- The following shall be available to the board and the board’s employees and agents, but shall be treated as confidential, not subject to Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50, and shall not be disclosed without the approval of the board:
- Applications and other personal information submitted by applicants, except to the applicant;
- Information, favorable or unfavorable, submitted by a reference source concerning an applicant; and
- Examination questions and other examination materials.
- The deliberations of the board with respect to an application, an examination, a complaint, an investigation, or a disciplinary proceeding, except as may be contained in official board minutes, shall be treated as confidential and not subject to Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50; provided, however, that such deliberations may be released only to a federal enforcement agency or licensing authority or any other state’s enforcement agency or licensing authority.
- Releasing the documents pursuant to this Code section shall not subject any otherwise privileged documents to the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50.
History. Code 1981, § 43-3-25.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 136, § 1-2/HB 291; Ga. L. 2015, p. 325, § 14/HB 246.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “to the board and” for “to an applicant, the board, and” in the introductory language of subsection (a); and added “, except to the applicant” at the end of paragraph (a)(1).