---
type: "Bill"
title: "Catoosa County; State Court; create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the State Court of Catoosa County; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 674"
citation: "Georgia HB 674 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Tarvin", "Tom Weldon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-25"
last_action: "2015-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad2750ad-edb6-465d-80a7-023220c5e643"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e70daf3a6a20fa312cd6af002231c7409d7311756c5facd880309d5ad4686179"
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 674 (2015_16) — Catoosa County; State Court; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the State Court of Catoosa County; 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 674/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153492.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7668/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152423.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar Without HBs 669,670,671,672,673 — **158–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steve Tarvin — primary (person)
- Tom Weldon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-25** House Hopper
- **2015-03-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 48 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad2750ad-edb6-465d-80a7-023220c5e643`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).