2020 Georgia Code
Title 28 - General Assembly
- Chapter 1 - General Provisions [28-1-1 through 28-1-17]
- Chapter 2 - Apportionment of House of Representatives and Senate; Qualifications of Members [28-2-1 through 28-2-2]
- Chapter 3 - Administrative Personnel [28-3-1 through 28-3-25]
- Chapter 4 - Legislative Services [28-4-1 through 28-4-9]
- Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs [28-5-1 through 28-5-127]
- Chapter 6 - Interstate Cooperation [28-6-1 through 28-6-8]
- Chapter 7 - Prohibited Lobbying Practices [28-7-1 through 28-7-5]
- Chapter 8 - Georgia Criminal Justice Improvement Council [28-8-1 through 28-8-3.] [Repealed]
- Chapter 9 - Code Revision Commission [28-9-1 through 28-9-5]
- Chapter 10 - Georgia Rail Passenger Authority Overview Committee [28-10-1 through 28-10-7]
- Chapter 11 - Ethics and Efficiency in Government Act [28-11-1 through 28-11-8]
- Chapter 12 - Special Joint Committee on Georgia Revenue Structure [28-12-1 through 28-12-3.] [Repealed]
- Chapter 13 - 2011 Special Council and Committee on Criminal Justice Reform [28-13-1 through 28-13-4.] [Repealed]
- Election and term of members, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. II, Para. V.
Legislative privileges and immunity, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. IV, Para. IX.
Advertisement of notice to introduce local legislation, Ga. Const., 1983, Art. III, Sec. V, Para. IX.
Exercise of powers, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI.
Special sessions of the General Assembly, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. V, Sec. II, Para. VII.
Rules of statutory construction, § 1-1-1 et seq. and § 1-3-1 et seq.
Grounds for continuance of case applicable to members and staff of General Assembly, § 9-10-150.
Legislator attending General Assembly excused as a witness, § 9-10-159.
Exemption from jury duty for members of General Assembly, § 15-12-2.
Date of election for offices, § 21-2-9.
Vacancies and special elections for members of General Assembly, § 21-2-544.
Reporting of contributions made to members of General Assembly during legislative session, § 21-5-35.
Legislators' exemption from attending or testifying at hearing or trial during legislative session, § 24-13-29.
Ongoing review of effectiveness of and continued need for regulatory agencies, § 43-2-1 et seq.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Legislative immunity.
- Members of General Assembly are entitled to immunity against harassment of any type of legal action against them in connection with acts done by them in a strictly official capacity. Village of N. Atlanta v. Cook, 219 Ga. 316, 133 S.E.2d 585 (1963); Saleem v. Snow, 217 Ga. App. 883, 460 S.E.2d 104 (1995).
Court not to concern itself with legislative action.
- Judiciary cannot modify, amend, or repeal legislative action, nor concern itself with the wisdom of it. That is a field in which only the legislature may work. Sirota v. Kay Homes, Inc., 208 Ga. 113, 65 S.E.2d 597 (1951).
Political question is not within jurisdiction of the judiciary.
- That the judiciary under the Constitution is wholly without jurisdiction to adjudicate a purely political question is not an open question. Also, it is the settled law of this state that actions of the General Assembly taken in virtue of a power conferred by the Constitution and in conforming with the provisions of the Constitution, are not subject to review by the courts. Thompson v. Talmadge, 201 Ga. 867, 41 S.E.2d 883 (1947).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, §§ 52 et seq., 64 et seq.
