---
type: "Bill"
title: "West Georgia Judicial Circuit; create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia to be known as the West Georgia Judicial Circuit and to be composed of Carroll County and Heard County; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the Coweta Judicial Circuit; to provide for the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the West Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "SB 424"
citation: "Georgia SB 424 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Brass", "Randy Robertson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16791ef2-c15e-4bd9-83a2-ef7bb313d1c7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "99b9d2312d39c2d69afb6a75aa65fa220b36be146ca678ac50a2011003102136"
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 424 (2023_24) — West Georgia Judicial Circuit; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia to be known as the West Georgia Judicial Circuit and to be composed of Carroll County and Heard County; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the Coweta Judicial Circuit; to provide for the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the West Georgia Judicial Circuit; 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 49 1716** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222324.pdf)
2. **As Passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/223982.pdf)
3. **SB 424/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/228199.pdf)

## Votes

- House Vote #725 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **175–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #493 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** Senate Hopper `introduction`
- **2024-01-30** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-02-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2024-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2024-03-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-06** Act 615 `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16791ef2-c15e-4bd9-83a2-ef7bb313d1c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).