sb388_Floor_amend_1_AM_14_0920_4.html
10 AM 14 0920

ADOPTED
Senator Butterworth of the 50th offered the following amendment:

Amend SB 388 by renumbering Sections 4 and 5 as Sections 6 and 7, respectively, and inserting new Sections 4 and 5 to read as follows:
SECTION 4.
Code Section 28-4-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of Legislative Counsel, is amended by revising subsection (e) as follows:
"(e) The legislative counsel shall provide for the compiling, indexing, editing, and publication of the Georgia Laws containing the Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly and other appropriate materials. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection authorized in Code Section 50-18-2, such Acts and resolutions shall be published in hardbound volumes suitable for retention as permanent records as well as in softbound volumes or pamphlets suitable for prompt distribution of newly enacted laws to public officers, attorneys, and the public; and following each session of the General Assembly, a copy of such softbound Georgia Laws shall be furnished to the clerk of superior court of each county within 30 days after the last date on which the Governor may approve or veto bills enacted at that session of the General Assembly. In the case of any special session of the General Assembly, however, the separate publication and distribution of the Acts and resolutions enacted at that special session may be omitted, and in such case the Acts and resolutions enacted at the special session shall be published and distributed together with those enacted at the subsequent regular session. Distribution of the Georgia Laws shall be carried out by the Secretary of State as provided for in Code Section 45-13-22; and the Secretary of State shall notify the legislative counsel of the numbers of volumes required to carry out such distribution."

SECTION 5.
Code Section 45-13-22 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to distribution of the Georgia Laws and journals of the House and Senate, is amended by striking the words "the hard-bound volumes and soft-bound volumes of the" in subsection (b), by striking the second sentence of subsection (c), and by revising subsection (a) as follows:
"(a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to distribute the Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia. The Secretary of State shall notify the legislative counsel of the numbers of soft-bound and hard-bound Georgia Laws needed for distribution. Hard-bound and soft-bound volumes; and the Georgia Laws shall be distributed as provided in this Code section. The Secretary of State shall make distribution of the bound volumes of the journals of the House and Senate. The Secretary of State shall notify the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate of the numbers of journals needed for distribution. Distribution shall be as provided in this Code section. As authorized under Code Section 50-18-2, the Georgia Laws and the journals may be published in electronic or printed format; and in the event of publication in electronic format, the provisions of this Code section relative to distribution of volumes of such publications shall be deemed to refer to distribution of electronic format publications."