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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Civil practice; continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; revise"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 and Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to revise continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 502"
+citation: "Georgia HB 502 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-26"
+last_action: "2019-05-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/780c9150-5817-44a8-baf3-6e814b4bc9b8"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "294ccd86f5e683c8d1682d21bf3c291c8f7cfa36b43ffe74ac325cd5758cbc61"
+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 502 (2019_20) — Civil practice; continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; revise
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 and Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to revise continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 502/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187513.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 5528/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182965.pdf)
+3. **SCSFA to HB 502** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187360.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 28 9389S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186593.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 1973S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185202.pdf)
+6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187301.pdf)
+7. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187359.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **154–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-26** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-07** Act 253 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-07** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/780c9150-5817-44a8-baf3-6e814b4bc9b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+