Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-916.md

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Superior and State Court Appellate Practice Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 5 of the O.C.G.A., relating to appeal and error, so as to provide for a unified procedure for appealing decisions of a lower judicatory to a superior or state court; to repeal and reserve Chapter 4 of said title, relating to certiorari to superior court; to amend various titles of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to provide for conforming changes; to correct cross-references and remove obsolete or improper references; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "HB 916"
+citation: "Georgia HB 916 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Wilensky", "Rob Leverett"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-13"
+last_action: "2023-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ac925dd-a305-4d24-95b9-eb34e7d29acb"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "1e2e7b7f948f6c917f5e22af145e687090d2b35fe3a240639e1964c056b0b882"
+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 916 (2021_22) — Superior and State Court Appellate Practice Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 5 of the O.C.G.A., relating to appeal and error, so as to provide for a unified procedure for appealing decisions of a lower judicatory to a superior or state court; to repeal and reserve Chapter 4 of said title, relating to certiorari to superior court; to amend various titles of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to provide for conforming changes; to correct cross-references and remove obsolete or improper references; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 916/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/212174.pdf)
+2. **LC 49 0656/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203399.pdf)
+3. **LC 49 0852S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/208173.pdf)
+4. **LC 49 0852S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/207457.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **167–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
+- Rob Leverett — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-13** House Hopper
+- **2022-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-30** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-30** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2022-04-01** Senate Tabled
+- **2022-04-04** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2022-04-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2022-04-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2022-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Act 875 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ac925dd-a305-4d24-95b9-eb34e7d29acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+