---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bleckley County; Probate Court; charge technology fee"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the Probate Court of Bleckley County to charge a technology fee; to specify the uses to which said technology fee may be assigned; to provide for the termination of said technology fee and dedication of residual funds to technology uses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 705"
citation: "Georgia HB 705 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danny Mathis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-03"
last_action: "2021-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f8a430b-120e-4a82-8aa1-6741d201e49c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4ae77b84aa87481b5ab07f338edadb6d0a04fee63bbf94b2839e9f4a0b6bea6d"
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 705 (2021_22) — Bleckley County; Probate Court; charge technology fee

A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the Probate Court of Bleckley County to charge a technology fee; to specify the uses to which said technology fee may be assigned; to provide for the termination of said technology fee and dedication of residual funds to technology uses; 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. **HB 705/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200710.pdf)
2. **LC 47 0768/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199409.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199419.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **140–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danny Mathis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03** House Hopper
- **2021-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-03-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-03** Act 103 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-03** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f8a430b-120e-4a82-8aa1-6741d201e49c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).