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Bill	DeKalb County; State Court; provide for the payment of costs	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the State Court of DeKalb County, formerly known as the Civil and Criminal Court of DeKalb County, approved February 14, 1951 (Ga. L. 1951, p. 2401), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 3, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3501), so as to provide for the payment of costs in such court; to provide for a failure to appear fee in such court; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 1116	Georgia HB 1116 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Mary Oliver Michele Henson Pam Stephenson Scott Holcomb Taylor Bennett Tom Taylor	2	13	1	2016-03-02	2016-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a1f1bbe9-a018-44e6-b7f1-2923f8f1e1d1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9f24a6280b8c796ae110f7d21425cd0b8bd10fbd913ea3e3b4faead4d356a5ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1116 (2015_16) — DeKalb County; State Court; provide for the payment of costs

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the State Court of DeKalb County, formerly known as the Civil and Criminal Court of DeKalb County, approved February 14, 1951 (Ga. L. 1951, p. 2401), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 3, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3501), so as to provide for the payment of costs in such court; to provide for a failure to appear fee in such court; 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 1116/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 0126/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Michele Henson — primary (person)
• Pam Stephenson — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Taylor Bennett — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-03-02 House Hopper
• 2016-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-28 Act 514 executive-signature
• 2016-04-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1f1bbe9-a018-44e6-b7f1-2923f8f1e1d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).