For purposes of this paragraph, a “compelling reason” shall have the same meaning as in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Code Section 15-11-233;
History. Code 1981, § 15-11-201 , enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242; Ga. L. 2014, p. 780, § 1-11/SB 364; Ga. L. 2015, p. 552, § 13/SB 138; Ga. L. 2018, p. 927, § 1-3/HB 906; Ga. L. 2019, p. 893, § 3/SB 225; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 15/SB 52.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, in paragraph (b)(16), substituted “workforce” for “work force” near the end of the first sentence, in the second sentence, substituted “The transition plan shall be completed in the 90 day period immediately prior to the date on which such child will attain 18 years of age” for “The transition plan shall be completed in the 90 day period: (A) Immediately prior to the date on which such child will attain 18 years of age; or”, and deleted former subparagraph (b)(16)(B), which read: “If such child remains in the care of DFCS past his or her eighteenth birthday, before his or her planned exit from DFCS care.”
The 2019 amendments. —
The first 2019 amendment, effective May 7, 2019, designated the existing provisions of paragraph (b)(3) as subparagraph (b)(3)(A); substituted a period for a semicolon at the end of subparagraph (b)(3)(A); and added subparagraphs (b)(3)(B) and (b)(3)(C). The second 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation at the end of subparagraph (b)(16).
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