Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SR 40 - MARTOC - conform cert. committee designations

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1. Perdue  18th


Senate Comm: Trans      /         House Comm: SPCA       /                                          
Senate Vote: Yeas 54    Nays 0                                                                      
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              Senate          Action          House                                                 
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             1/11/95   Read 1st time          2/14/95                                               
             2/7/95    Favorably Reported     2/1/96*                                               
             2/8/95    Read 2nd Time          2/15/95                                               
                       Committed              3/17/95                                               
             2/13/95   Read 3rd Time                                                                
             2/13/95   Passed/Adopted                                                               
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SR 40 95                                          LC 24 0001

      SENATE RESOLUTION 40

      By:  Senator Perdue of the 18th


                             A RESOLUTION

  1- 1  To amend a resolution creating the Metropolitan Atlanta
  1- 2  Rapid Transit Overview Committee, approved March 16, 1973
  1- 3  (Ga. L. 1973, p. 70), as amended, particularly by a
  1- 4  resolution approved March 21, 1974 (Ga. L. 1974, p. 524), a
  1- 5  resolution approved February 24, 1975 (Ga. L. 1975, p. 31),
  1- 6  and a resolution approved April 2, 1987 (Ga. L. 1987, p.
  1- 7  670), so as to conform certain committee designations
  1- 8  therein to existing designations; to provide for related
  1- 9  matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting
  1-10  laws; and for other purposes.

  1-11       BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-12  A resolution creating the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
  1-13  Overview Committee, approved March 16, 1973 (Ga. L. 1973, p.
  1-14  70), as amended, particularly by a resolution approved March
  1-15  21, 1974 (Ga. L. 1974, p. 524), a resolution approved
  1-16  February 24, 1975 (Ga. L. 1975, p. 31), and a resolution
  1-17  approved April 2, 1987 (Ga. L. 1987, p. 670), is amended by
  1-18  striking Section 1 thereof, relating to committee
  1-19  membership, and inserting in its place a new section to read
  1-20  as follows:

                        "SECTION 1.

  1-21    There is hereby created the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
  1-22    Transit Overview Committee to be composed of the
  1-23    following: the Chairman of the State Planning and
  1-24    Community Affairs Committee of the House; the Chairman of
  1-25    the Urban and County Affairs Committee of the Senate
  1-26    Chairman of the State and Local Governmental Operations
  1-27    Committee of the Senate; the Chairman of the Ways and
  1-28    Means Committee of the House; a member of the Senate
  1-29    Banking and Finance Financial Institutions Committee to be
  1-30    selected by the President of the Senate; two members of
  1-31    the House appointed by the Speaker, at least one of whom
  1-32    shall be from the area served by the Authority; two
  1-33    members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President
  1-34    thereof, at least one of whom shall be from the area


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  2- 1    served by the Authority; and three members of the House of
  2- 2    Representatives and three members of the Senate appointed
  2- 3    by the Governor, at least two of whom shall be from the
  2- 4    area served by the Authority. The appointed members of the
  2- 5    Committee shall serve two-year terms concurrent with their
  2- 6    terms as members of the General Assembly. The chairman of
  2- 7    the Committee shall be appointed by the Speaker of the
  2- 8    House from the membership of the Committee, and the vice
  2- 9    chairman of the Committee shall be appointed by the
  2-10    President of the Senate from the membership of the
  2-11    Committee. The chairman and the vice chairman shall serve
  2-12    terms of two years concurrent with their terms as members
  2-13    of the General Assembly. Vacancies in an appointed
  2-14    member's position or in the offices of chairman or vice
  2-15    chairman of the Committee shall be filled for the
  2-16    unexpired term in the same manner as the original
  2-17    appointment. The Committee shall periodically inquire into
  2-18    and review the operations, contracts, safety, financing,
  2-19    organization and structure of the  Metropolitan Atlanta
  2-20    Rapid Transit Authority, as well as periodically review
  2-21    and evaluate the success with which said Authority is
  2-22    accomplishing its legislatively created purposes."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-23  This resolution shall become effective upon its approval by
  2-24  the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-25  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this resolution
  2-26  are repealed.

















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