity of the federal government for nonpayment or default or breach of a repayment or service obligation under any federal educational loan, loan repayment, or service conditional scholarship program.

History

Code 1981, § 43-1-29, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 1066, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 462, § 1-12/SB 214.

Annotations

Cross references. Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, § 20-3-260 et seq.

Law reviews. For note on the 2001 enactment of this Code section, see 18 Georgia. St. U.L. Rev. 256 (2001).