republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-1078.md

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Bill	Courts; juries and grand juries; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to juries, so as to clarify provisions relating to juries; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to choosing grand jurors; to provide for concurrent grand juries; to provide for a preliminary oath to be administered to grand juries; to change provisions relating to when there are insufficient persons to complete a panel of grand jurors; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 1078	Georgia HB 1078 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Trey Kelley Wendell Willard	4	18	1	2014-02-24	2014-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/5f96044f-99d2-4923-8224-1c7340739a6e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6133aa105db4fe1e7df79167aaa4b97e7faefee341e929e42b4c67471ba43afb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1078 (2013_14) — Courts; juries and grand juries; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to juries, so as to clarify provisions relating to juries; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to choosing grand jurors; to provide for concurrent grand juries; to provide for a preliminary oath to be administered to grand juries; to change provisions relating to when there are insufficient persons to complete a panel of grand jurors; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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 1078/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1078/FA (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5975ER/a (committee substitute) — source
4. Sen ctee sub LC 29 6026ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 176–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-24 House Hopper
• 2014-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-03 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2014-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-27 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 668 executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f96044f-99d2-4923-8224-1c7340739a6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).