Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-9-1.1. Required Training Courses; Attendance Record; Expenses

History. Code 1982, § 15-9-1.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 682, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 746, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 312, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 768, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1090, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 15; Ga. L. 2009, p. 624, § 1/SB 199; Ga. L. 2018, p. 356, § 1-1/SB 436.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, deleted former subsection (a), which read: “Any person who is or was elected, appointed, or made a judge of the probate court by operation of law on or prior to January 1, 1990, shall satisfactorily complete the required initial training course in the performance of his or her duties conducted by the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education of Georgia and shall file a certificate of such training issued by such institute with the Probate Judges Training Council on or before December 31, 1990, in order to become a certified judge of the probate court. The time and place of such training course and number of hours shall be determined by the Probate Judges Training Council and the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education of Georgia.”; redesignated former subsection (b) as present subsection (a); rewrote present subsection (a), which read: “Any person who is elected, appointed, or becomes a judge of the probate court by operation of law after January 1, 1990, and who does not satisfactorily complete the initial training course prescribed by the Probate Judges Training Council and the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education of Georgia or who does not file a certificate of such training issued by the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education of Georgia with the Probate Judges Training Council within one year after taking office as a judge of the probate court shall, subject to subsection (d) of this Code section, become a certified judge of the probate court upon completion of such requirements at any later time.”; redesignated former paragraph (c)(1) as present subsection (b), and, in subsection (b), substituted “and complete an attendance record of such” for “after the initial year of training and shall file a certificate of such additional” in the middle, and inserted “and file it” near the end; deleted former paragraph (c)(2), which read: “For the calendar years 2009 and 2010 only, the Probate Judges Training Council may suspend, in whole or in part, the training requirements of this subsection. If the council suspends such requirements, and if any probate judge has completed all or a portion of the required training prior to suspension of the training requirements, credit for the training so completed shall be carried over and applied to calendar year 2010 or 2011.”; redesignated former subsection (d) as present subsection (c), and, in subsection (c), in the first sentence, substituted “complete the new judge orientation training course as required by subsection (a) of this Code section” for “become a certified judge within one year after taking office as a judge of the probate court” and substituted “new judge orientation” for “initial year of”, and substituted “circumstances” for “facts” near the end of the second sentence; redesignated former subsection (e) as present subsection (d), and, in subsection (d), inserted “that” near the beginning of the proviso.

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