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+type: "Bill"
+title: "\"Georgia Uniform Mediation Act\"; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to provide for uniform laws governing mediation and participants in mediation; to provide for definitions; to provide for privileges against disclosure, admissibility, and discovery; to provide for waiver and preclusion of privilege; to provide for exceptions to privilege; to provide for confidentiality and mediator disclosure of conflicts; to provide for international commercial mediation and electronic signatures; to provide for uniformity of construction and severability; to provide for applicability; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "SB 234"
+citation: "Georgia SB 234 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Brian Strickland", "Elena Parent", "Harold Jones II", "John Kennedy"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-22"
+last_action: "2021-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9139107f-a75e-4d8e-990c-da5e36313a97"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "900ec12354a4da034ad8d5048f6faf4d9f51f938262d05c416b8c21b401ee559"
+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 SB 234 (2021_22) — "Georgia Uniform Mediation Act"; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to provide for uniform laws governing mediation and participants in mediation; to provide for definitions; to provide for privileges against disclosure, admissibility, and discovery; to provide for waiver and preclusion of privilege; to provide for exceptions to privilege; to provide for confidentiality and mediator disclosure of conflicts; to provide for international commercial mediation and electronic signatures; to provide for uniformity of construction and severability; to provide for applicability; to provide a short title; 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. **As introduced LC 41 2788]** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198395.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200003.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 41 3029S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199352.pdf)
+4. **SB 234/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201517.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **49–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
+- Elena Parent — primary (person)
+- Harold Jones II — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-22** Senate Hopper
+- **2021-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-05** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-08** Senate Tabled
+- **2021-03-08** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2021-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2021-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-10** Act 268 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9139107f-a75e-4d8e-990c-da5e36313a97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+