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+type: "Bill"
+title: "South Georgia Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "HB 624"
+citation: "Georgia HB 624 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darlene Taylor", "Gerald Greene", "Joe Campbell", "Winfred Dukes"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-24"
+last_action: "2022-05-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c7c57d8-9568-4b70-b807-b1b9cc0bed8b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e1ba1886672851b61b79bfc74672e98e447db067927635d5b221c179f60b7952"
+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 624 (2021_22) — South Georgia Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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 624/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211159.pdf)
+2. **LC 41 2970/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198620.pdf)
+3. **LC 44 1848S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204543.pdf)
+4. **LC 44 1848S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203934.pdf)
+5. **LC 47 0930S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199279.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **169–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
+- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
+- Joe Campbell — primary (person)
+- Winfred Dukes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-24** House Hopper
+- **2021-02-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-31** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2022-01-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2022-02-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-30** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2022-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-02** Act 746 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-02** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c7c57d8-9568-4b70-b807-b1b9cc0bed8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+