republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-137.md

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Bill	Child Support Recovery Act; federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; require the obligor to pay the full fee	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Child Support Recovery Act, so as to require the obligor to pay the full fee required by the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; 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	2017_18	SB 137	Georgia SB 137 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Butch Miller Chuck Payne Dean Burke Ellis Black Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jack Hill Jeff Mullis John Albers John Wilkinson Lee Anderson Lindsey Tippins Matt Brass Mike Dugan Renee Unterman Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	0	16	1	2017-02-08	2017-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9389022e-37d3-4def-831d-3bce3e37dc96	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b6fde05cde695728ed4292d80d09db25bbf52f052567be7d326f0d8db31fb54a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 137 (2017_18) — Child Support Recovery Act; federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; require the obligor to pay the full fee

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Child Support Recovery Act, so as to require the obligor to pay the full fee required by the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; 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.

Votes

• PASSAGE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2017-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-02-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2017-02-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2017-02-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2017-03-30 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2017-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-09 Act 242 executive-signature
• 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9389022e-37d3-4def-831d-3bce3e37dc96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).