2021 Georgia Code
Title 38 - Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs
Chapter 3 - Emergency Management
Article 2A - Board of Homeland Security
§ 38-3-42. Board's Duty to Advise Governor; Development of State-Wide Homeland Security Strategy; Coordination With Federal Strategic Guidance on Homeland Security; Rules and Regulations

1. The board shall advise the Governor on:
   1. The implementation of the homeland security strategy by state and local agencies and provide specific guidance and counsel for helping those agencies implement the strategy; and
   2. All matters related to the planning, development, coordination, and implementation of initiatives to promote the homeland security strategy of the state.
2. The board shall develop a state-wide homeland security strategy that improves the state's ability to:
   1. Protect against, respond to, and recover from domestic terrorism and other homeland security threats and hazards; and
   2. Mitigate loss of life and property by lessening the impact of future homeland security threats and hazards.
3. The board's homeland security strategy shall coordinate homeland security activities among and between local, state, and federal agencies and the private sector and shall include specific plans for:
   1. Intelligence gathering, analysis, and sharing;
   2. Reducing the state's vulnerability to domestic terrorism and other homeland security threats and hazards;
   3. Protecting critical infrastructure, public transportation systems, and state or government facilities;
   4. Protecting the state's ports and airports;
   5. Detecting, deterring, and defending against domestic terrorism and cyber, biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism;
   6. Positioning equipment, technology, and personnel to improve the state's ability to respond to homeland security threats and hazards;
   7. Providing the center certain forms of authority to aid the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency in implementing the homeland security strategy of this state; and
   8. Using technological resources to:
      1. Facilitate the interoperability of governmental technology resources, including data, networks, and applications;
      2. Coordinate the warning and alert systems of state and local agencies;
      3. Incorporate multidisciplinary approaches to homeland security; and
      4. Improve the security of governmental and private sector information technology and information resources.
4. The homeland security strategy shall complement and operate in coordination with federal strategic guidance on homeland security.
5. The board shall adopt rules and regulations which shall be adopted, established, promulgated, amended, repealed, filed, and published in accordance with the applicable provisions and procedures set forth in Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act." The courts shall take judicial notice of any such rules or regulations. As used in this subsection, the term "rules and regulations" shall have the same meaning as the word "rule" as defined in paragraph (6) of Code Section 50-13-2.

(Code 1981, §38-3-42, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 681, § 1-4/HB 779.)

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2018, "a" was deleted following "state's ability to respond to" in paragraph (c)(6).