republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-1025.md

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Bill	Courts; service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 10 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to violation of ordinances of counties and state authorities, so as to change provisions relating to service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; to provide for judgments when service is perfected under such circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 1025	Georgia HB 1025 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bert Reeves Dar'shun Kendrick Karla Drenner Michele Henson Tom Taylor Wendell Willard	10	18	1	2016-02-16	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e87d5015-3d16-4327-8430-fac56bf64c19	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	613ae73d2c297c0e2fa562ad7faf512ddbcb3bf81dd457fb50ed869c58288488	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1025 (2015_16) — Courts; service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 10 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to violation of ordinances of counties and state authorities, so as to change provisions relating to service of accusations of or citations for violations of ordinances under certain circumstances; to provide for judgments when service is perfected under such circumstances; 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 1025/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6960/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 7026S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 7026S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB 1025 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Floor amend 1 AM 43 0031 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor amend 4 AM 40 0172 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen ctee sub LC 43 0387S (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen floor amend 2 AM 40 0168ER (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen floor amend 3 AM 43 0043 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 145–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bert Reeves — primary (person)
• Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Michele Henson — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 House Hopper
• 2016-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 569 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e87d5015-3d16-4327-8430-fac56bf64c19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).