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GA Code § 28-5-20 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-20. Creation

 There are created a Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate and a Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the House of Representatives.   (Ga. L. 1966, p. 293, § 1; Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 1.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, "are" was substituted for "is".   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Delegation of power  to the fiscal affairs subcommittees by the General Assembly is valid. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-68.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
GA Code § 28-5-21 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-21. Selection and Term of Service of Members

  The Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate shall be composed of:   Four incumbent members of the Senate Appropriations Committee who were reelected, to be selected by the President-Elect of the Senate, if there be one, or if not, by the President of the Senate;   Five incumbent members of the Senate who were reelected, to be selected by the Governor; and   The Lieutenant Governor-Elect, if there be one, or if not, the Lieutenant Governor.     The Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the House of Representatives shall be composed of:   Four incumbent members of the House Appropriations Committee who were reelected, to be selected by the Speaker-of-the-House-Nominate (that is, the member of the House who has been nominated Speaker in the caucus of the political party having a majority of the members elected to the House of Representatives in the general election);   Five incumbent members of the House who were reelected, to be selected by the Governor; and   The Speaker-of-the-House-Nominate, as defined in paragraph (1) of this subsection.     The members of each of these subcommittees shall be selected within 30 days after each general election for members of the General Assembly.   Each such subcommittee shall serve until the successor subcommittee is composed and appointed after each successive general election for members of the General Assembly.    (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 2.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
GA Code § 28-5-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-22. Meetings Generally

 The Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate shall meet from time to time at the call of the President of the Senate or the chairman of the Senate subcommittee; and the Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of the House shall meet from time to time at the call of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the chairman of the House subcommittee. Such subcommittees may meet jointly at the call of the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker or of the respective subcommittee chairmen.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
GA Code § 28-5-23 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-23. Review of Budget Requests

 The fiscal affairs subcommittee of each house shall have the authority to review the budget requests of the various departments, bureaus, boards, commissions, institutions, and other state agencies at any time; and the Office of Planning and Budget, the state auditor, and each such department, bureau, board, commission, institute, and other state agency shall promptly furnish to such subcommittees, or either of them, all information requested by them, or by either of them.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 4.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Delegation of power  to the fiscal affairs subcommittees by the General Assembly is valid. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-68.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 91, 235, 236.
GA Code § 28-5-24 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-24. Annual Report to General Assembly

 The fiscal affairs subcommittees of the Senate and the House jointly shall make an annual report to the General Assembly of matters coming to their attention, together with such recommendations to improve the efficiency in the operation and management of the various departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions, and other agencies of state government as they see fit.The subcommittees shall not be required to distribute copies of the annual report to the members of the General Assembly but shall notify the members of the availability of the annual report in the manner which they deem to be most effective and efficient.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 5; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1036, § 23/SB 49.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, "they deem" was substituted for "it deems" near the end of the second sentence in this Code section.   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Delegation of power  to the fiscal affairs subcommittees by the General Assembly is valid. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-68.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
GA Code § 28-5-25 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-25. Joint Meetings to Review and Approve Budget Unit Object Class Transfers; Limitations Upon Transfers

 The fiscal affairs subcommittees shall meet jointly as one committee at least once each quarter, or more often, at the call of the Governor, for the purpose of reviewing and approving budget unit object class transfers recommended by the Governor. Such transfers shall not be made without the approval of at least 11 members of such subcommittees sitting jointly. No funds whatsoever shall be transferred for use in commencing any new program or activity which does not currently have an appropriation or which would require operating funds or capital outlay funds beyond the biennium in which such transfer is made.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 6.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    The delegation of power to the fiscal affairs subcommittees by the General Assembly is valid.  1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-68.   Authority to transfer funds.   - The fiscal affairs subcommittees have the authority to authorize the transfer of funds of the State Properties Control Commission (now State Properties Commission) from operating expenses to personal services for the purpose of creating two full-time positions and increasing the salary of the part-time coordinator. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-182.    Budget object transfers of the Department of Audits and Accounts  must be recommended by the Governor before they can be acted upon by the fiscal affairs subcommittees. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-37.    A transfer of operating and personal service class funds  so as to permit the Department of Agriculture to award a contract for the construction of a city farmers market, previously partially funded by capital outlay funds in an appropriation, would be a proper transfer of funds by the fiscal affairs subcommittees. 1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 74-9.   Prior appropriation is not new program.   - If the function or activity of warehousing material currently had an appropriation in a department's budget, then the construction of the warehouse would be part of that activity and would not be a new program or activity. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-72.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
GA Code § 28-5-25.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-25.1. Approval of Leases

  No lease of property owned by a state authority shall become valid until and unless the lease is approved by the fiscal affairs subcommittees meeting jointly at the call of the Governor if such lease is a lease of land for the acquisition of which state funds were appropriated, directly or indirectly, by an appropriations Act which specified that such lease must be approved by the fiscal affairs subcommittees.   The approval of any such lease shall require the affirmative votes of at least 11 members of such subcommittees meeting jointly.     (Code 1981, §28-5-25.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1865, § 1.)
GA Code § 28-5-26 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-26. Allowances for Members

 For all meetings of the subcommittees held when the General Assembly is not in session, the members of the subcommittees shall receive the expense, mileage, and travel allowances authorized by law for legislative members of interim legislative committees. The funds necessary to carry out this article shall come from funds appropriated to and available to the legislative branch of the government.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 8.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 91, 106 et seq.
GA Code § 28-5-27 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees|§ 28-5-27. Applicability of Article to Authority of Office of Planning and Budget

 This article shall not be construed to supersede or supplement the authority of the Office of Planning and Budget as set forth in Code Section 45-12-90.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 7.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   O.C.G.A.    § 28-5-27 designed to prevent failure of appropriation. - Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 7 (see now O.C.G.A. § 28-5-27) is designed in part to prevent the failure of an appropriation, the expenditure of which is otherwise lawful, because of an improper designation of the spending agency. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-40.   Transfer of appropriation.   - A transfer of appropriations from the Art Commission to the Board of Regents so that the performing arts project may be produced for educational television under the auspices of the Center for Continuing Education of the University of Georgia. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-212.    Under authority granted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 7 (see now O.C.G.A. § 28-5-27), the Office of Planning and Budget may transfer an appropriation to any of the agencies of the state having comparable authority; those agencies may, in turn, pursuant to Ga. Const. 1945, Art. VII, Sec. VI, Para. I (see now Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. III, Para. I), contract with the Georgia Residential Finance Authority for services which are both within the scope of the authority of those agencies as well as within the scope of the powers of the Georgia Residential Finance Authority. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-40.
GA Code § 28-5-40 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3 - Fiscal Bills Generally|§ 28-5-40. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Fiscal Note Act."   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 1568, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For article, "Revenue and Taxation: Amend Titles 48, 2, 28, 33, 36, 46, and 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Relating Respectively, to Revenue and Taxation, Agriculture, the General Assembly, Insurance, Local Government, Public Utilities, and State Government," see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 217 (2011).
GA Code § 28-5-41 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3 - Fiscal Bills Generally|§ 28-5-41. "Retirement Bill" Defined

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1331, § 1, effective April 10, 1985.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1975, p. 1568, § 2, and Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8.
GA Code § 28-5-41.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3 - Fiscal Bills Generally|§ 28-5-41.1. Economic Analysis of Certain Tax Benefits of Law or Proposed Law; Analysis on Performance and Outcomes of Code Section 33-1-25

  An economic analysis shall include, but not be limited to, a good faith estimate as a result of the law or proposed law, on an annual basis for five years thereafter, of the following, on both a direct and indirect basis:   Net change in state revenue;   Net change in state expenditures, which shall include, but not be limited to, costs of administering the bill;   Net change in economic activity; and   If applicable, any net change in public benefit.     On or before May 1 of each year, the chairperson of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the chairperson of the Senate Finance Committee may each request up to five economic analyses, which requests shall be transmitted to the Department of Audits and Accounts. The Department of Audits and Accounts shall contract with one or more independent auditors to complete all such analyses on or before December 1 of the year in which such analysis was requested. Each such request shall be limited to one existing provision of law or proposed law and shall specify one particular exemption, exclusion, or deduction from the base of a tax; credit against a tax; deferral of a tax; a rebate of taxes paid; tax abatement; or preferential tax rate to be analyzed.   Copies of each completed economic analysis shall be provided to the House Budget and Research Office and the Senate Budget and Evaluation Office.   If a fiscal note is requested pursuant to Code Section 28-5-42 and a relevant economic analysis has been conducted within one year of such request, the Office of Planning and Budget may prepare a summary of such economic analysis and attach it with the requested fiscal note.   An economic analysis shall be conducted on the performance and outcomes of Code Section 33-1-25, which shall be completed by December 1, 2021.     (Code 1981, §28-5-41.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2021, p. 289, § 1-2/SB 6.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2021, p. 289, § 1-1/SB 6, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that: "Part I of this Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Tax Credit Return on Investment Act of 2021.'"
GA Code § 28-5-43 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3 - Fiscal Bills Generally|§ 28-5-43. Preparation of Actuarial Investigations for Inclusion in Fiscal Notes

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1331, § 4, effective April 10, 1985.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1975, p. 1568, § 4 and Ga. L. 1982, p. 1116, § 2, and Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8.
GA Code § 28-5-44 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3 - Fiscal Bills Generally|§ 28-5-44. Attachment of Fiscal Notes to Bills; Reading of Notes at Third Reading of Bills; Distribution of Notes Relating to Bills Prior to Final Votes Thereon

 The fiscal notes required by this article shall be attached to the bill by the chairman of the committee to which the bill was referred and shall be read to the members of each respective house of the General Assembly at the third reading of the bill. In addition, a copy of each fiscal note required by this article shall be distributed to each member of the respective house of the General Assembly before which the bill is pending prior to any such bill being voted upon by such house of the General Assembly.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 1568, § 5.)
GA Code § 28-5-47 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-47. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the "State and Local Government Partnership Act of 1995."   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 1809, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)
GA Code § 28-5-47.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-47.1. Legislative Intent and Purpose

 It is the intent and purpose of the General Assembly in enacting this article:    To strengthen the partnership between the State of Georgia and local political subdivisions;   To assist the General Assembly in its consideration of proposed legislation and new and revised state programs containing fiscal requirements affecting local political subdivisions by:   Requiring the provision of accurate estimates of the fiscal impact upon local political subdivisions of proposed legislation and new and revised state programs; and   Establishing a mechanism to bring such information to the attention of the members of the General Assembly before the House of Representatives or Senate, respectively, votes on proposed legislation;     To promote informed and deliberate decisions by the General Assembly on the appropriateness of proposed fiscal impact legislation in any particular instances;   To improve the quality of state regulations affecting local political subdivisions and the process by which those regulations are developed by:   Providing that state agencies consult with elected and other officials of local political subdivisions; and   Requiring that state agencies prepare accurate estimates of the budgetary impact of state regulatory mandates upon local political subdivisions before adopting such regulations.       (Code 1981, §28-5-47.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)
GA Code § 28-5-48 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-48. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Commissioner" means the commissioner of community affairs.   "Department" means the Department of Community Affairs.   "Fiscal note" means a realistic statement of the estimated financial cost of implementing or complying with the proposed law, regulation, rule, order, or administrative law upon local political subdivisions to which the proposed law, regulation, rule, order, or administrative law applies.   "Local political subdivision" means a county, municipality, county school district, or independent school district.    (Ga. L. 1981, p. 1809, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)
GA Code § 28-5-48.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-48.1. Applicability to Proposed Laws for Which Full Funding to Affected Localities Has Been Appropriated

 This article shall not apply to any proposed bill, resolution, regulation, rule, order, or administrative law for which an appropriation, in an amount sufficient to fund the full cost of the proposal, has been made to affected local political subdivisions.    (Code 1981, §28-5-48.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)
GA Code § 28-5-49 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-49. Analysis of Costs of Proposed Bills and Joint Resolutions to Affected Localities; Filing of Fiscal Notes; Requests by Representatives of Local Political Subdivisions for Copies; Waiver of Requirements

  The department shall conduct any analysis to determine the cost of implementation or compliance for all bills and joint resolutions introduced in the General Assembly which have a fiscal impact on local political subdivisions. Before any vote is taken in a committee of the House of Representatives or Senate or on the floor of either house upon any bill or joint resolution determined by the department to require an expenditure which in the aggregate exceeds $5 million of public funds by local political subdivisions, a fiscal note shall be attached to such bill or resolution and shall be filed by the sponsor of the bill with the chairperson of the committee and the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate and shall be provided to all members of the General Assembly. Any representative of any local political subdivision requesting a copy of the fiscal note shall be furnished with a copy immediately upon request to the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate. This Code section shall not apply to a bill or joint resolution that is necessary for the state to assume the administration of regulatory programs mandated by federal statute.   The requirements of this Code section may be waived by the committee to which the bill is assigned in the chamber wherein the bill is introduced. Any such waiver shall be by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the committee. Any such waiver by the committee shall allow consideration of the measure by both chambers.   The requirements of this Code section may be waived:   By a majority vote of the House of Representatives or by the Speaker of the House with respect to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives; or   By majority vote of the Senate or by the President of the Senate with respect to a bill introduced in the Senate.  Any such waiver shall allow consideration of the measure by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.       (Ga. L. 1981, p. 1809, § 3; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 28.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties and Other Political Subdivisions, § 125.
GA Code § 28-5-50 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-50. Filing of Notes for Regulations, Rules, or Orders; Requests by Local Political Subdivisions for Copies

 Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, no regulation, rule, order, or administrative law which would have a fiscal impact which in the aggregate exceeds $5 million on local political subdivisions in this state shall be valid unless 30 days prior to its adoption by a board, commission, agency, department, officer, or other authority of the government of this state, except the General Assembly, the courts, and the Governor, such board, commission, agency, department, officer, or other authority shall file a fiscal note with the members of the General Assembly. Any local political subdivisions that will be affected by the proposed regulation, rule, policy, order, or administrative law, upon request, shall immediately be furnished with a copy of the fiscal note by the board, commission, agency, department, officer, or other authority. This Code section shall not apply to an emergency regulation, rule, order, or administrative law as described by subsection (b) of Code Section 50-13-4, to any rule or regulation adopted or order issued pursuant to legislation exempted from Code Section 28-5-49, or to any other order issued to abate or prevent violations of specific statutory provisions enacted by the General Assembly.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 1809, § 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)   Law reviews.   - For article surveying developments in Georgia local government law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1981).
GA Code § 28-5-51 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 28 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs|Article 3A - State and Local Government Partnership|§ 28-5-51. Contents of Fiscal Note

 A fiscal note shall contain an aggregated estimate of the fiscal impact of a bill, a joint resolution, or an administrative action on local political subdivisions for the fiscal year in which it would become effective, if enacted, and for the next two succeeding fiscal years. If the fiscal impact of the bill, joint resolution, or administrative action is not expected to be totally evident within the applicable period, the estimate shall be projected beyond that period to include an estimate for the first fiscal year in which it is expected to be fully effective.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 1809, § 5; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1189, § .5.)