republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-487.md

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Bill	Disaster Volunteer Relief Act; certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Disaster Volunteer Relief Act, so as to authorize certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 487	Georgia HB 487 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Dave Belton Heath Clark Josh Bonner Marc Morris Philip Singleton Randy Nix	4	17	1	2019-02-26	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/48ef305d-6323-4263-9bee-002b22eadde0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5d97316a43650f358bf599ff8270b39a8d0cafbe118ed0a178c82e766d92f7ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 487 (2019_20) — Disaster Volunteer Relief Act; certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Disaster Volunteer Relief Act, so as to authorize certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; 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 487/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 1931S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 1931S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 1015/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Belton — primary (person)
• Heath Clark — primary (person)
• Josh Bonner — primary (person)
• Marc Morris — primary (person)
• Philip Singleton — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-26 House Hopper
• 2019-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 575 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/48ef305d-6323-4263-9bee-002b22eadde0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).