republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-65.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Property; change provisions relating to an exemption	A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 44-13-100 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions for the purposes of bankruptcy and intestate insolvent estates, so as to change provisions relating to an exemption; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 65	Georgia SB 65 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Harold Jones II Hunter Hill Jesse Stone John Albers Joshua McKoon Tyler Harper William Jackson	4	17	1	2015-01-28	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/555be593-8b88-472e-bba3-84d627944861	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	dd9768f63c8ac471c57436822fb57e078e1bf4dd123f56474cd815624ac2cfaf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 65 (2015_16) — Property; change provisions relating to an exemption

A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 44-13-100 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions for the purposes of bankruptcy and intestate insolvent estates, so as to change provisions relating to an exemption; 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 6251 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6614ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 65/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 46–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2015-01-29 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
• 2015-02-19 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-31 House Postponed
• 2015-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-04-02 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 167 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/555be593-8b88-472e-bba3-84d627944861. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).