republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-927.md

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Bill	"Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 2016"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts; to amend Chapter 6 of Title 5, Part 7 of Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 7, Chapter 6 of Title 9, Chapter 2 of Title 21, Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 23, Chapter 2 of Title 44, and Code Section 48-5-17, relating to certiorari and appeals to appellate courts generally, receivership powers and procedures generally, extraordinary writs, elections and primaries generally, decrees, recordation and registration of deeds and other instruments, and proceedings to determine county entitled to return and payment; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Supreme Court; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 927	Georgia HB 927 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Chad Nimmer Christian Coomer Jon Burns Robert Dickey Terry Rogers Wendell Willard	6	18	1	2016-02-04	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/7399cbd9-7628-48fd-a04c-bf35ed1035c2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	14d37e83baf9dd0a0831f7988dd07d70894b873aa58233466796b74d0b0c9657	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 927 (2015_16) — "Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 2016"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts; to amend Chapter 6 of Title 5, Part 7 of Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 7, Chapter 6 of Title 9, Chapter 2 of Title 21, Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 23, Chapter 2 of Title 44, and Code Section 48-5-17, relating to certiorari and appeals to appellate courts generally, receivership powers and procedures generally, extraordinary writs, elections and primaries generally, decrees, recordation and registration of deeds and other instruments, and proceedings to determine county entitled to return and payment; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Supreme 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 927/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6890ER-EC/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6939ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6939ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor AM 1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 120–45 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Terry Rogers — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-04 House Hopper
• 2016-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-18 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-22 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 626 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7399cbd9-7628-48fd-a04c-bf35ed1035c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).