Senate Bills enacted by 128th GA
Senate Bills enacted by 128th General Assembly (updated June 23, 2010)
SB 58
Effective September 17, 2010
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BODILY SUBSTANCE COLLCTION (Hughes) To prohibit a person from collecting any bodily substance of another person without privilege or consent to do so, to correct erroneous cross-references in provisions enacted in Am. Sub. H.B. 280 of the 127th General Assembly regarding increased penalties for domestic violence committed against a pregnant woman, to permit emergency medical technicians-intermediate and emergency medical technicians-paramedic to withdraw blood for the purposes of the watercraft or vehicle OVI law or the commercial motor vehicle law, to require the office of the attorney general to administer and conduct preservation of biological evidence training, and to add a representative from the Division of Criminal Justice Services to the Biological Evidence Task Force.
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CRIMINAL TRIAL EVIDENCE (Goodman) To make changes relative to the expansion of DNA testing for certain convicted felons, the elimination of the DNA testing mechanism for felons who pleaded guilty or no contest to the offense, the collection of DNA specimens from all persons eighteen years of age or older who are arrested for a felony offense, the sealing of the official records of persons who have their convictions vacated and set aside due to DNA testing, the preservation and accessibility of biological evidence in a criminal or delinquency investigation or proceeding, the improvement of eyewitness identification procedures, the electronic recording of custodial interrogations, and to provide that DNA records collected in the DNA database and fingerprints filed for record cannot be sealed unless certain circumstances apply.
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SB 106
Effective March 23, 2010
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SAVINGS STATUTE (Buehrer, Kearney) Excludes from the application of the savings statute certain estate and trust proceedings that have limitation periods, raises the threshold amount for the termination or avoidance of guardianships of small estates of wards, raises the threshold amount for the avoidance of guardianship upon the settlement of claims of minors or adult incompetents, clarifies that termination of marriage revokes any trust provision conferring a beneficial interest on the former spouse, modifies the period within which a plaintiff in a wrongful death action may commence a new action after the reversal of a judgment for the plaintiff or the plaintiff's failure otherwise than upon the merits, and modifies the residency qualifications for a person's appointment as a guardian.
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SB 124
Signed by governor December 28, 2010
Effective Immediately
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TRANSFER ON DEATH DESIGNATIONS (Faber) To change the transfer on death (TOD) designation instrument from a deed to an affidavit, to allow real property owners holding title in survivorship tenancy to execute such an affidavit, to clarify the status of a trustee of a trust as a TOD beneficiary and the dower rights of the spouse of the property owner, to make other changes pertaining to the transfer on death of real property, to modify the mortgage lending laws, to temporarily authorize a treasurer or prosecuting attorney of a county with a population of more than 800,000 but less than 900,000 to designate that part of any surplus balance in the county's Delinquent Tax and Assessment Collection Fund be used to pay operating expenses of the respective office in lieu of county general fund money, to allow a county recorder to accept for filing certain nonconforming documents without charging the fees otherwise required to be collected for nonconforming documents, relative to coal mining leases at Burr Oak State Park, to authorize the Governor to execute a release of reversionary interest in certain real estate located in Auglaize County, and to declare an emergency.
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