Bill Text: GA HB1260 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Gwinnett County Recorder's Court; impose and collect technology fee for each criminal fine imposed; authorize

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-19 - House Second Readers [HB1260 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB1260-Introduced.html

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12 LC 28 5687ER

House Bill 1260

By: Representatives Rice of the 51st, Thomas of the 100th, Floyd of the 99th, Marin of the 96th, Clark of the 104th, and others

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act to create and establish for the County of Gwinnett a court to be known as the Recorder's Court of Gwinnett County, approved March 27, 1972 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 3125), as amended, so as to authorize the Recorder's Court of Gwinnett County to impose and collect a technology fee for each criminal fine imposed; to authorize the county governing authority to specify the uses to which such technology fees may be put through the use of its annual budget development and adoption process; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act to create and establish for the County of Gwinnett a court to be known as the Recorder's Court of Gwinnett County, approved March 27, 1972 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 3125), as amended, is amended by adding a new Section 35 to read as follows:

"SECTION 35.

The clerk of the Recorder's Court shall be entitled to charge and collect a technology fee to be set by the judges of the Recorder's Court, not to exceed $15.00, as a surcharge to each fine imposed. Technology fees shall be used exclusively to provide for the technological needs of the Recorder's Court, the Gwinnett County Police Department, the Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services, and the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department, as follows: computer hardware purchase, lease, maintenance, installation, and training; software purchase, lease, maintenance, development, installation, and training; cellular equipment; imaging, scanning, facsimile, communications, and projection equipment; and printing supplies. The funds collected pursuant to this authorization shall be maintained in a segregated fund by the Gwinnett County Department of Financial Services and shall be used solely for the purposes authorized in this section. Allocations of fees collected for the purposes authorized in this section shall be determined in the Gwinnett County annual budget development and adoption process. The technology fee authorized by this section shall not be collected after July 1, 2013, and this section shall be repealed by operation of law on that date."

SECTION 2.

This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

SECTION 3.

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