Georgia Code
Article 1 - Hunting, Trapping, or Fishing
§ 27-2-30. Establishment of the Wildlife Endowment Trust Fund; Investment of Moneys Held in the Fund; Compliance With Constitutional Provisions; Annual Accounting of Funds; Limitations on Expenditures From the Fund

(c.1) The commissioner of natural resources shall be the trustee of the Wildlife Endowment Trust Fund with full authority over the administration of the fund.
(c.2) All of the money appropriated to the Wildlife Endowment Trust Fund pursuant to subsection (c) of this Code section shall be dedicated for use and expended by the commissioner of natural resources for the purposes provided in subsection (d) of this Code section.
(c.3) The commissioner of natural resources shall prepare an accounting of the funds expended pursuant to this Code section during the most recently completed fiscal year to be provided to the Office of Planning and Budget, the House Budget and Research Office, and the Senate Budget and Evaluation Office by January 1 of each year.
History. Code 1981, § 27-2-30 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 826, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 3/SB 296; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 27/HB 79; Ga. L. 2014, p. 859, § 2/HB 786; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 27/HB 90; Ga. L. 2021, p. 761, § 10/HB 511.
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, substituted the present provisions of subsection (b) for the former provisions, which read: “In recognition of its obligations to lifetime sportsman’s license purchasers, the General Assembly directs the department to establish a fund known as the Wildlife Endowment Fund for receipt of funds of an amount equal to that generated by the sale of lifetime sportsman’s licenses listed in subsection (d) of Code Section 27-2-3.1. Further, the General Assembly declares its intent to appropriate to the Wildlife Endowment Fund each fiscal year an amount equal to that generated by the prior year’s sales of lifetime licenses. The fund is also authorized to accept contributions from private individuals and entities. All funds appropriated and those contributed to the Wildlife Endowment Fund shall be deemed expended and contractually obligated and shall not lapse to the general fund.”; added subsection (c); redesignated former subsection (c) as present subsection (c.1); in subsection (c.1), inserted “Trust”, in the first sentence, and deleted the former second and third sentences, which read: “The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the Wildlife Endowment Fund and shall invest its assets in accordance with Georgia laws and shall report to the department the annual income and contributions to the fund. The intent of the General Assembly is that such income from the fund be appropriated annually to the department for the purposes stated in subsection (d) of this Code section.”; and added subsections (c.2) and (c.3).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1998, in subsection (d), a semicolon was substituted for a period at the end of paragraph (d)(4).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2021, p. 761, § 23/HB511, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “In accordance with the requirements of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(r) of the Constitution of Georgia, this Act shall not become law unless it receives the requisite two thirds’ majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and the amount of the funds dedicated by this Act do not equal or exceed 1 percent of the previous fiscal year’s state revenues subject to appropriations.

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