republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-253.md

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Bill	Judge of Probate Court of Twiggs County; authority to fix court employee compensation; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the Judge of the Probate Court of Twiggs County, known as the fee system, approved February 18, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 2727), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5145), and an Act approved April 1, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4547), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowances of the Judge of the Probate Court and employees of the Judge of the Probate Court; to provide the Judge of the Probate Court with the authority to fix the compensation of employees of the Judge of the Probate Court; to provide an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 253	Georgia SB 253 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	David Lucas	4	14	1	2019-03-20	2019-06-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e2d4853f-a53c-4c58-bf45-beb565c4df1d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5fc33bf091d67b4b040b6a04be23832d0191954ffc336661fdbfb6a38ce2e937	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 253 (2019_20) — Judge of Probate Court of Twiggs County; authority to fix court employee compensation; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the Judge of the Probate Court of Twiggs County, known as the fee system, approved February 18, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 2727), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5145), and an Act approved April 1, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4547), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowances of the Judge of the Probate Court and employees of the Judge of the Probate Court; to provide the Judge of the Probate Court with the authority to fix the compensation of employees of the Judge of the Probate Court; to provide an effective date; 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.

1. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 47 0172 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 253/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. SB253 ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — 49–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Lucas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-20 Senate Hopper
• 2019-03-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-26 Senate Transmitted House
• 2019-03-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-04-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-04-02 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-06 Act 204 executive-signature
• 2019-06-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2d4853f-a53c-4c58-bf45-beb565c4df1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).