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Bill	Labor and Industrial Relations; provide for the payment of wages by credit to a payroll card; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to labor and industrial relations, so as to provide for the payment of wages by credit to a payroll card; to change certain provisions relating to payment of wages by lawful money, checks, or credit transfer and selection of payment dates by employers; to require employers to offer employees certain choices and information relating to the payment of wages; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 88	Georgia SB 88 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Dean Burke Ellis Black Hunter Hill Jeff Mullis John Albers Michael Williams Rick Jeffares Ross Tolleson Tommie Williams Tyler Harper	8	16	1	2015-02-04	2015-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/0faeac78-0fbb-4d55-b34c-5a777f8d82ec	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a9447dc90580a837aed92aa71616dbe15b86397fdd574e86fac631d2110af3e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 88 (2015_16) — Labor and Industrial Relations; provide for the payment of wages by credit to a payroll card; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to labor and industrial relations, so as to provide for the payment of wages by credit to a payroll card; to change certain provisions relating to payment of wages by lawful money, checks, or credit transfer and selection of payment dates by employers; to require employers to offer employees certain choices and information relating to the payment of wages; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 21 3625 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 2709S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 37 0269 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 2 AM 21 3913 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 3 AM 36 0493 (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 36 2794S/hss (committee substitute) — source
8. SB 88/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 43–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-04 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 85 executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0faeac78-0fbb-4d55-b34c-5a777f8d82ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).