republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-62.md

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Bill	Probate Courts; remove certain limitations on the jurisdiction of the probate courts over the game and fish violations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-9-30.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to jurisdiction over Game and Fish Code misdemeanor violations, so as to remove certain limitations on the jurisdiction of the probate courts over game and fish violations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 62	Georgia SB 62 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis Judson Hill Rick Jeffares Ross Tolleson Steve Gooch Tommie Williams Tyler Harper	3	15	1	2015-01-27	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f5e210d6-98c6-491e-9144-5b6e26842702	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	52ce5fc6e528229a82534dba82716caf8a9a098476ce557a60e488038d2839b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 62 (2015_16) — Probate Courts; remove certain limitations on the jurisdiction of the probate courts over the game and fish violations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-9-30.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to jurisdiction over Game and Fish Code misdemeanor violations, so as to remove certain limitations on the jurisdiction of the probate courts over game and fish violations; 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 28 7391 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 62/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 52–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-27 Senate Hopper
• 2015-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 166 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5e210d6-98c6-491e-9144-5b6e26842702. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).