Executive order, 2015 March 9

THE STATE OF GEORGIA
EXECUTIVE ORDER

BY THE GOVERNOR:

CORRECTION TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 06.16.14.02

WHEREAS: 1-Iouse Bill 794 passed the House of Representatives on February 20, 2014, and passed the Senate on l\1arch 18, 2014; and

WHEREAS: I signed House Bill 794 on April 12, 2014, and the bill's effective date is April12, 2014; and

WHEREAS:

On April23, 2014, the Governor for the State of Alaska signed into law House Bill 284, Alaska's version of the Compact for a Balanced Budget thereby forming a compact between the States of Georgia and Alaska; and

WHEREAS:

House Bill 794 statutorily created the Compact for a Balanced Budget for the purpose of evidencing that every state enacting, adopting and agreeing to be bound by the Compact intends to ensure that their respective legislature's use of the power to originate a Balanced Budget Amendment under Article V of the Constitution of the United States will be exercised conveniently and with reasonable certainty as to the consequences thereof; and

WHEREAS:

Article IV of the Compact for a Balanced Budget establishes a Compact Commission, which has the power and duty to (a)to appoint and oversee a Compact Administrator; (b) to encourage States to join the Compact and Congress to call the Convention in accordance with the Compact; (c) to coordinate the performance of obligations under the Compact; (d) to oversee the Convention's logistical operations as appropriate to ensure this Compact governs its proceedings; (e) to oversee the defense and enforcement of the Compact in appropriate legal venues; (f) to request funds and to disburse those funds to support the operations of the Commission, Compact Administrator, and Convention; and (g) to cooperate with any entity that shares a common interest with the Commission and engages in policy research, public interest litigation or lobbying in support of the purposes of the Compact; and

WHEREAS:

The Compact Commission initially consists of three unpaid members. Each Member State may appoint one member to the Commission through an appointment process to be determined by their respective chief executive officer until all positions on the Commission are filled. Positions shall be assigned to appointees in the order in which their respective appointing States became Member States; and

WHEREAS:

The State of Georgia and the State of Alaska are the first states to join the Compact for a Balanced Budget, and therefore the Governor of the State of Georgia, as its chief executive officer, is authorized to appoint a member to the Compact Commission.

NOW, THEREFORE, BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT IS HEREBY

ORDERED:

That the Hon. Paulette Rakestraw, Representative, District 19, be appointed as the member representing the State of Georgia on the Compact Commission established by the Compact for a Balanced Budget.

ANY INCONSISTENT PREVIOUS ORDER IS HEREBY RESCINDED.
This _9~=:_ day of March, 2015.

GOVERNOR