Georgia Code
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 28-1-15. Restrictions on Population Bills; “Population Bill” Defined

In order to be permissible under the foregoing exceptions, a bill must fit within only one of the foregoing exceptions; and any bill which uses two or more of the foregoing classification devices shall be a prohibited “population bill.”
(c.1) (1) A population bill shall also mean any bill using classification by population as a means of determining the applicability of any bill or law to any political subdivision or group of political subdivisions of the state with respect to the following:
(2) Except as provided in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of this subsection, any population bill which meets any of the classification criteria of this subsection shall be a prohibited population bill even if such bill is described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection (c) of this Code section. Any such bill enacted prior to July 1, 1997, or which became effective July 1, 1997, may thereafter be repealed as authorized under paragraph (6) of subsection (c) of this Code section or may only be amended as authorized under paragraph (5) of subsection (c) of this Code section.
History. Code 1981, § 28-1-14 , enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1205, § 2; Code 1981, § 28-1-15 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 28; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1547, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1308, §§ 1, 2.
Cross references.
Prohibition of population bills, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI, Para. IV.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1983, p. 646, § 2 and Ga. L. 1983, p. 1205, § 2 both enacted Code sections designated as “28-1-14.” The Code section enacted by the latter Act was redesignated as “28-1-15” by Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 28, effective February 3, 1984.
Ga. L. 1983, p. 1205, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “It is the intent of this Act to implement certain changes required by Article III, Section VI, Paragraph IV, subparagraph (b) of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.

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