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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 39. PSYCHOLOGISTS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

43-39-20. Immunity from civil and criminal liability for certain good faith actions.

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  1. Any psychologist licensed under this article who testifies in good faith without fraud or malice in any proceeding relating to a licensee’s or applicant’s fitness to practice psychology, or who in good faith and without fraud or malice makes a report or recommendation to the board in the nature of peer review, shall be immune from civil and criminal liability for such actions. No psychologist licensed under this article who serves as a supervising or monitoring psychologist pursuant to a public or private order of the board shall be liable for any damages in an action brought by the supervised or monitored psychologist, provided that the supervising or monitoring psychologist was acting in good faith without fraud or malice.

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, § 43-39-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 224, § 6; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 43; Ga. L. 2019, p. 101, § 4/HB 26. The 2019 amendment, effective April 23, 2019, substituted ‘‘this article’’ for ‘‘this chapter’’ in the first and second sentences of this Code section.

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 43-39-20, relating to the termination of the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, was part of the original Code enactment (Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8) and was amended by Ga. L. 1986, p. 473, § 1 and Ga. L. 1992, p. 2769, § 1 and repealed by Ga. L. 1992, p. 3137, § 31, effective July 1, 1992.

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