---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts; sheriff to collect and deposit certain fees; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-16-21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fees for sheriff's services, so as to provide for the sheriff to collect and deposit certain fees; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 14"
citation: "Georgia HB 14 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Jones"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-11-28"
last_action: "2017-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c465abc-97a9-424f-ade2-374d4bd06a79"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4d5bdb02c0d71cbe20691790f2ee90c04052bdd809407503d8a8cd0a91b21775"
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 14 (2017_18) — Courts; sheriff to collect and deposit certain fees; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-16-21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fees for sheriff's services, so as to provide for the sheriff to collect and deposit certain fees; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **167–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeff Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-11-28** House Prefiled `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** House Hopper
- **2017-01-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 39 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c465abc-97a9-424f-ade2-374d4bd06a79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).