republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-154.md

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Bill	Georgia Coroner's Training Council; hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-65 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the powers and duties of the Georgia Coroner's Training Council, so as to provide for hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; 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	2019_20	SB 154	Georgia SB 154 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Frank Ginn John Kennedy John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch	3	15	1	2019-02-21	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bee94a43-004b-46f1-baa1-854189fa6a1f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b00168eaa95ca7b1911e6235f3217d3ee8ea5cfdedb64e86041d99b788b8e67a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 154 (2019_20) — Georgia Coroner's Training Council; hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-65 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the powers and duties of the Georgia Coroner's Training Council, so as to provide for hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; 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 34 5505 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 154/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 262 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bee94a43-004b-46f1-baa1-854189fa6a1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).