Georgia § 31-53-6 - Compiling of reports; public dissemination of data.

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§ 31-53-6. Compiling of reports; public dissemination of data.

The office shall compile reports received from the following boards, commissions, committees, councils, and offices pursuant to each such entity's respective statutory reporting requirements: The Maternal Mortality Review Committee; The Office of Women's Health; The Kidney Disease Advisory Committee; The Hemophilia Advisory Board; The Georgia Council on Lupus Education and Awareness; The Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; The Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; The Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; The Department of Public Health on behalf of the Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry; The Office of Cardiac Care; and The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission. The office shall maintain a website that permits public dissemination of data compiled by the boards, commissions, committees, councils, and offices listed in subsection (a) of this Code section. (Code 1981, § 31-53-6 , enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-2/HB 186; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 31/SB 429.) The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted former paragraph (a)(3), which read: "The Commission on Men's Health;"; deleted former paragraph (a)(4), which read: "The Renal Dialysis Advisory Council;"; and redesignated former paragraphs (a)(5) through (a)(13) as present paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(11), respectively. Editor's notes. - The Commission on Men's Health, referred to in paragraph (a)(3) above, was repealed by Ga. L. 2019, p. 919, § 10-1/HB 553, effective July 1, 2019. The Renal Dialysis Advisory Council, referred to in paragraph (a)(4) above, was repealed by Ga. L. 2019, p. 919, § 11-1, effective July 1, 2019.

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