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Committee approves bill to centralize Georgia trade-name registrations online
Summary
The Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee moved HB158 (LC442992S) to do pass after the sponsor and Forsyth County clerk described using the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority to host a single searchable database of county trade-name filings.
The Agriculture & Consumer Affairs Committee advanced HB158 (LC442992S) to do pass after members heard that the bill would centralize trade-name ("doing business as") registrations filed at county clerks’ offices into a single, searchable database maintained by the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority.
Representative Franklin, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure is “just a bill to kind of attempt to consolidate and make our government more transparent and easier to function.” He said the change would end the need for people to search at each county — "we have about…
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