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Bill	Bonds and Recognizances; increase fees allowed for continuing education programs	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds and recognizances, so as to increase fees allowed for continuing education programs; to require bench warrants to be issued at the end of each court day; to provide for notices to be delivered and obtained using e-mail; to change provisions relating to principals who do not appear for court; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 195	Georgia SB 195 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jack Hill Jesse Stone Michael Williams Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	6	16	1	2015-03-02	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8b668cc7-d956-41dc-9df2-53bc02e84fc6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e371254301be4fa7db50849784071dc92e55cc398fa7a75bb87e80b6b193a4bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 195 (2015_16) — Bonds and Recognizances; increase fees allowed for continuing education programs

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds and recognizances, so as to increase fees allowed for continuing education programs; to require bench warrants to be issued at the end of each court day; to provide for notices to be delivered and obtained using e-mail; to change provisions relating to principals who do not appear for 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. As introduced LC 29 6470 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 AM 21 3921 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6619S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 195/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE AS AMENDED — 47–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 192 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b668cc7-d956-41dc-9df2-53bc02e84fc6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).