republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-283.md

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Bill	Accounting for Public Funds; provide multibank pooling of depositories for acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accounting for public funds, so as to provide for multibank pooling of depositories for the acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies; to provide for definitions, procedures, conditions, and limitations on the establishment of such pools; to provide for multiple effective dates; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 283	Georgia SB 283 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Butch Miller Ed Harbison Jesse Stone John Kennedy Michael 'Doc' Rhett	5	15	1	2016-01-21	2016-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6ad976cb-90bc-41fd-8227-1819a7949e17	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	39d2d6ce929c8946f81d0c415871d8acf0252cf1885c405f892d2a565cde7c7a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 283 (2015_16) — Accounting for Public Funds; provide multibank pooling of depositories for acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accounting for public funds, so as to provide for multibank pooling of depositories for the acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies; to provide for definitions, procedures, conditions, and limitations on the establishment of such pools; to provide for multiple effective dates; 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 39 1141ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 1192ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 283/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-21 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-22 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
• 2016-02-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-08 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-07 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 373 executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ad976cb-90bc-41fd-8227-1819a7949e17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).