History. Code 1981, § 46-5-30 , enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 657, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1118, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 624, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1118, § 1/HB 669; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 46/SB 465; Ga. L. 2007, p. 241, § 2/HB 655; Ga. L. 2019, p. 795, § 1/SB 100.
The 2002 amendment, effective July 1, 2002, in subsection (b), added the second sentence; in subsection (c), added the present fifth and sixth sentences, and in the last sentence, inserted “and the telecommunications equipment distribution program” and deleted “be used for the distribution of telecommunication devices for the deaf or similar such devices or” preceding “be imposed, collected”; added present subsections (g) through (i); redesignated former subsection (g) as present subsection (j), and added the language following “July 1, 1991” in that subsection.
The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, added the last sentence in subsection (a); in subsection (b), added the second sentence and substituted “further” for “also” in the last sentence; in subsection (c), added “and a maximum of $0.01 of this monthly surcharge per access line shall be utilized to fund an audible universal information access service” at the end of the fifth sentence, inserted “and the audible universal information access service” in the sixth sentence, inserted “or information access” in the seventh sentence, and inserted “e, the information access service,” in the last sentence; in subsection (e), substituted “providers” for “provider” and inserted “or the audible universal information access service” three times; added subsections (f.1) and (i); redesignated former subsections (i) and (j) as present subsections (j) and (k), respectively; and in subsection (k), deleted “and” following “July 1, 1991,” and added “, and the audible universal information access service shall be operational no later than July 1, 2006” at the end.
The 2006 amendment, effective April 14, 2006, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “basic telecommunications services” for “basic telecommunication services” near the middle of subsection (a); substituted “1¢” for “$0.01” in subsections (c) and (i); in subsection (c), substituted “5¢” for “$0.05” in the fifth sentence, and in the sixth sentence, substituted “15¢” for “$0.15” and substituted “20¢” for “$0.20”; substituted “advanced telecommunications system” for “advanced telecommunication system” near the end of subsection (f); and substituted “use of telecommunications devices” for “use of telecommunication devices” near the end of subsection (g).
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, inserted “and for other hearing technology” near the end of the last sentence in subsection (c).
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, in subsection (a), deleted “basic” preceding “telecommunications services” in the first and second sentences; in subsection (c), substituted “service shall” for “service will” in the sixth sentence, and inserted “, if applicable,” in the seventh sentence; substituted “shall be protected” for “will be protected” near the end of subsection (d); substituted “shall provide” for “will provide” near the beginning of subsection (f); redesignated former subsection (f.1) as present subsection (g) and redesignated former subsections (g) through (j) as present subsections (h) through (k), respectively; substituted “shall provide” for “will provide” near the beginning of subsection (g); added the last sentence in subsection (h); in subsection (i), inserted “telecommunications equipment” following “participation in the” near the beginning of the first sentence, and substituted “contracts shall” for “contracts will” in the last sentence; in subsection (j), substituted “contracts shall” for “contracts will” in the last sentence; and deleted former subsection (k), which read: “The commission shall provide that the dual party telephone relay telephone system shall be operational no later than July 1, 1991, that the telecommunications equipment distribution program shall be operational no later than March 31, 2003, and the audible universal information access service shall be operational no later than July 1, 2006.”
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2002, “moneys” was substituted for “monies” in the eighth sentence in subsection (c).