republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-262.md

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Bill	Courts; when a judge, judicial officer, grand juror; may be disqualified by being related by consanguinity/affinity to a party; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to change provisions relating to when a judge, judicial officer, grand juror, or trial juror may be disqualified from presiding or serving, as applicable, due to being related by consanguinity or affinity to a party; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 262	Georgia SB 262 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jesse Stone	5	16	1	2016-01-11	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0a90e4a6-16e9-4729-8b3a-2185c84a0cef	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0bb8bc03f2a723bf161bdf98b5eb17bc81c6abec5a5b0d3875f2b76e18ce9eba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 262 (2015_16) — Courts; when a judge, judicial officer, grand juror; may be disqualified by being related by consanguinity/affinity to a party; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to change provisions relating to when a judge, judicial officer, grand juror, or trial juror may be disqualified from presiding or serving, as applicable, due to being related by consanguinity or affinity to a party; 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 6704 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 0685S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 7081S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 262/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 47–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jesse Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-11 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-14 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 369 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a90e4a6-16e9-4729-8b3a-2185c84a0cef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).