Georgia Trauma Trust Fund

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Health
4. Emergency Medical Services
5. Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission
6. Georgia Trauma Trust Fund

1. There is established the Georgia Trauma Trust Fund. The executive director of the Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission shall serve as the trustee of the Georgia Trauma Trust Fund. The moneys deposited into such fund pursuant to this article may be expended by the executive director with the approval of the Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission for those purposes specified in Code Section 31-11-102.
2. The Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission shall report annually no later than October 1 to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination. Such report shall provide an update on state-wide trauma system development and the impact of fund distribution on trauma patient care and outcomes.

(Code 1981, §31-11-103, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 36, § 1/SB 60; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1177, § 1/SB 489; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-9/HB 186.)

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted "no later than October 1 to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination" for "to the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee" in the first sentence of subsection (b).

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-1/HB 186, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This part shall be known and may be cited as 'The Health Act.'"

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Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 1/SB 549, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Coverdell-Murphy Act' in honor of the late Georgia Congressman Paul D. Coverdell and the late Georgia Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas B. Murphy, both revered politicians of the great State of Georgia, and victims of massive strokes."

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