O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-4-21 (2019)

Photo requirement on electronic benefits transfer cards for food stamps

✓ 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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The department shall require that all electronic benefits transfer cards which include food stamp benefits contain a photograph of one or more members of a household who are authorized to use such food stamp benefits. The department is authorized to promulgate regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Code section.

History

Code 1981, § 49-4-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 844, § 1/HB 772; Ga. L. 2023, p. 730, § 6(a)(3)/HB 475, effective July 1, 2023.

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted the subsection (a) designation and deleted subsection (b), which read: “This Code

section shall become effective on January 1, 2016.”

Annotations

Law reviews. For article on the 2014 enactment of

this Code section, see 31 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 205 (2014).