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Bill	Garnishment Proceedings; modernize, reorganize, and provide constitutional protections	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to debtor and creditor, so as to modernize, reorganize, and provide constitutional protections in garnishment proceedings; to provide for definitions; to provide for an affidavit and summons of garnishment, contents, and procedure for garnishment; to provide for property being subject to and exempt from garnishment; to provide for a defendant's and third party's claim and plaintiff's traverse and the procedure for claims and traverses; to provide for procedures only applicable to financial institutions; to provide for and require the use of certain forms for garnishment proceedings; to amend Code Sections 44-7-50 and 53-12-80 of the O.C.G.A., relating to demand for possession and spendthrift provisions, respectively, so as to correct cross-references; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 255	Georgia SB 255 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Charlie Bethel Fran Millar Jesse Stone John Albers William Ligon, Jr.	7	20	1	2015-12-30	2016-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/db77f3b3-98b8-43fb-b087-60c085a89c0c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	340bd071252920fdb77efe323c80426b7e8dd9de330e49b7f48d9211cee67408	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 255 (2015_16) — Garnishment Proceedings; modernize, reorganize, and provide constitutional protections

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to debtor and creditor, so as to modernize, reorganize, and provide constitutional protections in garnishment proceedings; to provide for definitions; to provide for an affidavit and summons of garnishment, contents, and procedure for garnishment; to provide for property being subject to and exempt from garnishment; to provide for a defendant's and third party's claim and plaintiff's traverse and the procedure for claims and traverses; to provide for procedures only applicable to financial institutions; to provide for and require the use of certain forms for garnishment proceedings; to amend Code Sections 44-7-50 and 53-12-80 of the O.C.G.A., relating to demand for possession and spendthrift provisions, respectively, so as to correct cross-references; 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 6767 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 6888S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 7118S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 255 Prefile (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 255/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-12-30 Senate Hopper
• 2015-12-30 Senate Prefiled introduction
• 2016-01-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-09 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-18 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Postponed
• 2016-03-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-12 Act 325 executive-signature
• 2016-06-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db77f3b3-98b8-43fb-b087-60c085a89c0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).