republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-438.md

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Bill	Court-referred alternative dispute resolution programs; legal costs; increase maximum amount of additional cost	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-23-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to collection of additional legal costs in civil actions for purposes of providing court-connected or court-referred alternative dispute resolution programs, so as to increase the maximum amount of such additional cost; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 438	Georgia HB 438 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Andrew Welch Edward Lindsey Jay Powell Stephen Allison Wendell Willard	2	17	1	2013-02-21	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/eeec5c65-1032-4514-a271-c1761bbd1690	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	35ebacefcdb13c8fc2d343ad68b2d0382917b8ff487406e36a1028d04991719e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 438 (2013_14) — Court-referred alternative dispute resolution programs; legal costs; increase maximum amount of additional cost

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-23-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to collection of additional legal costs in civil actions for purposes of providing court-connected or court-referred alternative dispute resolution programs, so as to increase the maximum amount of such additional cost; 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 438/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2105/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Andrew Welch — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Stephen Allison — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 House Hopper
• 2013-02-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported 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 passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 494 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eeec5c65-1032-4514-a271-c1761bbd1690. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).