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Committee backs bill to centralize county trade-name filings in statewide clerk database
Summary
The Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee approved a bill to require county trade-name registrations be added to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority database, creating a single place to look up trade names statewide.
The Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee voted to report a bill that would require county trade-name ("doing business as") filings to be uploaded to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority database, allowing a single statewide lookup of trade names rather than searching each county separately.
The measure, presented as LC442992S (HB158), was described by Representative Franklin as a transparency and efficiency change that would not alter the underlying filing process or administrative fees. "The clerk's authority… will have a database. All the clerks will send the trade name registrations to the…
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