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SB 487 - Supersedeas Bonds - limit for puni- tive damages portion, civil judg. (2)

Kemp, Rene' D (3rd)	Meyer von Bremen, Michael S. (12th)	Madden, Eddie M (47th)

Status Summary	SC:	Judy	HC:		FR:	02/23/00	LA:	03/01/00	S - Read 2nd Time

First Reader Summary

A bill to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 5-6-46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to supersedeas, bonds, and the surety's liability, so as to provide for a limitation on the supersedeas bond for the punitive damages portion of a civil judgment; to provide for rescission of such limitation or waiver; to provide for waiving the filing of a supersedeas bond as to an award for punitive damages; to amend Code Section 9-12-134 of the O.C.G.A., relating to appeal or stay of foreign judgment, so as to clarify that a foreign judgment shall be stayed because an appeal is pending or will be taken or the time for filing an appeal has not expired; to provide that a foreign judgment shall be stayed until appeals are concluded or the time for taking an appeal has expired; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Code Sections

Code Sections amended: 5-6-46, 9-12-134