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Senator
Adelman of the 42nd offered the following amendment:
Amend
SR 49 by inserting on line 4 of page 1, following the word and symbol
"services;", the following:
"to
provide that the General Assembly may provide for the public funding of social
services pursuant to a contract between the state and any separate charitable
affiliate of a religious or sectarian organization; to provide terms and
conditions for any such
contract;"
By
striking lines 10 through 13 of page 1 and inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
"Paragraph
VII.
Separation
of church and state.
No
(a) Except as
permitted or required by the United States Constitution, as amended,
no money shall ever be taken from the
public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or
religious denomination or of any sectarian institution.
(b)
The General Assembly is authorized to provide by general law for the public
funding of social services to be provided pursuant to a contract between the
State of Georgia or any department or agency of the state and any separate
charitable affiliate of a religious or sectarian organization. Each such
contract shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:
(1)
No public funds received pursuant to such contract shall be used or expended,
either directly or indirectly, by any such separate charitable affiliate of a
religious or sectarian organization for sectarian worship, religious
instruction, or proselytizing;
(2)
Any such separate charitable affiliate of a religious or sectarian organization
which receives such public funds shall provide an annual accounting of the use
of such funds in such manner as provided by law and shall be subject to audit by
the state regarding the expenditure of such funds;
(3)
No contract shall be valid or effective until and unless the state funds for
such contract have specifically been appropriated in a general appropriations
Act or supplemental appropriations Act by line item appropriation specifically
identifying and describing such contract;
(4)
Such contract must require that the separate charitable affiliate of a religious
or sectarian organization provide actual and valuable services and
consideration to the state or its department or agency in return for such public
funds; and
(5)
Such separate charitable affiliate of a religious or sectarian organization
receiving such funds must be exempt from federal income taxes under the
provisions of 26 U.S.C. Section
501(c)(3)."
By
inserting in the ballot language appearing on lines 18 and 19 of page 1, between
the word "services" and the symbol "?", the following:
"and
to authorize the public funding of social services pursuant to a contract
between the state and any separate charitable affiliate of a religious or
sectarian organization subject to terms and
conditions".