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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 30. HANDICAPPED PERSONS · Chapter 9. GEORGIA ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE (ABLE)

30-9-2. Legislative intent.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    It is the intent of the legislature to authorize the establishment of a qualified ABLE program in this state to encourage and assist the saving of private funds in tax-exempt accounts in order to pay for the qualified disability expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities.#

  2. (b)

    It is also the intent of the legislature that any qualified ABLE program established in this state be implemented in a manner that is consistent with federal law authorizing the program and that maximizes program efficiency and effectiveness.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 30-9-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 588, § 1/HB 768.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t27-t30-(v22)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, pages 840 to 841; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 62359f240c92.