republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-691.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Municipal courts; removal of appointed judges under certain circumstances; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 32 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to municipal courts generally, so as to provide the removal of appointed municipal court judges under certain circumstances; to provide for procedure; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 691	Georgia HB 691 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Andrew Welch Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. Kevin Tanner Rich Golick Wendell Willard	5	16	1	2015-03-31	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4bafd9cf-2855-45a1-9a02-58e3c6afad5c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	26d27a40d3d8c1e1d50e8424ee3b4acaecdb3c3389d3d153b1e90917e54201aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 691 (2015_16) — Municipal courts; removal of appointed judges under certain circumstances; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 32 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to municipal courts generally, so as to provide the removal of appointed municipal court judges under certain circumstances; to provide for procedure; 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 691/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6667ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6852ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6852ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 29 7077ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Welch — primary (person)
• Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-31 House Hopper
• 2015-04-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 433 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4bafd9cf-2855-45a1-9a02-58e3c6afad5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).