republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-98.md

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Bill	Appellate courts; provide direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals pertaining to courts-martial; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 6 of Title 5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to appellate practice, so as to provide for direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals to the appellate courts on matters pertaining to courts-martial; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to military affairs, so as to repeal and reenact Article 5, the "Georgia Code of Military Justice"; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 98	Georgia HB 98 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Christian Coomer John Meadows Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. Scott Holcomb Wendell Willard	4	15	1	2015-01-26	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4822a8f3-255b-4877-9d9a-d7ec494bd10e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f93fbaeb59803916b8d90f88a85f5b3328d9f451c295a8f943d70c3feee55d96	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 98 (2015_16) — Appellate courts; provide direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals pertaining to courts-martial; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 6 of Title 5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to appellate practice, so as to provide for direct appeals and appeals requiring an application for appeals to the appellate courts on matters pertaining to courts-martial; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to military affairs, so as to repeal and reenact Article 5, the "Georgia Code of Military Justice"; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 98/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6520ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6520ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 0323/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-26 House Hopper
• 2015-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 99 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4822a8f3-255b-4877-9d9a-d7ec494bd10e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).