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	Georgia General Assembly

01 LC 21 6337S

The House Committee on Industrial Relations offers the following substitute to HB 13:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 39-2-11, relating to employment certificates for the employment of minors and requirements for issuance, so as to require the written permission of a parent or guardian; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 39-2-11, relating to employment certificates for the employment of minors and requirements for issuance, is amended by striking in its entirety subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) No employment certificate shall be issued to any minor until he or she shall have submitted to the issuing officer:
(1) A certified copy of a birth certificate or birth registration card; and
(2) A statement from the prospective employer indicating that if he or she were furnished with a certificate from the school superintendent as required by law, he or she could employ the minor immediately and describing the type of employment offered. It shall be understood that the prospective employer, by furnishing such statement, does not undertake to employ the minor for any specific period of time; and
(3) The written permission of the minor´s parent or legal guardian."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.