republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-370.md

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Bill	Elections; provide for waivers of certain civil penalties and fees incurred by candidates for local elected office; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ethics in government, so as to provide for waivers of certain civil penalties and fees incurred by candidates for local elected office; to provide for exceptions; to provide for refunds of certain civil penalties and fees; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 370	Georgia HB 370 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Barry Fleming David Wilkerson Jay Powell Terry England Virgil Fludd	6	20	1	2015-02-17	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/e3a5b641-a6b3-4b3e-b03a-bc2d52ba6aa4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5a92bc13a0f9a1f79ecfbe82af6dc1f1112f19a9e0128621fd685ec6cd883ed4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 370 (2015_16) — Elections; provide for waivers of certain civil penalties and fees incurred by candidates for local elected office; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ethics in government, so as to provide for waivers of certain civil penalties and fees incurred by candidates for local elected office; to provide for exceptions; to provide for refunds of certain civil penalties and fees; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 370/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7475ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 28 7556ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 28 7556ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee sub LC 28 7958S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 28 7655S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Barry Fleming — primary (person)
• David Wilkerson — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Virgil Fludd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 House Hopper
• 2015-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-01-11 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2016-02-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-02 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2016-03-02 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-07 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V5 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3a5b641-a6b3-4b3e-b03a-bc2d52ba6aa4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).