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title: O.C.G.A. § 50-27-34. Legislative oversight committee.
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# O.C.G.A. § 50-27-34. Legislative oversight committee.

(a) There is created as a joint committee of the General Assembly, the Georgia Lottery Corporation Legislative Oversight Committee, to be composed of the members of the House Committee on Regulated Industries and the Senate Committee on Economic Development and Tourism. The chairpersons of such committees shall serve as cochairpersons of the oversight committee. The oversight committee shall periodically inquire into and review the operations of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, as well as periodically review and evaluate the success with which the corporation is accomplishing its statutory duties and functions as provided in this chapter. The oversight committee may conduct any independent audit or investigation of the corporation it deems necessary.

(b) The Georgia Lottery Corporation shall provide the oversight committee not later than December 1 of each year with a complete report of the level of participation of minority businesses in all retail and major procurement contracts awarded by the corporation.

## History

Code 1981, § 50-27-34, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 3173, § 2; Ga. L. 2004, p. 593, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 303, § 5/HB 117; Ga. L. 2024, p. 922, § 14-1/SB 341, effective May 6, 2024; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 6(36)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.

## Amendments

The first 2024 amendment, effective May 6, 2024, in subsection (a), substituted “Senate Committee on Economic Development and Tourism” for “Senate Economic Development Committee” at the end of the first sentence, and substituted “the corporation” for “the authority” in the third and fourth sentences.

The second 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “corporation” for “authority” in the third and fourth sentences in subsection (a).