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Bill Griffin Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior courts of the Griffin Judicial Circuit; to provide for the appointment of such additional judge by the Governor; to provide for the election of successors to the judge initially appointed; to prescribe the powers of such judges; to prescribe the compensation, salary, and expense allowance of such judges to be paid by the State of Georgia and the counties included in such circuit; to declare inherent authority; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2019_20 HB 28 Georgia HB 28 (2019_20)
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David Knight
David Stover
Debra Bazemore
Josh Bonner
Karen Mathiak
Ken Pullin
2 15 1 2019-01-16 2019-05-06 openstates ocd-bill/9e810ce7-2aa5-4204-bafc-027642725937 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 6178d908a31e6607cf42b16af1de3b311fd5c8b8f414c87ef9d1c057368046b7 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 28 (2019_20) — Griffin Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior courts of the Griffin Judicial Circuit; to provide for the appointment of such additional judge by the Governor; to provide for the election of successors to the judge initially appointed; to prescribe the powers of such judges; to prescribe the compensation, salary, and expense allowance of such judges to be paid by the State of Georgia and the counties included in such circuit; to declare inherent authority; to provide for related matters; to provide 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. HB 28/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 28 8998/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1666 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • David Knight — primary (person)
  • David Stover — primary (person)
  • Debra Bazemore — primary (person)
  • Josh Bonner — primary (person)
  • Karen Mathiak — primary (person)
  • Ken Pullin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-16 House Hopper
  • 2019-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2019-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2019-01-30 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-02-07 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2019-02-07 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2019-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2019-02-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-02-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2019-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2019-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-05-06 Act 153 executive-signature
  • 2019-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e810ce7-2aa5-4204-bafc-027642725937. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).