Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 31-2A-8. Department as Agency of State for Receipt and Administration of Federal and Other Funds

The department is designated and empowered as the agency of this state to apply for, receive, and administer grants and donations for health purposes from the federal government and from any of its departments, agencies, and instrumentalities; from appropriations of the state; and from any other sources in conformity with law. The department shall have the authority to prescribe the purposes for which such funds may be used in order to:
When a plan is required to be approved by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the federal government as condition precedent to the making of grants for health purposes, the department, as agent of this state, is directed to formulate, submit, and secure approval of that plan and thereafter, upon its approval and the receipt of funds payable thereunder, to carry the plan into effect in accordance with its terms, applying thereto the funds so received as well as other applicable amounts from whatever source.
History. Code 1933, § 88-111, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1069, § 3; Ga. L. 1978, p. 941, § 1; Code 1981, § 31-2-2 ; Code 1981, § 31-2-7 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-1/HB 228; Code 1981, § 31-2A-8 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 3-2/HB 214; Ga. L. 2020, p. 55, § 8/SB 372.
The 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, substituted “sexually transmitted” for “venereal” in paragraph (3).

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