republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-99.md

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Bill	Property; joint tenants divorce or have marriage annulled under certain circumstances; provide procedure for tenancy in common	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to joint tenancy with survivorship, so as to provide for tenancy in common when joint tenants divorce or have their marriage annulled, under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 99	Georgia HB 99 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Eddie Lumsden Jay Powell Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. Mary Oliver Regina Quick Wendell Willard	6	17	1	2015-01-27	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fe890c1f-7479-4292-9d07-da31e8ee1747	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c005a873f6cccf6903fc4f880d8cc24c7fd7bfeb8951c4f26adb0e537d17a4f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 99 (2015_16) — Property; joint tenants divorce or have marriage annulled under certain circumstances; provide procedure for tenancy in common

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to joint tenancy with survivorship, so as to provide for tenancy in common when joint tenants divorce or have their marriage annulled, under certain circumstances; 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. Floor Amendment - Welch of the 110th (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 99/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6091/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6403S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6403S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor am 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Regina Quick — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-27 House Hopper
• 2015-01-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 109 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe890c1f-7479-4292-9d07-da31e8ee1747. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).