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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 49 - Social Services (Chs. 1 — 10)
Chapter 4 - Public Assistance (Arts. 1 — 9)
Article 1 - General Provisions (§§ 49-4-1 — 49-4-22)
§ 49-4-21. Photo requirement on electronic benefits transfer cards for food stamps

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 49-4-21 (2025)
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The department shall require that all electronic benefits transfer cards which include food stamp benefits contain a photograph of one or more members of a household who are authorized to use such food stamp benefits. The department is authorized to promulgate regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Code section.

History

Code 1981, § 49-4-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 844, § 1/HB 772; Ga. L. 2023, p. 730, § 6(a)(3)/HB 475, effective July 1, 2023.

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Notes

Effective date. —

This Code section became effective January 1, 2016.

Amendments.

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted the subsection (a) designation and deleted subsection (b), which read: “This Code section shall become effective on January 1, 2016.”

Research References & Practice Aids

Law reviews.

For article on the 2014 enactment of this Code section, see 31 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 205 (2014).

Hierarchy Notes:

O.C.G.A. Title 49

O.C.G.A. Title 49, Ch. 4

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