Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 339 - Mental Health - fund allocations to community service boards

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1. Langford  29th         2. Gochenour  27th         3. Madden  47th


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Code Sections amended: 37-2-5.1                                                                     


SB 33995                                        LC 11 8542/1

      SENATE BILL 339

      By:  Senators Langford of the 29th, Gochenour of the 27th
           and Madden of the 47th

                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 37-2-5.1 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to allocation of funds by the
  1- 3  regional boards, so as to provide for fund allocations to
  1- 4  community service boards and procedures regarding bids for
  1- 5  services; to provide an effective date; to repeal
  1- 6  conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Code Section 37-2-5.1 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 9  Annotated, relating to allocation of funds by the regional
  1-10  boards, is amended by adding at the end of subsection (c)
  1-11  thereof the following:

  1-12      "(4) A regional board shall not reduce the aggregate
  1-13      funding for all its community service boards for any
  1-14      fiscal year from the level at which all those community
  1-15      service boards were funded the immediately preceding
  1-16      fiscal year except as follows:

  1-17        (A) If the funding from the division to a regional
  1-18        board for any fiscal year is reduced from its funding
  1-19        the immediately preceding year, the community service
  1-20        boards shall receive from the regional board the same
  1-21        proportion of those reduced funds which was allocated
  1-22        to all the community service boards for the
  1-23        immediately preceding fiscal year;

  1-24        (B) If the funding is reduced by the same amount by
  1-25        which the regional board has contracted with entities,
  1-26        other than community service boards, to provide direct
  1-27        services, if those contracts are awarded by
  1-28        competitive bid of which the community service boards
  1-29        and others are notified at least 90 days prior to the
  1-30        deadline for submitting the bids in the fiscal year
  1-31        beginning July 1, 1995, and at least 180 days prior to
  1-32        the deadline for submitting the bids in each fiscal
  1-33        year thereafter; or

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  2- 1        (C) As provided in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this
  2- 2        paragraph.

  2- 3      (5) If the funding from the division to a regional board
  2- 4      for any fiscal year is increased from its funding the
  2- 5      immediately preceding year, the community service boards
  2- 6      shall receive from the regional board the same
  2- 7      proportion of those increased funds which was allocated
  2- 8      to all the community service boards for the  immediately
  2- 9      preceding fiscal year unless the appropriations Act
  2-10      increasing such funds specifically provides otherwise or
  2-11      unless the regional board contracts to provide services
  2-12      under the conditions of subparagraph (B) of paragraph
  2-13      (4) of this subsection in the amount of the increase not
  2-14      received by the community service boards."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-15  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  2-16  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-17  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-18  repealed.

























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