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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Cook County; Probate Court; charge technology fee"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the assessment and collection of a technology fee by the Probate Court of Cook County; to identify the authorized uses of said technology fee; to provide for the termination of said technology fee and dedication of residual funds to technology uses; 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 831"
+citation: "Georgia HB 831 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Penny Houston"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-28"
+last_action: "2020-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24bc946e-1a90-4685-802c-b4f833e4fda0"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e4d2e0c8321fcbfd494b77a24986ee677c0fffc778112b3b05d9e8186b19b447"
+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 831 (2019_20) — Cook County; Probate Court; charge technology fee
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the assessment and collection of a technology fee by the Probate Court of Cook County; to identify the authorized uses of said technology fee; to provide for the termination of said technology fee and dedication of residual funds to technology uses; 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 831/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189653.pdf)
+2. **LC 47 0203/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188604.pdf)
+3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188661.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **167–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Penny Houston — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-28** House Hopper
+- **2020-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-03** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-02-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-05** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-06-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-29** Act 362 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-29** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24bc946e-1a90-4685-802c-b4f833e4fda0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+