republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-598.md

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Bill	Fulton County; employees employed after July 1, 2013, to serve the Superior Court, Magistrate Court or State Court shall be employees at will; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that Fulton County employees first or again employed on and after July 1, 2013, to serve the Superior Court of Fulton County, the Magistrate Court of Fulton County, or the State Court of Fulton County shall be employees at will; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 598	Georgia HB 598 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Edward Lindsey Harry Geisinger Jan Jones Joe Wilkinson Mike Jacobs Wendell Willard	2	14	1	2013-03-12	2013-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2d160951-825a-4b25-8fc2-0ee8ff119580	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f85a0fd8db0594c54d8973fa6c47e0c351358bd80f2635b6959b0f0c1c736887	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 598 (2013_14) — Fulton County; employees employed after July 1, 2013, to serve the Superior Court, Magistrate Court or State Court shall be employees at will; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that Fulton County employees first or again employed on and after July 1, 2013, to serve the Superior Court of Fulton County, the Magistrate Court of Fulton County, or the State Court of Fulton County shall be employees at will; 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 598/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2095/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 107–47 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Harry Geisinger — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-12 House Hopper
• 2013-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-21 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2013-03-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 303 executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d160951-825a-4b25-8fc2-0ee8ff119580. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).