republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-246.md

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Bill	DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections; board members; appoint and nominate	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, approved June 3, 2003 (Ga. L. 2003, p. 4200), as amended, so as to provide that board members shall be appointed by the chief judge of the superior court; to provide for the nomination of potential board members; to update provisions regarding the certification of members appointed to the board; to provide for the selection of a chairman; 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	SB 246	Georgia SB 246 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Emanuel Jones Gloria Butler Steve Henson	4	13	1	2019-03-18	2019-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/72d36764-3382-4a47-8705-f056a4f96d97	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	886880c841fbae8239fae7448844a1fbd0cee820b2ddf64dd9d69d04989a2bc6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 246 (2019_20) — DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections; board members; appoint and nominate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, approved June 3, 2003 (Ga. L. 2003, p. 4200), as amended, so as to provide that board members shall be appointed by the chief judge of the superior court; to provide for the nomination of potential board members; to update provisions regarding the certification of members appointed to the board; to provide for the selection of a chairman; 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. As introduced LC 47 0122 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 246/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. SB246 ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — 43–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-18 Senate Hopper
• 2019-03-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-29 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-29 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 287 executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72d36764-3382-4a47-8705-f056a4f96d97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).