---
type: "Bill"
title: "Brooks County; Magistrate Court chief judge; provide nonpartisan elections"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that future elections for the office of chief judge of the Magistrate Court of Brooks County shall be nonpartisan elections; to provide for the sitting chief judge of the magistrate court to serve out his or her term of office; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 457"
citation: "Georgia HB 457 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c778494c-3b75-4595-a810-7843fcb5f7cf"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "dd7bb2c8d318113ee9a938db95da5024bc38aa373d858f599f79bac2c604fffd"
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 457 (2017_18) — Brooks County; Magistrate Court chief judge; provide nonpartisan elections

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that future elections for the office of chief judge of the Magistrate Court of Brooks County shall be nonpartisan elections; to provide for the sitting chief judge of the magistrate court to serve out his or her term of office; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **132–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-21** House Hopper
- **2017-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 266 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c778494c-3b75-4595-a810-7843fcb5f7cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).