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Bill Child Support in Final Verdict or Decree; court's discretion in making a final determination of support; provisions; change A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-6-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child support in final verdict or decree, guidelines for determining amount of award, continuation of duty to provide support, and duration of support, so as to change provisions relating to the court's discretion in making a final determination of support; to change provisions relating to reliable evidence of income, voluntary unemployment, and involuntary loss of income to account for a parent's incarceration; to change provisions relating to health insurance; to change provisions relating to specific and nonspecific deviations; to change provisions relating to work related child care costs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 SB 427 Georgia SB 427 (2017_18)
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Blake Tillery
Brian Strickland
Elena Parent
Harold Jones II
Jesse Stone
John Kennedy
Michael 'Doc' Rhett
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Georgia SB 427 (2017_18) — Child Support in Final Verdict or Decree; court's discretion in making a final determination of support; provisions; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-6-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child support in final verdict or decree, guidelines for determining amount of award, continuation of duty to provide support, and duration of support, so as to change provisions relating to the court's discretion in making a final determination of support; to change provisions relating to reliable evidence of income, voluntary unemployment, and involuntary loss of income to account for a parent's incarceration; to change provisions relating to health insurance; to change provisions relating to specific and nonspecific deviations; to change provisions relating to work related child care costs; 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.

Votes

  • PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 510 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
  • Blake Tillery — primary (person)
  • Brian Strickland — primary (person)
  • Elena Parent — primary (person)
  • Harold Jones II — 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.

  • 2018-02-13 Senate Hopper
  • 2018-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2018-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2018-02-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-02-23 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2018-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2018-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2018-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
  • 2018-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-08 Act 475 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1766f224-ac01-43b0-a7dd-376eaa0dcc8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).