republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-66.md

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Bill	Courts; increase penalties that can impose for contempt of superior and state courts	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to increase penalties that can be imposed for contempt of superior and state courts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 66	Georgia SB 66 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel Jesse Stone John Crosby Joshua McKoon Ronald Ramsey, Sr. William Jackson William Ligon, Jr.	4	16	1	2013-01-28	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/01850ef2-b13d-43f6-91d4-cb4c0d76d04a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d9bc954aaa499d5837ba366507e339b611f32bc0f1e1ae78434c21085da7e524	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 66 (2013_14) — Courts; increase penalties that can impose for contempt of superior and state courts

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to increase penalties that can be imposed for contempt of superior and state courts; 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. As introduced LC 29 5391 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5627S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 66/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 42–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Crosby — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Ronald Ramsey, Sr. — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-12 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-14 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 173 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01850ef2-b13d-43f6-91d4-cb4c0d76d04a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).