In traffic cases where a fine is imposed that includes costs, courts may charge an additional $5 fee, known as the electronic citation fee, if the "governing authority of the court" has adopted a resolution imposing the fee. The fee must be placed in the Electronic Citation Fund. Each year, the court clerk must provide an annual report and accounting of the fund to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks Cooperative Authority and to each governing authority that approved the resolution imposing the electronic citation fee. The resolution sunsets at the end of each fiscal year and governing authority must adopt a resolution on an annual basis to impose the fee. The Sunset was changed from 5 years from 2019 to 2023.

This legislation would make it illegal to include questions on a job application about whether the applicant was arrested for, charged with or convicted of a crime except for those applying for law enforcement jobs. If there is a law prohibiting those who have been arrested, charged or convicted of a particular crime from holding a particular job, then questions about that crime may be asked. Additionally, if a standard fidelity bond or equivalent bond is required for the job and conviction of particular crimes would prevent them from obtaining such a bond, then the employer may ask whether the applicant has ever been convicted of those crimes.

This is the omnibus gun carry bill of 2014. It was enhanced in the Senate Judiciary Non-Civil Committee to successfully address ACCG's three objections to the original bill. Specifically the substitute:

- allows local governments to determine whether or not guns are allowed in their government buildings, regardless of whether metal detectors or security screening is provided; 

- removes the provision prohibiting law enforcement from detaining persons illegally carrying guns without licenses; and

-removes the "private right of action" provision allowing any special interest group or individual (whether or not aggrieved) to sue counties and county officials statewide.

ACCG urges you to encourage your legislators to adopt the Senate version of HB 875 or adopt no version at all. 

This legislation requires certain information, such as social security numbers and financial information to be redacted from documents filed in the court. This legislation was amended to include magistrate court. Please consult with your clerks of court (magistrate) to assess additional costs and provide feedback to Debra Nesbit at dnesbit@accg.org.

This legislation allows a commissioner who is appointed as a temporary replacement for another elected official who is suspended by the Governor to appoint someone to represent his or her district.

This legislation makes it a crime for anyone to file a false lien against any person, not just a public official. It also provide immunity to the court clerk that accepts such documents for filing.

This legislation would require fines from arrests and citations issued by the uniformed division of the Department of Public Safety to be paid to the state. Under current law, only the fines from tickets and arrests by the Georgia State Patrol on I-285 are paid into the state treasury.

Additionally, this legislation requires counties that participate in a checkpoint as part of a joint operation for license and safety checks to evenly split the fines collected as a result of the checkpoint.

This legislation changes current law that protects superior court clerks for filing, posting or displaying any document that contains a social security number. Under SB 285, a superior court clerk is only protected for filing a document containing a social security number. Clerks and the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Authority will be required to redact the social security number from any document that is filed before posting or publicly displaying the document.

This legislation allows for the creation of veterans court divisions dedicated to address the specialized treatment needs of veterans and to facilitate a veteran's re-entry into society.  The passage of this legislation will enable local jurisdictions to access federal grant funds for the operation of the veterans courts.

This legislation allows the chief clerk of the probate court or other clerk, if the probate judge has not appointed a chief clerk, to serve as probate judge in uncontested cases so long as the chief clerk has served as probate court clerk for at least five years or has been an attorney for three years.  This bill also includes a provision that a county is not required to pay a local supplement to a probate judge beyond the term of office for which the supplement was approved.

This legislation creates a court technology fee to be assessed on criminal fines, ordinance violations and civil filings with the passage of a local resolution. The chief judge will control the fund and appoint members of the technology fund board. This legislation also repeals any local technology fee in place on July 1, 2014.

This legislation requires certain information, such as social security numbers and financial information to be redacted from documents filed in the court. This legislation was amended to include magistrate court.

On legislative day 39, this bill was amended to include local legislation regarding the terms of Court in Bartow County Superior Court which is now Section 1.