Article III — Legislative Branch

10 sections · 60 paragraphs in this article.

70 provisionsFiltered byArt. III

Ga. Const. art. III, § VII Impeachments
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Ga. Const. art. III, § VII Impeachments Structural section heading for the GA Constitution. Operative constitutional text is stored in child paragraph rows. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1983)
Ga. Const. art. III, § VIII, ¶ I Regulation of insurance
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Provision shall be made by law for the regulation of insurance.
Ga. Const. art. III, § VIII, ¶ II Issuance of licenses
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Insurance licenses shall be issued by the Commissioner of Insurance as required by law.
Ga. Const. art. III, § VIII Insurance Regulation
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Ga. Const. art. III, § VIII Insurance Regulation Structural section heading for the GA Constitution. Operative constitutional text is stored in child paragraph rows. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1983)
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ I Public money, how drawn
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No money shall be drawn from the treasury except by appropriation made by law.
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ II Preparation, submission, and enactments of general appropriations bill.
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(a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly within five days after its convening in regular session each year a budget message and a budget report, accompanied by a draft of a general appropriations bill, in such form and manner as may be prescribed by statute, which s…
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ III General appropriations bill
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The general appropriations bill shall embrace nothing except appropriations fixed by previous laws; the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the government; payment of the public debt and interest thereon; and for support of the public inst…
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ IV General appropriations Act
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(a) Each general appropriations Act, now of force or hereafter adopted with such amendments as are adopted from time to time, shall continue in force and effect for the next fiscal year after adoption and it shall then expire, except for the mandatory appropriations required by t…
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ V Other or supplementary appropriations
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In addition to the appropriations made by the general appropriations Act and amendments thereto, the General Assembly may make additional appropriations by Acts, which shall be known as supplementary appropriation Acts, provided no such supplementaryappropriation shall be availab…
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ VI Appropriations to be for specific sums
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(a) Except as hereinafter provided, the appropriation for each department, officer, bureau, board, commission, agency, or institution for which appropriation is made shall be for a specific sum of money; and no appropriation shall allocate to any object the proceeds of any partic…
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX, ¶ VII Appropriations void, when
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Any appropriation made in conflict with any of the foregoing provisions shall be void.
Ga. Const. art. III, § IX Appropriations
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Ga. Const. art. III, § IX Appropriations Structural section heading for the GA Constitution. Operative constitutional text is stored in child paragraph rows. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1983)
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ I Expenditure of public funds authorized
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Public funds may be expended for the purpose of paying benefits and other costs of retirement and pension systems for public officers and employees and their beneficiaries.
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ II Increasing benefits authorized
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Public funds may be expended for the purpose of increasing benefits being paid pursuant to any retirement or pension system wholly or partially supported from public funds.
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ III Retirement systems covering employees of county boards of education
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Notwithstanding Article IX, Section II, Paragraph III(a)(14), the authority to establish or modify heretofore existing local retirement systems covering employees of county boards of education shall continue to be vested in the General Assembly.
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ IV Firemen's Pension System
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The powers of taxation may be exercised by the state through the General Assembly and the counties and municipalities for the purpose of paying pensions and other benefits and costs under a firemen's pension system or systems. The taxes so levied may be collected by such firemen'…
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ V Funding standards
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It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact legislation to define funding standards which will assure the actuarial soundness of any retirement or pension system supported wholly or partially from public funds and to control legislative procedures so that no bill or res…
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ V-A Limitation on involuntary separation benefits for Governor of the State of Georgia
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Any other provisions of this Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding, no past, present, or future Governor of the State of Georgia who ceases or ceased to hold office as Governor for any reason, except for medical disability, shall receive a retirement benefit based on invol…
Ga. Const. art. III, § X, ¶ VI Involuntary separation; part-time service
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(a) Any public retirement or pension system provided for by law in existence prior to January 1, 1985, may be changed by the General Assembly for any one or more of the following purposes: (1) To redefine involuntary separation from employment; or (2) To provide additional or rev…
Ga. Const. art. III, § X Retirement Systems
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Ga. Const. art. III, § X Retirement Systems Structural section heading for the GA Constitution. Operative constitutional text is stored in child paragraph rows. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1983)