Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 31-2A-14. Georgia Diabetes Control Grant Program; Advisory Committee; Administration of Authorized Grant Programs; Grant Criteria

The commissioner, or his or her designee, shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the advisory committee. Appointed advisory committee members shall be named for five-year terms staggered so that one term will expire each year, except for the fourth and fifth year, when two terms will expire. Their successors shall be named for five-year terms.
History. Code 1981, § 31-2-17.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 548, § 1-3/SB 435; Code 1981, § 31-2A-14 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 3-2/HB 214; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 31/HB 142.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2010, “dietitian” was substituted for “dietician” in paragraph (b)(3).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2010, p. 548, § 1-1/SB 435, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly finds that:
“(1) Diabetes is a chronic disease caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin or to use the insulin produced in the proper way;
“(2) If untreated and poorly managed, diabetes has been medically proven to lead to blindness, kidney failure, amputation, heart attack, and stroke;
“(3) Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for a similar number of deaths each year as HIV/AIDS;
“(4) In Georgia, the prevalence of diabetes is 8 percent higher than the nation as a whole;
“(5) One out of three people with diabetes are not aware that they have the disease;
“(6) Without aggressive societal action, the number of people living with diabetes in Georgia will more than double to 1,697,000 people in the next 20 years, cutting life short for these people by ten to 20 years; and
“(7) Without aggressive societal action, the economic burden of diabetes on the State of Georgia is expected to grow from $5 billion each year to about $11.9 billion in the next 20 years.”
Ga. L. 2010, p. 548, § 1-2/SB 435, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Diabetes and Health Improvement Act of 2010.’ ”
Pursuant to the terms of subsection (f), funds were not appropriated at the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022 sessions of the General Assembly.
Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 54(e)/HB 142, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “In the event of an irreconcilable conflict between a provision in Sections 1 through 53 of this Act and a provision of another Act enacted at the 2011 regular session of the General Assembly, the provision of such other Act shall control over the conflicting provision in Sections 1 through 53 of this Act to the extent of the conflict.” Accordingly, the amendment to subsection (b) of this Code section by Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 31(2)/HB 142, was not given effect.
Law reviews.
For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).