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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Superior courts; revise the sums that the clerks are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to clerks of superior courts, so as to revise the sums that the clerks of the superior courts are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property; to provide for a flat sum structure; to repeal certain related alternative fees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 288"
+citation: "Georgia HB 288 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Dar'shun Kendrick", "David Dreyer", "Deborah Silcox", "Matt Dollar"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-13"
+last_action: "2020-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21099931-4653-4e58-91f1-99f661f1381b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "27eead674a0f6d43b0b435c05f7a94c757908574e11d15aa3058ddf30830f062"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 288 (2019_20) — Superior courts; revise the sums that the clerks are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to clerks of superior courts, so as to revise the sums that the clerks of the superior courts are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property; to provide for a flat sum structure; to repeal certain related alternative fees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 288/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187071.pdf)
+2. **LC 41 1715/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181327.pdf)
+3. **LC 41 1904S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184052.pdf)
+4. **LC 41 1904S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183454.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **170–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alan Powell — primary (person)
+- Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
+- David Dreyer — primary (person)
+- Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
+- Matt Dollar — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-13** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-06** Act 231 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21099931-4653-4e58-91f1-99f661f1381b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+