05 LC 22
5896S
The
House Committee on State Institutions and Property offers the following
substitute to HB 667:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to wardens, superintendents, and other personnel of state
and county correctional institutions, so as prohibit new contracts for supplies
for commissaries for inmates in state correctional institutions before a
specified date; to authorize renewal or renegotiation of existing contracts that
expire before the specified date; to provide for an effective date; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 5 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to wardens, superintendents, and other personnel of state and county
correctional institutions, is amended by inserting a new Code section to be
designated Code Section 42-5-41 to read as follows:
"42-5-41.
Wardens
of state correctional institutions and other employees and officials of the
department are not authorized to enter into any new contracts for supplies for
any commissary for inmates in any state correctional institution before July 1,
2006. Such employees and officials are authorized to renew or renegotiate
contracts that are in existence on the effective date of this Code section and
that expire before July 1, 2006, but such renewed or renegotiated contracts
shall expire on July 1,
2006."
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laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.