---
type: "Bill"
title: "Columbus, City of; Recorder's Court; increase amount of technology fee"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act authorizing the Recorder's Court of Columbus, Georgia, to impose and collect a technology fee for each fine imposed, approved May 7, 2013 (Ga. L. 2013, p. 4414), so as to increase the amount of such fee; to repeal an automatic repeal of such Act; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 580"
citation: "Georgia HB 580 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calvin Smyre", "Carolyn Hugley", "Debbie Buckner", "John Pezold", "Richard Smith"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-09"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a4506b5-2e7b-4af4-a707-9764efb39f5a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "51c2d02d888c38b051463f2b260cade967daebac03e68c131a100a8a8f003df2"
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 580 (2015_16) — Columbus, City of; Recorder's Court; increase amount of technology fee

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act authorizing the Recorder's Court of Columbus, Georgia, to impose and collect a technology fee for each fine imposed, approved May 7, 2013 (Ga. L. 2013, p. 4414), so as to increase the amount of such fee; to repeal an automatic repeal of such Act; 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 580/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152112.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3658/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150631.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **162–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
- Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
- Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
- John Pezold — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2015-03-09** House Hopper
- **2015-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Veto V8 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a4506b5-2e7b-4af4-a707-9764efb39f5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).