Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 104 - Probation services; employment standards

Page Numbers - 1/ 2

Code Sections - 42-8-103

1. Smith  109th           2. Jenkins  110th


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Code Sections amended: 42-8-103                                                                     


HB 104                                            LC 11 8433






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agreements for
  1- 3  probation services, so as to provide for employment
  1- 4  standards and qualifications for persons performing such
  1- 5  services; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
  1- 6  purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 of the Official Code of
  1- 9  Georgia Annotated, relating to agreements for probation
  1-10  services, is amended by adding at the end the following:

  1-11    "42-8-103. (Index)

  1-12    (a) As used in this Code section, the term:

  1-13      (1) 'Contract employee' means any person who performs
  1-14      probation services as an agent or employee of a contract
  1-15      employer when those services are authorized or required
  1-16      to be performed under a probation service agreement
  1-17      with such employer.

  1-18      (2) 'Contract employer' means any corporation,
  1-19      enterprise, agency, or probation system which enters
  1-20      into a probation service agreement.

  1-21      (3) 'Probation service agreement' means an agreement to
  1-22      perform probation services pursuant to this article.

  1-23    (b) The terms of each probation service agreement entered
  1-24    into or renewed on or after July 1, 1995, shall provide
  1-25    that a contract employee who performs probation services
  1-26    which are of a type authorized or required to be performed
  1-27    by a chief probation officer, probation officer, intensive
  1-28    probation officer, or surveillance officer when those
  1-29    probation services are provided under the authority of the
  1-30    Department of Corrections pursuant to Article 2 of this
  1-31    chapter, the 'State-wide Probation Act,' shall meet the



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  2- 1    same employment standards and qualifications as such state
  2- 2    officers whose type of services that contract employee
  2- 3    performs."

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 4  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 5  repealed.









































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