---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil practice; continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 and Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to revise continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "Georgia HB 502 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/780c9150-5817-44a8-baf3-6e814b4bc9b8"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "294ccd86f5e683c8d1682d21bf3c291c8f7cfa36b43ffe74ac325cd5758cbc61"
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 502 (2019_20) — Civil practice; continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 and Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to revise continuances for members of the Board of Regents and the Attorney General; to provide for related matters; to provide 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.

1. **HB 502/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187513.pdf)
2. **LC 34 5528/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182965.pdf)
3. **SCSFA to HB 502** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187360.pdf)
4. **Sen ctee sub LC 28 9389S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186593.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 1973S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185202.pdf)
6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187301.pdf)
7. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187359.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **154–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** House Hopper
- **2019-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Act 253 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/780c9150-5817-44a8-baf3-6e814b4bc9b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).